Teacher retirement resignation
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2023.09.03 19:38 Frosty-Essay-5984 canadateachersmovedon
This subreddit is for Canadian teachers who have left or are thinking of leaving the teaching profession. Teaching in Canada is generally considered to be a good job which the vast majority tending to stick with it until retirement. Walking away from a Canadian teacher job for many, means leaving the many benefits and steady pay. This is a subreddit for Canadian teachers who have/are moving away from teaching and into other career options.
2021.07.17 22:21 chotu_ustaad DravidBeingAwesome
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2024.05.16 23:50 nemesina77 Career Advice for a couple with opposite issues?
Two part question.
My husband and I are the perfect candidate (combined) - he has the experience and I have the degree!
After college I became a caretaker: first for him when he had a work injury and needed back surgery, then for my nephew, and finally for my son. (The latter two have Autism) During that time he's worked full time and provided for our family. We never had a lot extra but we got by and our son never wants for anything.
A year ago I had our second child and completed our family.
A month ago some stuff went down at his job. There was some documentation signed so the quickest way to explain it is that the current boss is being forced into early retirement and the one who's coming in has someone in mind for my husband's job so they made a deal and essentially forced him into resigning.
He's got insurance and pay until the end of June and we've been applying like crazy but he's really at the top of his field and most places won't hire him for the job he was just doing without a college degree, even though he's been doing this for 20 years and clearly knows the job.
He's 42 and I'm 40.
At this point we've only heard back for one interview and they went with someone who had a degree.
We're applying for basically anything he's even slightly qualified for: entry level sales jobs, managerial positions, etc.
(He's been a public school custodian for 20 years and his most recent job was as a facilities manager for the district, so he has experience in inventory, ordering, project bidding, etc. Before that he worked in pest control, HVAC, and landscaping. He also worked in retail as a teen.)
Because he's been having such a hard time we've realized either I have to find a comparable paying job or we're going to both have to get lower paying jobs and work opposite shifts (and with two kids we'd like to avoid that).
I have a Bachelor's degree in History and before I graduated I worked in retail. Since my son was born I've been doing a ton of advocating for him. I held a fundraiser that raised over $25k. I solicited companies for donations and received around $20k in items and a couple of weekend vacation packages (free hotel stays + museum tickets + restaurant gift cards).
I successfully got him out of district into a specialized school that the town originally didn't think he needed.
I'm giving you all of this information so you have some idea of what skills we both have.
We're trying to figure out if we should each be pursuing some education.
We're leaning towards insurance licensing for him since they always seem to be hiring and it would only take around $1200 and a few months.
For me I have options: the easiest would be signing up as a substitute teacher. There's a massive shortage and they'd definitely hire me but it's not consistent and it would bring in maybe 1/3 of his most recent paycheck if I worked every day.
Option two is me getting some further education.
I could get my master's teacher certification. If I did it online from WGU it would cost around $10-$12k and take 18-24 months, depending on how fast I could finish the work. (I would have to get a loan from my parents or apply for scholarships for this)
I'll be honest: I certainly COULD be a teacher but there's clear reasons why people are leaving this field in droves.
I could also get some sort of a certification in something like medical coding and billing or in something IT.
Right now my husband makes about $65k/year (before taxes, nets about $3400/month), so our goal is that or (ideally) more but since that's not a crazy high amount I figured someone would have some good suggestions.
I guess our main goal is something fast-ish and bang for our buck.
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My husband and I are the perfect candidate (combined) - he has the experience and I have the degree!
After college I became a caretaker: first for him when he had a work injury and needed back surgery, then for my nephew, and finally for my son. (The latter two have Autism) During that time he's worked full time and provided for our family. We never had a lot extra but we got by and our son never wants for anything.
A year ago I had our second child and completed our family.
A month ago some stuff went down at his job. There was some documentation signed so the quickest way to explain it is that the current boss is being forced into early retirement and the one who's coming in has someone in mind for my husband's job so they made a deal and essentially forced him into resigning.
He's got insurance and pay until the end of June and we've been applying like crazy but he's really at the top of his field and most places won't hire him for the job he was just doing without a college degree, even though he's been doing this for 20 years and clearly knows the job.
He's 42 and I'm 40.
At this point we've only heard back for one interview and they went with someone who had a degree.
We're applying for basically anything he's even slightly qualified for: entry level sales jobs, managerial positions, etc.
(He's been a public school custodian for 20 years and his most recent job was as a facilities manager for the district, so he has experience in inventory, ordering, project bidding, etc. Before that he worked in pest control, HVAC, and landscaping. He also worked in retail as a teen.)
Because he's been having such a hard time we've realized either I have to find a comparable paying job or we're going to both have to get lower paying jobs and work opposite shifts (and with two kids we'd like to avoid that).
I have a Bachelor's degree in History and before I graduated I worked in retail. Since my son was born I've been doing a ton of advocating for him. I held a fundraiser that raised over $25k. I solicited companies for donations and received around $20k in items and a couple of weekend vacation packages (free hotel stays + museum tickets + restaurant gift cards).
I successfully got him out of district into a specialized school that the town originally didn't think he needed.
I'm giving you all of this information so you have some idea of what skills we both have.
We're trying to figure out if we should each be pursuing some education.
We're leaning towards insurance licensing for him since they always seem to be hiring and it would only take around $1200 and a few months.
For me I have options: the easiest would be signing up as a substitute teacher. There's a massive shortage and they'd definitely hire me but it's not consistent and it would bring in maybe 1/3 of his most recent paycheck if I worked every day.
Option two is me getting some further education.
I could get my master's teacher certification. If I did it online from WGU it would cost around $10-$12k and take 18-24 months, depending on how fast I could finish the work. (I would have to get a loan from my parents or apply for scholarships for this)
I'll be honest: I certainly COULD be a teacher but there's clear reasons why people are leaving this field in droves.
I could also get some sort of a certification in something like medical coding and billing or in something IT.
Right now my husband makes about $65k/year (before taxes, nets about $3400/month), so our goal is that or (ideally) more but since that's not a crazy high amount I figured someone would have some good suggestions.
I guess our main goal is something fast-ish and bang for our buck.
2024.05.16 23:40 bridgetbab13 Dojo in Sunderland, MA - looking for adult students
Hello everyone. I thought I would post here as an effort to help out my Sensei in finding more students for our small but growing dojo located in western Massachusetts.
I (25) have been practicing Aikido for 2.5 years. I train under Louis Jumonville Sensei. He owned a Dojo for over 25 years in the Bay Area, California, and has now started a Dojo in his retirement years in the mountains of Sunderland/Montague area.
I am currently the only student. Louis Sensei has put in numerous efforts to gather more students, but it’s been super difficult and hasn’t produced the best turnout.
I think the large reason is because of the remote spot. We live in a college area, but the Dojo is not on the bus line, so it’s hard for students to get to without a car.
However, I figured I would extend this invitation to anyone living close by that would be interesting in training under Louis Sensei and alongside myself. Louis Sensei is an incredible teacher and person in the Aikido community. He is a 6th Dan, Reverend (he practices Buddhism), and Dojo Cho. He also does Mantra Meditation and Yoga for those interested.
Reach out if you want more info! Please spread the word to your MA friends! Love to the Aikido Family.
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I (25) have been practicing Aikido for 2.5 years. I train under Louis Jumonville Sensei. He owned a Dojo for over 25 years in the Bay Area, California, and has now started a Dojo in his retirement years in the mountains of Sunderland/Montague area.
I am currently the only student. Louis Sensei has put in numerous efforts to gather more students, but it’s been super difficult and hasn’t produced the best turnout.
I think the large reason is because of the remote spot. We live in a college area, but the Dojo is not on the bus line, so it’s hard for students to get to without a car.
However, I figured I would extend this invitation to anyone living close by that would be interesting in training under Louis Sensei and alongside myself. Louis Sensei is an incredible teacher and person in the Aikido community. He is a 6th Dan, Reverend (he practices Buddhism), and Dojo Cho. He also does Mantra Meditation and Yoga for those interested.
Reach out if you want more info! Please spread the word to your MA friends! Love to the Aikido Family.
