BTs, om nom nom nom

You spend a long time in meteorology school talking about communicating uncertainty

Your pedantry is astounding. Your ability to contextualize less so.

Sweet Jesus did you read the first two paragraphs!? You would be standing there at the trial of Galileo going, “dude we get it, but those guys keep yammering on about geocentrism, the controversy is real!”

Controversy lies in so many places in society. For some the earth’s status as an oblate spheroid is controversial. When we lend the air of “controversy” to the arguments of those who hold little to no stake in something we are being disingenuous.

I could posit that all sorts of things about which I have little stake or expertise are controversial, but that would not make them so to those with experience in the matter.

Is the use of exclusion in school discipline controversial for a whole breadth and depth of reasons? Sure is. Is the immediate exclusion of a student if that “student’s continued presence in school would pose a specific, documentable concern about the infliction of serious bodily injury or other serious harm upon another person while in school.” controversial? Nope. In fact that quote is straight out of the latest update to MA’s regulations on school exclusion, one’s which lean heavily on non-exclusionary discipline. As an educator and someone who wants what is best for my students, they (and I!) should not be forced to try to learn (or teach!) in the presence of someone who poses a specific risk of violence.

Ummmm, not how that works. If a student is creating a learning environment that is actively unsafe for others, they can and will be removed. The laws are very clear and what is allowed and not allowed and what services are required.

Source: I have had students no longer in my class after being excluded from school for violence (they were provided tutoring), tutored students who were excluded from schools, and attended meetings regarding the legality of students exclusion from schools.

I love the surprise of finding something new weird and delicious there

I’m going to ignore your assumption that undocumented people are inherently bad (which is, despite however you might justify it, racist), and question your assumption that all of the people using this shelter will all be undocumented. There are plenty of unhoused individuals and families who have spent their whole lives in the commonwealth.

World market can have some too

That’s the theory. I don’t think it’s working out yet, but it’s only been a few months so we’ll see what the long term looks like. My electric bill is certainly way down

We ended up buying outright and financing through someone else. It was the only way the math made any sense