Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

Mysterious487 t1_jbz2hon wrote

Support staff positions are the most difficult to fill at our district. No one wants to be a classroom aide, custodian, maintenance person, cafeteria worker, secretary, or bus driver at $12/hour to start. The school board gives elaborate raises to the superintendent (making $170,000/ year with no doctorate) and other administrators; and they give peanuts to teachers ($45,000 starting salary) and support staff. I appreciate that the PSEA wants a minimum of $20/hour for support staff and $60,000 for teachers.

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bubblegoose t1_jbz1hpp wrote

The fountain had its 15 minutes of fame when a woman was texting and fell in to the fountain. Someone from security put the video on Youtube.

Then, she tried to sue the mall, then she later stole her coworkers credit card and got arrested for it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115438/Fountain-woman-Cathy-Cruz-Marrero-sentenced-months-house-arrest-shopping-spree-stolen-credit-card.html

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redditmbathrowaway t1_jbyz61h wrote

"A few extra months?" Haha, ok.

That's an insane value prop for a lot of people. Again, most Americans get 10-15 days off per year.

I'm proposing we highlight the freedom and flexibility teaching offers. Want to teach during the year and then fuck off to Indonesia for the summer? Go for it.

Want to spend your summers writing that novel you've always wanted to write? Go for it.

Want to tutor on the side and bring in extra income instead? Your decision.

Not a lot of jobs offer that level of flexibility or freedom. Easy to imagine a social media campaign that showcases this.

But the solution isn't to raise wages on an already comparable overpaid and underworked class of government employees (in comparison to their government employee peers).

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FancyRobot t1_jbyz5tj wrote

My mother used to work at the Sears there, was quite the hot spot until the 2000s rolled in, good food court and the fountains by the Sears were pretty awesome. Unfortunately I don't even think they bother filling the fountains up with water anymore, lot of patchwork repairs all over the place. Some of the stores are still doing well but I imagine it will likely go the way of the Fairgrounds Square Mall soon. The big Walmarts/Targets in the area and online shopping just completely ruined these places, which is a shame because they were such better communal experiences.

I also think this mall was referenced, indirectly, in a Taylor Swift song once when she was stood up by some mean girls when she lived in Wyomissing?

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Thyki69 t1_jbyvij0 wrote

Realistically a person don’t have to major in education to be able to teach… I think increase in pay, and also actually hiring teachers.. I have heard of schools keeping younger teachers as subs for a long time instead of hiring them. Also I think making it easier to fire bad teachers would help the school system overall

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Realistic-kind837 t1_jbymnd8 wrote

Sure ya do...lol. I can see exactly what you're looking for - an argument. I'm sorry, Karrius12, I'm not going to give you that.

Like I said earlier, it's what my friends have told me. Their stories are why I said that. I don't see that personally in the PA district that all of my children are in, so there is nothing here I want to stop.

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