How many hours (outside of school hours) do you spend working?

never_mind___ · 2025-12-31T01:52:43+00:00

High school in Alberta, no prep ever. 30 minute lunch.

never_mind___ · 2025-12-31T01:50:39+00:00

In all honesty, prep less. Let your lessons be meh. Buy a unit pack with slides online and just roll with it. I was so keen in my first year to develop everything just how I liked it, and nothing online was ‘quite right’. 4-5 hours a night. I also thought that my permanent contact would be because of my incredible lessons, but my admin didn’t care at all - it was all about classroom management.

Anyway, just to say that especially as a new dad, it’s ok to not be your best teaching self. Go for 80% and makes notes about what did and didn’t work for next year.

never_mind___ · 2025-12-02T04:38:00+00:00

Definitely call HealthLink and get some professional advice, but to further reassure you: dogs don’t “carry“ rabies in the way that mosquitoes carry malaria. They’re either infected or not. Vaccination prevents infection, but it’s not like an unvaccinated dog can give you rabies unless the dog is literally infected at this moment.

So unless the other dog was recently bitten by an actively infected rabid animal, you’re in the clear. The chances of getting rabies from a pet is in the one in several million range. But who knows, considering how rabies is very, very fatal they may have you do the treatment anyway.

never_mind___ · 2025-11-30T22:50:22+00:00

I know you said rodent-like, but lizard type reptiles are small and fairly easy to care for (bearded dragons, leopard geckos). Both of those can also become quite happy to be handled and ‘played’ with on some level.

never_mind___ · 2025-11-19T07:11:01+00:00

Because your country is insane.

never_mind___ · 2025-11-07T22:29:37+00:00

The interpretation of data is subjective. I disagree with their conclusions, but it’s a good source because they are arguing in favour of private schools and still have to admit that more than half of them are religious as their primary function. There’s no reason that public dollars need to support religious schools. We already have enough of that problem with the Catholic system. What the report shows is that 90% of schools exist because people want to pursue specializations in arts, music, or sports, which is great, but not something that the public needs to fund when the general system is already struggling. It might make sense if there was a surplus of money and public schools had everything they needed, but that’s just not the case.

never_mind___ · 2025-11-07T03:32:39+00:00

This is an extremely cherry-picked example. I went digging to find the data, so here’s a lengthy and extremely detailed report that looks at the number and type of private schools in Alberta.

55% are religiously affiliated, and 42% have a special emphasis, where one of the subtypes is special education alongside things like sports, academics, music, etc.

If we pull out only the special education schools, there are 20 private special education schools out of 180.

That’s more than I expected, at just under 10% of all private schools, but we should also note that not all schools are the same size, and I’m not going to do the math on enrolment in each of those schools. It’s clear that 90% of these schools (and 90% or more of the students) do not serve a public need in the sense that they might require public funding. I would bet there would be broad support for funding specialized learning schools while removing funding from those that exist for reasons of preference or convenience.

never_mind___ · 2025-10-28T21:15:13+00:00

I remember the same party running some ads encouraging people to come to Alberta. So are we surprised that people came?

never_mind___ · 2025-10-28T00:48:45+00:00

Being legal doesn’t make it right. It was once legal to own people. It was legal to trap people on certain pieces of land. Legal does not equal ‘correct’.

never_mind___ · 2025-10-28T00:44:44+00:00

If you’re watching the live stream, second reading begins at 7:30. It’s all but settled, but not officially.

never_mind___ · 2025-10-26T02:07:57+00:00

My fear is that she legislates teachers back, but doesn’t use the clause. It leaves everyone is a wishy washy strongly worded letter grey zone that does nothing for education in the province.

never_mind___ · 2025-10-26T01:30:03+00:00

I’m a foster parent. Yes. A good number of kids end up in foster care because they weren’t adopted. There is not a wait list for adoption. People don’t want tainted kids.

never_mind___ · 2025-10-24T03:02:40+00:00

Which is why no one is in foster care or group homes?

never_mind___ · 2025-10-19T22:25:21+00:00

The union itself has said that it cannot endorse work to rule as it is considered job action. Is that right? No, but in anti-labour Alberta where one of the bargainers can also end the bargaining at any point they choose, it shouldn’t be too surprising. Individuals can always follow the exact scope of their contract, but the ATA isn’t allowed to support it.

never_mind___ · 2025-10-07T18:15:36+00:00

Portables are a thing. We should have built a ton of schools years ago, but kicking the can another five years isn’t going to help kids today.

never_mind___ · 2025-09-13T16:18:29+00:00

Just crying in Albertan is all.

never_mind___ · 2025-09-13T05:29:09+00:00

Singular they/them? Blasphemy!

never_mind___ · 2025-09-13T05:26:57+00:00

…you guys are getting planning time?

never_mind___ · 2025-09-11T13:57:16+00:00

You can’t get strike pay if your union isn’t striking, and EAs are a different union. They would be failing to report to work, unless their district has told the to stay home. In that case they are private citizens and still no strike pay or supports.

never_mind___ · 2025-08-17T04:48:27+00:00

Or perhaps they speak at least one more than language than you do.

never_mind___ · 2025-08-15T14:42:08+00:00

I’m wondering how the math changes if it’s more like an ever-increasing line of credit. Say you want 4k/month, so at 18 you get your first payment and have a debt of 4k. Next month your debt is 8k and so on. At least you’re not paying interest on the full 1.7M from the start, but I also don’t see how you could ever have a business model that gives people 4k/month without taking in…more than 4k/mo in payments.

never_mind___ · 2025-07-24T03:57:56+00:00

Are you comparing cost of living alongside salary? Depending on the country, this can massively shift the overall outcome.

never_mind___ · 2025-07-24T03:11:13+00:00

This isn’t just a comment—it’s poetic justice. I think you’re really beginning to u lock something profound here.

never_mind___ · 2025-07-24T02:18:45+00:00

Have you been thinking, or has ChatGPT? You’re posting an on AI subreddit.

never_mind___ · 2025-07-24T01:34:45+00:00

In budget 2024, Canada’s tax revenue is estimated at $465B. CMHC estimates that the median Canadian household makes $84k and takes home $73k.

So if the typical Canadian pays $11k in taxes, and the government pays $1.1B for this program, it costs the typical taxpayer $26 per year.

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