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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Our building administrators are all over-reactors and lack problem solving skills. All three have their doctorates so you'd think those skills would be refined.

In the 3 elementary buildings we do not serve meals, not until high school which is another district. Our PTO does an every other week hot take out for lunch, pre-order optional hot lunch catered in by local restaurants. This one week it was jumbo pizza slices. The local place brings in staff very early as it takes a long time to make pizzas for a couple hundred students/staff by lunchtime. As the story goes there had been a recall on some fresh sausage and the owner set it aside for supplier pick up. The staff accidently used that sausage (language barrier a real accident) however the pizza was already delivered, served and eaten. The owner a couple hours later called the school and immediately told them what had occurred. Orders had to be gone through to see who got the sausage pizzas, staff and students. Parents of those sausage eaters had to be called and warned what to look for and what to do if...then the restaurant and school had to notify the board of health. It was hectic. Ultimately not one person became ill. Amen. Next board meeting was PTO protesting the blanket cancelling of hot lunches forever-never to be reinstated by administrators. We tabled the conversation to put some thought into it and asked both sides to work together which they remained polar opposites. The board had time to think about it and deemed it was a tradition and a fundraiser that been around for a couple decades without incident and that this type of thing was indeed an error but likely not to be close to a norm so we ruled in favor of the PTO. Then we had the administrators mad at us because the board didn't respect their administrative decisions. :banghead:
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There is only one response I can give to that post... :cyclops:


;)
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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donaldtoo said:
Ahhh, OK. That makes sense, I guess, but, it's no cell phone booth. ;)
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My DD and I are both like that, someone says something and we continue on with the conversation that is similar subject but doesn't directly correlate to previous statement. We can always follow each other's thought process, others not always.
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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donaldtoo said:
Since the ground is flooded...? o_O ;)
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I had seen the Momma duck hang'n around which they only do around here when it is egg time. She was standing under the tree. She left with 3 babies and left 5 up in the tree and an egg. Another fell down after the 3 did that she took away somewhere. Just wondering if she will come back for the 5. It is my neighbors from Texas and she thought it was just how ducks nested up here. We have ducks in the river and the pond but the momma's are hiding only the dads are visible. Worst case scenario if she doesn't come back is to try and foster them in with another family of new ducks. Right now the river is so high and moving so fast the ducks are not in right now.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
I had seen the Momma duck hang'n around which they only do around here when it is egg time. She was standing under the tree. She left with 3 babies and left 5 up in the tree and an egg. Another fell down after the 3 did that she took away somewhere. Just wondering if she will come back for the 5. It is my neighbors from Texas and she thought it was just how ducks nested up here. We have ducks in the river and the pond but the momma's are hiding only the dads are visible. Worst case scenario if she doesn't come back is to try and foster them in with another family of new ducks. Right now the river is so high and moving so fast the ducks are not in right now.
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Sympathy like. A sad situation.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Some kids at that age are just stupid. I don't offer that as defense for any of them. We all agreed punishing the 2 was enough and closed.

I'm not a fan of group punishment. We had a similar issue at our Elementary School where the lead teacher who received a nice stipend for being the required professional staff member at lunch. He insisted on total silence when walking in the halls to lunch room and lunchroom to lockers and lockers to outside for recess and then again coming in and into the lockers. The entire building was on lunch so there was nothing to disturb and staff was allowed to speak. If he heard any talking the next day lunch hour was total silence and for recess they had to sit against the wall in silence. It was happening more and more frequently. My DD in 4th grade was one of the several hundred within the whole school punishment.

So I asked during a board meeting during the principal's report time to give us some statistics about the on going silence requirement while in movement and the rational, what board policy it reflected for discipline and if the staff was also following the same protocol. We asked her to return to the next board meeting detailing the need and statistics to keep kids from lunch recess and sit in silence. By the next meeting after she delivered the statistics she said after further review the practice had been suspended. The board room was packed with parents and young students who let out a cheer. Board President slamming her wooden mallet. Nothing bugs me more than abuse of power and authority. That teacher took a job in another district by the next fall. Amen.
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For some reason that reminded me of this clip from the original Uncle Buck...!!!!! :hilarious: :oops: :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious:

 
ShoalFox

ShoalFox

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I'll be off to England, again, in less than a week. Summer so far has been rather uneventful, though I did get an N64 game I'd been wanting for a very long time: Conker's Bad Fur Day. And for those of you who don't know the game and think it's cute just from the title... you're in for a shock if you look it up!
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
Thanks. It should start to wind down for a few hours now. Maybe Walt can have his morning walk since it was raining before he even woke up this morning.

Funny we will probably have an extended drought in July or August too. Weather never could just be moderate.
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Yep, same here. Generally, in July and August around here the weather people just really don't even need to show up at the station. The weather segment could just be "Same as yesterday. Thanks for playing!"
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
FYI the Flame Tree now offers a full slab of ribs for one QS credit. (wonder how long that will last, it is so share-able.)

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Share-able...?!?!?! :cautious:


:D ;)
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Gabe1 said:
We have them around here and they are excellent. They are usually either in the self serve part of the deli or with prepackaged prepared meats. Ours are very good and run about $10-$14 a full slab. Vacuumed sealed.

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Very tender. Around here they are better than some places that serve ribs.
I also can buy hot slabs of ribs at the special grocer Mariano's in their Tod's smoked section near my Moms.
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They have whole chickens, brisket, meatloaf and ribs.
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envy, we do not have such produts here. Hell,its very hard to even buy BBQ rubs.
We only have those branded liquid BBQ sauce that tastes nothing like the real thing.
 

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