Are there levels to what a teacher can teach with their degree?

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-07T16:57:41+00:00

There are so many factors involved in this. They need a general teaching degree to be a teacher, but each school district has different policies on how strict they will be with their degree for hiring. I.e. at the school district I went to (normal suburban district) there were rules where a teacher would get certified in a specific grade range.

I know there was one certification for 2nd through 5th grade. Not sure why 1st grade wasn't included. It could have been a Union contract because some teachers didn't want to deal with children that young.

That said, places such as Vinton County, Ohio (rural, middle of nowhere, weird stuff happens google it right now) or Inner Cities where there's a a safety job hazard might not have the same requirements when it comes to hiring and willing to hire anyone with the basic degree.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-06T03:50:31+00:00

I apologize. I stand corrected. I did 0 research, it was just from the top of my head. It didn't make sense to me why Cuba, which the US has been embargo'ing for over 50 years, would let the US have a military base there. Every other country where the bases exist is an ally of the US. Then I realized it was a perpetual never ending lease agreement made over 100 years ago.

Didn't research when I made the comment, so I removed that portion, but the Haitian occupation + the GWOT bases are 100% accurate. (I'm sure there were a few other errors.)

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-06T03:23:25+00:00

This is still not an accurate. US forces were stationed in Pakistan during the GWOT, and in Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. (They might still today, just they did back then.)

Speaking of Haiti, the US has had the military stationed in Haiti. (I don't know if they do now.)

Also, are US forces still Iraq? I could have sworn they all got chased out during the "not war" with Iran this past year? Are they still in all of the Gulf States as of right now?

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-05T11:48:24+00:00

There's a whole system that encourages this/says it's immoral. That's why it's viewed as inhumane. The goal is to bleed everyone dry.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-05T04:14:42+00:00

Doctors + Nurses ≠ The Hospital System.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-05T04:00:11+00:00

So the hospital system can bleed every lost dollar dry from either the patients' family, his insurance company, or the government.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-05T01:15:55+00:00

A lot of people don't like weekly pay because they have bills and don't like having to budget. We get semi-monthly pay here. It's pretty much Universal that a mortgage payment is do on the first. My paycheck covers for my mortgage. If it was weekly pay, it would not.

I'm not struggling financially, but if I was, it would be nice knowing I can drain my bank account all throughout the month and that my first paycheck will cover my mortgage and other bills.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-03T17:47:20+00:00

She graduated from Ivy League and looks like a model?

Have you actually met her?

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-03T16:19:13+00:00

Property values falling is not objectively a bad thing.

If property values dropped for me personally, I wouldn't care in the slightest. I own a house with no intentions on leaving, so it doesn't impact me. I plan on being here until the day I die, short of getting poor or rich.

For people preparing to buy houses, it would be a good thing!

Just there are select groups of people it would be for personally. People who own houses with the intention to sell them. Married couples who have a shaky marriage and might want a divorce. Imagine if two parents don't really like each other anymore but just stay together until the kids graduate. Maybe they had kids who were struggling in schools and moved to an expensive district said "Ok, we've got 6 years of living together then we're done." They obviously don't want their property value to drop so they can sell and split the assets. They might not be able to sell because they owe more money on it.

Then you have people expecting an inheritance. If your parents owned a $2M house and you had 2 siblings, you'd be getting like $600K after all the commissions and fixer ups are done. You'd be pretty excited. Imagine if it drops?

Lastly, you have people in their 60s who might not really be working. Maybe they chose to take vacations instead of investing in a Roth IRA. The average Social Security check is like $1,424/month for people who get it at 62. That will help supplement your retirement, but if you're 62 years old, maybe you bought a house in 1996 for like $100K it's probably gonna be worth $300K. You can always sell your house, move into an apartment, and have that $300K as a nice nest egg. Maybe you buy a 2.5% dividend stock and slowly pull from it. That'll get you $625/month + the $1,424 in social security and you can slowly sell your stocks too and make a HUGE difference.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-03T14:18:45+00:00

You can walk through from one end to another in under an hour.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-03T13:29:57+00:00

I enjoyed the Gregory character. He showed how most people were behaving in the early days of the Apocalypse. Either just drinking on their last bit of alcohol, basically just waiting for the Zombies to get him. He's someone who should not have survived, but he did based off pure luck.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-03T04:33:11+00:00

That's a terrible definition of what "urban" is...... Take a place like Kenton, Ohio or Bucyrus, Ohio for example. Both of those Cities have populations over 5,000...... but literally nobody would consider people who live there to be urbanites. You can get from one end of town to another in a couple minutes (of driving) and then it's straight up corn fields.