2024.05.16 22:56 Far-War-3804 A05 COL. KURTZ to GEN. SMITH: LET'S NUKE WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 9 2024
 | https://preview.redd.it/y79aszfiqu0d1.jpg?width=696&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bebc620eccd83a35a93779746249361649efcc4 submitted by Far-War-3804 to CourtofAges [link] [comments] A05 COL. KURTZ to GEN. SMITH: LET'S NUKE WASHINGTON D.C. MAY 9 2024 “He’s gone completely insane,” General Eric M. Smith said of Col. Kurtz following what one source called a debate on the ethics of warfare that began with a respectful handshake and ended in a shocking betrayal. Our source was not present at the meeting, so we can only share what Gen. Smith told staff upon returning to Camp Pendleton. The meeting took place in a hotel suite in Coral Gables, Florida, last Friday afternoon, with Kurtz already alone in the room and sipping a glass of iced tea when the general and one of his longtime aides arrived. Gen. Smith was in full military dress, while Kurtz—a former Marine colonel who resigned in disgust after Biden stole the 2020 presidential election—wore khaki shorts and a tee shirt emblazoned with a “Fuck Joe Biden” decal. Although they shook hands, Kurtz immediately tried asserting dominance by warning the general not to double-cross him, saying he could “take him” anytime he wanted. Marines do not betray other Marines, Gen. Smith assured him, but he also replied that even unarmed, he could defend himself adequately. Gen Smith and Kurtz agreed the Deep State had to be neutralized before it could bring to fruition its plan to shift the United States into a one-world government and silence, enslave, or kill anti-globalists and patriots. However, any amicability between them devolved rapidly when Kurtz took umbrage at how President Trump and General Berger’s failure to avail themselves of appropriate countervailing force allowed the Deep State to entrench itself in politics, culture, and society. Kurtz spoke without interruption for 15 minutes, elucidating on his decision to resign his commission at a time his country needed him the most. He had hoped that Trump and the White Hats would have, by any means necessary, thwarted Biden’s illegitimate presidency before it began, and accused Trump of squandering time as the regime solidified power and furthered plans to subjugate the citizenry. One tactical nuclear bomb dropped on D.C., in Kurtz’s opinion, could have averted three more years of Deep State oppression. Kurtz had suggested the idea, but Gen. Berger rejected it as pure lunacy and recommended that Kurtz take leave to fix his head. Kurtz said he chose to retreat into the shadows and build an army capable of striking at the heart of the Deep State without moral ambiguity or fear of political repercussions. “General Smith said Kurtz’s eyes ‘were full of crazy’ and madness,” our source said. “Kurtz begrudges President Trump for not taking a sterner stance against the Deep State and for allowing ‘snakes’ back in his circle.” Kurtz reportedly launched a lengthy rant about Ron DeSantis, calling him a weaselly, conniving, self-serving serpent who betrayed Trump and then wiggled his way back to Mar-a-Lago. He faulted Trump for allowing enemies in his midst. Gen. Smith reminded Kurtz that Trump operated according to his own plan and that it was Trump who empowered the White Hats to pursue and prosecute Deep State traitors. “And where has that gotten you? You’re sitting on several hundred thousand indictments, but how many have you jailed—or hanged? Not enough. Meanwhile, our country, and we’ve both spilled our share of blood for it, has decayed, and our wealth shipped overseas, and our children taken. I do applaud your efforts—we fight for the same cause, but even you, General Smith, must realize stronger actions are now required,” Col. Kurtz had told General Smith, per his recollection of the meeting. Kurtz said Gen. Smith had at his fingertips the power and authority to “end the nightmare.” He knew that General Berger gave Gen. Smith the command codes to the country’s nuclear triad when he retired. “Let’s make D.C. glow in the dark. You can do what Trump and Berger wouldn’t,” Kurtz had said. “We’re at war; there are no rules.” “Gen. Smith told him that would never happen and even suggested it was insanity. Kurtz said he didn’t think Gen. Smith had the courage to do what was really necessary to fix the country,” our source said. With or without nukes, Kurtz said he would expend his last breath fighting the Deep State, and he claimed to have an enormous arsenal and 50,000 men at his disposal. He said he had been biding his time patiently, recruiting foot soldiers willing to take the fight to the “next level,” even if it meant civilian casualties. Gen. Smith asked him why 50,000 Armed Forces personnel would follow an ex-Marine of questionable integrity. “Who says they’re all military? Many could be average citizens who have heard the call to arms. We’re among you, General Smith. Nothing you plan escapes my notice. We Red Hats are now at full strength. I didn’t expect you to see things rationally, but I still hoped, just maybe. I’m glad we’re face-to-face; I see in your eyes you and I share the same goal. Just let us do what must be done, and we won’t intrude on you,” Kurtz had said. “Do what must be done? Like causing an earthquake that could’ve killed thousands all over a mythical particle accelerator in some underground cavern?” the general said. “It was there, and they would’ve used it to open the gates of Hell. You destroy a few laser planes and call that an accomplishment. What I did was stave off oblivion. And I’m far from done,” Kurtz told the general. “Then I guess our meeting is over,” Gen. Smith said. Both men stood, this time without a handshake. Kurtz flashed a toothy smile and glanced at the general’s aide. “Your forces are bifurcating,” Kurtz said as the general’s aide stepped forward and stood beside him. “He’s one of us. I told you—we are all around you.” Smith, our source said, glanced menacingly at both men. “This is how it is?” “It’s how it has been,” the aide said. “And will be,” Kurtz added. Our source said: “It’s clear Kurtz has pull. Gen. Smith was of course caught off guard at the end. Our job continues, and we’re praying Kurtz doesn’t bring his war into the streets of America.” |
2024.05.16 22:48 Far-War-3804 A04 GENERAL SMITH Issues STERN WARNING to WHITE HAT OFFICERS MAY10, 2024
 | https://preview.redd.it/pqnh69t4pu0d1.jpg?width=621&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e050a08a3b29d6452afadfdf16b6c77553bc82cc submitted by Far-War-3804 to CourtofAges [link] [comments] A04 GENERAL SMITH Issues STERN WARNING to WHITE HAT OFFICERS MAY10, 2024 The White Hats are inextricably linked to both President Donald J. Trump and the United States Constitution, and their commander, Marine Corps General Eric M. Smith, has said he will not tolerate officers who endorse or collaborate with the Red Hat movement, a source in the general’s office told Real Raw News. Following an uncomfortable face-to-face encounter with Red Hat leader Col. Kurtz, Gen. Smith issued a decree. He firmly stated that officers under his command could not have dual or split allegiances. Their duties as White Hat officers, he wrote, were fundamentally incompatible with the Red Hat’s agenda. “Any officer under my charge who espouses support for the Red Hats is violating the Constitution and the UCMJ and is as deceptive as any Deep Stater ever was,” the general wrote in a memorandum sent to thousands of Armed Forces officers in the U.S. and abroad. As reported yesterday, Gen. Smith got blindsided at Friday’s meeting when his aide—a Marine Corps captain who had attended countless White Hat council assemblies—revealed himself to be a Red Hat and an ally of Col. Kurtz, a revelation that must have demoralized the general. Why he exposed himself instead of staying covert is a mystery, but Gen. Smith postulated that Kurtz orchestrated the deception to rattle him and to prove that Red Hats had infiltrated the White Hat command structure. In his memo, Gen. Smith called Kurtz “recklessly dangerous” and said that officers obeying Kurtz’s commands were acting in contravention of Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which states, “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States.” “President Trump has not sanctioned Red Hat operations against our Deep State adversaries, and neither have I. As you well know, President Trump ceded provisional authority to General David H. Berger when he left Washington, D.C., and when Gen. Berger retired, his responsibilities became my own. I have discharged those duties to the best of my ability. The man calling himself Colonel Kurtz, the fictional antagonist in the film Apocalypse Now, is a civilian. He resigned because he wanted to fight the Deep State his way instead of according to the commander-in-chief’s plan. Some of you might be frustrated, but you are dutybound to uphold the Constitution. Not follow some disgruntled Marine’s interpretation of it.” Gen. Smith concluded his letter with a stern warning: “If you privately sympathize with Red Hats, that’s your prerogative. However, if you identify as a Red Hat or are sharing our intelligence with them, you’re as dishonorable as a Deep Stater and should resign your commission. Any among us caught sharing classified info risks a court-martial.” |
2024.05.16 22:34 cosyrarah Investments - where to start?
Hi all! I'm new here and looking for some advice on how to start investing my money as someone who is fairly financially responsible and good with saving my money, but not at investing it. I don't understand how investing works, especially the maths and tax side of things - I'm anxious about making bad investments and particularly afraid of losing money.
A bit of background: I (28F) am a 3rd year post-primary teacher, single, no dependents and still living at home with my family. Apart from car loan, insurance payments and bill contributions I don't have any big expenditures. I don't smoke, only drink/eat out very rarely nowadays, and I usually have a fair bit of disposable income left over after payments/savings/discretionary spending.
I'm fortunate enough to be able to save around 1/3 of my pay every fortnight. I have been putting this into a regular savings account, plus any extra that I have left over at the end of the fortnight as a buffer in case of emergencies. However, I feel like my progress is so slow. I've seen a lot of videos online of people my age having saved 10x what I have due to good investments, but they're usually all American so I don't know if what works for them will work for me.
I would really appreciate some help on where to look. I'm not sure what investment companies are trustworthy, or should I open an investment account with my bank eg B.O.I. mortgage saver or super saver? My goal is to buy a property in the next 3-5 years, and then supplement my pension for possible early retirement (I have been told Cornmarket AVCs are what most teachers go for, but heard its better to go with Irish Life?).
Any advice or recommendations would be very much appreciated, as I find myself getting confused and a little overwhelmed trying to research a topic that I genuinely struggle to understand.
Thanks in advance!
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A bit of background: I (28F) am a 3rd year post-primary teacher, single, no dependents and still living at home with my family. Apart from car loan, insurance payments and bill contributions I don't have any big expenditures. I don't smoke, only drink/eat out very rarely nowadays, and I usually have a fair bit of disposable income left over after payments/savings/discretionary spending.
I'm fortunate enough to be able to save around 1/3 of my pay every fortnight. I have been putting this into a regular savings account, plus any extra that I have left over at the end of the fortnight as a buffer in case of emergencies. However, I feel like my progress is so slow. I've seen a lot of videos online of people my age having saved 10x what I have due to good investments, but they're usually all American so I don't know if what works for them will work for me.
I would really appreciate some help on where to look. I'm not sure what investment companies are trustworthy, or should I open an investment account with my bank eg B.O.I. mortgage saver or super saver? My goal is to buy a property in the next 3-5 years, and then supplement my pension for possible early retirement (I have been told Cornmarket AVCs are what most teachers go for, but heard its better to go with Irish Life?).
Any advice or recommendations would be very much appreciated, as I find myself getting confused and a little overwhelmed trying to research a topic that I genuinely struggle to understand.
Thanks in advance!
2024.05.16 21:28 SaltyPagan Advice about being asked to resign
I am employed by a public school district and was today told that my contract will not be renewed. This is my first year in the post (I'm not a teacher, I'm a digital learning coach). No reason was given as I chose to resign rather than be terminated. I truly don't know what I did wrong. The school site I work at has consistently given me good feedback, though the Asst Principal filled out my evaluation and ranked me 1 out of 4 in many areas. However, when I met with her, she said I was doing 'fine' and that I was just 'new' at the job and that she didn't have much 'control' over my evaluation.
I have struggled to find my way in this role but I do feel I've done a fairly good job. I did vent a bit to colleagues at a meeting -- nothing terrible, just expressed some frustrations. This came back to my supervisor that I was 'negative' which wasn't my intention. I just thought I was in a safe space. The HR person said that if I wanted to know why my contract is not being renewed, I would have to take a termination. Obviously, I don't want that on my record so I resigned.
Has the district wrongly terminated my employment? Until last week, I had not heard anything negative about my performance and I feel rather blindsided. I'm also not sure how to navigate my next move.
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I have struggled to find my way in this role but I do feel I've done a fairly good job. I did vent a bit to colleagues at a meeting -- nothing terrible, just expressed some frustrations. This came back to my supervisor that I was 'negative' which wasn't my intention. I just thought I was in a safe space. The HR person said that if I wanted to know why my contract is not being renewed, I would have to take a termination. Obviously, I don't want that on my record so I resigned.
Has the district wrongly terminated my employment? Until last week, I had not heard anything negative about my performance and I feel rather blindsided. I'm also not sure how to navigate my next move.
