Yeah, another extended family member quit teaching after two weeks. The extra time and BS was not worth the money

I don’t claim it is all, but kids are incredible manipulators. And then you get the parents that are oppositional to information that doesn’t fit their view of their child. The kids see that parent backs them up, no matter what and so next week is same behavior problems. And the one school administration did not want to report behaviours to parents. I assume it then has to be logged and scored somewhere against a rating.

But yes it is the parents job, I totally agree. My kids are doing behavior work /parenting work at school which kills teaching lessons

Two of my kids became teachers recently. They said a lot of the kids are completely disrespectful, some violent, and also can’t read or write the appropriate grade level because of the newer pass them through system (no kid left behind). Much of their day is behavior management and not teaching. My wife and I are surprised because an 8-12 year old will do things we can even imagine trying to get away with at that age.

Sometimes the parents just don’t know because the kids act lije saints at home in a rule structure, but school has low authority to do anything now and students know this. Source, two of my kids entered the teaching profession recently.

Yep, my wife needed a skin biopsy for research, so not emergency like skin cancer, but it would further research on her genetic disease. Wait time of months with referral, or pay $1000 and a private dermatologist could see us immediately in her office. Since it directly affected progress of the genetherapy the labs were doing, we chose to pay it. But I’m jumping the queue because I have more money than another patient, and that ain’t right.

Because I want that hour after work not before I wake up

Daylght Savings time would be better for BC, having standard all year would mean sunrise just after 3am in summer.