NWI INDIANA GUN OWNERS. #24 Lets face it we all love to shoot and eat

[nonobaddog]

I’ve given 100’s of gallons of used antifreeze to farmers to fill tractor tires. Adds weight, won’t freeze and not detrimental to the tires. And it’s free

I think more people use antifreeze than anything else. Beet juice is a more recent thing but it also acts like an antifreeze in the cold and is catching on fast. About the only problem with antifreeze is it makes it harder to repair a tire puncture because patches don't stick well because it is slippery.

 

[melensdad]

Money is magic. The more there is the better education is, obviously. Can't you see from the results of the massive amount spent already?

Turns out it is not the union asking for the tax increase but the school teachers, the union and the administration all want the property tax increase.

Lowell/Tri Creek has been bleeding teachers to other districts. It was once in the top 5 in Lake County for teachers pay, it is now near the bottom. So teachers are leaving, and few are applying for open positions. The website pushing the agenda is crap, currently no specifics, just some bullet points and vague ideals.

A teacher was talking with me tonight, makes a good case for the need for a pay raise and for keeping current teachers. Not sure I'm willing to pay an extra $1000/year for the school system that my family has NEVER used in the 28 years we've lived here. It wasn't good enough when my kid was in school and my wife taught in the system, it is worse now. Maybe that is reason enough to support it? Or maybe that is why we need more charter and Catholic school options?

 

[melensdad]

I’ve given 100’s of gallons of used antifreeze to farmers to fill tractor tires. Adds weight, won’t freeze and not detrimental to the tires. And it’s free

I've got over a thousand pounds of antifreeze in the rear tires of my tractor. Great way to add traction to a tractor.

 

[jedi]

Turns out it is not the union asking for the tax increase but the school teachers, the union and the administration all want the property tax increase.

Lowell/Tri Creek has been bleeding teachers to other districts. It was once in the top 5 in Lake County for teachers pay, it is now near the bottom. So teachers are leaving, and few are applying for open positions. The website pushing the agenda is crap, currently no specifics, just some bullet points and vague ideals.

A teacher was talking with me tonight, makes a good case for the need for a pay raise and for keeping current teachers. Not sure I'm willing to pay an extra $1000/year for the school system that my family has NEVER used in the 28 years we've lived here. It wasn't good enough when my kid was in school and my wife taught in the system, it is worse now. Maybe that is reason enough to support it? Or maybe that is why we need more charter and Catholic school options?

The modern education system was designed to train future factory workers to be "docile"

Now that we are moving into a new, post-industrial era, it is worth asking whether this model still makes sense.

qz.com

Schools are worthless

 

[Max Volume]

Indoctrination centers.

 

[chef larry]

Wednesday morning and half way to the weekend.

 

[jedi]

Indoctrination centers.

B I n g o

 

[KLB]

Turns out it is not the union asking for the tax increase but the school teachers, the union and the administration all want the property tax increase.

Lowell/Tri Creek has been bleeding teachers to other districts. It was once in the top 5 in Lake County for teachers pay, it is now near the bottom. So teachers are leaving, and few are applying for open positions. The website pushing the agenda is crap, currently no specifics, just some bullet points and vague ideals.

A teacher was talking with me tonight, makes a good case for the need for a pay raise and for keeping current teachers. Not sure I'm willing to pay an extra $1000/year for the school system that my family has NEVER used in the 28 years we've lived here. It wasn't good enough when my kid was in school and my wife taught in the system, it is worse now. Maybe that is reason enough to support it? Or maybe that is why we need more charter and Catholic school options?

I bet the administrators could shed some pay to help increase the teacher pay

 

[jedi]

I bet the administrators could shed some pay to help increase the teacher pay

That type if talk will get you tossed off the island into the shark infested waters.

 

[radar8756]

Morning - 20 °F

 

[melensdad]

I bet the administrators could shed some pay to help increase the teacher pay

My kids went thru the Catholic schools. The Catholic schools manage to provide better educations at lower costs per pupil than the public system.

There seem to be fewer layers of administration, more people who actually care, and a lot less nonsense.

I have yet to see a tampon dispenser in a boys bathroom at a Catholic school but I do see them in some of the public schools . . . apparently they don't understand/teach biology in public schools because boys simply can't menstruate!

The Catholic schools emerged from the Covid shut down faster, did a better job of keeping kids in classes too. So paying an extra $1000 a year in property taxes for the public system is really not high on my "to do" list.

 

[CTC B4Z]

Best thing that happened to me in 1994 was mom bought a truck she couldn't afford and had to Take me out of catholic school.

Marked safe from being touched!

Thanks ma!

 

[melensdad]

Best thing that happened to me in 1994 was mom bought a truck she couldn't afford and had to Take me out of catholic school.

Marked safe from being touched!

Thanks ma!

Statistically greater risk of being 'touched' in the public school system, but as you were edumakated in da pubrik skules I can understand how you might not know the actual data.

 

[CTC B4Z]

MARKED SAFE I SAY

 

[Snapdragon]

Mom is doing just a bit better this morning.

 

[darkkevin]

that's good news at least, thanks for the update.

 

[Snapdragon]

Today's road rage bitch.... you're driving through a parking lot and a pedestrian crosses in front of you. They don't just cut straight across. They take the longest diagonal possible so you're waiting 30 seconds for them to cross instead of 5.

 

[CTC B4Z]

Yup. On the rare occasion I let some one walk in front if they do not take the path wisely A to B I will just continue on, sometimes it's very close cut

 

[nonobaddog]

Today's road rage bitch.... you're driving through a parking lot and a pedestrian crosses in front of you. They don't just cut straight across. They take the longest diagonal possible so you're waiting 30 seconds for them to cross instead of 5.

Yup, some types of people seem to be really slow when they are making other people wait for them. Tiny minds.

 

[bgcatty]

Had brunch at Art’s Skillet on Pendleton Pike this morning then went to Indy Gun Club and shot Sporting Clays with a friend in bright beautiful sunshine earlier today. What fun!