madamtiger

It is a great place to live. Denver and Boulder are very liberal but the rest of the state is beautiful and peaceful and full of normal people. Property taxes and insurance are low. Very far from a hellhole.

2004 for me.
I remember our first get together after I joined, downtown Baton Rouge I think. It was a really good group of people!

My two cents:

After graduating college and getting married, I chose to work until the kids were born. I stayed home until they went to school then got my teaching certification so that I could still spend time with them in the summers and holidays. It used to be a great job for educated moms and I loved it….back then.

This is just my experience as a public school teacher, but I have never indoctrinated any kids into any ideology and nor have I known a teacher that does this. Personally, even if I wanted to, there simply was not enough time in the day to teach curriculum, deal with disrespectful and unruly kids, collect mandatory data for administrators and grade tests and homework. I don’t know what goes on in these classrooms with a teacher with an ideological angle. They can’t possibly be teaching.

That being said, I don’t know who in their right mind would go into teaching today. Parents and kids run the schools, you literally CANNOT fail any kid, no matter how many tests they fail, no matter how many days absent. Kids stay on their phones in class and curse at you if even try to take it. Parents literally think their kids do no wrong and no one gives a shite about learning because they know they pass no matter what.there is no discipline.

This was my last semester because it was just too pointless. Going in a different direction now that mine are grown. Thankful to be in a position to be getting out.

One example, I have a child that has come to school a total of 18 days last year. She has come 5 days this year. She will keep passing. Mom thinks it’s cool that she stays home with her and CPS does nothing. There is no reason for her to not be in school but she does what she wants. It looks bad on teachers but our hands are tied.

If you think the next generation is gonna be bad, you’re right. And they will be taking care of us. Education needs an overhaul for sure and a serious narrative about neglectful parents needs to be had. They need to be held accountable for the kids they are putting out into the world.

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here is something inherently wrong with allowing people the freedom to reproduce without the accountability to care for their offspring. It's not the governments role to subsidize procreation although it should be the governments job to hold people accountable for their choices even if it means letting otherwise able bodied people and their offspring starve.

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Can’t upvote this enough! Change the narrative to making shitty parents accountable for these kids they are putting out in the world. I raised good children that will have to deal with the generation that aren’t being raised properly. Quality parents THEN quality kids.
We can do better than just throwing out welfare checks. Invest in the kids themselves. After school mentor programs, good families taking neglected kids under their wing, sponsor an extracurricular activity for them or have them over for a meal a couple of times a week so they see what a functional family looks like. As overly simplistic as this may sound, this is the general direction we should be going in instead of just saying “produce more babies.” Produce quality future citizens. Hold parents accountable. Until then, I don’t want to encourage more kids.

Randy Mebruer was her name. I was a shampoo girl at a salon off of Perkins when I was a student at LSU. She used to get her hair done there and we became friends. She gave me all of her son’s baby clothes when my first child was born. Incredibly sweet woman. It is believed he killed her in her bed. Sure wish they would have found her so her family could have closure.

Just gonna say this…it takes an act of Congress to fail a kid now. They can miss as much school as they want, fail every test and flat out refuse to do any work and they pass. It is beyond a teacher. I fight it every year. We can fail them but admin passes them or parents threaten to sue. That’s the God’s honest truth.

Trust me, they can only go so far in CO. South into Douglas County is where it ends.

You too! :bow:

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He didn’t, they swelled up like basketballs I was told. I was fine with him suffering, he already had 3 kids by 3 different women

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This one is particularly thorny.

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Oh I know. It took me months to weigh in and you were one that I knew would come down hard. Wasn’t prepared for “commie” “you are destroying our country” “you f-ed up kids during COVID” or “rino” lol.
Especially as someone who had an unplanned pregnancy, chose life and did all I could to make his life great. My delivery must have been too flawed