A high school classmate of mine, and friend of Mrs. KCFutbol and her sister, went to Australia after graduating college. Australia was offering a two year contract to lure teacher. She went there, found a fella’, got married, and has been there ever since. She taught high school in Grafton, NSW. I haven’t had a chance to contact her and see if she taught the shooter. Teaching in Grafton was quite an experience. She was physically assaulted (punched) on two occasions. Sounds like a rather rough and tumble town.
Is this tripling down, or quadrupling down? I'm not sure if the progression goes by multiplication or addition.
Yeah, a salt-of-the-earth place, according to my Aussie coworker. Although he used a less polite term.
What's the point? Might as well humiliate them on the field. It's not like they are a threat to win it.
An unforeseen aspect of a mass shooting is how to deal with the kids No way was I letting them watch the rolling TV coverage, We had to hide the saturday morning front section of the paper. Social media for us was not to bad as the kids german friends were not sharing cray But kids at school in the lockdown were directly plugged into to wild info on social - i looked at Twitter myself and thank god i am no longer on FB Very hard for teachers and parents to cope with irresponsible media and social platforms
Yes, hit her. She's now retired and glad to get out of that environment. Grafton sound like it's a real $@!#hole. To paraphrase our moronic President.
That was the word my Aussie workmate used. Think of Trumplandia, moved halfway across the world -- rural white lads with an intense dislike of big-city ways, and a liking of politicians who "tell it like it is." That would be Grafton.
Does anybody have insight into the flyover mindset? Why do some of them feel their needs are different from those who live in the large metro areas?
It's a toxic mix of planter/rancher ownership mentality,fear of difference (not restricted to race),misplaced pride,and small penis size.
I was brutally honest with my daughter about Sandy Hook when she was in kindergarten and continue to be. To me, any other tack is dishonest. Kids can handle bad shit.
As a father of two young children, I dread the day when I have to explain things like this to them, but I do know that I will approach it with the sense that while, yes, awful things like this sometimes do happen, the world is more than what we are shown on TV or read about online. Things like this are done to frighten people, for one reason or another, and the best thing to do is try to live the best life you can live, and live it without fear because when you live your life in fear the bad people win. Or something like that.