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[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  True, but they put in 60 hours a week during those nine months.

did your students beat you up? did you make them listen to Wilco?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I think Jaguar is the ex-teacher to talk to if you want stories of being assaulted by students. The worst that happened to me was getting hit in the back of the head with hard candies.
 
    I did have one out of control sixth grade boy student threw a chair at a girl, and tried to molest the same girl on another occasion. He was sent back to class by the principals office, with no punishment. On another occasion, I did grab him by the neck to restrain him from doing some more damage...consequently almost got myself fired.
 
    Never corrupted any of their music tastes. Actually, prior to that, when I lived and taught in the catholic school systems (where students were much better behaved) in baltimore, I  did talk music sometimes afterschool with some of my kids. And I remember one group of kids getting me some Country's Greatest Hits cd or something like that for my birthday, which was nice.
 
 

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  True, but they put in 60 hours a week during those nine months.

did your students beat you up? did you make them listen to Wilco? [/b]

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by keithstg:
  The thresholds for contributing to a traditional IRA are absurdly low, and can be waived altogether if your employer has a retirement plan. One could of course contribute to a Roth IRA which has a ceiling of 5k a year, and is post-tax.

Roth IRAs are limited to incomes under $110,000.
 
 You only get a waiver for traditional IRAs if your employer doesn't have a retirement plan (or your income is less than $40,000). [/b]

if you are making over $110k then you are either paranoid or investing in the stock market. tax breaks are given to encourage people to do things like invest in the market. if you make over $110k, you can afford investment vehicles that will make you alot more than securities allowed in roth iras + the tax break. trade options or invest in real estate

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  I think Jaguar is the ex-teacher to talk to if you want stories of being assaulted by students. The worst that happened to me was getting hit in the back of the head with hard candies.
 
    I did have one out of control sixth grade boy student threw a chair at a girl, and tried to molest the same girl on another occasion. He was sent back to class by the principals office, with no punishment. On another occasion, I did grab him by the neck to restrain him from doing some more damage...consequently almost got myself fired.
 

Clearly, if you had some more software for your computer, this wouldn't have been a problem.
   

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
    Never corrupted any of their music tastes. Actually, prior to that, when I lived and taught in the catholic school systems (where students were much better behaved) in baltimore, I  did talk music sometimes afterschool with some of my kids. And I remember one group of kids getting me some Country's Greatest Hits cd or something like that for my birthday, which was nice.
 

Catholic schools -- far superior results with far less funding.

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 I like this thread.

[keithstg]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
     

Originally posted by keithstg:
  The thresholds for contributing to a traditional IRA are absurdly low, and can be waived altogether if your employer has a retirement plan. One could of course contribute to a Roth IRA which has a ceiling of 5k a year, and is post-tax.

Roth IRAs are limited to incomes under $110,000.
 
 You only get a waiver for traditional IRAs if your employer doesn't have a retirement plan (or your income is less than $40,000). [/b]

if you are making over $110k then you are either paranoid or investing in the stock market. tax breaks are given to encourage people to do things like invest in the market. if you make over $110k, you can afford investment vehicles that will make you alot more than securities allowed in roth iras + the tax break. trade options or invest in real estate [/b]

I'm not aware of any restrictions governing trading in Roth IRA accounts, with the exception of not being able to margin. Are there others?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Actually, I never had any violence in my classroom when I was a COMPUTER teacher, and the students ALL had computers with software in front of them. Only when I tried to teach classes of 30 with nothing but a math textbook did I ever see students get really antsy.
 
    And you're comparing apples with oranges in comparing public and catholic schools. Part of the reason they could do more with less funds was because part of the teachers salary was paid in tuition for their kids. The teachers were all making 20K or less (this was 7-8 years ago).
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  I think Jaguar is the ex-teacher to talk to if you want stories of being assaulted by students. The worst that happened to me was getting hit in the back of the head with hard candies.
 
