Eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh. The significantly less affluent ones.

Most of my students are extremely homophobic, and gay slurs fly pretty freely (not just gay slurs, but comments specifically about how being gay is wrong and against god blah blah), with no support at home in terms of consequences when I call home about it. It’s one thing that makes me shake my head when some people…

I have never seen people pray at my work, even in the private areas of the workplace, and at least half of my co-workers go to church on Sunday, which is higher than the American average. Just as people at my work don’t openly talk politics either, even though they have the “right” to have political beliefs (and…

I didn’t say you needed the 5th year for the diploma, I said you needed it if you were going to university. That’s in my very first line. And that the fifth year was necessary to get in the necessary amount of OAC credits, as you quoted. I know how it worked. I did it, and I still needed the 5th year even though I…

No, it’s not an unnamed gap. The millennial generation, called generation Y when I was a kid, began in 1982/1983 according to the people who come up with these things. So it is named. The issue that is that there are clear cultural differences between the oldest millennials (like me, aged 32, who is in full “get off…

5 years in high school used to be the standard in Ontario a little over a decade ago, for anyone intending to go to university. Basically the way it was, you’d need to stay the 5th year to get in enough courses that are equivalent to AP courses in the US, and so many of those would be required to be accepted into…

There are way better views from PNC Park than that,

Yeah, the province that paid for abortions with public funds (yes, out of province) is very comparable to Mississippi.

Aww yeah straight out of 1997. Ashamed of how much I loved OLP when I was 14.

It was just a hamfisted way to fit in some impressions. Like an even less inspired “Star Wars auditions” as an excuse to have Kevin Spacey do impressions.

Everyone knows he’s dead. It’s the fact that he will be resurrected that is the open secret. Think they’re going to show that in the trailers?

I’d be interested to know how much the teachers actually make. I’ve known some teachers at some high end private schools (not anywhere near this high end) who made significantly less than what the local public school teachers were making.

I’ve been logging my hours, and I’m generally working an average of at least 65 hours a week as a teacher, most of which is directly tied to the administration’s expectations for us. I have a contracted 8 hour work day (7:45 to 3:45, kids arrive at 8 and are there until 3:45). Have to be there at least by 7 to be…

I still don’t know what “what are those” is from, and the 5th and 6th graders I teach have been saying it since August. Definitely in full on “get the fuck off my lawn” stage with this shit.

Half a teaspoon of oil! So gluttonous. Surprised they didn’t go for 1/4.

I want one of those AeroGarden’s so badly, and Kinja deals keep teasing me. I can’t come up with any scenario wherein my cats don’t destroy anything I grow, and I’m clearly not creative enough to come up with a solution. Breaks my heart.

I want one of those AeroGarden’s so badly, and Kinja deals keep teasing me. I can’t come up with any scenario…

That’s funny that Cox blames Schwimmer for failed Friends reunions. Schwimmer’s the only one to have shown up on “Episodes” even though Matt LeBlanc plays himself (obviously fictionalized) in it and his Friends career is a frequent subject.