I agree with all except for not placing any blame on the parents. It's 90% the parents. DCF has their hands bound because no one wants to foster so these kids are staying with their parents who don't give a shit about them and would rather have to schools raise their kids. Kids coming to school with bruises, multiple reports to DCF and nothing being done. There are kids going to kindergarten who aren't even bloody potty trained yet. Kids in third grade who can't even read or do basic addition yet don't have an IEP.

We are pulling our kid out of public school to go online because there is no learning anymore. All teaching time is taken up to correct behavior.

Suggest having rules that anyone who says anything should be banned. Alternatively, give up censorship.

The good thing about running regular wood as opposed to pellets is you can scrounge crap on the side of the road.

I’m not a climate change change denier but I can say this weather is normal for February.

Not a teacher but I worked in a support position until just before Covid. I would not consider being a teacher for any pay scale. It’s brutal.

First, they spend a good chunk of their time on non direct-teaching responsibilities, from addressing behavioral issues, to dealing with parents, to completing PBE report cards that can be six pages long.

Second, in my district they had little support when students acted out. I heard one student call a teacher in a same-sex marriage a faggot. Student was sent to the principal’s office only to return 20 minutes later. Other students had parents who threatened teachers for attempting to disciple their children. The most shocking might have been the student who called the principal a “mother f@er” in a crowded hallway. The principal just stood there and said, “That’s not how we speak to each other, is it?

It’s only gotten worse since Covid according to my friends who work as teachers and para educators.

Can we please stop the damn gate keeping BS?! I WANT to know that 40% of the commenters LOVE dogs, and i want to hear from those like me who think they are...over rated to be kind,lol. I want to know that if someone i care about comes out as LGBT where they can find community and where they prob. should go in stealth mode. How to make the places we live in better cause the SOB's we elect never seem to do a GD thing to help main street out.

Let everyone speak, screw the fake internet point BS.

Not enjoying the trolling and negative feedback you’ve been getting lately from your incessant posting?

I’d like to point out people are often wrong about those things.

Like I remember my parents dating there was always snow of Christmas. While where they were from in the 70s it was snowy 7-10 Christmases they had a white Christmas once in the 1980s. If you look at the stats.

So when people say “we used to ice fish on Christmas” they really mean “ice ice fishes on Christmas before”

Not sure about Vermont but I know Concird, Worcester and Boston the 2010s was the snowiest decade on record. But old folk will say it was snowier when they were kids. When it wasn’t

I find that to be an interesting take from someone who not only read what I wrote, but felt the need talk/write so others would listen/read. Perhaps you would care to elucidate a bit?

I'm not a "drive by" poster - I've participated in a number of conversations within this subreddit, and I certainly don't waste my time insulting other posters just for the sake of insulting other posters.

I agree, I’m intrigued. The second part was a bit ranty for my taste but I would love to see the hard data on the first part.

I would also point out that if the meteor that drove the last big extinction event didn’t kill all life on the planet, neither will nuclear war.

To quote Jurassic park, life finds a way. It may look different but nothing humans can do will kill all life, maybe a lot, maybe all human life, but in another few million years something else will adapt and evolve and all that plastic and poison pumped into the planet will be gone.

We all know how much you'd love to talk while others listen.

If you’ve heard of inflation you know that the same thing costs MORE year after year. Additionally, staffing increases are standard when you have people remain longer than 1 year (raises). An increased budget absolutely does not mean that schools can get additional staff or services.

If the increases aren’t sufficient (which in most districts they haven’t been aside from getting an influx of covid money), then teacher positions get cut, social workers get cut, etc. Our schools are now operating as mental health triage on a daily basis, and families are in crisis (housing, jobs, home violence, food, etc) and there aren’t caseworkers or therapists to help more than 10% of those needing help. It’s dire.

Not a teacher, but the Amway-ification of public education in the US.

The inversion of the broad foundation of our society to an system designed to funnel as much wealth as possible to an elite few.

Instead of wealthy parents paying public tax toward public education (in addition to private tuition) public funds being diverted to private schools with vouchers. Private testing companies failing public schools so they can be gutted for for-profit replacements that funnel children to for-profit "colleges" and a lifetime of inescapable debt―or essentially just indentured servitude, again.

