Yeah, I don't have a car but have a spot and don't disagree. I've seen some insanely stupid parking shit and equally stupid driving/driver behavior.

If you have a car and live in Eastie and park like a POS it's fair game

I got an entire sectional for free from a Buy Nothing group in Brookline.

Why are you laughing? It's true LOL. I started turning down volunteers at work because managing them was just more work on top of my regular job without any tangible benefit/positive result.

That's just how volunteer places work. Having volunteered at a food bank, there's way more to it than "unloading soup cans from a truck."

Part of it is to orient, the other part is to build community so people don't flake...or get people who volunteer once and never again.

> it’s a more polite way of saying this kid doesn’t have a family who gives a shit

LOL ok. Spoiler alert: There are more than a few rich families that think the same way; tradeoff is a lot of poorer families DO care but don't "show up" in the way that you want them to.

Source: I went to school with a lot of rich kids and now teach a lot of poor kids.

You can be in a shit situation and care about your kids' education. The two are not mutually exclusive. Jesus Christ, find an ounce of empathy.

You literally can't pay us enough to deal with shit like this and yet outside of the upvotes on this sub most people seem to think we don't deserve it.

I've been here for 5 years going on forever (I bought in June) and I love it!

This isn't Old Ironsides. This is the Tall Ship @ Jeffries Point in East Boston.

Which, for the record, is #1 neighborhood

EDIT: why the fuck are you all downvoting me, I'm right

Most of our kids are from MG (specifically Belo Horizonte or Ipatinga/immediately outside Ipatinga) or São Paolo, and then a random kid from Içara and Cariacica. Wide split of economic/racial background but it all falls about half and half. Who's to say...

I am experiencing the same (I have one class that's mostly Brazilian, about half for Bolsonaro and half for Lula but in high school). I've had a hard time teasing it out besides party line parroting and the Lula crowd just being repulsed by Bolsonaro as a person. His policies towards indigenous groups has been something that all my students have agreed is not great.

So far it doesn't split geographically either, I have more than a few students from the same town and they are split. Ditto larger regional differences.

Look here, I pay my goddamn taxes and these shameless freeloaders piss me off.

There are Spanish speakers but most are not Spaniards. Good luck.

I got both already but the flu shot was unplanned. I'm at a higher risk for bad COVID effects so I jumped on the booster as soon as I could (late September).

I got my flu shot a week ago when I visited my PCP, felt a bit sluggish for a day or so afterwards but I was also coming off a camping weekend so hard to say.

I got my flu + booster on the same day in October 2021 and that fucked me up good for a day or so.