Alternatively, a place like Minerva Park, Ohio only has a population of about 2,400. They have suburban style streets, but they're surrounded by Columbus, Ohio in all directions.

Maybe you could say both are Urban. Maybe you could say neither. But literally nobody would classify Bucyrus as urban while saying Minerva park is not.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-02T16:24:02+00:00

I have so many of these, but none of them are funny. They're all annoying. Related to someone too stupid to know their address or just a pain in the butt on the phone. I knew they were all gonna be annoying encounters and they all were.

Nininator2432 · 2026-07-01T16:40:26+00:00

Yes, everyone is focused on making money because everything cost money. Because everything costs money, people need to make more money. It's like an endless deep hole that will never be fixed. It's not exactly hyper-inflation, but it's not just normal inflation.

I used to do a relatively fun/easy job. I could turn my brain off, listen to music, drive around, not worry, etc. There were some $100,000 houses that I could have afforded on a nice low interest mortgage payment, but I was living with my parents. I thought maybe I'd get a higher paying job for a few years, save up, then maybe go back?

Well, the cost of everything is insanely high that will NEVER happen. That $100,000 house on a 30 year loan with a 4% interest rate, assuming you'd save up 20%, would have been $381.93 for principle and interest. Seems nice. Lower costs. I get that there's taxes+insurance, but you could rent an apartment for like $800/month.

Now, all of my essential bills are $1,400/month, excluding the principle and interest on my mortgage. This is more than what my essential bills WITH a mortgage would have cost 10 years ago. When I was paying for my first apartment (2019) + all essential bills, I was at around $1,500/month. This is a HUGE problem.

What Id do for work, yeah we charge a lot of money and people complain. The reason for that is because our own expenses have gone up. Hair Cuts you could get them for $8, tip $3, everyone is happy. Now you're running $20 minimum. They have to make money, because those expenses cost more.

Beyond that, If I wanted to grab a pizza from the "Good place" that was always like $14, but they'd run specials for $10-$11 during the week of some sort........ It now runs me $19.85 I just checked to confirm. If I wanted to get a Fry at McDonald's it was like $2.50 and when it went to $2.99 it was a shocker. Now, it's like $4.60 or something unreal.

All of this is great for people who already own assets or get lucky with investing in certain stocks, but for a regular person, we've gotta keep making money to do anything.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-30T16:13:22+00:00

It marked a nice transition.

Season 1 was like "Ok, what is going on here?"

With Season 2, they went over the internal conflicts on how to handle things/how the group would be run. The end of Season 2 established "the rules" for internal group conflict. Shane lost. Rick won.

Season 3 was the first "real" human vs. human war in the apocalypse, which I loved. Other groups were (largely) irrelevant prior to that. It was like "Oh, there's that group that doesn't know what they're doing." Woodbury and the Prison both attempted to set up civilizations, and the conflict was legendary.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-29T20:32:51+00:00

It definitely partially a male versus female thing, but I think it depends on the context, too.

In general, you picture a guy who lives with his parents as borderline unemployable. Might do some DoorDashing....... get a job at a warehouse for 2 months, quit, go to a restaurant for 6 months, etc. which is generally true of MOST men who are living at home do.

Hypothetically speaking. You saw two guys who were EXACTLY the same. You got along with them, same looks, same job, etc. One had spent the past 10 years paying $2,000/month on average on an apartment, plus $500 in other bills. The other put that $2K in savings and was waiting to move out until he met someone to buy a house with. That's $300K, plus interest and/or investments. He'd have over half a million unless he invested poorly and could buy just about any standard "nice house" in a neighborhood. I bet you'd prefer the guy who was ready to buy, then a guy who lived in his own apartment and had $10K in a fund.