2024.05.16 21:02 icarebear2 i don’t think i want to be here anymore
multiple content warnings, i’m sorry, this will be long, this isn’t even everything and it’s a damn book i am 19. i was 11 when i had to grow up. my parents decided to divorce after months of fighting, letting us know a week before my 12th birthday. you know, the classic divorce story. my dad moved out and my mom started dating people. it moved so fast. we moved to a different area, even though we had just moved into a new house a year earlier, leaving my childhood hometown behind. my mom was trying to pursue school so we were living on student aid and stamps. (i have 3 siblings, so there were 5 of us) i started middle school in that area and was doing pretty well off. then my mom got pretty serious with someone i’m going to call SOB, he doesn’t deserve a name. my mom and SOB were dating for two months before that thing proposed to my mom. we met him once before he was labeled our step dad. my mom sat us down and told us we’d be moving to idaho to be closer to her family. come to find out, the whole reason for going there was because SOB is an ex convict and he couldn’t leave idaho because that’s were his parole was.
we were told at the time that he was framed for kidnapping and he had a whole story crafted to back it up. being a kid and needing my mom, i didn’t ask or dig about it. so we moved to idaho. i started school there and immediately got death threats. i got called a hoe relentlessly for seemingly being pretty. eventually things calmed down and i had friends, but that place was tiny and once people have formed an opinion of you, there’s no changing it, so it was hard to get around.
SOB was awful to my younger brother. we’ll call this brother zayn. zayn has bad adhd and has always struggled with school. he’s one of the smartest people i know, but getting assignments in is not his forte. so as a result he’s never had the highest grades. SOB hated the fact that my brother wasn’t doing great and would literally stand there and scream at him to get his work done. there was one time that i was in my room and i started to hear my brother screaming so immediately i’m upstairs to help him, SOB was literally chasing my brother around our house with a damn bat screaming at him like a demon was coming out. i yelled at him to leave my brother alone and things just got darker after that. me and my brother were scum to him and he ran our house like the hunger games. my other little brother and my older sister were prized jewels, they got everything they wanted and more, and SOB would rub it in our faces. he even gave my dog away, i went days worrying about her and looking because i thought she had ran away, to find out that some other person had my dog now and i wouldn’t ever get her back.
fasting forward a little, SOB violated his parole by going on a trip that wasn’t fully approved and got put back in jail right before christmas. my mom completely threw herself into trying to get him out. me and my sister noticed that my mom hadn’t gotten a single thing to be santa for my brothers, so we scraped up the money we had to get gifts so my brothers wouldn’t lose their christmas spirit seeing that santa didn’t come when things were already so bad as it was. i love that i was able to do this for them, the smiles on their faces, i will never forget that christmas.
after a long time of having a very absent mother, she was able to get SOB out of jail. he came back even worse of a monster then when he left. he sexually assaulted my mom, committed all kinds of fraud, basically stole all of my papa’s retirement money, the list goes on. my mom decided she wanted a divorce and when he found out, he went crazy. he locked all of us out of our house and threw our things on the lawn. it rained, i lost so many things, a one of a kind paper mache venitian mask i had gotten on a trip with my dad to italy included.
it’s 2020 by now and we went on a trip to Texas, to meet the person my dad was dating. on the trip, I very much learned that she was not for my dad. but, all reasoning was in vain. my dad proposed, and we had literally just met her. so that was that my dad was engaged now and focused on trying to move them out to him and getting a new house. my mom decided at that time that she wanted to move too so we had a choice, move to my dads and go back to the area i grew up in, or go with my mom to another ranch town in idaho. i chose my dads. my brothers came with, but my sister stayed with my grandparents where we lived in idaho so she could graduate.
things were fine for a bit. my mom was dating a lot and even got engaged. then she told us about this other guy she had been seeing, who had given her a 500 mile ride home from somewhere. immediately suspicious, especially because she wouldn’t drop a name. come to find out other guy was SOB. SOB proposes to her again and she’s got two engagement rings from two different people. everyone was like, what the actual shit are you doing. my mom was in a very cooky state of mind, broke things off with the other guy, and stayed with SOB. there was a weekend in september that my cousin had something going on so my extended family and everything was all there and we decided there needed to be some kind of intervention. to keep things short, it didn’t go well. my mom ended up leaving and she told me and my sister that she didn’t want to be our mom anymore. found out through facebook a couple days later that my mom and SOB were married.
then came the everlasting fun of a custody battle. my step mom had gotten into my dads head saying he needed to take full custody. now i wasn’t the biggest fan of my mom at the time, but that didn’t mean i never wanted to see her. my parents hated each other. there were a few times in exchanges that the cops ended up being called.
for a while my dad had pretty bad anger issues. low blood sugar, overstimulation, bad smells, anything could set him off. i just so happened to have a very large target on my back so i got the brunt of everything. i wouldn’t let him yell at my brothers and this resulted in me getting the lashings, but i would do it all again if that meant protecting my brothers. he wasn’t angry all the time, there were a lot of good days, but it was definitely pretty tortuous for a while. a lot of the problem, which i knew would happen to begin with, was my step mom. she is one of the laziest people i’ve ever known, which is the complete opposite of my dad. my dad likes to do things, he’s always active. so he was frustrated because he would want to do things with his wife there, and she would almost always refuse, so she could have a quiet day in bed. my step mom had also convinced herself that i was stealing from her. she ransacked my room multiple times, to no avail. she took my car keys ‘until she could prove i was taking things from her’ and i only got them back because they were sick of giving me rides places. she actually ended up stealing some of my things trying to claim they were hers, so she hid them and i haven’t seen them since.
so yeah i got yelled at a lot, accused of being a thief, and my relationship with my mom was shit + the joys of high school. i have been doing musical theater my whole life. when i first got to my new high school i was so excited because, although i wasn’t able to audition for the productions companies that year, the teacher told me i was a shoe in for the next year. she ended up leaving and we got a new teacher, if you can even call her that. so it’s my junior year, the first year with her, and it wasn’t bad, i got some good parts and did really well. i ended up getting nominated for an award for one of my performances and it was at this time, i don’t know what happened, but she did not like me anymore. she told me that she accepted the nomination for me, but i found out not too long later that she never accepted it and i was in favor to win so the judges were very puzzled by it. she accepted my friends nominations and kinda rubbed it in my face that i never got anything back. like’ awe are you sad because you didn’t hear anything from the judges? well so and so over here did😈’
the summer after that year i cut my hair pretty short. i wouldn’t say i’m not ‘girly’ but i definitely have a more masculine ‘bro’ persona comparatively. so now it’s my senior year, it matters a lot more at this point to try for good parts because it’s my last run. to keep it simple, my teacher wouldn’t cast me because i was too masculine, not even as a guy ?? idk make it make sense. i got one part my entire senior year, and i know it’s not because i’m bad. but i wrote and produced my own show that ended up being 100x the quality of the shows she produced, so i did get redemption. long story short, it really sucks to watch the peers your just as good as continue to succeed, while you get kicked out of the room for being distracting when you haven’t said a word. the reason they didn’t like me ? i’m good at improv, i kid you not i was told i was too creative and it bothered them. i know my presence scared the teachers there because i’m not a classic conformist theater kid that does anything and everything the teacher says.
anyways, so after years of trying to rekindle a relationship with my mom, fighting with an ass teacher and getting yelled at almost daily, a lot of worth questioning, and a flurry of weed later, i graduated.
both of my brothers in this time attempted to end their lives and were in facilities for a bit. i decided at that time to move in with my mom to hopefully help our relationship. it did a lot. me and my mom are best friends now. but it hasn’t been because of nothing. SOB had become the most controlling narcissistic asshole and my mom was just acting having any feelings for him so he wouldn’t take everything away from her. he monitored everything my mom did. he hit my mom in an intimate moment, and almost beat zayn, but i covered him and ended up slicing my arm open on our fireplace, once again i would do this 100 times over to protect my brother. i decided i wanted to dig everything up on him that i could. what i found was mortifying. i won’t go into too much detail, but there were a lot of charges, multiple of them being SA of a child. i vowed at that moment that i would do anything it takes to get him back behind bars. he’s actively on the offender list and he works across the street from a preschool, not on my fukin watch ass hat.
i will never forget the true terror on my moms face that that man caused. it got to the point where my mom would get really scared if she started crying because she knew he’d freak out at her if he noticed. i came back to my locked room, that i have the only key to, with holes in my walls in weird places, and in my bathroom too. a couple days before, my brother found a camera in his room, so i knew what it was and that SOB was spying on me. i taped them all up and came to stay at my bfs house and have been here since. after months of his treacherous cycle my mom had enough and left to a safe house, she’s there now. the divorce is going though but from some reason the stupid system denied my mom a protective order against him. he has full access to our house and things right now, and he’s trying to make 90,000 so he can baile his way out of the insurance fraud case against him that could get him back in jail in june. i’m so worried he’s selling my things because he so would. everything i have left is in that house and it’s all at his whim now.
when i moved in with my mom, i started a job at a fancy high end restaurant because i knew it would be good money. i’ve had problems with this my entire life, but ever since starting my job there, i have experienced countless creeps who have sexualized me in more ways then i thought possible. it’s made me feel so worthless. it’s people i work with and people who come in. drunk guys from the bar are the worst, and they’re all filthy rich so they don’t care about a thing in the world. i need to quit but i don’t know where else to go
my dad has now decided as of like two weeks ago, that he will be moving to florida. i never anticipated him moving across the country and leaving the last place i could call home. he also started therapy a couple months ago and his anger issues are pretty much nonexistent at this point. so i got my dad back but now he’s leaving again. i always hoped that as i got older, my family would always be pretty close, close enough that i could seem them once a week if i wanted. it’s really killing me because i was so close to that, to getting my family back. my sister has been in france the last couple years and she’s coming back in a couple weeks. my dad will be moving almost immediately after. we finally got to a point where my mom is free, my dad is happy, we’re all healing, and now my family will be broken up more then ever before by distance. my parents don’t hate each other anymore, my sister is coming home, we would all be able to spend time together again, never more.
so i’m at this point now, where i’ve been fighting for my family, taking every hit with hope in my heart for something i was so close to having, for 7 years i’ve been hoping. and just like that, the light at the end of this very long, cold and dark tunnel fades, and i’m left once again, in the cold dark nothingness that is hoping for a better day, that will never come.
so i’m left questioning, is overcoming another mountain worth it if there’s a whole range of painful climbing ahead of me? i’m so tired, my whole body hurts every day, my mind and soul are toiled with the pain of my lifetime, everyone in my family is moving on with their own paths and it’s only a matter of time before i’m only hearing from them every once in a while. i don’t want to do life, the world is so messed up right now and i don’t see it getting better. there’s too much pain and i can’t handle it. nothing seems worth hoping let alone living for anymore. i bid you adieu and wish you all the best 💗
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we were told at the time that he was framed for kidnapping and he had a whole story crafted to back it up. being a kid and needing my mom, i didn’t ask or dig about it. so we moved to idaho. i started school there and immediately got death threats. i got called a hoe relentlessly for seemingly being pretty. eventually things calmed down and i had friends, but that place was tiny and once people have formed an opinion of you, there’s no changing it, so it was hard to get around.