Instead of a decent public education being accessible and affordable, schools become an engine to transfer wealth to the elite while at the same time depriving students of basic financial literacy, making them excellent marks for more scams.

Prohibitions on things like pyramid schemes creates a void in public awareness, which makes it possible they might return one day with a team of lawyers. If scammers are allowed to keep their ill gotten gains, they'll wreak havoc on society in new and terrible ways. They're want to sell kids a box of crap with misrepresentations about how much money they can make―they just don't want to be sued or their victims declaring bankruptcy.

Most importantly: civic, history and math teachers need ensure basic financial literacy before pressuring students to assume high-interest debt.

No high school senior that can't tell you approximately how much debt they'll be in after four years, how much their monthly payments will be, or what their refinancing strategy is should even consider going to college.

The senators that interviewed the former Secretary of Education didn't have the benefit of her financial disclosures, but any parent or educator should memorize every company she was invested in. Educators should research the companies that provide testing services, the companies that provide educational software, and which type of college their kids are heading off to.

EDIT:

Amway Pyramid Scheme - What You Need To Know - Arrest Your Debt

ProPublica: Voucher Program Helps Well-Off Vermonters Pay for Prep School at Public Expense

EDIT 2:

Upon reflection, the above metaphor may be a little too gracious.

Amway actually generates most of it's revenue from "educational experiences", learning materials and conferences. So to imply that there was some kind of "pivot" or innovation in this scheme is a bit of a stretch.

It's "literally" Amway―no cap, as the kids say. The state of Vermont is spending several million a year towards a giant MLM scam, while Fox News trolls parents into weaponizing their children against decency towards other human beings.

The kids are alright; teachers are great. The rotting fish smell is emanating from the top.

Aside: I didn't pay for my degree and I've obviously never been the victim of an MLM. So this isn't really my ax to grind.

If anyone pays attention to a weather map they will see that the reason the weather is crazy this year has everything g to do with wind and nothing to do with climate change. The wind that has bean coming across the ocean to California has bean straight moving when it's typically wavy. When it's straight it doesn't wave up and pull arctic air down to mix with the hot air streams to make snow storms. Please just watch a weather map. It's all readily available. Also being a Vermonter for 40years I have road my motorcycle on Christmas atleast 4 times about every 4-6 years. We go threw cycles. It's normal

There were still ice shanties on the river in Brattleboro last weekend. I couldn’t believe it with how thin the ice looks.

Bullshit!! That’s a terrible false equivalency!!

Political ideologies and affiliations are a personal choice. Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc, are not choices.

Search on google, Tonga volcano eruption. Its amazing people just see this and say global warming people please do your research. Dont let government feed you lies everytime some single bad thing happens.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/tonga-volcano-eruption-raises-imminent-risk-of-temporary-1-5c-breach/#:~:text=On%2015%20January%202022%2C%20an%20underwater%20volcano%20in%20the%20Pacific,in%20the%20Philippines%20in%201991.

Wow very helpful !!!!!!!!

My buddy and I were camped at Somerset campground in the Green Mountain National Forest last year when we watched a STARLINK satellite train pass just below our zenith. Amazing sight under dark skies. There are websites and apps that will give you the times for any predicted passes at your location if you wish to view one for yourself.

I can’t comment. I’m not a climate change denier.

Whatever. I hate to be this person, but it probably won't change anything. I've pretty much given up on politicians from either side making things better.

I've seen more kids throw tantrums in higher years of school than ever before. Not to mention students behaving several years younger than they are in general. It's a social-emotional disaster. Not to mention many parents, when notified of their child's social problems, just say it's our fault and refuse to change anything at home. Actually, even worse, we've had several parents cut off school supports for their kids. They've pulled them from medications at home and counseling at school. It's just... It's bad. If my last job hadn't been so truly traumatic, I'd be in a bad place.

Yeah. The millionaire movement.

Im optimistic, but let’s wait and see first.

I am an educator and BCBA and have been working in VT public schools for a decade. The aggression and extreme disruption is a lot worse than many people (including parents) realize. Things like classroom evacuations happen frequently and are not reported in any official way. Inclusion means a lot of stuff happening in gen ed environments. We are doing the best we can but societal issues are leaking into the schools and we are out of space and losing staff.