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22282. arkymalarky - 7/23/2007 7:50:19 PM That sounds like AR. Good luck to her in her first year! Universities often pay less for instructors than a lot of public schools, and many use adjuncts, whose tiny salaries aren't worth the amount of work they do, imo. If you aren't a professor I don't see the appeal, myself, especially in English where there's so much of a grading load with Freshman English classes. 22283. Ms. No - 7/23/2007 8:03:22 PM They're pretty desperate for Science and Math teachers here. They're also starting to relax some of the initial requirements to get teachers into the classrooms --- at least substitutes. I imagine that will quickly extend to full-time teachers as well. I've heard rumers of a projected 2million teacher shortage over the next five years or within the next five years or something.
I assume that's because of Boomers retiring and years of not having as many people entering the teaching force. 22284. wabbit - 7/23/2007 8:32:25 PM Congrats on selling the house! What a relief. 22285. Ms. No - 7/23/2007 9:44:13 PM Yes, immense relief! 22286. arkymalarky - 7/23/2007 9:48:57 PM They hold us hostage here after our retirement eligibility with their insurance program, which is way different from the state employees. Theirs costs around 150 a month after retirement, whereas retired teachers pay over 400. 22287. Ms. No - 7/23/2007 10:31:55 PM good lord.
Maybe by the time I'm ready to retire there will be some sort of national health care system that works. ;-> 22288. Ulgine Barrows - 7/25/2007 7:21:06 AM iiibbb, when I was in my mid-20s I was offered a job in the deep south of Georgia, and I still stand behind my decision to not take it. I was single at the time, freshly graduated, and they didn't have an interstate big enough for me to drive down, much less land my airplane.
Sounds like you are in a bit different situation. First, you're married.
There is still going to be a lot of black/white racial stuff in good ole Miss. I don't know what color you are, or what color your wife is. If you're black and she's white, don't go.
Sorry, but there it is. I am not an expert on this by any means, but I had a boss from Mississippi and he had to move because he was black, and married white. They just had an awful time.
I wouldn't count out Mississippi. They are going to latch onto a new, young, promising professional couple like bees to honey. 22289. Ulgine Barrows - 7/25/2007 7:24:27 AM If you are both white or both black, I'd go for it! 22290. Ulgine Barrows - 7/25/2007 8:03:25 AM that reminds me of this song- 22291. Ulgine Barrows - 7/25/2007 8:04:32 AM Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more?
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
Population keeps on breeding
Nation bleeding, still more feeding economy
Life is funny, skies are sunny
Bees make honey, who needs money, Monopoly
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
World pollution, there's no solution
Institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor
Them and us, stop the war
I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you
~Ten Years After 22292. wonkers2 - 7/25/2007 12:25:49 PM Nice pome! 22293. arkymalarky - 7/25/2007 4:00:50 PM The hot and humid weather is the biggest drawback to the South. If you make good money you can do more with it here than elsewhere. If you have allergies you'll be miserable almost year round. Interracial marriage is not an issue anywhere around here, and you'd have to look at the particular area to know if there are major tensions there. Most racism is now more subtle, as it is elsewhere. De facto resegregation in all areas of life is the main manifestation of institutional racism and people individually don't seem to care any more. Of course I live and work in a well integrated area, which is rare in most parts of the US. That doesn't mean there aren't racists, but they leave people alone and keep their opinions under wraps. 22294. arkymalarky - 7/25/2007 4:36:30 PM A crop-duster's been flying over my house for about an hour this morning. Kinda scary. 22295. arkymalarky - 7/26/2007 12:03:11 AM My cause is getting attention in Yahoo today: Rural school performance 22296. Ms. No - 7/26/2007 12:09:52 AM You beat me to it --- I was just about to link that very article! 22297. arkymalarky - 7/26/2007 2:26:29 AM The guy whose comments they solicited is fantastic. He's done a lot of work with us for AR. 22298. Ms. No - 7/26/2007 3:43:20 PM I particularly noted that he mentions rural schools being the social center for their communities because it was something you've talked about. 22299. arkymalarky - 7/26/2007 5:31:59 PM His organization has done a lot of research on rural schools and he does a blog about them on their site. The school's most often the economic center, as well, which is why closing them is so deadly to rural economies, especially in poor areas like the Delta. 22300. Ms. No - 7/27/2007 4:43:42 PM My co-worker is going to court on Monday to fight a speeding ticket. Seems she was zipping along with a pack of other speeders when she got pulled over. She thought she was being pulled over because she has a new car and doesn't have her license plates yet so when the cop said "No Ma'am. I pulled you over because you were speeding."
She asked why he picked her and he said "You looked to be going the fastest."
So she's going to court to fight the ticket not because she wasn't speeding but because she thinks she can make a case out of the cop saying that she "looked to be" going the fastest.
As she tells me the story, from the very beginning she knew she was speeding. By the end of the story it's because the car is new and big and it gets away from her and she was watching a car next to her and not paying attention and she isn't even really sure if she was speeding much less 13 miles over the limit because she has no idea how fast she was going etc. etc.
She'll probably win simply because the cop will be too busy to show up, but I really hope that's not true. I hope he's got nothing better to do that day than show up and make sure she gets that ticket and I hope she gets a judge that reads her the riot act for wasting everyone's time and money trying to wriggle out of her ticket. 22301. arkymalarky - 7/27/2007 8:18:12 PM Here she'd almost certainly have to pay it. Let us know how it comes out. My dad challenged a ticket once in his life and lost--for running a red light he swears to this day wasn't red. I've gotten one speeding ticket in my life, this past year, and I was unfortunately with Miss 3-ticket Mose who proceded to tell me how I screwed up and could have gotten out of it. And a student of mine a few weeks ago described crying her way out of one.
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