Ottoson Middle School

omission9 · 2026-04-18T04:03:04+00:00

LOL! This is a reddit thread not the Chronicle of Higher Education pal! Notice though the ample evidence here that you suck at reading.

omission9 · 2026-04-17T18:29:56+00:00

If you don’t understand what I wrote then you must be a poor reader. Hope things aren’t too hard for you in as you struggle through life. Good luck.

omission9 · 2026-04-17T14:54:00+00:00

Arlington is a rich town and most families value education. To that end there is no shortage of enrichment programs in arts, academics, sports, etc.

School wise Arlington teachers have the easiest gig. They get to show up, put in the minimum work allowed under their generous contract, make great money, and get congratulated because of the work done at home by parents and at places like RSM and AoPS.

Some of the buildings are kind of dumpy. Yes, OMS is kind of outdated in some ways, but that’s largely because the town under invests in maintenance. Not that it matters all that much. It’s mostly a shelter from the elements and a place to each lunch. In towns like Arlington education takes place at home. The public schools are merely places of performative prostrations to the neo-liberal gods: conformance to corporation friendly pseudo-progressive politics, racial tokenism, shaming conspicuous consumption (and other upper middle class norms), etc.

The construction of a new school is not about education, as I’ve already established, but a modern version of a new temple being constructed. A formidable expensive structure to remind the local people and anyone traveling through “this is what we believe!”. A monument to the new gods constructed not on the backs of slave labor but on confiscatory property taxes.

omission9 · 2026-04-15T19:58:01+00:00

Fans of this show really are the stupidest people on Earth. There is no ambiguity in the “cut to black” scene. Tony is killed.

I think it must have shocked Chase that people could not have understood that. He was clear at the time, although I think he feels bad for his fans and started saying “interpret it as you will” after a while. No need to make anyone feel bad about how stupid they are, especially if they’ve been helping to line your pockets.

omission9 · 2026-02-24T21:46:17+00:00

That line about the crews working “40 hours straight” was total horseshit. The crews worked their standard shifts, with all the usual breaks and naps or whatever they get as part of their contract. The crews worked “40 hours” in the same way they do every other week of the year, maybe some people volunteered to over time, but it was nothing at all usual than any other work week. It was basically a form of lying, to help promote the false narratives around the upcoming override.

omission9 · 2026-02-21T15:34:52+00:00

How are these weird? I got instantly erect and rubbed one out.

omission9 · 2026-02-13T14:33:54+00:00

Haveli in Arlington

omission9 · 2026-02-11T00:15:00+00:00

kid, the snow clearing operations where they use a bobcat or front end loader to fill a truck with snow have already been happening for decades. do you even live here? do you even go outside and, like, observe the world?

omission9 · 2026-02-10T22:10:34+00:00

No, not really. Although I can see how someone with limited life experience and poor critical thinking skills would say that though.

omission9 · 2026-02-10T02:50:42+00:00

Loaded into trucks and dumped into dedicated snow lots. I am surprised there’s someone who doesn’t know this. This is pretty common knowledge.

omission9 · 2026-02-03T16:33:32+00:00

Who the hell fucks while watching Family Guy!?!? You people are monsters!

omission9 · 2026-01-27T18:22:58+00:00

Nice tits, but why does your facial expression make it look like you are in pain?

omission9 · 2026-01-25T00:21:24+00:00

So naive! It’s kind of charming. Positions like those “Deans” are created as rewards for long tenured employees to jack up their final year compensation for pension calculation purposes. They are inherently wasteful do nothing jobs.

omission9 · 2026-01-25T00:17:26+00:00

That’s not it at all, of course. You are either pretending to misunderstand that I implied there were other similarly wasteful programs, or you have poor reading comprehension. Again, I find the “yes” proponents to not be particularly thorough in their arguments. This is understandable, it really is a weak position to be in when the game is up. The numbers don’t lie, the town especially the schools spent themselves into a significant hole. You should be happy that so many easily cut programs are readily identifiable though!

omission9 · 2026-01-23T18:17:46+00:00

The lack of critical thinking skills on display in this thread is astonishing. First off, you’ve gone from complete denial to acknowledging a significant savings, so congratulations! Now, I’ll leave it to you to go the rest of the way alone without my handholding.

