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I’d never heard of him, but apparently he’s important somehow?

Having worked in BISD when all of the theft, fraud, and malfeasance went on, I still get angry when I hear about these stories. I’m not sure if I’m more angry about the crimes that took place, or about the way that many of the criminals were given a free pass by (parts of) the community. The crimes were incredibly well-documented and poorly concealed. The people who exposed the corruption were drug through the mud, and multiple members of the school board who allowed it to happen were re-elected after the state mandated takeover was complete. I’m so glad to be out of there.

17 total posts in this thread. 6 about how terrible HF’s stadium is, 2 about HF’s football team being bad, 6 about how disappointing Lumberton is, and 3 that weren’t criticizing or insulting something or someone. I’m sure they love you wherever it is you reside. I bet you’re the life of every party.

Last year I started off badly. Glad to be up near the top

Great play. Suspicions of his feet being out of bounds on the play, but if it counts, it counts!

Anyone have one of them fancy Twitter links to the final play?

Yup. It looks great. A lot better than when I played there.

I think Fannett will have an okay season. HJ maybe not so much.

Update?

I got it right, but the scores were put backwards on the title and thought I’d gotten it wrong. 😀

HF miss the xp?

Let’s go, horns! Will gladly take an L on the pickems if you pull this one off!

Sometimes a loss is a win. That’s a really solid result. Franklin is the real deal.

Was gonna go to the game and had some family stuff come up. Sounds like a good one.

Sounds like a fun one.

Last I saw Argyle was up 28-18 on melissa

Anahuac might be pretty salty this year. They’ve been trending in the right direction.

Wowza.

Might come to that eventually, but I’m glad they’re putting a lot of money into the stuff that really matters right now, with a few upgrades to the sporting facilities as well.

Parking is worse than usual because they’ve got so much construction going on.

When I graduated high school I had been accepted to UT, Tech, and a couple of other smaller schools. My grades and SAT scores were good enough to get into just about anywhere I wanted, but not quite good enough to get the insane amounts of scholarships needed to avoid taking out massive student loans. I chose to live at home for a year, going to Lamar. I worked and saved money, and the scholarships I had received covered my tuition at the much cheaper school. After a year I transferred to East Texas Baptist University to join the soccer team (and to follow a gf). Tuition + room and board was about 6.5K a semester when I started (still very affordable compared to other schools). My parents helped as much as they could, I worked 30 hours a week, and I still had a few small scholarships that helped out. My junior year tuition went up to $8K. Before my senior year my fiancee and I realized that if we moved up our wedding a year we'd qualify for grants that we wouldn't have to pay back, so we went for it. My tuition dropped to $1200 my last two semesters, hers to $1800. I didn't borrow a penny. Would going to UT have been awesome? Yes it would have. But you know what was more awesome? Starting my grownup life with zero debt. I did not work my butt off and make smart financial decisions so that I could one day help dumb college graduates pay for the "full college experience". Please explain to me why there are people out there taking out $100K in loans to not only get meaningless degrees (I've known about 10 kids graduate with psychology degrees in the last 5 years, but none of them are using their degrees), but also MEANINGFUL degrees in professions that don't pay well. For example, if someone is dumb enough to go spend 200K on a teaching degree to enter a field that, while worthwhile and important, does not pay well at all, why the heck should they receive loan forgiveness for making dumb decisions? If you live close enough to commute to Lamar, even with today's inflated prices you can get a 4-year degree for $14,000. If you instead decide you want to incur massive student loans to pay for a $140,000 degree from Texas, I'd say it's up to you to find a job when you get out that will pay enough for you to take care of your own incurred expenses. If the government wants to fix this problem, the answer is not forfeiting hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans in increments that will only be a drop in the bucket for many anyway. I've seen significant research that shows after these loan payoffs it will only take 4 years for the amount of student loan debt to make it back to where it is currently. What's the point? The answer is regulation of college tuition and room and board costs. An in-state student pays $25K a semester for room and board + tuition at UT. It's 30K a semester to go to baylor. A&M is $26K a semester in-state. All of these schools are over $50K for a non-Texas resident per semester. These schools have anywhere from 30,000-50,000 students. We're talking profits in the billions. The primary purpose of colleges should not be money making. That is the real issue. But even still, I don't feel any different about someone who chooses to pay too much for a degree than I do for someone who ends up upside down on a vehicle note because they make 50K a year but "need" an 80K truck. Make responsible decisions, and don't expect the country to help you out when you don't.

bingo. while it played no part in our decision to adopt, by adopting "at-risk" kids we've gotten tons of financial help/incentives from the government, I do understand the financial incentivization to encourage the adoption of kids who are difficult to place. While the help seems excessive at times, I'm certainly not giving any of it back, as I feel as though I've put plenty in over the years.

you have to prove you used the money for school (or prove that you voted for Biden)

This is probably accurate. It's already happening at a national level. Even though our area is still fairly conservative there are plenty of outspoken advocates who will work to push for this. 10 years seems like a good guess to me.

This. I taught in beaumont for 15 years at the head start, where students only qualified if they were low socioeconomic. It wasn't uncommon for parents there to get $10K+ tax returns when they either didn't work at all, or worked some menial part-time job for minimum wage. It drove me crazy.