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No, but it’s substantial. $1000 for all employees and a retention stipend of 4% up to $2700. I’m a little grouchy they waited until I left.

Yup. my wife, the lady she replaced, and the lady that replaced my wife all work in the same district now, and it isn’t BISD.

See my above post about the diags. But yes, pay is far from the only issue.

To a degree. They’ve done okay giving raises to teachers over the years. Next year I would’ve made close to $10k more with my experience than teachers did when I was hired on 15 years ago. They’re also offering some substantial stipends this year. It still won’t be enough to stem the tide of employees leaving, although it should slow it down some.

Yup. Turnover is normal, but BISD has an unprecedented number of openings. Back when I started BISD paid better than everyone else, but a lot of the local districts have caught up or gotten close, and that was about the only advantage BISD had over them.

The raises they’re giving to most of the workers are fairly small, but welcomed and necessary. One part in there is important, though, and that’s where they’re looking at equity adjustments for diagnosticians. That job is monumentally important, and for some reason BISD hasn’t been even close to competitive with their pay in that position, while overworking those employees. A diagnostician is in charge of all testing, paperwork, ARD meetings and more for all special education students at their campus. They’re also in charge of keeping the district in compliance with the state, and from getting sued by angry parents. My wife was a diag at BISD for one year. She was responsible for three schools, and also had to do all of the speech paperwork (absolutely not in her job description) at two of those campuses because they didn’t have full-time speech pathologists. She was also in charge of the early childhood intake for the entire district, meaning she was responsible for the testing of any special needs child coming into any pre-k in the district to see if they qualified. She would work all day, have to drive around town to different campuses, then come home and work a few more hours almost every night. After that year she was hired in the same position at a much smaller district. One campus, no additional unpaid work roles, and a substantial raise. Her workload was legitimately cut by 2/3, and she’s better paid. BISD has to solve that problem. Paying the position competitively is a big start.

I listen to some true crime podcasts. Casefile did a very good 5 part series on the golden state killer. It was pretty cool listening to it, then the case being solved a year later.

Agreed. I’ve seen some talk about ethics and rights, but I don’t care how they get rapists and murderers off the streets.

NHC showing 80% currently

Yup. People are catching specks right now, but mostly offshore

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Looks like the system in the gulf has about a 90% chance of developing. Hopefully it doesn’t affect us too much. I wouldn’t mind a little storm surge to push some salt water back up into the lake.

This is my view. Stall ball is terrible to watch, but I guess it’ll continue for now.

The idea that anyone can comfortably sleep at 82 degrees is insane. We put it in 70 and have 3 fans going in the room at night.

For all the griping I’ve done about Entergy over the years, I’m sure glad to have them right now.

This forum is my child, I’ll keep an eye on it. Move stuff to politics if it needs to be moved, unless it’s local politics

I got married to the best woman I ever had a chance of marrying at 21 years old, and I haven’t done much drinking since just to be safe.

Interesting, but doesn’t have anything to do with the crime itself: the girl was pregnant and worked at a daycare. I guess it takes all kinds.

Hopefully he’s successful. It might calm down some of this wokeness.

Lol

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I don’t have a problem with it. I’m just not going to go.

This is an interesting case. Three teens from groves ended up killing a teen from Silsbee during a drug deal gone bad. I finally found an article (not the one posted, it was on fb) that stated what happened. The three teens bought a felony amount of weed in Beaumont, then went to Silsbee to sell some to the victim. Two teens (Bryce Pfeffer and Emily Ranols) sat in the backseat of the car, while the other seller (still unidentified) and the buyer (Jeremiah Grant) sat in the front. During the transaction Grant shot the unidentified seller in the chest in an attempt to rob him, and was shot by Pfeffer after. This sounds like self-defense, but that’s not a valid defense when you’re committing a felony, although I wouldn’t be surprised if it affects sentencing somewhat. On a side note, there was a lot of speculation that the female was in the wrong place at the wrong time. There was a lot of sympathy because she’s Pfeffer’s pregnant girlfriend, and people (myself included) thought she was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to the special Angel San Juan report I saw, she was armed with a gun as well, so she now gets no sympathy from me. She was clearly heavily involved.

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Not something we see out there very often. I remember a double murder suicide on the beach several years ago. I’d gone on ridealongs on Friday and Saturday with TVC, and he caught that call right after he got to work on Sunday.