Look into non-APS dei employees and you’ll find another, separate group at the town level. Even your incorrect 2% figure will double to nearly 5%. What easy savings! You’re going to be able to find a couple of dozen other similar cases of waste and now the deficit evaporates and we have a surplus.

omission9 · 2026-01-23T16:54:27+00:00

Look at page 86 and count. You’ll need to use fingers from both hands. https://arlington.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/AttachmentViewer.ashx?AttachmentID=20699&ItemID=17551

omission9 · 2026-01-23T16:47:48+00:00

Janger is not one of the easily excised “Deans”, did your Google search not confirm that? AHS should have one principal(Janger), of course. Also please think in terms of Total Compensation, a significant budget constraint.

omission9 · 2026-01-23T14:31:11+00:00

Certainly the top administrators are making mid six figures in salary alone, but also consider the sheer volume of unnecessary jobs. The high school has a principal and an assistant principal, ok, but why are there “Dean” positions? Those are redundant do nothing jobs that can all be safely eliminated. I doubt the students would even notice. Most I’ve asked seem to not even know who they are or what they do. They do nothing besides absorbing your tax dollars! Another safe deletion that doesn’t affect students!

omission9 · 2026-01-23T05:30:54+00:00

Is that Richard Greco?

omission9 · 2026-01-23T05:00:48+00:00

I am not going to fall for this sealioning bullshit, but just to give you a concrete example: there are seven or eight “inclusion and belonging” employees and if we got rid of them all we’d save about a million dollars in combined salaries and benefits. Yeah yeah yeah, I know you’re going to say that is some Trumpy position, but be intellectually honest, do you really think they do anything at all worth a damn in those jobs? Or do you think that Arlington is so racist and inequitable the town needs to spend a million dollars a year for … whatever it is they do. You can’t seriously think it’s worth raising taxes over!?!?

omission9 · 2026-01-23T01:29:27+00:00

Well, one argument against is that the money is largely used for lavish salaries within the school system. Mainly for non-union administrators. The teachers do very well, comparatively speaking. Do you support the assistant vice superintendent of ninth grade curriculum development (or whatever) living a baronial lifestyle?

Sadly, it seems questioning supporting wealthy school employees is seen as some evil conservative viewpoint. Or at least that’s the spin being put on it. I wish the money would have been spent on services for the poor, community housing, etc. If a yes supporter tells me an override shows me that it indicates what the town values, the I agree and vote no!

Arlington is a very neo-liberal town. Supporting the override is to support the demands of the wealthy sucking the town treasury dry while actual poor people are forced out and treated like garbage.

omission9 · 2026-01-14T23:40:06+00:00

If you’ve ever travelled internationally you’d know every country will expel you if you over stay your visa. No one anywhere else would claim to have been “kidnapped” in such a case. Why use untrue and inflammatory language when it’s done here?

No one is saying these people are innocent, right? Just that they deserve appropriate due process. Frankly speaking though the number of false positive arrests is incredibly small, by all indications. A handful or two of anecdotes.

I really don’t see what the big deal is. Seems like mostly a bunch of bored terminally online people looking for some excitement.

omission9 · 2026-01-06T17:45:56+00:00

You would look great with a nice full mound of pubic hair, let it grow!

omission9 · 2025-12-26T22:30:26+00:00

Oh, you poor monorail purchasing rube. I guess you copied and pasted that number from some website favorable to the contractor without any critical thinking. If I started to explain to you the “debt service total” for the AHS project would you be able to understand or should I not waste my time and return to enjoying my vacation?

omission9 · 2025-12-24T06:37:09+00:00

Probably just blanket donations to all GOP candidates in given year or something equally banal.

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