Governor

Ok. I’m trusting you now. No pressure.

If we draft another bust from Penn State, someone has to be punished. I would like to stay away from DE unless Phillips drops to us. I’m getting sick to my stomach just thinking about it. Some of you guys are real glutens for punishment.

I actually have NewsMax channel. WTH? Why is that a real channel? Who would watch that? I thought that was just a YouTube channel for crazy people.

Southport is pretty far. That’s where the old people go. Lol. I used to work down there a lot. It’s just an old fishing town. There's a community down there called St. James. They call that “little Jersey.” Youre probably not touching a home down there for under 350 anymore. I know a few people that work at the nuclear plant there. It’s decent for retired folks but I wouldn’t suggest any young person go down there unless you’re transferring to the Research Triangle with your northern salary or landed some hotshot tech job in Raleigh. Believe it or not, taxes are really high in NC. They get you every which way. Property taxes are a few grand cheaper but it really isn’t the savings people think when they get there. Taxes on clothing, food, etc. The only good thing about becoming a teacher is the loan forgiveness program. If they took that away, your Walmart greeters would be your teachers. Lol.

I’ll ask her tomorrow for the exact breakdown of pay in those two states and how long it takes you to get to certain pay. I’ll post it tomorrow. It’s pretty laughable. It was a really easy decision for us to make.

I just left there bud. Cost of living is nearly identical. This is the mistake people make. Maybe 10-12 years ago it was cheaper. Not anymore. All of the snowbirds moved in and everything is highly inflated. Raleigh is a little pricier than Wilmington but they’re pretty close. They both pay their teachers the same. Benefits suck. Pension sucks. No bonuses for doing extra stuff like the “Science Team” or whatever that’s called. Yeah, it’s a total joke down there. You can’t go to UNCW, which is a pretty expensive school, and come out making 35 and then 42 or 43 in your 5th year of teaching. You don’t get to 50k for a long time.

I think she started 18k higher in NJ this year. That goes up again next year. Wilmington and Raleigh pay the same. It’s poverty. I’m not sure how it could be much worse than NC. You start at like 35 and don’t hit 60k for like 10 years. You’d likely be around 85k in NJ after 10 years.

My original point was about lesson planning. In NJ, thst time is in your union contract. in NC, and most of the South, you don’t have that time so you have to use your entire weekend doing it. Teaching is a 7 day/week job there for little pay. Now, some would say, “why not just use your lesson planning from the previous year?” Well, in the South, you’re not teaching that same grade the following year. They almost always change it so you have to do it all again each year for whatever grade you’re teaching.

I named one on the first reply.

You’re not supposed to wear jeans once you hit 40.

If someone is going to slip, it will probably be Phillips. I could definitely see us moving up a few spots for him.

Watch out guys! Mom jeans, high rise jeans, and the jeans with the big holes in the knees are back in style. Noticed it NYC last weekend. I only own 1 pair of jeans. Some brand called Mavi. I wouldn’t even know where to find Levi’s. I’m older so I mostly shop at Nordstrom or Nordstrom RACK for business casual.

Not in my lifetime. I’m 45.

Trump killed a lot of young careers. The number could be in the hundreds. No future WH or respectable campaign is ever going to hire any of these folks. Damaged goods. News is their only option now. The right’s last Hail Mary, the fake Hunter Biden stuff, really hurt both Fox and Trump. No one wanted to here from either one of them after that. That’s when people just turned it off. All that was left were the extremists.

Handing Russian Intel polling data of specific states that Trump was behind and had to win was taking it to a different level. They got caught.

I’ve been watching the news since I was 3 years old. I used to watch Jimmy Carter speak and my mother would always say what a nice man he was, but not a great president. I’ve seen every major speech all the way until Trump. He was an absolutely dreadful speaker. That’s when my streak ended. As a family we watched the local and national news every evening during dinner. I started watching cable news regularly around 1991 or so. I also had CSPAN and Washington Journal on pretty often before school.

I agree with everything you said but there was actually a recent poll that said most people aren’t willing to pay more for environmentally friendly goods anymore which was a bit disturbing. I guess it really depends on what that product is.

It’s not really a party of ideas anymore. It’s just manufactured culture wars. 1. Privatization. That’s it really. They flip-flopped multiple times on most of the other issues. Lately, they have this cute strategy where they pass an extreme law that they know the courts will overturn. They do that to get short term political points and they don’t get blamed for it going badly since the voters never actually see the law in place.

Not true. Cats and Otters can get pregnant and they just found Otters at the aquarium that tested positive for Covid.

Enough Trumpers have died from Covid to flip Florida blue and keep a few other swing states blue. Its a national suicide pact to own the libs!

Found the millennial! Someone should hire this young lad. He will answer texts and emails when his workday is done. You could go on vacation! This poster will run your entire business. You don’t even have to pay him. Weekends? No problem!

Do you usually work 10-20 hours a week for free when you aren’t on-site?

It is when you’re only being paid for 40.

Overall mood on teachers has improved over the last few years, but 8-10 years ago most polling broke against teachers even here in NJ. Thats all Chris Christie did was attack teachers. Florida and NC were the same.

I could dig up some state polling that says that.