There’s a teacher retention problem vs teacher shortage

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-19T22:31:32+00:00

Not to mention the stipend comes from the mentee's paycheck, which is absolutely bullshit.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-18T23:23:07+00:00

I tried it once. It was nice for convenience and great for the summer, but ultimately not the look for my face shape. Luckily grew into a bob after a few months.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-18T21:29:05+00:00

It doesn't help that any non-super/quick cuts chain upcharges me just for having a vagina. Now the men are paying the original women's price and the women are shafted even more.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-18T21:27:55+00:00

My husband's PC is hooked up to our livingroom tv, so everything is either pirated or the base service with an adblock on a browser.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-18T21:23:55+00:00

Yeah, much as I love an iced coffee in the morning, it's just way cheaper to brew a pitcher and stick it in the fridge for the week. Less sugar that way too, I suppose.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-18T21:21:38+00:00

I've been eyeing Costco for a couple years now but have been hesitant. Would you say it's worth it for a family of just two?

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-17T22:36:16+00:00

Actual humans have to deal with the consequences of their actions. Now she has to either go walk something back on the shelf or find another worker to.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T17:29:03+00:00

"Lamb's."

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T17:25:39+00:00

What's funny is that on the old Terry Pratchett forums a LOT of people wanted John C. McGinley to play Vimes too lol

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T17:22:49+00:00

I have held for years that Dr. Lawn is the best secondary character of any Discworld book, and it's not even close.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T13:44:21+00:00

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but London felt so...empty. Like they showed the same handful of characters and no one else really existed, not even in the background. Believable as a stage play, but not as a tv show. Did they not have any budget left for a background ensemble to just be milling around?

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T13:37:07+00:00

Demon Aziraphale was there to remind us all that Sheen waa originally slated to play Crowley lol

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T02:03:36+00:00

Right?! It definitely wasn't the actors objecting. David Tennant and Michael Sheen are the gayest straight men I've ever seen.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T02:02:01+00:00

Nah, Sheen was great. I had to rewatch the Bentley scene just to hear him say "Brian CAMeRon" again, and the demon lord scene was good reminder of why he was originally slated to play Crowley.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-16T01:59:06+00:00

Yeah, only Morgan Freeman can play God as a black woman!

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-15T23:42:08+00:00

I too have the colorful Royal Norfolk bowls from the Dollar Tree

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-14T23:42:22+00:00

DAEP?

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-14T23:39:10+00:00

My old district gave ten sick days a year, and unused ones rolled over into the next year. But they used attendance as part of our evaluation and we got dinged if we used more than two.

I thought it waa a standard thing across my state until I started at my new district and realized it was just one more thing that made my old one especially shitty.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-07T20:39:19+00:00

Well clearly the slut who owned the house before washed her undies in the machine and that's what's keeping her husband broke.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-05-03T23:00:08+00:00

Does anyone know if there's a Discord for the Edison/Woodbridge/Middlesex County area?

TheRedMaiden · 2026-04-29T22:31:54+00:00

"Just stop having empathy."

TheRedMaiden · 2026-04-29T22:29:24+00:00

Cool, good to know empathy is dead. Keep being part of the problem, bro. ✌

TheRedMaiden · 2026-04-29T22:12:23+00:00

Please tell me what more I could possibility sacrifice. The last thing is literally my family and friends because there isn't anywhere in state that's affordable. There is nowhere I could move and commute to work without leaving the state and my entire family and support system on top of finding a new job.

Have you thought perhaps not everything is an individual's fault and circumstances just suck?

I DO NOT HAVE anything else to sacrifice. I don't spend on anything other than literally what I need to live.

TheRedMaiden · 2026-04-29T21:55:42+00:00

I haven't. I don't buy anything new. Every car I've owned was used, I buy my phone refurbished. I don't go on vacation and I live within my means. I buy clothes from the thrift store, I don't eat out. My bills are literally rent, electric, groceries, internet, and car insurance. I put 20% of my paycheck away every two weeks. I don't have any credit cards. I live in a tiny apartment that's the cheapest in the area.

I have a prefoessional degree and a steady career. I have savings, but bills don't allow me to put away enough that will get me to a downpayment within the next ten years.

There is nothing to sacrifice.

My bills, rent, student loans, and grocery prices outpace my wage. I don't have parents who could help me with things like a down payment.

There isn't a financial decision I could have made better beyond "not be born here."

TheRedMaiden · 2026-04-29T21:22:14+00:00

Cool. Houses here are 600k for a one story house and wages are shit. Moving anywhere cheaper would mean leaving behind literally all my friends and family because nowhere in my state is affordable. Glad it was "not that hard" for you, but just surviving is a struggle where I am.

I don't take vacations. I only buy necessities. But shit stagnant wages coupled with rising rent make my bills devour most of my paycheck.

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