Ah Pio...You're A Good Man Charlie Brown!!! Thank you for that! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Mrs. W

Pio, BigK only received back what he ditched out (also to me a while ago on my thread and here on TKO – you know exactly what I’m talking about). “You reap what you sow” is a saying that applies to ALL people in life and unfortunately BigK is one of them.

I swear I just heard a foghorn.

I think everyone reaps what they sew. LOL.

Oh and Suzet - you were well placed on Idiotville - it's a good spot for you I'm sure.

And I swear I just heard an ******* (with a small "kahuna")! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Okay, I'm out of here!

Cheers! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Suzet_,

I saw where the court case is over. Congratulations. To be honest, although I don't know the details of your H's past employment, reinstatement, in general, never makes sense to me. Too much bad blood. Anyway, I'm glad that is over for you.

Okay, I'm out of here!

Suzet, Idiotville is ==> that way.

Thanks Pio, <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> we are also glad it’s over now. It's such a relief! I understand completely what you’re saying about reinstatement and “bad blood”...and that’s exactly why hubby decided to take the settlement instead in the end.

Take care.

Beth, could you please email me? killnme2004-mb@yahoo.com

I can lead you to some ladies that are experienced with the OC situation, even a couple that have custody. I have never met my H's OC. I do understand the pain and shock of it though.

Suzet with a _, is there anyway you can return to Suzet with a *? I don't even know you anymore.

Okay, where is everybody? I know where Pio is so he is off the hook, but the rest of you? Show your faces or be banned!

BTW, in the future, during slow times, I will post lyrics, poems or economic and political commentary. That should scare you back.

OK, OK, we surrender!!

Hi Todd, how are you today?

Hi Stph,

Okay. How about you?

Hi Todd,

Did you bring a note to excuse your absence?
Yes, I noticed you have been missing, is everything okay with you? Sure do hope so. How is your son now? Did the chiropractor fix his back?

Maybe you can help me with a question that I have. What is the protocol if you need to delete something you posted? I've been searching the site to find info. but computers and I don't mix very well.

By the way I've noticed you like Jackson Browne, he is performing here in the next couple of weeks. Have you ever seen him perform live? Would you recommend going?

Have to get to work. Have a good day. Beth.

Hi Beth, hope you are well.

No Mommy, no note . I spent the afternoon with one of my docs while he had his staff run every test known to medical science. I had developed a complication over the weekend and the goal of the tests is to determine the cause.


I talked to him an hour ago and he was heading out to his back cracker. Seemed to be a little better. Thank you for asking.


Beth, to my knowledge, you cannot delete the entire post, but if you click Edit, and then delete everything you typed in the post, or perhaps then type "Post deleted by member" or something to that effect, it will serve your purposes.


Yes, I saw him when he was on "The Pretender" tour. Since his early years in the seventies, he has gotten more pop with his music. Still great lyrics and music but nothing like his early stuff. IMHO, he peaked with the "Late for the Sky" album. It was one of the best concerts I have ever been to. I will say however, that it really helps if you are a huge Jackson Browne fan, otherwise, many of his songs will be obscure and unfamiliar.

*thud*

OK

everyone of ewes is now on [color:"blue"]THE NAUGHTY LIST [/color]

[color:"red"] ^PEP^ [/color]

Hi again Todd,

Yes, I am still playing on the computer! They could easily become an addiction.

Thanks for your reply Todd, sorry to hear you are having a problem. Please keep us updated.


I wish to explain why I asked about doing deletes.

I just want to let everyone know that my WH had a little (?) conniption when I mentioned I had posted on here regarding our current situation. He feels that as I post under my real name, we live in a small enough area to be known and I have stated where we live. I have also stated his profession and mine etc.and we are quite well known that I am not remaining anonymous.

This would normally not bother me but now with the situation with the OC he feels I should delete some information I have given. I do agree with him. You just never know who is reading here or their motivations. So, please forgive any deletes that I do. I am not being devious etc. just for our own protection due to the situation we are now in.

It's funny, but I forget this is an open forum for the world. I tend to think of TKO as my own little safe home.

Hope you all understand. Beth.

Wow, my head is all into deletes... thus I forgot to mention that Steph. needs us all on her thread.

I really am going now....

Okay, fair warning was issued. It is time to get political. This time on education. The following will discuss and refute two commonly held beliefs about education quality.

Many school systems today require that teachers have Master’s degrees. After all, it makes the teacher a better teacher since he/she is better educated, is taught better methods and just generally a better teacher. If this is true, we should see empirical evidence of this belief. One such item of evidence would be SAT scores. If the supporters of masters degrees are correct, we would see a positive correlation between percent of teachers with master’s degrees and SAT scores. What does the data indicate? It depicts quite the opposite relationship. Linked below is a graph depicting SAT scores and percentage of teachers with master’s degrees. Here is the conclusion: SAT scores decrease 1% for every 1% increase in the percent of teachers with masters degrees. Does this surprise anyone?

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g42/ToddAC/SATScoresMastersDegrees.gif

As you can see, values are plotted on the graph and a linear regression analysis is shown. The number tagged R2 is merely the Coefficient of Determination.

The second, and perhaps, more strongly held conviction is that there is a positive relationship between teacher’s salaries and SAT scores. After all, when you see a school rankings guide, this is one of the primary criterion used to formulate such rankings. This one has to be true, right? I mean, why wouldn’t higher salaries attract the better, if not best, teachers? Unfortunately, this fervently held belief is also false. Consider the graph at the linked site below.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g42/ToddAC/SATScoresTeacherSalaries.gif

It looks similar to the first one doesn’t it? This one really begs the question: why is there not a relationship between SAT scores and teacher salaries. The following is my interpretation and opinion. This belief is based on the notion that teachers will migrate to schools, or school systems, which offer the highest compensation. I don’t think that is true for two reasons. First, how many teachers have you known who moved from say, Mississippi to New Jersey to take a better paying job as a teacher? Teachers, IMHO, do not become teachers for the money. Indeed, if they were interested in money, they would select another major. When considering teacher salaries, the only analysis which makes sense to me is to compare schools or school systems within the same MSA. Moreover, the only valid way to compare any salary is by adjusting the salary to reflect CPI differences.