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Okay... I'll bite.  What EXACTLY did Briles do?  The evidence clearly indicates that young women (and since it's Baylor we're talking about, probably some young men, too) were sexually abused.  Come to find out, some of them were attacked by football players.  Therefore, the man who draws up the plays for the team should never work again?  Jesus. 
Help me understand his culpability, please.  
Let's pretend that I manage a McDonalds.  Three of the kids that work back there cooking for me decide to go and rob a liquor store.  Suddenly I'm supposed to lose my store and never hold down another job?
That's kinda sorta what people want from Briles.  

Colmesneil does not like good coaches. 

Hey, that would be a deal clincher for a lot of coaches!

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ok let me say it plainly
public education is not capitalist

I think we all just need Football to hurry up and begin...
This thread is ridiculous! 
 

Cardinal Backer you seem to have some deep seeded frustrations going on.  I don't understand that because I am sure you were one of those guys in school who was a jock - who had a coach that was like a father to you.   Some of your argument makes sense.  The community size and effort.  However, as someone with 4 family members who teach I think I should shed a little light on your thoughts.
First, teachers contracts are for a MINIMUM of 187 days, not 182.  That will cause some adjustment to your daily rate.  I do not know of a single teacher that works an 8:00 - 3:30 day.  In fact, at Bridge City the day officially starts at 7:45 and ends at 3:45.  That is unless there is a faculty meeting or a certification meeting that is held - mandatorily.  The teacher does not make overtime for the extra hour(s).  Nor does the teacher get paid to take home the papers/projects/assignments he or she has to grade.  Nor does the teacher get compensated for all of the paper and pencils they are required to provide for the Larry's and Joe's that will not bring one from home.  Teachers are not compensated for the time they MUST spend in summer conferences.
For a coach it is so much better! I know a coach who kept a log of his schedule during football season.  This is what that looks like...
Monday 7:00 staff meeting.  Football practice from 3:30 - 5:45.  Get kids out of the building and in cars to go home - watch the practice video - plan tomorrow practice.  Go home at 7:15.  (12 hours)
Tuesday (laundry day) 7:00 to put out the laundry for the team.  Same practice schedule -- (12 hours)
Wednesday - 7:45 school.  After planning tomorrow practice - stay and watch about 30 minutes of film for the next opponent. Go home - 8:00 average --  (12 hours)
Thursday - JV game day.  Arrive at 7:00 to pass out uniforms.  School.  Load busses etc...  play a game or two (9th and JV) back home - start the laundry, clean the locker room.  Go home about 9:30 average.  (14.5 hours)
Friday - GAME DAY -- 7:00 arrive (laundry and uniforms), Taping, Film Prep, Meetings, Travel ? - Game. After game duties - Game review with the staff, start laundry, load video into the computer- Go HOME - average 11:30. (17.5 hours)
Saturday - 7:00 arrive.  Grade film. Watch film with the team.  Exercise the team. Send them home and then watch 3 games worth of video of the next opponent.  Staff meeting to generalize game plan.  Go home - 3:00 (8 hours)
Sunday - arrive 2:00.  Game plan.  Authorize game plan as a staff - Go HOME - 6:30 (4.5 hours)
So let's add that up ---  12 + 12 + 12 + 14.5 + 17.5 + 8 + 4.5 = 80.5 hours per week.
Here is the kicker!  Schools pay coaches for all of that time!  Take a look -- BISD football is $3500.  They do not pay the extra 10 days that are required to start in July.  So in BISD - an assistant football coach will make $3500/80.5 hrs per week X 12 weeks minimum.  That is 996 hours minimum for 3500 =  $3.51 per hour.   Wait $3.51 per hour???  For a part time job.  Spring ISD is thought to be one of the better paying stipend schools -- for football they $6500.  Assuming the same schedule --- The better paying schools pay $6.52/hour.  That should make you turn over in your sleep!
Oh yea - you don't get to choose your teacher?  Well, you can change school?  You can go to private school?  You can home school?  And these days -- you can tell your kid to act up in class and report the bad behavior of the teacher to the school board and they will re-assign the teacher.
Fact of the matter is - that all jobs matter. 
 