SOB was awful to my younger brother. we’ll call this brother zayn. zayn has bad adhd and has always struggled with school. he’s one of the smartest people i know, but getting assignments in is not his forte. so as a result he’s never had the highest grades. SOB hated the fact that my brother wasn’t doing great and would literally stand there and scream at him to get his work done. there was one time that i was in my room and i started to hear my brother screaming so immediately i’m upstairs to help him, SOB was literally chasing my brother around our house with a damn bat screaming at him like a demon was coming out. i yelled at him to leave my brother alone and things just got darker after that. me and my brother were scum to him and he ran our house like the hunger games. my other little brother and my older sister were prized jewels, they got everything they wanted and more, and SOB would rub it in our faces. he even gave my dog away, i went days worrying about her and looking because i thought she had ran away, to find out that some other person had my dog now and i wouldn’t ever get her back.
fasting forward a little, SOB violated his parole by going on a trip that wasn’t fully approved and got put back in jail right before christmas. my mom completely threw herself into trying to get him out. me and my sister noticed that my mom hadn’t gotten a single thing to be santa for my brothers, so we scraped up the money we had to get gifts so my brothers wouldn’t lose their christmas spirit seeing that santa didn’t come when things were already so bad as it was. i love that i was able to do this for them, the smiles on their faces, i will never forget that christmas.
after a long time of having a very absent mother, she was able to get SOB out of jail. he came back even worse of a monster then when he left. he sexually assaulted my mom, committed all kinds of fraud, basically stole all of my papa’s retirement money, the list goes on. my mom decided she wanted a divorce and when he found out, he went crazy. he locked all of us out of our house and threw our things on the lawn. it rained, i lost so many things, a one of a kind paper mache venitian mask i had gotten on a trip with my dad to italy included.
it’s 2020 by now and we went on a trip to Texas, to meet the person my dad was dating. on the trip, I very much learned that she was not for my dad. but, all reasoning was in vain. my dad proposed, and we had literally just met her. so that was that my dad was engaged now and focused on trying to move them out to him and getting a new house. my mom decided at that time that she wanted to move too so we had a choice, move to my dads and go back to the area i grew up in, or go with my mom to another ranch town in idaho. i chose my dads. my brothers came with, but my sister stayed with my grandparents where we lived in idaho so she could graduate.
things were fine for a bit. my mom was dating a lot and even got engaged. then she told us about this other guy she had been seeing, who had given her a 500 mile ride home from somewhere. immediately suspicious, especially because she wouldn’t drop a name. come to find out other guy was SOB. SOB proposes to her again and she’s got two engagement rings from two different people. everyone was like, what the actual shit are you doing. my mom was in a very cooky state of mind, broke things off with the other guy, and stayed with SOB. there was a weekend in september that my cousin had something going on so my extended family and everything was all there and we decided there needed to be some kind of intervention. to keep things short, it didn’t go well. my mom ended up leaving and she told me and my sister that she didn’t want to be our mom anymore. found out through facebook a couple days later that my mom and SOB were married.
then came the everlasting fun of a custody battle. my step mom had gotten into my dads head saying he needed to take full custody. now i wasn’t the biggest fan of my mom at the time, but that didn’t mean i never wanted to see her. my parents hated each other. there were a few times in exchanges that the cops ended up being called.
for a while my dad had pretty bad anger issues. low blood sugar, overstimulation, bad smells, anything could set him off. i just so happened to have a very large target on my back so i got the brunt of everything. i wouldn’t let him yell at my brothers and this resulted in me getting the lashings, but i would do it all again if that meant protecting my brothers. he wasn’t angry all the time, there were a lot of good days, but it was definitely pretty tortuous for a while. a lot of the problem, which i knew would happen to begin with, was my step mom. she is one of the laziest people i’ve ever known, which is the complete opposite of my dad. my dad likes to do things, he’s always active. so he was frustrated because he would want to do things with his wife there, and she would almost always refuse, so she could have a quiet day in bed. my step mom had also convinced herself that i was stealing from her. she ransacked my room multiple times, to no avail. she took my car keys ‘until she could prove i was taking things from her’ and i only got them back because they were sick of giving me rides places. she actually ended up stealing some of my things trying to claim they were hers, so she hid them and i haven’t seen them since.
so yeah i got yelled at a lot, accused of being a thief, and my relationship with my mom was shit + the joys of high school. i have been doing musical theater my whole life. when i first got to my new high school i was so excited because, although i wasn’t able to audition for the productions companies that year, the teacher told me i was a shoe in for the next year. she ended up leaving and we got a new teacher, if you can even call her that. so it’s my junior year, the first year with her, and it wasn’t bad, i got some good parts and did really well. i ended up getting nominated for an award for one of my performances and it was at this time, i don’t know what happened, but she did not like me anymore. she told me that she accepted the nomination for me, but i found out not too long later that she never accepted it and i was in favor to win so the judges were very puzzled by it. she accepted my friends nominations and kinda rubbed it in my face that i never got anything back. like’ awe are you sad because you didn’t hear anything from the judges? well so and so over here did😈’
the summer after that year i cut my hair pretty short. i wouldn’t say i’m not ‘girly’ but i definitely have a more masculine ‘bro’ persona comparatively. so now it’s my senior year, it matters a lot more at this point to try for good parts because it’s my last run. to keep it simple, my teacher wouldn’t cast me because i was too masculine, not even as a guy ?? idk make it make sense. i got one part my entire senior year, and i know it’s not because i’m bad. but i wrote and produced my own show that ended up being 100x the quality of the shows she produced, so i did get redemption. long story short, it really sucks to watch the peers your just as good as continue to succeed, while you get kicked out of the room for being distracting when you haven’t said a word. the reason they didn’t like me ? i’m good at improv, i kid you not i was told i was too creative and it bothered them. i know my presence scared the teachers there because i’m not a classic conformist theater kid that does anything and everything the teacher says.
anyways, so after years of trying to rekindle a relationship with my mom, fighting with an ass teacher and getting yelled at almost daily, a lot of worth questioning, and a flurry of weed later, i graduated.
both of my brothers in this time attempted to end their lives and were in facilities for a bit. i decided at that time to move in with my mom to hopefully help our relationship. it did a lot. me and my mom are best friends now. but it hasn’t been because of nothing. SOB had become the most controlling narcissistic asshole and my mom was just acting having any feelings for him so he wouldn’t take everything away from her. he monitored everything my mom did. he hit my mom in an intimate moment, and almost beat zayn, but i covered him and ended up slicing my arm open on our fireplace, once again i would do this 100 times over to protect my brother. i decided i wanted to dig everything up on him that i could. what i found was mortifying. i won’t go into too much detail, but there were a lot of charges, multiple of them being SA of a child. i vowed at that moment that i would do anything it takes to get him back behind bars. he’s actively on the offender list and he works across the street from a preschool, not on my fukin watch ass hat.
i will never forget the true terror on my moms face that that man caused. it got to the point where my mom would get really scared if she started crying because she knew he’d freak out at her if he noticed. i came back to my locked room, that i have the only key to, with holes in my walls in weird places, and in my bathroom too. a couple days before, my brother found a camera in his room, so i knew what it was and that SOB was spying on me. i taped them all up and came to stay at my bfs house and have been here since. after months of his treacherous cycle my mom had enough and left to a safe house, she’s there now. the divorce is going though but from some reason the stupid system denied my mom a protective order against him. he has full access to our house and things right now, and he’s trying to make 90,000 so he can baile his way out of the insurance fraud case against him that could get him back in jail in june. i’m so worried he’s selling my things because he so would. everything i have left is in that house and it’s all at his whim now.
when i moved in with my mom, i started a job at a fancy high end restaurant because i knew it would be good money. i’ve had problems with this my entire life, but ever since starting my job there, i have experienced countless creeps who have sexualized me in more ways then i thought possible. it’s made me feel so worthless. it’s people i work with and people who come in. drunk guys from the bar are the worst, and they’re all filthy rich so they don’t care about a thing in the world. i need to quit but i don’t know where else to go
my dad has now decided as of like two weeks ago, that he will be moving to florida. i never anticipated him moving across the country and leaving the last place i could call home. he also started therapy a couple months ago and his anger issues are pretty much nonexistent at this point. so i got my dad back but now he’s leaving again. i always hoped that as i got older, my family would always be pretty close, close enough that i could seem them once a week if i wanted. it’s really killing me because i was so close to that, to getting my family back. my sister has been in france the last couple years and she’s coming back in a couple weeks. my dad will be moving almost immediately after. we finally got to a point where my mom is free, my dad is happy, we’re all healing, and now my family will be broken up more then ever before by distance. my parents don’t hate each other anymore, my sister is coming home, we would all be able to spend time together again, never more.
so i’m at this point now, where i’ve been fighting for my family, taking every hit with hope in my heart for something i was so close to having, for 7 years i’ve been hoping. and just like that, the light at the end of this very long, cold and dark tunnel fades, and i’m left once again, in the cold dark nothingness that is hoping for a better day, that will never come.
so i’m left questioning, is overcoming another mountain worth it if there’s a whole range of painful climbing ahead of me? i’m so tired, my whole body hurts every day, my mind and soul are toiled with the pain of my lifetime, everyone in my family is moving on with their own paths and it’s only a matter of time before i’m only hearing from them every once in a while. i don’t want to do life, the world is so messed up right now and i don’t see it getting better. there’s too much pain and i can’t handle it. nothing seems worth hoping let alone living for anymore. i bid you adieu and wish you all the best 💗
2024.05.16 19:00 Dorilliams Trying to Help My Mom Escape DV, need advice
Hi everyone, I am a burnt out college graduate working a dead-end job trying to help my mother escape her current living situation. I honestly only just realized my mother and I may have been isolated just recently, so I’ve come to you looking for some advice if possible. I am starting to go through the resources mentioned in the wiki, but I feel personal details may help. This situation is kind of time sensitive, it’s just dependent on what happens in the next few months.
Long-winded context:
(NY based)
I believe my father met my mom while she was in college, and he had a well-paying job at the time that has set him up as a provider for her. The issue is he is already married with children older than me, and over the course of my life my mom has repeatedly become fed up with her situation but there’s not much either of us can do.
My mom is currently a substitute teacher with meager savings, while I am barely able to pay my rent as is so financially we’re screwed without my father. He paid for our house, my tuition for college, etc. and my mother fears leaving my father would stifle my education out of spite.
My father has experienced some issues with work that has made money tighter mid-way through college and he’s looking to retire, which has allowed me to pursue my independence.
Abuse:
When I was a child, my father physically abused my mother behind closed doors. I believe it happened once or twice, but recently when I spoke to my mom about it, she told my father and he claimed he’s never done such a thing and that my mom is “dramatic”. I will admit my mom’s emotional responses can be extreme, but that is really just the byproduct of my father and her family taking advantage of her kindness so I’ve grown used to it. The screams she let out during those periods haunt my mind enough I suspect my father is attempting to gaslight me.
