> AG David Parker: New Zealand to ban semi-automatic weapons

@TimStone how do they get this stuff done so quickly?

@GodEmperorDune by having a non-corrupt government that actually cares about people and not their own bank accounts?

Hero

@Ash wtaf

I just don't see this working well even from a budget perspective 🤔

That is a little nuts!

@Ash It happens everywhere though. Every country has a chronic lack of teachers

And it's not just because schools are saving money, it's simply because there's a lack of people willing to become teachers

lmao

Lindsey Graham just tanked this in the Senate and Trump's here railroading him doing so, effectively

@Nzall have you considered that these two things are connected

e.g. the turnover rate of denver schools

@Ash From what I've heard, it's mostly due to pay being low and hours being long (especially when including the out of class hours, which aren't paid but needed for things like grading and class prep), and also because helicopter parenting and other ways parents are getting more and more demanding of teachers. Teaching more and more becomes a vocation for the passionate, to the point that a lot of teachers drop out during teacher school or after a couple of years of teaching

In fact, in Belgium, they're actually putting people who are still in teacher school in front of classes because they can't find enough graduated teachers to fill the gaps

@TimStone ...*facedesk*

"Oh, how we vote doesn't matter? Then for sure, let's look good! We don't have to actually do it, after all."

tl;dr publisher offered to contribute percentage of cut to dev's son's medical expenses, they reneged

@Nzall Teachers in Canada are actually well compensated. This is all just about budget cuts. That's all Ford cares about. Making the budget lower so his supporters, who only care about themselves, will keep voting for him

Information on teacher salaries: globalnews.ca/news/1346218/…

> On average, our province is in the middle compared to the rest of Canada, sitting at $49,410, but new teachers in Alberta make the most at $58,500.

> In Alberta, teachers make $99,300 on average and B.C. teachers make about $81,500 after a decade of experience, which translates to a 60 per cent increase in salary in 10 years.

Older story, but the numbers likely aren't that far off from today.

Yeah this is bad for everyone, but rural schools will really suffer

and I'm sure it's the rural areas that make up a huge part of Fords supporters

but yeah, that's the conservative way. Your supporter base is the people you hurt the most!

Do you think he may be going for a privatization playbook too?

Like, break the schools, say "man, public schools are really struggling wonder how that happened", and then bring in charters?

This would be consistent with what we've seen in Kentucky for example

Though online only is kind of its own thing (that we also saw in Kentucky with the Medicaid work requirements thing)

Yeah, that was status-bydesign for matt bevin

If people are unable to log in to report their hours to the state, they have to call an extremely unhelpful hotline and probably just lose their coverage.

Well, would have to, the work requirements have been invalidated for now

Meanwhile

We're out here doing Matthew 26:36 except not falling asleep hopefully

the gospel is just a collection of stories about jesus and his extremely stupid friends

Active shooter alert issued for University of Michigan

Thankfully looking like a false alarm

Handcuffed behind her back no less, that classic position in which it's trivial to shoot oneself through the mouth

The best part about this joke is that reading between the lines, the jokester is more concerned about the senseless waste of the egg.

rack em

I'm now a monarcho-communist but with this dude as the king