Most people do not know that salaries are around 80% of an ISD’s budget...Most small, rural schools are not sitting on piles of money..There is only so much $$ to go around...If there is no industry in their district then they live and die by their daily attendance ..Say for example you demand your district raise salaries 3% to 83% of budget, your money for books, cafeteria, buses, paper, field trips, extra curricular activities (ie..everything else) goes from 20% down to 17% so what do you cut?? A district pays what it can afford...At any rate I don’t know the specifics with West Hardin about whether or not they have a bad board or good board or if their parents are meddling or not...I just hope for the kids they got a good person to lead their programs..Best of luck to the Oilers..

I was just like “yeah! This guy gets it!” Then I realized it was I who dropped that wisdom. 
Can you imagine a scenario where you’d complain directly to your boss in a public forum that you deserve more money? Or that others would chime in and harangue your employer that you deserve more money. Instead of griping about pay, teachers should be thanking the public for financing their lazy lifestyle.  
Heres the deal. I have a job (like most people) that is directly to my production. If I want to make more money, make more widgets... or promote into managing widget makers... or start my own widget company. 
Teachers have no quanitifiable product... and they don’t want one. That’s why they hate the STAAR test. It’s not about having to “teach for the testing” it’s because standardized testing FINALLY holds teachers accountable for their own performance. Then all of the teachers scream “we can’t help it... blame the parents!”
Teachers collectively overestimate the value of their profession. 
 

Offshore oil rig workers work 6 months out of the year and make three times more than a teacher.
Pretty good "part time" gig.

Lol at weekends off

Most people that work at places like west Hardin are hometown folk...it’s more important to them where they live than where they work

Sorry, my man.. I thought I was on the West Hardin thread.  

-Great kids
-High rating
-Hardworking
These are usually code words (when stated alone) for "we are absolutely awful but I need to find a compliment because saying things like "we are beyond terrible" would probably get me in trouble". 

Well they have zero Larrys and very few Joe's.

Well WH has nothing but hard working superior athletes with a great school board also. 

That is amazing.

How do they keep teachers with those salaries?

When you have compassion without rules people will crap on it. Literally and figuratively 

In case any of you are surprised that the MSM has dropped this story so fast, just check out the two shooters (suspects).
Devon Erickson, 18, was a registered Democrat in who’s computer admired Obama, critized Trump, and expressed hatred for some Christians.  His car had a pentagram on the hood, F***SOCIETY, and a 666.

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Alec McKinney was allegedly becoming a transgender, and his father was an illegal alien, who’d been deported twice, and had been jailed for domestic violence.

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up No doubt in my mind that had they been Conservatives, it’d still be Headline News.

San Francisco has more billionaires per capita than any other city in the world. Some people have more money than they have cents.

Pelosi's hometown, go figure.  

I was hoping Danny Villanueva would get a shot at this one.  Oh well, maybe it's a good thing Big V didn't get it.  Congrats to Coach Taylor!

Ok.... If I can't criticize a team, coach, ref, player, play, penalty, past experiences, towns, etc.... What about the weather?  Is it okay to bash the weather?
 
What is this site for?  Just to rah-rah my own team?  I can admit that I occasionally cross "the line," but sometimes you guys are a little too touchy.  

Of course it happens... I'm not mad.  I die laughing when the Newton people come back with their "living in a van down by Bailey's Fish Camp" blasts.  
I miss the days when upon hearing an insult, we'd fire back with one of our own.  Now-a-days we just get all indignant and complain about "bullying" or "privilege" or whatever else excuse that losers can come up with.  There's a big difference between some good ol' fashion "jawing" and outright abuse.  Nothing in this thread has come close to that in my opinion.