My father is also extremely emotionally abusive which is the main crux now. When I first started going to college, he brought up the idea of having another child with her, which just seems like another attempt at maintaining their relationship because otherwise I believe my mom would leave him case in point. Also I believe due to the stress of this entire situation my mom had a stroke midway through college, making the overall situation tougher and spiraling her depression. Recently my mother has been trying to go back to school and church, but my father has been derailing her attempts.
Constantly interfering with her time to do homework, and attempted gaslighting her into thinking otherwise. Fortunately my mom recognized the attempts for what they were, and embarrassed him in front of me as he’s always trying to present the image of a perfect father.
Financially my father tries to present as having enough money to support us, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned that he has been struggling to pay some bills forcing my mother to intervene or outright using her cards behind her back further putting her into debt.
Main Problems:
The main issues my mother is facing is isolation from her family, money/credit card debt, and potential lack of job opportunities for after she moves.
I already have an idea for how to fix the isolation, but the rest if you have any advice please leave a comment. (Side Note: There is a very minimal chance I could become a popular fantasy author within the next few months, and the income from that would greatly help this situation. It is a small chance however so I’m not relying on this avenue and looking for more realistic approach but here’s to hoping!)
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Long-winded context:
(NY based)
I believe my father met my mom while she was in college, and he had a well-paying job at the time that has set him up as a provider for her. The issue is he is already married with children older than me, and over the course of my life my mom has repeatedly become fed up with her situation but there’s not much either of us can do.
My mom is currently a substitute teacher with meager savings, while I am barely able to pay my rent as is so financially we’re screwed without my father. He paid for our house, my tuition for college, etc. and my mother fears leaving my father would stifle my education out of spite.
My father has experienced some issues with work that has made money tighter mid-way through college and he’s looking to retire, which has allowed me to pursue my independence.
Abuse:
When I was a child, my father physically abused my mother behind closed doors. I believe it happened once or twice, but recently when I spoke to my mom about it, she told my father and he claimed he’s never done such a thing and that my mom is “dramatic”. I will admit my mom’s emotional responses can be extreme, but that is really just the byproduct of my father and her family taking advantage of her kindness so I’ve grown used to it. The screams she let out during those periods haunt my mind enough I suspect my father is attempting to gaslight me.
My father is also extremely emotionally abusive which is the main crux now. When I first started going to college, he brought up the idea of having another child with her, which just seems like another attempt at maintaining their relationship because otherwise I believe my mom would leave him case in point. Also I believe due to the stress of this entire situation my mom had a stroke midway through college, making the overall situation tougher and spiraling her depression. Recently my mother has been trying to go back to school and church, but my father has been derailing her attempts.
Constantly interfering with her time to do homework, and attempted gaslighting her into thinking otherwise. Fortunately my mom recognized the attempts for what they were, and embarrassed him in front of me as he’s always trying to present the image of a perfect father.
Financially my father tries to present as having enough money to support us, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned that he has been struggling to pay some bills forcing my mother to intervene or outright using her cards behind her back further putting her into debt.
Main Problems:
The main issues my mother is facing is isolation from her family, money/credit card debt, and potential lack of job opportunities for after she moves.
I already have an idea for how to fix the isolation, but the rest if you have any advice please leave a comment. (Side Note: There is a very minimal chance I could become a popular fantasy author within the next few months, and the income from that would greatly help this situation. It is a small chance however so I’m not relying on this avenue and looking for more realistic approach but here’s to hoping!)
2024.05.16 18:16 Neither_Librarian_99 Late Gen Z are as bad as Gen Alpha
I’m speaking this from experience. I’m born in 2004 and have stepsister who is born in 2009. She fits every stereotype about Gen Alpha. I know that now she is a whiny teenager but she really fits that stereotype. People are saying Gen Alpha are so unfriendly and even disrespectful to teachers. in my experience even people my age were extremely disrespectful towards teachers for no reason but in the end they apologised and teachers knew that they shouldn’t be messing with them when they aren’t in the mood. But that girl… She would disrespect the teachers and she wouldn’t be sorry. And she isn’t the only one. Her classmates are like that too. Somehow she isn’t the worst in her class which concerns me.
When I was younger I was afraid to be around teenagers because they’re mean. Yes even when I was a teenager myself. Now it’s even worse. I’m seeing my old teachers sometimes and I’m trying to catch up with them. they’re crying to me because the kids are horrible. “Your classmates were horrible but I never knew it would get worse.” is what they mostly say. One of them even retired two years earlier just because she can’t put up with this shit anymore.
I’m kind of guilty for this too but their phone addiction. I’m kind of keeping myself in check when it comes to this but most of them don’t. A few years ago my mum introduced me to her colleague’s daughter(2008) I was happy I will finally make a friend but the whole whole time she wouldn’t engage in conversations. She would be on her phone chatting. I barely got to know her but from what I found out she really gave me horrible vibe. Even though her mum claims to be strict she is spoiling her daughter too much. at least from the conversation my mom had with her that day. I actually found out that her daughter is a bitch. She would talk behind other people’s back. Also her attitude isn’t going to get her far in life.
So no not only Gen Alpha are the rude, screentime addicts who can’t read. It’s a common thing in our generation too. Let’s not talk about how some Gen Z are parents of Gen Alpha kids. From all i am seeing they shove iPads in their faces too. I’m scared for the next generations. I truly hope they aren’t that bad.
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When I was younger I was afraid to be around teenagers because they’re mean. Yes even when I was a teenager myself. Now it’s even worse. I’m seeing my old teachers sometimes and I’m trying to catch up with them. they’re crying to me because the kids are horrible. “Your classmates were horrible but I never knew it would get worse.” is what they mostly say. One of them even retired two years earlier just because she can’t put up with this shit anymore.
I’m kind of guilty for this too but their phone addiction. I’m kind of keeping myself in check when it comes to this but most of them don’t. A few years ago my mum introduced me to her colleague’s daughter(2008) I was happy I will finally make a friend but the whole whole time she wouldn’t engage in conversations. She would be on her phone chatting. I barely got to know her but from what I found out she really gave me horrible vibe. Even though her mum claims to be strict she is spoiling her daughter too much. at least from the conversation my mom had with her that day. I actually found out that her daughter is a bitch. She would talk behind other people’s back. Also her attitude isn’t going to get her far in life.
So no not only Gen Alpha are the rude, screentime addicts who can’t read. It’s a common thing in our generation too. Let’s not talk about how some Gen Z are parents of Gen Alpha kids. From all i am seeing they shove iPads in their faces too. I’m scared for the next generations. I truly hope they aren’t that bad.
2024.05.16 17:32 Remarkable-Cream4544 Teachers Fired for Grade Fixing Ordered by Admin
"Credit Recovery" classes are the biggest untold scam in education today. If you don't teach high school, and particularly, seniors, you may not have dealt with it much. Essentially, students take an online "class" to earn credit for a failed course. It is used to bump grad rates among other things.
Well, two teachers lost their jobs for doing exactly what admin told them to do at their award-winning school. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/education/two-teachers-fired-principal-resigns-grade-fixing-investigation/51-65a77977-b5a9-43d2-bfa6-b56184c7a40e
I can tell you flat out this happens in my school and district all the time. It's disgusting already, but to see teachers take the fall is beyond ridiculous.
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Well, two teachers lost their jobs for doing exactly what admin told them to do at their award-winning school. https://www.wbir.com/article/news/education/two-teachers-fired-principal-resigns-grade-fixing-investigation/51-65a77977-b5a9-43d2-bfa6-b56184c7a40e
I can tell you flat out this happens in my school and district all the time. It's disgusting already, but to see teachers take the fall is beyond ridiculous.
2024.05.16 16:57 IllustriousDelay3589 We have one more week….
We have Kindergarten graduation next week and it’s the last week of school. I was planning on sending Kindergarten graduation details on Friday, since it’s this coming week. I had one parent reach out to me about graduation. My admin emails me “I had a few parents contact me about graduation. I need the exact communication you sent to parents. I also need you to ensure that it’s on the daily plan for next week”. I teach online and I haven’t put it on the daily plan yet, it’s next Wednesday, I have time. I would like to repeat that none of these parents reached out to me. Why does she need to see the exact communication, which none of the kindergarten teachers have sent out yet. Also, it’s almost like she doesn’t trust me to put it on the plan. I think since I resigned she is afraid that I am going to abandon it. I can’t. I have to tough it out to keep my insurance for one more month.
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2024.05.16 16:13 Worried_Tower_9304 This made me sad.
 | For context, nagresign ako almost 5 months ago due to burnout at nawalan na ako ng gana magturo. Three reasons why I left Deped. 1. I lost the passion sa pagtuturo. 2. Sistema ng Deped 3. A coworker of mine broke me into pieces. Hindi coworker ang trato niya sa akin kundi katulong. You can read my past posts about my resignation or why I left DepEd here sa subreddit na to. submitted by Worried_Tower_9304 to DepEdTeachersPH [link] [comments] Kausap ko yung friend ko sa school who is also a teacher. Apparently, ever since I left ang dami nagrereklamo daw dito kay coworker na kung makaasta parang siya ang principal or guidance konsi. Ngayon pinatatawag daw siya lagi sa office pero di siya sumisipot. Pa main character si madam. The same coworker who broke me into pieces. Hanggang ngayon, minemessage niya pa rin ako about sa forms that I left out. Nainis na ang guidance konsi namin kasi bakit pa daw ako binobother e wala na nga ako sa school at di na ako pinasasahod. Friend chatted me with this. Yan daw ang sabi ng guidance konsi namin. Sana wala na mangyaring ganito sa mga future teachers natin. Sa mga luma. Please don't be the reason bakit aalis ang mga maaayos na teachers. Don't be the villain. Lift the new teachers up. Check up on your teachers, mga higher ups dyan. One day, baka wala na matira sa mga kaguruan natin kung puro power trip lang alam natin. Minsan gusto ko magstroll or maglakad sa DO namin dito at isumbong ko siya anonymously. Kaso di ako vengeful na tao. Hihintayin ko na lang na magkaroon siya ng katapat. Nanahimik at masaya na ako. Wala akong work as of now. But I'm happy. |
2024.05.16 16:12 Material-Elk Need some advice
1 full year in the teaching world, was unable to land a full time position. Had a few long-term sub jobs and even filled in for a teacher after they were asked to resign by the admin for this 2nd semester. I have my license for High School and Middle School social sciences, so grades 6-12. I have had a blast so far my first year of teaching, especially in the last few months as I stepped in and had an actual classroom for myself. I have considered getting my LSB1 in the past simply to make myself more marketable, but now I am considering pursuing special education at the High School level. I think I would really excel being a co-teacher and making sure student needs are met in the building. However, I know that you don’t really get to choose what you do as a special education teacher… I love history and teaching history, but I think my strengths lie in more small group/individual instruction rather than full class. Should I pursue special ed as a career? Less planning (I know they still plan a lot) and more small group/individual instruction to assist students seems enticing to me. Has anybody here made that switch?
