I’m so sorry. I really feel for you.  I left the high school classroom in large part because I could not continue to be teacher, social worker, and therapist. I was too exhausted just trying to give a good education to continue to take on the other two roles and there was no one else to do them. I get you. 

You don’t get planning periods plural. If you are working a ‘regular’ schedule you get one 52 minute planning period in middle and high school. That is usually eaten up with administrative tasks. When do you think teachers plan all the lessons for the next day? Grade all the work? Make phone calls to parents? Have…

There is no where in the US where education is respected. 

It’s been WAY longer than 15 years, but other than that, yeah. 

Can we cut it with the people who teach are actually dumb thing? I, and all the teachers whose SAT/ACT scores I know, did very well indeed. SAT/ACT scores are also not all that likely to reveal much about general intelligence beyond a certain point.

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If he was still on parole, it sounds like the threats and extortion should have been enough to pull him in. In fact, even if he wasn’t on parole, why couldn’t he at least be questioned by police and pulled in to at least be investigated for the threats and extortion? Sounds like they maybe could have put him on a 5150…

I’m sure you are, but generally if housing prices are that low for that much house, there either aren’t many jobs or they aren’t very well paid (so you’re still paying a good percentage of your income into rent/mortgage). It sounds lovely though. 

Four months in a house in LA for $2,000 a month? Haha. No, at this point maybe a studio for $2,000 a month. A one bedroom if you got lucky. The ranch house sounds like it could work in the valley, with about 8-10 roommates.

Exactly. It is not the business of someone answering the damn phone specifically for children who believe in Santa Claus to tell them it’s not true. And he used the word ‘marginal’ which he generally uses to call someone stupid. So he answered what is essentially Santa phone and told a 7 year old she was stupid to…

I just looked to see if David Hogg’s GPA/SAT are online and apparently they are (I’m assuming these are true). His GPA is 4.2 and his SAT is 1270. That SAT score is likely why he didn’t get into the UCs. I don’t know what his AP scores are. The UC system has more of a formula for admissions than the Ivys. The Ivys are…

Grade inflation is a thing and has been for way longer than the present generation. It’s also true that kids who go to very ‘good’ (often wealthy neighborhood) schools (even public) have students who legitimately do better than kids at some other schools. If your parents are college educated professionals, they’re…

I remember it as a light falling off screen. It’s a great ad lib. 

And the way they all rise up on their toes over the car to watch her is a not so subtle sight gag.

It’s a safety school for people also applying to Harvard and UCLA. That doesn’t make it a lesser school academically per se, it’s just not as hard to get into.

I don’t know exactly what David Hogg’s transcripts impart, but it’s not unusual for schools to turn down students who they perceive as using them as safety schools. It doesn’t look good when you admit a bunch of people who don’t end up attending. That’s likely not the reason for the refusals from UCLA and maybe not…

On the other hand, that class probably gave you enough basic knowledge of geology to not publicly muse about whether the weight of buildings/people on an island (Guam) might cause it to flip over, as did a (dem!!) US representative. I’m not anti reasonable pre-reqs.

There’s a scene of her getting out of a rumpled bed (looking like she’s just been at it) and then walking over, picking up the necklace and putting it on. You might even be able to see the wrapping paper? I always read it as he had just left after giving her the present and them having sex.

Misogyny 1.0 of the dem party? She was a lousy candidate, but as we would see again, misogyny played a role. I’m still most furious at the Republican cheats though. They have no soul or ethics. 

He grew up in Santa Monica, but apparently went to private school (don’t know which one) until his dad had money troubles and he had to go to public school with actual brown people. He seems to have been widely hated there for his racism. There’s footage of him saying racist stuff while trying to run for student…