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French Quarter

French Quarter

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Gabe1 said:
Boy this is a good subject for a debate. Both sides have very valid points. I also understand the tax referendums being turned down. We knew ours would 2 years ago but the parent teacher body pushed and believed it would pass. It didn't and by a lot.

Many households are still on shaky ground financially still trying to recover and many believe it can happen again. Raising their property taxes is a financial decision each voter takes to heart, most don't hate the schools, many are just on fixed incomes or have stretched their budgets as far as they can. Flip side a great school district increases your property values as do good parks and police and fire departments.

There is mixed emotion about how a brand new teacher is paid the same way there is mixed emotion about all new professionals straight out of college are paid. In the USA there are few professionals that are granted the time off that teachers are over several holiday breaks and summer. Flip many use this time to acquire higher degrees. Flip to that so do other professionals in different fields.

It is just not a black or white issue. I tend to listen to facts from both administration and the employees. And sort in my mind the blah blah blah from each and dig to get to heart of it. It is annoying to boards to have slanted statistics presented to us. We had a Union present to us the base salary of our district to the district next to us. Next to us was considerably higher. The data was correct but misleading. Their salaries included 2 extra duty assignments (door or bus duty generally, start and end of day) We break our 2 extra duty assignments away from base salary and pay a specific stipend for that. It is just different accounting. In the end when I asked administration to add in the stipends that the other district did we actually paid slightly more than the district next to us. Statistics are a funny funny thing, it is all how they are spun.

I can't find 2014 but here is the year before Average starting salaries by state. It is was posted by NEA.

http://www.nea.org/home/2012-2013-average-starting-teacher-salary.html
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Improving the education system and supporting teachers will lead to our children having a better life than us. And then the children will be in a position where a few extra nickels and dimes toward these systems won't be a big deal. If we keep settling for less for the sake of spending less money, less is all we will ever get.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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MinnieM123 said:
@French Quarter isn't the only one who hasn't seen Brave . . . some day I probably will. Maybe they'll show it on t.v. at some point.

Do you all get the notion that sometimes I just check out of popular trends? Hubby has always classified me as an enigma. :p
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They show it a lot when they have Pixar weekends on ABCFamily. Pixar movies play quite often on Disney Channel.
 
French Quarter

French Quarter

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MOXOMUMD said:
:confused: None of those are signature and those menus are current. Even many QS places offer items like grilled chicken salads, vegetable flatbread or turkey wraps on their kids menus. After 20+ trips with my daughter I've learned to look for variety.
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None of these items scream adventurous to me. But you are right - they at least go beyond the fast food staples. I just always feel badly that our kids have to watch us eat these great things and get to choose from boring, bland foods.
 
MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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French Quarter said:
Nobody. Urban legends. People buying into unfounded fears.
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Absolutely NOT true. Unfortunately there have been aholes that have done carp to candy. My best friend started her nursing career in a big city ER and one Halloween saw a handful of kids come in due to candy that had something injected into it. They were able to track where the candy came from and put the dude in jail. It's sad that there are sickos in the world that's why I check all my daughter and niece's candy before they can eat it.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
What my management textbook thinks about Disney...

1. "They make use of costumed characters to entertain customers waiting in line." Um, no
2. "Mobile vendors sells food, drinks, and souvenirs to guests in line." Um, very rarely.
3. "They sell special passes for a fee that allows customers to go to the front of the line for some attractions and to get into the park before its normally scheduled opening." Um, no, and there was also a grammatical error in that sentence.
 

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