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2024.05.16 15:55 YukiPlayz_ Community Host's Message!
Hello everyone, this is YukiPlayz. I would like to make a statement that I will resign early as Community Host. I said to some people that I will retire next year, and yes I would like to stay in my position more, but I can't anymore. As you can see, sometimes the contest winners and contest announcements are delayed, even the events was not functional with me as a Community Host because I am tired. The reason I wanted to resign is because I wanted to take a rest. Also, I wanted to join more contests that I cannot do for the past few months. Don't worry, I will still contribute to the World's FRVR Community. Thank you all for supporting me over the past few months and thank you for the friends that I made because of it! Thank you Losi, Oahwen, Apollo, Morgana, Alpha Fox, Aritra, Laven, Mr. Rhino, Builder V, Pffft, Atgrey, Klassen, Abinash, Doc, Jonas, Nath, Baby Lana, and to my other fans. Thank you also Jimbly for the opportunity to become a Contest/Community Host. Lastly, Thank you Satera for giving me advices and tips and for being a good friend. If I have an opportunity to host again next year, I might accept it. For now, time for me to rest.
Once again, this is YukiPlayz, and I am now signing off as a Community Host.....
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2024.05.16 15:25 DigitalMaverick The 6 types of people I meet cruising in suites...
Heads up - I wrote a longer than anticipated into to this topic...if you want to skip the background and get to the meat, you can skip to the list toward the bottom!
Background:
My childhood was a pretty typical middle-class, suburban existence.
I went to public schools growing up. I went to an average state university. My dad passed while I was in college and my mom was a public school teacher so I was more or less on my own to figure life out after my dad passed.
I share that because cruising often and being able to afford to stay in suites is relatively new for us.
I'm an entrepreneur and when COVID started we were on the verge of bankruptcy, not just my business, but my personal finances as well.
I had quit my last corporate job in the tech industry 4 years earlier and hadn't taken a paycheck since. We were surviving on my wife's teacher's salary and the savings and retirement I'd built after a decade in the soulless troughs of corporate BS.
After 4 years of not paying myself while trying to raise two kids, a mortgage, and living the American dream we were at the end of our ropes financially.
I'd drained my retirement (I never touched my wife's incase something ever happened to me), drained our savings, and racked up $250k in credit card debt.
Just as COVID was beginning, I came home from the office one day, handed my wife a credit card, and looked her in the eyes holding back tears and told her, "there's $400 in this account before it's maxed out - buy all the groceries you can because I don't know when I'll have anymore money for us."
Faced with $250k in CC debt, if I couldn't turn things around we were going to going to have to claim bankruptcy so with nothing to lose, I cashed out our home equity as one final cash infusion into the business before closing shop and starting over financially.
With the money from that loan, I resolved to do three things:
Side Note: For those of you who hate capitalists like me - my lowest paid employee last year made $50k (+ full benefits) in an area where the median income is only $33k...half of my team made $100k+. We're quite possibly the highest paying company in our region (definitely in our industry) and as a result have extremely low turnover and I'm able to hire the best of the best so we have an excellent culture.
So back to the main reason for this post - having the opportunity to cruise often, about 75% of the time in suites, I've noticed the folks we meet and interact with in the suites tend to fall in one of six categories:
I don't know if this is interesting to you guys but I was randomly thinking about it earlier and thought some of you may find it of interest.
What do you think? Did I leave any categories out? Do you disagree?
Random food for thought! Whatever category you fall into, and whatever type of cabin you happen to cruise in, happy sails everybody!
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My childhood was a pretty typical middle-class, suburban existence.
I went to public schools growing up. I went to an average state university. My dad passed while I was in college and my mom was a public school teacher so I was more or less on my own to figure life out after my dad passed.
I share that because cruising often and being able to afford to stay in suites is relatively new for us.
I'm an entrepreneur and when COVID started we were on the verge of bankruptcy, not just my business, but my personal finances as well.
I had quit my last corporate job in the tech industry 4 years earlier and hadn't taken a paycheck since. We were surviving on my wife's teacher's salary and the savings and retirement I'd built after a decade in the soulless troughs of corporate BS.
After 4 years of not paying myself while trying to raise two kids, a mortgage, and living the American dream we were at the end of our ropes financially.
I'd drained my retirement (I never touched my wife's incase something ever happened to me), drained our savings, and racked up $250k in credit card debt.
Just as COVID was beginning, I came home from the office one day, handed my wife a credit card, and looked her in the eyes holding back tears and told her, "there's $400 in this account before it's maxed out - buy all the groceries you can because I don't know when I'll have anymore money for us."
Faced with $250k in CC debt, if I couldn't turn things around we were going to going to have to claim bankruptcy so with nothing to lose, I cashed out our home equity as one final cash infusion into the business before closing shop and starting over financially.
With the money from that loan, I resolved to do three things:
- I hired a business coach to figure out why despite growing revenue, we couldn't make consistent profits. ___
- We're located in a rural community so we expanded into a much larger city 90 minutes from us...my hope here was that I didn't know how long the shutdown was going to last (it definitely hit us hard early in the pandemic), but by marketing to a larger area we'd hopefully be able to make enough money to survive. ___
- I was going to finally begin paying myself after 4 years of not taking a paycheck and reinvesting everything into the business. ___ I've been extremely fortunate that this was a turning point in my business. In the 4 years since then we've grown by nearly 1,000% and we're now making a very healthy profit and I've built the business to where it runs without me (I work 8-12 hours/week on the business on high-level activities, primarily guiding my leadership team and handling the financials + some tech innovations periodically as I identify them). I've repaid all of our debt and I'm working on rebuilding our retirement while investing a percentage of the profits into building a new business (one that will be less employee intensive).
Side Note: For those of you who hate capitalists like me - my lowest paid employee last year made $50k (+ full benefits) in an area where the median income is only $33k...half of my team made $100k+. We're quite possibly the highest paying company in our region (definitely in our industry) and as a result have extremely low turnover and I'm able to hire the best of the best so we have an excellent culture.
- The Status Cruiser: These are the folks we all see on social media and unfortunately on cruise ships whose entire identity is wrapped up in their loyalty status and their suite class. They are absolutely the main character and its of absolute importance to them that everybody know this. You can typically spot them from across the room before you even talk to them because they're dressed to the 9s and carry themselves in a way completely stereotypical of what you'd expect from somebody who truly believes their farts smell like roses. ___
- The Retirees: There's a good amount of overlap between this persona and the Status Cruisers mentioned above, but they're not all like this. The ones who don't overlap with the previous group tend to be extremely friendly and I've had many great conversations with them learning about their life experiences as they share the wisdom they've picked up over the years to help me along on my own journey. They tend to stick to the recommended dress codes and are sometimes put off by people who don't share the same motivations for structure and etiquette. ___
- The Bucket List Cruisers: These folks often save money for years, pinching pennies so they can afford what may very well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them sailing in a suite. They often want to squeeze as much value out of the suites as they can since they may never be in one again (I don't fault them for that...make the most of it!). They're often dressed to the 9s as well but sometimes appear less comfortable in the various social situations you find in the suite areas (i.e. grabbing a drink in a lounge, having a nice dinner in the suite restaurant, etc). ___
- The YOLO Cruisers: I don't encounter these cruisers on every sailing, they're definitely more common during holiday sailings (i.e. Spring Break, Christmas, etc). These folks are living their best lives. The fellas are often wearing flip flops and neon tank tops and their wives/girlfriends in cut off jean shorts and a see-through cover-ups over their bikini tops. Fortunately they typically aren't over the top obnoxious, but they couldn't care less about any recommended dress codes or societal queues. They're there to have the time of their lives, everybody else be damned. ___
- The DINKs: These couples are often from the LGBTQ+ community (not hating, just the reality), but not exclusively. They have good paying jobs and often are able to work remotely from the ship so they don't even need to use PTO. They typically keep to themselves and associate mostly with other DINKs. You can usually find them enjoying a drink in the suite lounges later in the evenings after a fun night out partying. One evening you may see them dressed to the 9s and the next they may be in beach attire - they march to the beat of their own drum but also don't really interrupt anybody's vacation (aside from maybe the folks in the first two categories who care more than they probably should about dress codes). ___
- The Family Cruisers: There aren't many sailing in suites with kids, but the ones who do tend to have well-paying corporate jobs that they're not able to fully disconnect from (even on a cruise ship). They have good to great paying jobs but have limited vacation time so they prefer to pay a premium to make the most of their time off when they're able to get away. Often you'll see these parents responding to emails in-between parenting. You can sometimes catch them in the lounge grabbing a drink in the evenings after their kids have gone to bed for the evening. We fall into this category with two kids under the age of 10.
What do you think? Did I leave any categories out? Do you disagree?
Random food for thought! Whatever category you fall into, and whatever type of cabin you happen to cruise in, happy sails everybody!
2024.05.16 15:19 late_start33 Superannuation & the pension
Hi AusFinance, Hoping someone can help me as I'm in way over my head.
My mum was diagnosed with dementia a couple of years ago in her mid 60s. She worked as a teacher for ~25 years, and never took any leave/sick days. Due to this, she had so much LSL, personal and annual leave banked, that her former employer has essentially been paying her a salary since she retired. These payments will cease sometime in July.
She has 400k in super, $15k in debt, $0 in savings and a unit that she owns that is in serious need of repairs.
She would like to withdraw a lump sum from her super to fix some things with the house and to pay for an upcoming medical expense. I expect this to be in the realm of 60k but I'm still in the process of organising various quotes for her. Plus an additional 15k to pay off her debt.
Her super fund has emailed her offering an appointment to review her plan for her retirement at a cost of $300/hour. That seems high to me? Is this normal?
Once her payments stop from her employer I will take her into Centrelink to apply for the pension. However, I'm not fully understanding the Centrelink rules on income from super. Is it her total super balance that Centrelink uses to calculate her part pension? Or if she was to get say $700/fortnight as an income stream from her super, is that counted as income?
She usually does her own tax return, but I imagine I should organise an accountant to help her with that this year.
Is there anything else I should be considering?
