When his head explodes, can you be held accountable for a crime?

Found out the main reason getting excursions out of the State College area is hard: insurance.

When the lines installed Positive Train Control (PTC) systems, the company that sold them the PTC systems did not want to be sued at all, should a crash happen. What happened was that the insurance for the North Shore Railroad Company would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher, as in, too high to run any trains for them to run on Norfolk Southern lines.

The main company that has rail cars for excursions is based in Northumberland, but to contract Norfolk Southern to transport the cars is a pricey proposition. It can be done, but it would need to be done twice to get to Lock Haven.

Unfortunately there was about 7 miles of track torn up that, if it still existed, would have allowed for a direct connection between Williamsport and Lock Haven/Mill Hall. To make matters even more complicated, it looks like there has been construction on top of that old railbed, so it isn't a very straightforward repair. (Also there is a rail bridge that needs to be fixed on this line.)

Plus they charges crisis fees on top of it - pretty sure their last invoice was approx $60k for a month of work.

They could have banned more books and denied equality for even more LGBTQ kids for that kind of money. Surprised the Trumpy assholes didn't think of it.

This thread gives me hope for bucks county.

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Lol!! True.. my Trumper aunt loves to call everything “woke”.. I’ve asked her what it means to her, being “woke” The only thing she’ll use as an example is BLM. lol!!!

They don’t care about learning or teaching or the students. They are puffed up fascists who want to control and insert their rottenness into everything.

If the Central Bucks School District is banning this quote from Elie Wiesel's 1986 acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize for a book about the Holocaust from appearing on a sign in their school's library, they're definitely on the wrong side of history:

>I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

after all the bad press, what college is going to accept a kid who was (mis)educated there

Are you referring to people bullying and intimidating the PR firm, or the school board bullying and intimidating LGBTQ and POC students?

Cbsd are the biggest cry babies. Encourage kids not to go to trade school and ship them off to college so their numbers look good.

If it doesn’t exist, create it! done the way it should be done! Great job girls!

Teachers in my lower bucks district were making $70 - 90k at the high school level, some in the six figs, about ten years ago.

Teachers in the PA Philly burbs generally make good money.

Oh great, more crap for the republicans to drone on about for years. I’m tired of this crap. Everyone in government positions just spend their time bitching and moaning instead of making progress for The People.

Trash can only be trash.

Said it before and ill say it again. A school district shouldnt need a PR firm.

If you need to resort to bullying and intimidation to make your point, you're probably on the wrong side of history.

And because our courts are also stuffed with nutjobs…

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Fascists are upset that nobody likes them

In an alternate timeline, instead of Elvis getting the vaccine and 6 months later most of the country is vaccinated, Elvis has to hire a bodyguard because of violent threats from antivaxxers.

… I’m ashamed that I didn’t know this

The best part is they justified that $180k/year by stating that hiring an in-house full-time PR person would cost more than that. I'll let you in on a secret, it doesn't.

80k a year then, that's just under 7k a month, even two teachers at that is less than 15k a month.