Orange_Crush
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My wife got her degree in Education, and taught as a student teacher in high school. She came home and said the other teachers were miserable, bitter, and marking time. She told me that she didn't want to wind up like them. I told her to quit and do something else, that it wasn't worth it. I opened a wholesale greenhouse operation that she joined me in. Later, she morphed it into both wholesale and retail, and had a successful career. I turned that business 100% over to her about 20 years ago. She retired from her business, which is still operating and under new ownership, when I quit working about 5 years ago.I respect the passion but feel it’s going to end up making her bitter. She’s at a title 9 (think that’s right, poor school) and she probably spends close to a 1/4 of her income on supplies and such. Not to mention what my wife and I donate. Plus she works stupid hours during the school year.
I say, to hell with that. She is an employee and if the county and the little future felons parents don’t give a **** she shouldn’t either.
My wife got her degree in Education, and taught as a student teacher in high school. She came home and said the other teachers were miserable, bitter, and marking time. She told me that she didn't want to wind up like them. I told her to quit and do something else, that it wasn't worth it. I opened a wholesale greenhouse operation that she joined me in. Later, she morphed it into both wholesale and retail, and had a successful career. I turned that business 100% over to her about 20 years ago. She retired from her business, which is still operating and under new ownership, when I quit working about 5 years ago.
Probably not the best idea. My wife and I worked well together for about 10 years, and then I left that business, but it's not for everybody. I worked for my mother for a few years, and it wasn't always pretty.I’ve tried to get her to come work for me, she did the last two summers but she’s decided it’s best that we don’t work together. Says I’m too much like how I describe her grandad.
If I ever had doubts I no longer do...CTE is real.
After Soleimani death, Colin Kaepernick decries US 'terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people'
How is that any different than your use of “rich white people” = “military industrial complex”?Sigh. Could you cut the schtick about educators? The overwhelming majority of us are hard working people who teach what we're paid to teach, try to give our students memorable experiences applying what they've learned, and keep our politics of the classroom.
The constant harassment because of one tenth of one percent being idiots is demoralizing and it's perniciously killing the profession.
If I ever had doubts I no longer do...CTE is real.
After Soleimani death, Colin Kaepernick decries US 'terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people'
How is that any different than your use of “rich white people” = “military industrial complex”?
Serious question.
What is the overwhelming makeup of the NBA and NFL?What is the overwhelming makeup of the CEOs, Presidents, and Boards of Directors?
I know I can't walk it back. Maybe it would have been better to say that the ground troops who are most likely to see combat time most often do not include members of the upper class, especially those with familial connections to military intelligence and operations services. When they do, there is a greater likelihood that those with connections to said industries or political activity are more likely to be in commissioned officer or other non-combat / low militant interaction roles.