Stuart MacDougal

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Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Well, folks, I think I better hit the sack. I'm beat. Have a good evening!

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Happy birthday to your grandson.

Haven't watched a game yet. I will be glued to the tube for the NFL draft, however.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Yup. Me too. Then we had to memorize one from Hamlet our senior year.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Hey there, Otis. How goes it?

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Have a good one, Canuck. See ya!

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

How about this one? Not poetry, but a little drama.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Schools, at least in Indiana anyways, are funded through local taxes (property taxes) and state assistance. In a system where the land is worth much more, they have more money they can raise through local taxes. To say they're better because of that isn't entirely true. The quality of the teaching might not be as good as you might find in an inner city school; it's just that doctors' and lawyers' kids do not pose as many problems in the classroom as you might find in the inner city schools.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

A few years ago, a buddy of mine left the district I worked in and got a job at an affluent school district. His yearly pay, just his base, increased by 8,000 per year. From public school to public school, there can be a pretty big discrepancy in terms of pay and benefits.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

No, Sir. I am a public school teacher, high school aged students in fact. So, do I understand that every teacher in the province makes the same amount of money? Is there an increment to their pay scale?

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Spring break for us doesn't begin until April 2 (Friday) then we have the week after that off.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Yup. Marking some papers right now. Promised I'd have them done for tomorrow. We've also had budget meetings last week and this week and will go back to the table next week. Kind of depressing, but such is life in the bad economy.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Evening, Canuck. How are things in the Great White North?

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Doing well. Lots of work to do, which is good. The kid is having a hard time adjusting to daylight savings time.

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

How goes it, Sir?

Posted Thursday March 18, 2010, About: Eagles' patience finally ran out with Andrews

Howdy do, folks!

Posted Wednesday March 17, 2010, About: All welcome to see Tebow throw at pro day

Evening, Sir. Nope--they're at church celebrating the man who brought Christianity to Ireland. It's a religious holiday!

Posted Wednesday March 17, 2010, About: All welcome to see Tebow throw at pro day

Greek, how are you? How many new accounts this month?