I'm currently her primary carer, whilst also balancing my own FT job. I've organised an ACAT assessment but in the mean time I'm helping her with admin, chores and errands. Please forgive my financial illiteracy. It has only just occurred to me that I need to start thinking about her finances too.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks all!
ETA: I have enduring POA
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My mum was diagnosed with dementia a couple of years ago in her mid 60s. She worked as a teacher for ~25 years, and never took any leave/sick days. Due to this, she had so much LSL, personal and annual leave banked, that her former employer has essentially been paying her a salary since she retired. These payments will cease sometime in July.
She has 400k in super, $15k in debt, $0 in savings and a unit that she owns that is in serious need of repairs.
She would like to withdraw a lump sum from her super to fix some things with the house and to pay for an upcoming medical expense. I expect this to be in the realm of 60k but I'm still in the process of organising various quotes for her. Plus an additional 15k to pay off her debt.
Her super fund has emailed her offering an appointment to review her plan for her retirement at a cost of $300/hour. That seems high to me? Is this normal?
Once her payments stop from her employer I will take her into Centrelink to apply for the pension. However, I'm not fully understanding the Centrelink rules on income from super. Is it her total super balance that Centrelink uses to calculate her part pension? Or if she was to get say $700/fortnight as an income stream from her super, is that counted as income?
She usually does her own tax return, but I imagine I should organise an accountant to help her with that this year.
Is there anything else I should be considering?
I'm currently her primary carer, whilst also balancing my own FT job. I've organised an ACAT assessment but in the mean time I'm helping her with admin, chores and errands. Please forgive my financial illiteracy. It has only just occurred to me that I need to start thinking about her finances too.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks all!
ETA: I have enduring POA
2024.05.16 14:25 Dreamtalehopesans advice for help with dealing with family
when i was younger my family was happy, i guess. I was adopted by my grandparents officially when i was younger and i had been living with them my entire life. I grew up with sensory disorder and ADHD. My real mother wasn't really in my life until about 4 years ago. I never knew my real dad and i have never met him but i always knew my real mom. She used to live with me and my grandparents who i call 'mom and dad' because they took care of me most of my life. She always lived outside in an apartment my dad made for her. She then moved away. She moved a lot and never was really in my life completely. By the time I was adopted by my grandparents she was legally my sibling. She always was having boyfriends and brought some of them over for family holidays. I was bullied growing up since I was in first grade for no reason i knew about. All i knew was i was the school freak. When i was little i hardly ate much as well but i was still called 'fat'. Whenever i sung i was laughed at. I was actually good at singing and i loved to sing when I was little as well as dance. My legally sister (aka real mother) tells me now and days i was the bully growing up and i was sexual as a little kid when i wasn't. growing up i also had anger issues and nobody knew why. My mom (aka grandmother who adopted me) told me it because i was mad at my sister. my mental health started going downhill quickly when i was about starting middle the next year. i was getting bullied a lot more and my 'friend' was mean to me for no reason at all.i was at a christian private school at that time. I got blamed for put stick notes on other sticky notes in a prize container when i didn't. i was friends with everyone in that class. only one of them believed me. but when the others were told that i didnt do it they were acting sorry. one my best friend's at that time little brother had a crush on me. when i went to her house to hang out her brother was acting like a perve a little bit and was asking sexual stuff.i never liked school at all because the city and town i lived in didnt do crap when i was bullied and the principles were told. And around this time my sister came to live in the town i live right now.she gotten married. But she was toxic to everyone. Her husband's friends lived with them as roommates and my sister was abusive to them. when she was babysitting me during that time she would stab one of them in the arm with a medicine syringe you take medicine from.this kept going till that roommate left and then the next one was gone. my sister's husband had passed away when i was in middle school starting the first year of it. my sister was then toxic to me a lot. and since she was my real mom at one point i called her 'mom' all the time till she was toxic to me.she also always told me she couldnt have children. apparently, there was another before me and it was a miscarriage. i will mention this, my sister is known in my family to be a liar about everything from getting gifts for us, receiving it, not stealing, and most of the time children. About every 2 years she claims to be 'pregnant' with a kid but apparently, they all end up dying after they are born or are miscarriages. i was the only kid she had ever.and plus she always blamed me for stealing her stuff even her gun and hiding it under my bed at my mom's when i cant even put a phone under there cause the bed is really low to the ground. now onto my dad (my grandpa who adopted me with my grandma).me and my dad were really close when i was growing up.i was his little princess. That stopped happening after i came out as bisexual and genderfluid 4 years ago. And let me tell you my dad was born in the 50's so he grew up being raciest and homophobic. I was the only child he raised as his own. my sister was his stepdaughter and during that time her real dad never let my dad adopt her as his own.i kept telling my dad about things i liked that we loved together growing up. my dad was toxic to me in my middle school years up until now. He would verbally abuse me and threaten me. he even hit me before in front of my mom and she told the police that he never did. The police were called a lot cause of my anger and yelling. The police where i live never believe the kids about anything saying they dont have any rights like to clothes, a bed, sometimes to speak, to things they buy with their own money, and one even told me i didn't have a right to my own body.i was being bullied every more in school so i was getting depressed and mentally unstable. And my dad was always getting up in my face and i pushed him back sometimes to make sure he didn't hurt me and he just told me i 'assaulted' him and he was going to get me put in jail for defending myself as well a lot of the time. I had been to a mental hospital where i live 8 times. Some of them because i was mentally unstable, and 2 because i was forced for no reason. For my 3 or 5 time there my dad took me to the hospital to get 'diagnosed' but he lied.i had just gotten out of another mental hospital 2 days before for being depressed and i was there for 2 weeks so i needed to get adjusted to being out of there.and when we were at the hospital the doctor came in after talking to my dad and told me 'your being sent to *name of mental hospital i was at 8 times* for sewerslidal (not gonna say the actual word) thoughts'. and i was confused at first and i told him i was having those thoughts at all. and then he told me i was being sent there anyways and then left the room. Then my dad came in and said this directly at me, 'this is what happens when you dont go to school'. i was shocked and upset about this.he lied to the doctor and i was sent to that mental hospital again for it.i never forgave him for that.i was also sent to a behavior facility twice before. one for anger and the other for SH. neither times did it work.i was an SHing person a lot so i had different ways to hide it. like hoodies, long sleeve tee shirts finally, longer shorts, gloves, and short sleeved shirts that covered my shoulders. right now im in high school and i guess my dad is trying to rekindle our relationship because he is that old already. He is nicer now but about 2 months ago he was a jerk. my mom didnt listen to my feelings during these times so i never talked to her about feelings but when she wanted to and i tried to tell her she always interuppeted me and never let me talk and told me to shut up. my sister had moved in my dad's house recently because she bought it because he retired. my dad is planning on moving to my mom's place with me.and now here is an old relationship i need to talk about badly because my sister says i agreed to most of it when i didnt. it was my last year of middle school when it happened. i was already at a different school. I was still bullied but i could handled it a bit better there. my first boyfriend broke up with me 2 months after we got together and i was in 7th grade at that point when we broke up.i had just moved to that school about 2 months before we started dating.the reason he broke up with me was because 'he didnt feel love'.love is an emotion. you cant just not feel it right.i was touch starved and loved starved during that time so the summer after the broke up i was really mentally unstable and SH.i was taken to the mental hospital again. And when i came back to school after 2 months of being in the behavior facility for the second time so it was novemeber of my last year of middle school.about the end of November i was dating my guy best friend at that time.i didnt except what would happen after.he neglected me a lot when we saw each other at school during lunch even if we sat next to each other, was toxic and mad at me where i cried during that and wanted to feel pain, never stood up for me, never cared about how i felt or when i SH but pretended he did, and lastly he was obsessed with me during this time.threatening to hurt people. The first time i went to his house he got really touchy and then the second time he took that one thing a girl will never get back in her life no matter what.i was really desperate for love during that time but i didnt want to do that..he convinced me though. And then at school during lunch in the cafeteria while we were sitting with our friends at lunch he would touch me badly and threaten to do it more if i didnt eat or would do it anyway.i didnt eat much back then cause i was trying to lose weight, was having an eating disorder where i got sick every time i even at at least 2/4 of my meal. I didnt tell anyone this until last summer.i was still with him at the beginning of summer till my current boyfriend started talking to me on roblox after years of not talking because he moved while i was in 4th grade.he was a good friend. my current boyfriend told me what my ex was doing wrong at that time so i did the right thing and broke up with my ex.but my ex did scare me badly. He threatened to kill someone for me. i was terrified at that. He also had a spilt personality he would talk to me with a lot of the time. Then after a month of me breaking up with him my current boyfriend and me got together. He was a little toxic at first but he got better and was really nice to me. but we are in a long distance relationship. We talk a lot on discord and do video calls when we can.i was at 2 different public school this year.neither of them cared about what was happening to me so i started online school.i didnt go to either of them cause i was still bullied i couldnt handle it.and then when i started online school the teachers for that school accused me of not doing my work when i did them days in advance.i was doing really good but if i got most of the questions right on the quiz i still failed it.i would get 90% out of the question right and still get an f on the quiz.i started failing those classes and i was stressed with the video meetings cause there would be one right after another.i didnt get to pick my electives at all because the day i got the papers to see which ones i wanted they already picked them for me.and my dad was being a jerk the entire time as well as my sister so i was getting to a point of relaspe but didnt. im still kinda on that point but not that much.i dont go to therapy or a medication doctor anymore because the medication doctor kept telling me to lose weight when i was trying to, told my parents to send me to a children's home because i was not going to school because of the bullying and my regular doctor i had been seeing since i was a baby said the same because i was 'fakeing' being sick.i wasnt sick though but i was having an eating disorder still during that time to the point i was throwing up everything in my body every time i ate more than 6 bites of food.even the foods that were easy to eat i couldnt eat.and the reason i dont go to therapy is because all the ones i went to as a kid fired us for no reason and then a family counselor did the same thing because i was being rude.i was rude at all but i was pissed during that time cause i never got to talk and tell my side of the story and my family kept saying that raising my voice volume just a small bit was yelling and they still say that and my sister does the same with the voice volume but they dont say she is yelling when she is.if you guys have any of advice to help with any of this thank you.i have been wanting to vent for a long time but i didnt have a way to until now.
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2024.05.16 14:21 M4sterofD1saster RIP MajGen Cooper USMC
A visitation service [was held] for the late J. Gary Cooper, a Mobilian who became the the first Black officer in the Marine Corps to lead an infantry company into combat and who later had a distinguished career in politics, including service as a U.S. Ambassador.
