@silverfox Which has always seemed weird to me. As I understand it, funding for schools/teacher salaries here in my state are based on higher performance. So if the school does well in standardized testing, they get better salaries and funding.
It makes more sense to me to go the opposite way: The school that sucks the most gets more help via funding next year
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What state are you? I know that NCLB (No Child Left Behind) led to allocations like that, but most states have done changes in the two decades (how the hell has it been two decades?!) since to the formulas.
@silverfox Az
Also note I am not SURE how it works in the state and haven't had a kid in the school system for a few years now.
I do know AZ is poorly ranked nationally, has a major teacher salary problem (see Red for Ed protests), and my kid's school district once boasted having stuff like smart boards and laptops for the kids but an inability to fund classroom supplies, resource officers, janitors, etc.
So my kid was trained to be able to use technology my own company doesn't use by underpaid teachers who were asking me to buy them Kleenex and didn't have security or janitors...so...yeah.
Not sure how common that is, but pretty much K-high school involved 2 lists:
The supplies they'd need for class that would be their own
a sheet of paper begging for money for stuff like notebooks, markers, Kleenex, etc.
Smart boards, laptops to use in class, but not enough books that they could actually let a kid take a book home for homework's sake. Pretty bizarre, logically.
YES. I taught in Arizona (North Phoenix) for several years, so I can actually SPEAK to that state!
The formula sucks but if you're SUPER interested here's an article: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2017/11/13/arizona-school-funding/782457001/
The TLDR: The money comes from a 'base' for each student (aprox 4 thousand), then funds based on individual schools needs (rural schools, schools with x number of experienced teachers), and then LOCAL property tax agreements.
What that meant is that the district I taught at, Madison Elementary School District, had a lot of that local money. It was a rich area of the city (near North Mountain), and the people were willing to approve all bond/override issues that came on the ballot. A nearby district, Washington, didn't have those same property values and really struggled getting their bond/overrides passed. (I cannot recall if they had one fail in the years I was there, but it was a struggle.) When it came down to it Madison had a LOT more money than Washington to go around.
School test scores aren't really a part of the formula any more, except when it comes to parent perception. That aprox. 4 thousand means a lot if you can get your kid to go to one school rather than another.
@silverfox Thanks for the details. I don't have a kid in school anymore, but this helps me understand how I can responsibly vote the next time one of these I KNOW WE HAD A TEACHER FUNDING BILL EVERY YEAR FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS, BUT THIS NEW ONE IS SUPER IMPORTANT bills comes along.
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Always look into the details also! This is helpful: https://www.expectmorearizona.org/study/bonds-overrides/
This migraine can fuck right off. After not going away last night, and a midnight shuffle for the migraine meds in a squinty haze...
...I am lucky enough to have no tolerance to the meds yet, so one pill has thus far, until this morning, sent them packing.
Second pill morning.
FML.
Usually, if I feel it starting I can run off into a dark room and hide for a few hours and it goes away before it truly starts. Usually. That 1 time out of 10 it doesn't... I'm going to be so screwed this week. 
Oh fucking well.
@surreality — I know I've mentioned it on MSB before, but if you haven't tried aimovig I highly recommend it. That stuff has been life-changing for me. I used to have incredibly frequent and severe migraines and that medication has nearly eradicated them.
The only complaints I have are pretty minor: first, it's a once a month injection and I'm not super fond of jabbing a needle into my leg each month, and second, the dose wears off about 3 or 4 days before I'm supposed to do my next injection, so the last couple of days before a dose are rough because the headaches come back as bad as ever.
But otherwise, I am now generally a functional human being. Which is a thing my friends can attest was somewhat of a trial to fake consistently before the aimovig.
Bonus: if your insurance won't cover it, the manufacturer has their own one year "aimovig ally" program where they'll completely cover the costs of the meds for one year.
a.k.a. Packetdancer (or "Pax" for short)
@Sparks If they ever start to become more frequent or become more resistant to the 'I see a flashy thing... dark room, NOW' I definitely will look into it.
I can usually prevent them from taking hold if I run off to pitch blackness IMMEDIATELY when I see the first flashy things, which is a genuine blessing I am intensely grateful for. If that fails... they'll last a few days. There's no 'just a few hours', it's days... sometimes weeks. It was hell because I could not get the old doc to take me seriously that I get them, despite every woman on my father's side of the family getting them, and finally, the one we had... until a few weeks ago when he changed his practice, got me on medication, which still thankfully works to tamp them down. Since we're looking for a new doc, and there's only 9 pills in a refill, and 2 refills left? Yeeeeeeeeeah, I'm trying to not use them if it can be at all avoided.
Normally it isn't super common, but if I'm doing a lot of things that cause eye strain? I am apparently begging for it. Movies in the theater (especially with the added noise, and I'm super noise sensitive normally let alone when it's kicked off) are almost a universal nope and have been for a decade or so. (It has to be something REALLY worth the risk... )
Notre Dame de Paris is burning.
I am literally in tears.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello
Notre Dame de Paris is burning.
I am literally in tears.
This is why it is unwise to have hot cauldrons of molten metal in the top balconies to rain upon invading guardsmen.
(Humor aside, really, this is awful.)
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
Notre Dame de Paris is burning.
I am literally in tears.
This is why it is unwise to have hot cauldrons of molten metal in the top balconies to rain upon invading guardsmen.
(Humor aside, really, this is awful.)
They used to use oil, but then they opened the Subway nearby and Italian bread is apparently popular for some reason.
Someone better check and see if Count Grishnackh is in Paris this week.
I certainly understand gallows humor. It's my default when facing from situations, including terminal diagnoses in my own family...
But I also kind of want to punch all of you right now. >.<
See, they started putting flammable thinner in the paint, this is what happens when you try to skimp like that.
And someone said: Repaint, and Thin no More.
There might well be a great deal of damage. But it's eight hundred and change years old. Fire won't end it.
He/Him
Got called a racist today because I told someone they were using the word "triggered" incorrectly.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
@Cupcake People are AWESOME.
There might well be a great deal of damage. But it's eight hundred and change years old. Fire won't end it.
But it will burn it down almost completely at this point.
It will get rebuilt. It will be political and frustrating and we will have lost one of the most iconic use of the flying buttress and the source for the book "Cathedral" by David Macaulay (of "How Things Work" fame). I made a board game when I was 13 about that book.
I will get pissed if or when they determine this was arson. For now this is disturbing at a spiritual level.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@silverfox Which has always seemed weird to me. As I understand it, funding for schools/teacher salaries here in my state are based on higher performance. So if the school does well in standardized testing, they get better salaries and funding.
It makes more sense to me to go the opposite way: The school that sucks the most gets more help via funding next year