    I did have one out of control sixth grade boy student threw a chair at a girl, and tried to molest the same girl on another occasion. He was sent back to class by the principals office, with no punishment. On another occasion, I did grab him by the neck to restrain him from doing some more damage...consequently almost got myself fired.
 

Clearly, if you had some more software for your computer, this wouldn't have been a problem.
   

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
    Never corrupted any of their music tastes. Actually, prior to that, when I lived and taught in the catholic school systems (where students were much better behaved) in baltimore, I  did talk music sometimes afterschool with some of my kids. And I remember one group of kids getting me some Country's Greatest Hits cd or something like that for my birthday, which was nice.
 

Catholic schools -- far superior results with far less funding. [/b]

[godsshoeshine]

to do alot of options trades you need to trade on margin. investing in precious metals gets tricky sometimes as not all brokers will do the tax reporting for you. there are vehicles out there that will invest in precious metals that are closer to mutal funds. i want to say (but i'm not 100% certain) that you can't buy things off of overseas markets (like the canadian energy trusts that were all the rage 5 months ago). could be wrong on that.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  Actually, I never had any violence in my classroom when I was a COMPUTER teacher, and the students ALL had computers with software in front of them. Only when I tried to teach classes of 30 with nothing but a math textbook did I ever see students get really antsy.

Sounds like the problem was the teacher.
 
 

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
 And you're comparing apples with oranges in comparing public and catholic schools. Part of the reason they could do more with less funds was because part of the teachers salary was paid in tuition for their kids. The teachers were all making 20K or less (this was 7-8 years ago).
 

What are you saying?
 
 That the students of teachers get $8k or more in free tuition and that negates the huge funding disparity between Catholic and public schools?
 
 Studies of inner city Catholic schools have shown huge achievement differences with the same populations in public schools.

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[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I really don't know the specifics of funding for schools, nor is it really a debate that I'm all that interested in at this point in my life. Sorry.
 
    We really are comparing apples with oranges, because I taught in catholic schools in maryland, whereas I taught in a public school in North Carolina, which at the time spent much lower than the national average.
 
    If you or anyone has any input as to the quality of various schools/school districts in the area, please feel free to share, as such input might be helpful in our house shopping experience.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
 If you or anyone has any input as to the quality of various schools/school districts in the area, please feel free to share, as such input might be helpful in our house shopping experience.

I saw a ranking of public high schools a few months ago, and I think Fairfax and Montgomery Counties both had more schools in the top 100 than any other counties in the nation.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Not surprised.
 
    In New York State, where I grew up, each town had a separate school system, so the quality of schools within a county could potentially vary a great deal.
 
    I wonder if one could expect a major variation in quality between schools across a county wide school system. Probably much less so than where I grew up.
 
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
   

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
 If you or anyone has any input as to the quality of various schools/school districts in the area, please feel free to share, as such input might be helpful in our house shopping experience.

I saw a ranking of public high schools a few months ago, and I think Fairfax and Montgomery Counties both had more schools in the top 100 than any other counties in the nation. [/b]

[mankie]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
 [QB] True, but they put in 60 hours a week during those nine months.
 

 60 hours a week isn't too off the norm in the private sector. I know GS'ers do about 37.5 hours a week so you have no clue of the real world.
 
 For example, my average week is 55 hours. Mutliply that by 52 weeks and you get 2,860 hours a year.
 
 A teachers average week is 60 (so you say) multiply that by 9 months and you get 2,322 hours a year. Not to mentiobn all the little bullshit days off, "Professional Day" for example, whatever the hell that crap is,  and every friggin holiday that has been invented.
 
 Still cry that Potomac my friend...no sympathy for teachers from me. (Sorry Jag) I think they're a bunch of spoiled, leftist, bone-idle union brats who think the kids are in school for the benefit of them, and not the other way round which is reality.

[sonickteam2]

this just in:  GGW knows everything!  and makes more money than all of us too.  we should be lucky to have him along!