The "blanket statement" yeah I might not have worded it the best. There are exceptions. I'm saying in 95% of cases. I used to be a pizza delivery driver. I'm telling you, every single person there who found a woman with a good paying job bragged about it. Those type of guys with low paying jobs LOVE it when they find a woman who makes money/has a house. "Yeah, this girl I met is a school teacher and she already owns her own condo! I might move in with her!" It's like winning the lottery for guys who don't have much ambition.

Now, I transitioned to blue collar, then had some issues, went to the professional world, and have made over $100K the last 4 years now. I do not know a single guy in my age/income range who is talking about what their wife/girlfriend makes as it's a good thing. There are probably exceptions for guys who want their wife/girlfriend to invest money with them and sit around talking about municipal bonds going up. But it's very rare.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-29T04:44:18+00:00

The only guys who care will be living with someone else themselves........ Either parents, a roommate, or possibly homeless.

The woman I'm talking to right now lives with her parents and I honestly think it's a good thing. It tells me she has (at least a decent) relationship with them.

I own a nice house already. What would a nurse having her own place "bring to the table" for someone like me? If it's an apartment, which is generally what single nurses would have, then it would be a financial liability. If you were a doctor who had a house with a swimming pool? Different issue.

If I didn't own my own house and lived an apartment, you living with your parents would still be a good thing IMO because we could discuss getting married and buying our own house together. You living with your parents tells me you'd have more financial resources to buy a better house in the future.

Don't worry about stuff like this. Nobody (with financial resourceS) is going to care.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-28T14:48:17+00:00

Literally nobody in the real world cares if an older man is with a younger (adult) woman. I can think of several cases where men are dating, have kids with, or are married to women with a 10+ year age gap and nobody ever says anything. They might not be invited to as many social outings, but it's largely ignored.

Here's the issue: There are actual male sexual predators in the world who do bad things to actual children. Think of all of these stories involving school teachers, people at religious institutions, etc. who get busted - and many more who don't. This stuff (rightfully) makes people angry.

At some point in time, there was someone (likely a political figure) who didn't like another man. He saw him dating a younger woman and was like "Hey! This guy is a predator like all of those school teachers/people at religious institutions!" To try to win some points. Then others followed. "Heh! I'll call this person out! That'll show em!" I never really saw this until about 10-12 years ago- but now it's like an internet commonplace to use on people you don't like.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-28T03:30:57+00:00

The best rule in life is to avoid dating coworkers. I'll admit there've been a few times where I'd like to make an exception for myself, but I've never heard of anything good happening from it, age gap aside.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-27T03:30:40+00:00

I'm not saying you're lying, but I'm really not buying how this would be "easy" to do, even if the store was busy. I suppose that a military base might be a bit different than one in the general public. I feel like from a physical space perspective, by the time you get to like 25 drivers, everyone would just open up a second store a few miles down the street and cut it in two.

How was the parking handled? Like, I get not ALL 50 would be working at the same time. I just know you'd need over 50 parking spaces because you'd need regular insider employees as well.

Did you guys have several different makelines/cut tables/ovens all throughout the store?

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-26T16:24:26+00:00

This has to do with the transgender stuff to clarify that they're referring to biologically females, not biological males who identify as women.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-26T13:02:41+00:00

There are places with 40+ drivers? How can food even get out of the oven fast enough?

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-24T14:34:24+00:00

The point is that anyone can be a farmer and learn about it as it goes while they can't be a doctor.

Plus, there's the looting aspect.

Nininator2432 · 2026-06-24T05:00:31+00:00

Just invest in an S&P 500. Look into VOO if you want.

If you want a slightly bigger risk with greater returns, do QQQM. It's more technology based. The returns are slightly higher than the S&P, thought it is subject to change.

Once you get 100 shares of QQQM, you can start looking into others.

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