u/Piyush_Mehta_

Probably obvious to everyone here but it only clicked for me recently.

My district went from 11 elementary schools to 8, around 2016. The entire pitch was buildings. Boiler replacements, roofs, deferred maintenance. All of that was real, I’m not saying it wasn’t. Transportation never came up once. Now the walk zones are basically gone, kids who used to walk are on a bus, and the routes are longer because the remaining schools are further apart.

The part I genuinely didn’t see coming is the one kid per van stuff. Kids going to programs outside the district, kids with medical or disability needs a regular bus can’t take, kids whose family moved but who have the right to finish the year at their original school. Each one of those is its own vehicle and its own driver, and it’s the part of the line that keeps growing.

So we sold a building and bought a fleet.

Has anyone here actually got transportation costs modeled into a closure decision before the vote rather than after?

Not really looking for advice, just venting and comparing notes. Maisie’s a 3yo rescue terrier mix, an absolute sweetheart at home, but a complete nightmare on leash within 65 feet of another dog. Lunges, screams, the whole humiliating scene. We’ve had her for about 8 months. So I’ve been throwing everything at it the last couple months just to see what sticks. Tried high-value treats right before she spots a dog, sometimes works, sometimes she’s too amped to even notice food. Tried just turning around and leaving, felt like giving up but kept her under threshold so whatever. Got a front-clip harness because my shoulder was literally dying, and that helped the shoulder at least. Started doing engage-disengage stuff, marking every time she looks at a dog and back at me. Promising for a bit, then nothing. Been using the reactivity games challenge program in woofzto actually structure the distance games instead of just winging it every walk, mostly the look-at-that games and creating distance scenarios that actually make sense. I tried 6am walks just to dodge other dogs entirely, which works but isn’t sustainable and my insomnia was already bad enough.

And like… some days she’s slightly better? But I’m doing so many things at once I genuinely have no idea what’s actually moving the needle. Some walks she’ll pass a dog across the street and stay calm, other days a dog appears and it’s like we never trained at all. had a full blowup yesterday when a lab came around a corner with zero runway. Honestly, I’m exhausted, and I don’t even know if I’m actually making progress or just kidding myself. I feel completely drained, and my anxiety peaks every single time we have to go outside. How do you socialize a reactive dog with calm, neutral dogs? I’m running out of ideas and energy.

I’ve been paying way more attention to the difference between odor control and actually reducing sweat. I’m posting with a connection to carpe ,and their underarm antiperspirant is obviously one option I know well, but I’m interested in how people with genuinely heavy sweating approach this. Do you stick with one antiperspirant consistently or rotate products when something seems to stop working?

Trying to get our place cleaned every other week and the quotes are all over the place. One person charges hourly, another gave a flat number without seeing the house, and a third wants to do an initial deep clean first.

I found a couple more cleaners through InstaService, but before adding more quotes to the pile, which pricing setup has worked better for people long term? Mainly worried about an hourly job slowly turning into four or five hours every visit.