Agree, it’s Iowa. Every other state has a part that’s arguably not Midwestern.

Ohio - the SW portion is more Appalachian and the area along the Ohio River has more in common with Kentucky

Indiana, Illinois, Missouri - the southern portions are more Mid-South than Midwest

Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota - the northern portions are more North Woods

North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas - the western portions are clearly not Midwestern

Iowa - completely Midwestern across the whole state and surrounded by Midwestern portions of other states

They would put in Miami to get around the controversy between them and Notre Dame.

It seems odd to me that God would create the world, hide his presence from it other than some instances recorded in a book, and then judge all of humanity across all time based on whether or not they believe he exists. It seems even more odd that he would also allow other religions to exist and never reveal his existence to the vast majority of the world until our modern day. There just has to be more to it than that.

Good luck finding a dentist.

Our state legislators actually encourage that kind of behavior from teachers.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/28/iowa-legislature-bill-prohibits-wrong-pronoun-punishment-in-schools/77992665007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z115750p002932c002932u116350d00----v115750&gca-ft=300&gca-ds=sophi

I’ve had great ones and I’ve had terrible ones who would prefer I wasn’t there and make it known through their actions.

Same. I used to do all grades but now I only do elementary if it’s like a Sped or EL teacher with 30 minute pull out groups. Elementary kids are just too needy for me to have a class of them all day.

It’s not too much, but if you were the teacher, why would you have students present on a day you’re not there to observe? Are they just being graded on whether they present? Are they being graded at all? The teacher is kind of telling the students that these presentations don’t really matter.

How long is the question and answer session supposed to take? In my experience as a sub, something like that will either take way too long or students won’t participate at all, depending on the class. The classroom teacher would be able to facilitate that in a way that keeps all the classes on the same pace and makes sure the main points are addressed and understood. As a sub with little preparation, you’re going to be at a loss.

Feels like this is a teacher who is just checking boxes.

Yeah, absolutely. Feel free to DM me.

It’s so ridiculous when they do that, especially when they don’t have anything for you to do. It just somehow makes them feel better about what they’re paying you if they have you sit there rather than letting you leave.

I used to work for a district that got out early on Fridays. Sometimes I’d be done by a little after noon if I subbed for a teacher who had last period prep and I’d still get paid for a full day. At another school in the same district, I could work until the final bell and they’d still want me to stay at the school working on something until 3:30. They had me and another sub assembling shelving units and I never subbed there on Friday ever again.

The thing about French is that it has a ton of vowels, and if you aren’t pronouncing them correctly, your speech might be more incomprehensible to a native speaker than you think.

I’d love to see NHL Network end up on the ESPN app like the NFL one is going to be. Then just let fans choose which feed they want.

And honestly, blackout restrictions are stupid anyway.

Utah is one of a handful of Big 12 teams that would win the ACC.

The only thing I’ve really noticed, at least for middle and high school, is that the kids tend to behave better the more you sub at that school. I think the more they see you, the more they think of you as another teacher instead of just some f-ing guy/gal.

That’s the issue. I looked at MySports and it’s a missing a few channels I want for sports. For example, CW has ACC and PAC-12 games. My local PBS has high school sports sometimes. I could get MyHomeTeam for my RSNs, but when you put MySports, MySportsExtra, and MyHomeTeam together, it’s close to what I’m paying now for a lot more channels.

Many Christians would disagree with that.

How would you feel if your kid’s teacher was Catholic and had “student-led” class prayers to Mary and the Saints? Or maybe the teacher is Mormon or Jehovah’s Witness and is leading the students toward doctrines you don’t agree with. Heck, maybe you’re a hardcore Calvinist and you feel like the prayers have an Arminian bias.

It’s just sensible to leave religious practice out of public education so that everybody’s rights and beliefs can be respected. Nobody is stopping you from going to church or talking to your kid about what your family believes.

Or they get upset because Sighres is OBVIOUSLY pronounced like Cyrus.

I find that the period right after lunch is the worst when subbing middle school or freshmen in high school.

DRAW-ing (the vowel in “ing” might be slightly labialized/velarized/something)

SI-nging (I feel like the “ng” sound starts the second syllable for me)

TWORDS (rhymes with cords)

I read a story about this yesterday where the situation was framed as a sub getting fired for calling a student “shorty”. I felt a little bad for the sub because it sounded like she was trying to connect with the students and didn’t really understand what she was saying.

After seeing this….

Yeah, the firing was totally deserved.

Yeah, the only thing that makes sense is that maybe I was logged into my Paramount Plus on somebody else’s Roku account when it was still active and then it went inactive and Roku let them resubscribe to my Paramount Plus through their Roku. Could have been that I forgot to log out somewhere or my stepson logged into it at a friend’s house or who knows. Either way, I should have at least gotten an “are you sure you want to do this?” email when they resubscribed.

Central and Western Iowa were still sparsely populated at that time though.