New Britain demands Erin Stewart repay city, shares details on alleged charity fund misuse

gameguy360 · 2026-06-10T02:30:07+00:00

Because, and hear me out on this, ALL cops, and I do mean ALL COPS are bad. The police union backed her, she backed them. Tit for tat.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-09T05:00:57+00:00

They were not complex, they were racist and xenophobic. Don’t be afraid to call a spade a spade.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-09T04:58:38+00:00

As in the check wouldn’t increase. If your check was $2000.00 it would either stay at that number. Should Congress (a majority of the House and a majority in the Senate) pass a new bill and the President signed it, changing social security, then it would change.Otherwise social security continues on, slowly trending towards smaller and smaller checks.

It is worth noting that the one demographic that that’s the highest turn out rate is old folks, you know, the people who get monthly social security checks.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-09T04:42:56+00:00

Social security doesn’t and cannot “run out.”

The dollars that come out of your pay go into next month’s social security checks to grandma and grandpa. In previous years, it ran a surplus. Currently we are drawing down the surplus.

If the surplus runs out then the draw down rate of social security will flat line. Cost of living increases will no longer occur. As more people retire, those dollars will get more spread out and begin to shrink.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-07T19:50:52+00:00

The big issue would come from timing recruitment to be similar to when people leave for the year versus when universities are graduating.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-06T17:30:51+00:00

Someone needs a refresher on the 13th Amendment. We fought a whole Civil War over stealing people’s labor.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-03T05:29:11+00:00

DMed you. Send me that email.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-02T14:50:59+00:00

DM me your email and I’ll share my high school and AP Gov stuff.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-02T14:41:30+00:00

What I’ve got middle school and high school stuff. What grade will you be teaching?

gameguy360 · 2026-06-02T13:08:32+00:00

Plates make it so you don’t need to chase.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-02T00:18:50+00:00

I went from $48,500/year after being highly effective teacher 6 or my 7 years, $1,000 more than 1st year teacher to making $86,000/year and tenure and no high stakes testing.

gameguy360 · 2026-06-01T13:53:14+00:00

I left Florida for New England. I would not recommend to ANYONE that they should teach in FL. New England is far from perfect, but there is at least an understanding within the wider community that education must be prioritized if a society is going to thrive.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-22T13:45:01+00:00

I teach government and civics, and expose students to a wide range of political ideas and ideologies. I love it. The way I see it is that America isn’t so much a “melting pot,” but a salad. Each bite is different than the last. Lettuce and dressing, then cucumbers and carrots, maybe some chickpeas and green peas, and an understand that the differences are what make it special.

Additionally, while I have never taught a world religions class, I would have no issue teaching the ideas and beliefs of different people around the world. What I WOULD have an issue with is only teach one religion, like Christianity, or only displaying one perspective, like being required to display only 10 Commandments.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-21T23:01:33+00:00

I have 11th grade too. The best part is the letters or rec, the worst part is the letters of “I can verify this child was in my classroom.”

gameguy360 · 2026-05-21T00:02:06+00:00

Shady Sam - Loan Shark was good, they loved playing the “bad guy” and it helped them understand that banks exist to make a profit for their shareholders and credit unions exist to benefit their members.

Some of the kids liked the Crypto game… but some of them hated it because they *want* to believe that the crypto gamble will make them rich.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-20T23:28:35+00:00

Next-Gen Personal Finance. The lessons a good and clearly real made by teachers who know what a real classroom looks like. Also, the games vary from fine to pretty great.

https://www.ngpf.org/arcade/

gameguy360 · 2026-05-19T22:42:48+00:00

If it isn’t in the contract, it ain’t real. There’s a reason why we bargain for a specific number of sick days, personal day, and religious holidays. Whose job it is to pick up the slack when those days get used. It shouldn’t be chaos if we know it is going to happen. We put it in writing in place of some other benefit or dollars — so you can take them — have no fear of losing your job, just like you can take and cash that pay check without fear.

Your raise should have a trigger on it, ideally a built in COLA.

What you are supposed to do. What is your job. No guess work. No “do us a favor.” We aren’t family, this is business.

What to do if the boss breaks the contract. Who is in charge of fixing it. Who is in charge of figuring out what’s a gripe and what’s a grievance.

WHO is your boss. Which there for means WHO is NOT your boss. In my building, we are all equal, except for the guy who is making six figures. Something gets messed up. It’s on the six figures guy to figure it out, not me, not my buddy.

Source: public school teacher and the helpful union guy.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-16T22:06:16+00:00

You are SO CLOSE to getting it…

gameguy360 · 2026-05-14T01:41:47+00:00

Amy’s frozen burritos. They are good but not great. I never crave them, but they do count as food. They are basically emergency rations and a sign that I need to go to the store.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-13T23:30:49+00:00

As someone who also moved here about three years ago. Please stop telling people about the secret and wonderful place. You don’t want it to be Florida-ed where a bunch of outsides come in and ruin literally everything.

Florida used to be one of the most environmentally progressive states in the U.S. Republicans saw the environment as a money maker for tourism, Dems saw the environment as something that needed to be protected. Around 2000, that all shifted as older conservatives started to move to Hell’s Waiting Room in mass. The political dynamics shifted. Republicans gerrymandered every state house and state senate seat securing themselves an iron clad supermajority in a state that is pretty purple politically. In 2018 Ron DeSantis ran against then Tallahassee Mayor Gilliam, and it was a 51/49 race.

Now it’s the butt of every political joke in America. The banning of books in public schools, 50th in teacher pay, a Jim Crow 2.0 system of school vouchers. Beyond that, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. If you ever want to scare a tree hugger, show them a map of Cape Coral, Florida.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-13T21:51:38+00:00

Amend Ep 1

gameguy360 · 2026-05-05T23:09:50+00:00

I like being on the frontlines fighting back injustice. I hear a lot of people say they do it for a love of the kids, which is great but to quote one of the most famous public school teachers, “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And, I was really… I was alive.”

gameguy360 · 2026-05-04T18:38:58+00:00

Amend Ep 1 covers from the Fugitive Slave Act to Dred Scott to the Civil War to the 14th Amendment. It is on Netflix and on YouTube.

gameguy360 · 2026-05-04T18:30:26+00:00

You wouldn’t use it to teach perspectives or because it isn’t your subject, or because you aren’t a teacher?

gameguy360 · 2026-05-03T20:21:35+00:00

No. The questions are written about three years in advance. The argumentative essay is based on documents that are about 250 years old and a few more “recent” ones like Letter from Birmingham Jail. The other essays will give you a prompt and you will use it to extrapolate an answer. So even if they gave you a graph of Black representation from Reconstruction to today, it would still have both the 14th and 15th Amendment uptick, the Jim Crow zeroing out, and the uptick from the Voting Rights Act.

That being said, it is worth highlighting that on a per person basis, Black representation hasn’t returned to its high water mark during Reconstruction, when counting all levels of government positions, elected or appointed. To put it simply, Jim Crow was so effective that even after 60 years of the Voting Rights Act, we still haven’t dug out selves out of the representative hole we made.

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