According to information provided by Cooper’s family, Maj. Gen. Jerome Gary Cooper, USMC (Ret.), died on the morning of Saturday, April 27. He was born Oct. 2, 1936, in Lafayette, La., and was 87 at the time of his death.***
Cooper grew up in Mobile and graduated from Most Pure Heart of Mary School. He attended college at Notre Dame, where he joined the ROTC. After graduating with a degree in finance in 1958, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and served on active duty for 12 years. That period included combat duty in Vietnam, where, according to information provided by his family, Cooper “earned a number of decorations for heroism including the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts for wounds received in ground action, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry three times. His other military decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit.”
Cooper became a reservist in 1970 and served in a variety of capacities and rising to the rank of major general in 1988, when he returned to active duty as director of personnel at the Marine Corps headquarters. He retired from the Corps in 1996.
His career in government began in 1974, when he became one of the first African-Americans to be elected to the to the Alabama House of Representatives since the Reconstruction era. In 1978 he resigned to serve as commissioner of the Alabama Department of Human Resources. He served under President George H.W. Bush as assistant secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and the Environment and under President Bill Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica.
In the corporate and nonprofit world he held leadership positions with organizations including***
According to a full obituary published by his family, he is survived by “his loving wife of 33 years, Beverly Martin Cooper, and **** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/j-gary-cooper-military-and-governmental-trailblazer-from-mobile-dead-at-87/ar-AA1nWll9
2024.05.16 11:24 MattHanson1990 Possible contestant for the 2025 Jeopardy Invitational
I know this is a year early but who do you think would be participating in JIT next year?
Here's one of my speculations:
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Here's one of my speculations:
- Roger Craig (2011 ToC winner, 2014 BotD 2nd runner-up, 2019 ASG)
- Tom Nissley (Season 27 biggest money winner, 2011 ToC 1st runner-up)
- Buddy Wright (2011 ToC 2nd runner-up)
- Steffan Goodreau (2010 ToC 2nd runner-up)
- Bijay Valse (2010 ToC winner)
- Jason Zollinger (Season 26 biggest money winner, 2010 ToC 1st runner-up)
- Emma Boettcher (James Holzhauer's giant killer, 2019 ToC 1st runner-up)
- Julia Collins (Season 30 biggest money winner, 2014 ToC 2nd runner-up, 2019 ASG)
- Justin Bernbach (Season 25 biggest money winner, 2009 ToC semifinalist)
- Brad Rutter (2001 ToC winner, 2002 Million Dollar Masters winner, 2005 UToC winner, 2014 BotD winner, 2019 ASG winner, 2020 GOAT 2nd runner-up)
- Michael Falk (2006 ToC winner)
- Brian Weikle (Season 19 biggest money winner, 2003 ToC 1st runner-up)
- Mark Dawson (2003 ToC winner)
- John Beck (last 5-time champion to retire undefeated, 2004 ToC, 2005 UToC)
- Matt Amodio (Season 37 biggest money winner, 2022 ToC semifinalist, 2023 Masters 2nd runner-up)
- Mattea Roach (2022 ToC semifinalist, 2023 Masters 1st runner-up)
- Eric Newhouse (1989 Teen Tournament winner, 1998 Teen Reunion winner, 2002 Million Dollar Masters 1st runner-up)
- Tom Walsh (1st 7-time champion, 2004 ToC 1st runner-up)
- Sean Ryan (1st 6-time champion)
- Robin Carroll (2000 ToC winner, 2001 International Tournament winner)
- Elyse Mancuso (2012 Teen Tournament winner)
- Rose Schaefer (2012 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up)
- Catherine Briley (2012 Teen Tournament 2nd runner-up)
- Francois Barcomb (2019 Teachers Tournament winner, 2019 ToC 2nd runner-up)
- Erin McLean (2010-B College Championship winner, 2011 ToC semifinalist)
- Jerome Vered (1992 ToC 2nd runner-up, 2005 UToC 2nd runner-up)
- 2024 Masters 4th place finisher to be determined
- Brian Levinson (Season 25 3-time champion, 2009 ToC alternate)
- Cris Pannullo (Season 39 21-time champion, 2024 ToC)
2024.05.16 09:46 Impossible_Ranger_60 Refused Visa
Maybe Australia is not for me for now. Maybe there is a better opportunity for me outside this country.
It saddens me that I have to go back to my home country without work and money. 😭 For context, I was a teacher back home for 5 years then resigned after almost a year being here in Australia.
If you know any work online pls tell me. Hehe
Thank you!
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It saddens me that I have to go back to my home country without work and money. 😭 For context, I was a teacher back home for 5 years then resigned after almost a year being here in Australia.
If you know any work online pls tell me. Hehe
Thank you!
2024.05.16 09:10 dksurvivor [S] (S36) DK's Survivor: Ghost Island
Welcome to the thirty-sixth season of DK's Survivor.
For this season, 20 new contestants will be left to fend for themselves in the Aran Islands of Ireland, where they will face a brand-new twist in Ghost Island, giving them a chance to right the wrongs of past castaways.
In the end only one person will be left, and they will claim the title of sole survivor.
Season link: https://brantsteele.com/survivo36/r.php?c=FWrXAgyj
Caherard Tribe:
Runner-Up: _____Noah Kaimana_____
Second Runner-Up: _____Clint Moonshine_____
Fan Favorite: _____Mateo Dunn_____
Link to wiki page for the season: DK's Survivor: Ghost Island DKSurvivor Wiki Fandom
Quick thoughts:
This season turned out great in my opinion. It had several fun pre-merge and post-merge characters, and the Ghost Island twist ended up playing a significant role in multiple rounds. Overall, my favorite contestants were for sure Clint, Noah, and Steven. They controlled so many eliminations, and played very interesting games. Truthfully, I was disappointed that the final vote wasn't a bit closer, because while Steven absolutely played a winner worthy game, it's hard to ignore how well Noah and Clint did as well. Specifically, that double idol play by Clint was just so iconic lol. Either way, I'm still happy with how everything turned out. Super fun season.
Feel free to share your thoughts below. Stay tuned for the sign-ups for season 37!
Previous seasons:
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For this season, 20 new contestants will be left to fend for themselves in the Aran Islands of Ireland, where they will face a brand-new twist in Ghost Island, giving them a chance to right the wrongs of past castaways.
In the end only one person will be left, and they will claim the title of sole survivor.
Season link: https://brantsteele.com/survivo36/r.php?c=FWrXAgyj
Caherard Tribe:
- Amadeus Artadi - 22 - Gymnast - Los Angeles, CA, USA - u/swoldow
- Ashley Dixa - 22 - Unemployed - Orlando, FL, USA - u/AshZomboy
- Darrick Timmings - 25 - Musician - Buffalo, NY, USA - u/SilverOwl24
- Georgia Powell - 28 - Nurse - Salt Lake City, UT, USA - u/Ripecornball60
- Jeremy Fox - 32 - Teacher - u/APurplePenguin_
- Lillian Gray - 27 - Event Planner - Boston, MA, USA - u/SilverOwl24
- Mateo Dunn - 55 - Former Child Star - Las Vegas, NV, USA - u/Ripecornball60
- Roger Lavoie - 67 - Construction Worker - Little Rock, AR, USA - u/Popular-Scientist648
- Sakura Chiba - 25 - Model - Las Vegas, NV, USA - u/BigTeddyBear20
- Trisha Brown - 31 - Novelist - u/ToastieGreep
- Cameron Sheaffer - 27 - Fashion Designer - Statesville, NC, USA - u/Sxvorii
- Cecily Maga - 72 - Model - Los Angeles, CA, USA - u/AshZomboy
- Clint Moonshine - 46 - Club Owner / Retired Actor - Colorado Springs, CO, USA - u/swoldow
- Kisha Han - 24 - Tech Assistant - Reno, NV, USA - u/Sxvorii
- Layla Worthington - 26 - Event Coordinator - New York City, NY, USA - u/wordonthestreet2
- Mariano Puentes - 19 - High School Student - u/Nahuelfire39
- Miriam Wexon - 61 - Unemployed - u/ToastieGreep
- Noah Kaimana - 28 - Server - Honolulu, HI, USA - u/Technical_Mushroom12
- Rose Wheeler - 27 - Veterinarian - Camarillo, CA, USA - u/Technical_Mushroom12
- Steven Carr - 44 - Actor - Kettering, OH, USA - u/APurplePenguin_
Runner-Up: _____Noah Kaimana_____
Second Runner-Up: _____Clint Moonshine_____
Fan Favorite: _____Mateo Dunn_____
Link to wiki page for the season: DK's Survivor: Ghost Island DKSurvivor Wiki Fandom
Quick thoughts:
This season turned out great in my opinion. It had several fun pre-merge and post-merge characters, and the Ghost Island twist ended up playing a significant role in multiple rounds. Overall, my favorite contestants were for sure Clint, Noah, and Steven. They controlled so many eliminations, and played very interesting games. Truthfully, I was disappointed that the final vote wasn't a bit closer, because while Steven absolutely played a winner worthy game, it's hard to ignore how well Noah and Clint did as well. Specifically, that double idol play by Clint was just so iconic lol. Either way, I'm still happy with how everything turned out. Super fun season.
Feel free to share your thoughts below. Stay tuned for the sign-ups for season 37!
Previous seasons:
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- The Everglades
- Morocco
- Greece
- Tonga
- All-Stars
- Palawan
- The Brazilian Highlands
- Mariana Islands
- Maldives
- Kenya
- Wild West
- Fiji
- Melanesia - Fans vs. Favorites
- China
- Peru
- Canada
- Mexico
- Heroes vs. Villains
- Grenada
- Redemption Island
- West Pacific
- One World
- Puerto Rico - Fans vs. Favorites
- The Caribbean
- Blood vs. Water
- Wallis and Futuna
- Thailand - Blood vs. Water
- Second Chance
- Australia
- Millennials vs. Gen-X
- India
- Game Changers - Nicobar Islands
- Ireland
2024.05.16 07:19 collegegradwoaplan 1st year teacher non renewal
I started my first year of teaching this year. I was teaching 6th AND 7th grade math with a brand new curriculum for the entire district. The whole year was challenging to say the least. I tried everything admin recommended. Met with the district instructional coach. Observed multiple other math teachers. Received good observation scores. Had good relationships with my students. I did everything I needed to do. My principal is retiring this year. She called me in her office today and told me they would not be renewing my contract. I wish I knew the reason. I’m just not sure what to do next. I loved all of my students and coworkers. I enjoyed the job and what I could provide for my students but now I’m not sure I want to continue in education. It feels like I spent all my time (including outside of contract hours) working to make sure I was the best I could be and it still wasn’t enough. I’m hurt, sad, angry, but most of all disappointed. I don’t know what I’m going to do next so if anyone has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated.
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