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I’m surprised more of these folks haven’t been shot. If I was driving through a city and protestors surrounded my vehicle, started screaming, banging on the vehicle, etc., I don’t think it would be unreasonable to fear for my life in that situation. If my wife and kids were with me, I’d be very quick to get out of the situation, no matter what it took.

I worry about that stuff. I do a lot of fishing in the summer, and it’s hard to go on a trip and not end up cut by something, whether it be a fish fin, or a hook, or any other number of things. I got sliced up a couple of years ago pushing a stuck boat in lighthouse cove, and I didn’t relax for about 2 days.

Why do you hate teachers so much? Sure, there are some bad ones, but there are a lot of great ones, and the vast majority of us are at least competent. This entire thread all you’ve done is insult the profession. You’ve labeled teachers, belittled them, downplayed the difficulty of the job. According to you we’re lazy, whiners, don’t want to work, and anyone can do the job. I’d sure like to know what you do for a living.

One thing I thought about later was this: say the shooter attacks the victim, the victim pulls the knife in self-defense, then the shooter pulls the gun and shoots him. You can’t claim self-defense if you’re the original aggressor. We’ll see if more facts come out.

In an article I read yesterday it stated that the victim pulled out a knife before being shot. If that’s the case I don’t know that the murder charge will stick.

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Ridiculous.

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Or someone having a mental break. Although those two do go hand in hand sometime

Yup. But they don’t want to pay them anything. Makes it tough I wholeheartedly agree with your first comments. Teachers now have to worry about standardized testing so much that they’re limited in how and what they can teach. I don’t have issues with some performance based pay, but you’re saying that every child in every class must raise their grades for me to get a raise? Like if I teach high school and one of my kids starts using drugs, or gets pregnant, or their parents split, or they decide they just don’t care anymore, or they get stuck up their new girlfriends’ butt, or they make varsity football and have less time to study than last year, (I could literally list 100 more reasons a kid’s grades could dip outside of a teacher’s control) etc. etc., and their average drops even one point, I don’t get a raise? That’s irrational. That’s kinda like denying a raise to a boss of 100 employees because ONE of them doesn’t meet his performance standards. And of course, teachers can’t fire their students, nor do they get to choose them.

BISD just fixed their school hours for next year. That’s going to be a big step in the right direction to help keep teachers. They screwed employees last year trying to save money on busses and drivers. One of the perks to the job has always been the schedule and hours. BISD got away from that and it cost them a lot of employees.

A couple of quotes from the second articles to show just how bad the wreck was: Lashon Proctor, director of Proctor Transport, said his employees removed only what was marked by police. “When our guys got on the scene, they were able to pick up the pieces that were marked,” he said. “So maybe, the victim's car was in so many pieces that it posed a problem.” Jimmy Singletary: “The scene of the wreck was horrific and was spread out over almost 100 yards,” he said. “We had several officers and first responders search several times.”

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This car looked similar to airplane crashes I’ve seen where the plane didn’t catch fire. It broke apart into pieces. I doubt they stayed in the car. I can’t even guess how fast they were going, and they hit one of those big silver light poles.

Out of curiosity, who is responsible for picking up the bodies in this situation? A funeral home worker? Is there an actual job for this?

They family’s upset, and I get it, but I think anyone who’s seen the pictures from this crash could reasonably understand how a piece of bone might be overlooked.

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That’s brutal

No doubt. That said, choosing to live by the plants and suing over air quality is like moving to the beach and trying to sue someone over sunburns.

I would think it’s common sense. I’m sure some would move onto harder things, though.

It’s a rough job, and I understand why a lot of cops turn to alcohol. That said, it’s not hard to drink responsibly, either with a DD or at home. Cops, of all people, know exactly how bad drunk driving can turn out. It’s crazy to me they still do it.

I do think that if those junkies didn’t have to buy from people who sold heroin, a lot of them may have never started.

Ours hasn’t been great in Fannett. I’ve found boxes in the ditch next to the mailbox. Our new carrier is better. She’ll bring stuff down our 500 yd driveway and leave it on the porch.

Those professions definitely require a strong understanding of geometry. Could they pass on their knowledge of geometry to 25 16-year-olds of varying intelligence levels, with various learning disabilities, all while maintaining control of the classroom? And then do it 4 or 5 more times to their other classes? Could they do the computer work entailed with the job, for things like attendance, grades, and IEPs? Could they write lesson plans based on state standards, and help the students pass standardized testing? Would a carpenter or a pool shark have the ability to help those kids on a personal level when they’re struggling with their teenage problems and it affects their grades? It’s clear you don’t understand what a teacher’s four year degree entails, or what they’re expected to do daily.

Yeah, teachers have it worse than a lot of those professions. And the difference between the two is that teachers could do a lot of those jobs, but most of those workers couldn’t teach. I could adequately learn to do some of those jobs in a few days, several of them in 6 months, and ALL of them in the 4 years time it took me to earn my teaching degree (I don’t have the body to strip, admittedly). Things are a lot different than they were 30 years ago. The kids are worse, the parents are worse, and teachers can do a lot less about it. Students aren’t as smart and less inclined to try, and many are used to things being given to them for nothing. All the while, expectations for teachers are much higher than they once were. Then we have to deal with parents who have the same attitude you do, thinking we’re just babysitters. Many expect us to discipline their kids while not doing so at home, and don’t understand why their kids don’t listen at school. As for the Covid comment, there’s literally no profession outside of healthcare with a better chance of exposure than teaching. Kids are germ factories, and classrooms are cesspools, and extended exposure to sick kids is unavoidable. Teachers this year had to teach both in person AND online at the same time. That was a nightmare, and we didn’t get paid for all of that extra work. And for the hours comment, we work countless hours of OT every year, and during our summers, we’re just never paid for it. I’ve never been one to make a big deal about my salary because I do understand that my schedule is a benefit to the job. That said, your insistence on belittling the profession is absurd, and it’s highly doubtful you could do it, at least effectively. You might could do it as poorly as it appears you think most in the profession do.