Recent content by DaveWhen

They're about the same. Our district has undervalued teachers for years, especially special education teachers. We're over-worked, our caseloads keep getting bigger and all the paperwork and meetings keep growing. There's no support from admin in regards to discipline issues in and out of the...

I teach high school special education and in the last year we've had three teachers walk away. These aren't even new teachers, one had worked for 15 years and walked out in the middle of the day. The other two left at the end of the year. There's a husband and wife team that teach special ed...

I had them and they were the most uncomfortable SBs I've ever put on. Save your money.

put 50 bucks into the alltrack yesterday and it was barely 3/4ths full. I'm tempted to remove the tune for the time being and slum it for a bit.....nah, just kidding.

I just found a packet of poppy seeds in a drawer.

My wife and I bought our first condo in the city of Orange, near where there were some huge wildfires a handful of years before. When we went to insure it, we were turned down on fire insurance by two different companies. So, I imagine it’s pretty bad now (we've since moved to Costa Mesa)...

Those waivers typically don’t hold up. My friend is an attorney representing one of those giant trampoline park chains and they get sued all the time and pay out settlements constantly despite the waivers parents sign before entering.

I used to teach a high school social skills class. It was a Special Ed class for kids on the spectrum though. It was one of the most difficult classes to teach to students who believed they were fine and everybody else was the awkward ones.

OP I've been a high school special education teacher for, I think, 16 years now and I'm in the same boat. I think the pandemic exacerbated all the issues and has really made it difficult to come to work and be the people that these kids need everyday. I was talking to another teacher I've...

I've seen a couple tutorials on installing it. It takes maybe an afternoon. I'd go that route if I needed to haul more bikes, but so far it's just me and my daughter and only once in a while. I can just pop off the front wheels and stick it in the back with the seats down.

I haven’t myself, but people on vwvortex have done it. I haven’t had the need to tow anything so I haven’t installed a hitch. I was just gonna get a box for the roof for camping and road-trips.

I had a tuned MK6 GTI, the VW manual transmission sucks. They don't use anything different for the clutch on the GTI that they don't use for the base model Golf or Jetta. I blew my first clutch by about 24K miles and the TTRS clutch that replaced it had to go by about 95K. I'm pretty sure...

oops...double post.

About twenty-one or so years ago I had a doctor sit me down and tell me my chronic illness was going to get the best of me within ten years. I just nodded, said thanks and walked out. Several second opinions later and two decades later, I’m still kicking (albeit, gingerly little tippity...

but they are...at least in my district. Seniors take a semester of Civics (American Governemt) and a semester of Economics. Granted it's the same teachers teaching the same curriculum since the '90s.