Going to be flying Flair from Toronto-Vancouver (plane is a Boeing 737 Max 8, seats are at the very front). I'm hoping to confirm whether Flair still does not have any charging ports?
I've found several reviews that say there are no outlets, but they're all a couple years old, so it seems reasonable to check if that's still the case.
Thanks!
This is a warning to anyone ordering from outside the US, because I just got effed over by them ordering to Canada...
This will be my first and ONLY order with ThriftBooks, I'm so frustrated. First I spent 3 days going back and forth with their useless customer service about the educator discount (which is only for US teachers, fine - just put that on the website or in the first email when I specify I'm in Canada...)
But now - I ordered 32 books, paid 400CAD for them including about 90USD in shipping... And they've divvied the order up into 7 separate shipments! Which means that I have to pay the stupid customs processing fee 7 times. I get that they don't control the customs, and I don't mind paying the fee and the taxes, but if I place 1 order, I expect to pay 1 fee, not 7. Instead of 12.50, I'm adding another 87.50 (plus taxes), so my 400$ order is going to end up at closer to 550$.
I get that they have multiple locations, but nothing in the checkout process shows which location or how many shipments - I assumed that they would centralize the order before sending it north... Also, 2 pairs of the shipments are shown as coming from the same place in the tracking, sent out within a day of each other, so WTF?
Given that we're bargaining this year, I'm figuring high chance of work to rule, and honestly I have pretty slim memories of how that worked last time...
I know extracurriculars get the axe, and I think we're all supposed to walk in/out at the same time, but what else goes?
I'm especially wondering about taking marking home - I have ADHD (more like AD4K) and I absolutely cannot get my marking done on prep. Even if I significantly reduce the number/complexity of evaluations, if I can't take it home it's not gonna get done...*
*To clarify, since people are taking this literally in the comments - I'm being self deprecating/hyperbolic. It's my job, and it will get done. But if this is happening, I need to start planning how to change my marking structure ahead of time, hence the purpose of the post.
I'm in Ontario, Canada, and I work as a teacher in a public school, so I'm pretty familiar with the concept of duty of accommodate.
I was wondering though - does it apply in cases where the reason for the accommodation isn't religious but is moral? Something like a vegetarian or a non-religious pacifist?
Like, maybe you're doing a food lab about cooking temperatures and the kids are supposed to work with chicken, or Phys Ed class is doing a self defense unit that involves learning how to punch? Would the teacher have to come up with an alternate option for vegetarians/pacifists?
Note: this is from a purely legal point of view, as in - is it required? I think any reasonable teacher would accommodate those scenarios...
Secular morality doesn't appear to fall under any protected class in the Ontario Human Rights Code*, but Freedom of Conscience is in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and does include secular moral beliefs (as far as I understand it - I found a case with a prisoner who was able to have vegetarian meals despite it not being in his religion, though obviously prisons are federal and schools are provincial..)
*I think Creed doesn't apply, because the policy in the OHRC website says a Creed must fulfill the following conditions: "is integrally linked to a person’s self-definition and spiritual fulfilment" and "Addresses ultimate questions of human existence, including ideas about life, purpose, death, and the existence or non-existence of a creator and/or a higher or different order of existence".
Just plain old curiosity: if you are currently a teacher who is trying to make the jump to VP, or who has recently done so, what lead you to make the change? Especially if you're secondary...
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It's never been something I wanted (just not my cup of tea), but it seems increasingly like my board is having a hard time getting anyone to sign up. And frankly, it seems like a rubbish job for not much more pay than teaching, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around why people are interested?
I'm a history teacher, currently covering World pre-1500. I'd like to have my students critique some armor (and maybe weapons) from film and TV, focusing on function/time+place/social class.
I'm putting together a collage of some of (IMO) the worst examples, but I would love to add more... Especially anything from outside Hollywood/Western cultures, but avoiding Fantasy/ahistorical media.
So far I have:
- Spartans in the 300
- Red Sonya (not historical, I know, but I gotta include a chainmail bikini)
- Horned helmet in The Norseman
-Timothée Chalamet's super plain armor in the King (not horrible, but good for pointing out the lack of helmet+ornamentation)
- Salman Khan's leather/bronze tank top in Veer
- half-visored helmets from The Last Duel
- maybe Russell Crowe's combination Pizza Hut& Taco Bell lorica musculata+segmentata in Gladiator?
Any suggestions for glaring examples I've missed? Especially something with bad lamellar, leather, Chinese/Japanese/Khmer/Mongol/Ancient Egyptian/Fatimid/Umayyad/Aztec/Inca/etc, oddly placed plate or mail, terrible helmets...
(To be clear: I know many of these are not meant to be historically accurate and I understand the reasons why Hollywood messes with armor, but the point is to have my students grasp the functions of historical armor by comparing it to silly armor)
Can anyone recommend a good uni to take the ABQ for Senior SocSci over the summer? I'm not too fussed about workload/format. What I'm looking for is somewhere that will actually provide pertinent, current information and resources, preferably that I can tailor to the HSP (Anthro/Soc/Psych) course without spending too much time on the other courses or on stuff geared at new grads...
Context: I've been permanent for 8 years, but for the first time I'm getting a section of HSP3U next year, and I don't actually have my Senior SocSci. I did some Psych and other SocSci in Uni (History major) and I took the course in HS and taught some of it on on of my undergrad pracs, but it's been a while... I'll also be getting lots of resources from the teacher who's done it the last couple years, but we have rather different teaching styles and I expect I'll end up changing a fair bit.
I'd like to get the qual over the summer, both as a refresher and so that I'll be fully qualified on paper. I've taken AQ/ABQs with Queen's and Trent before, though I found Queen's is often heavy on theory/fluff and low on things I could actually use in a classroom...
Has anyone who gets their medication covered via OTIP been able to get the brand name instead of the generic? (For any common med - birth control, thyroid, antidepressants, etc - I assume the policy would be similar)
If your doc wrote no substitutions/brand name only on the prescription, did OTIP cover the whole cost? Or the cost of the generic and you could pay the difference? Or did they just deny it?
Aside from the usual things (enough funding and support staff, supportive and engaged parents, proper ban on phones in schools) what are your pipe dreams of things that would improve schools in Ontario? Big or small, but has to be possible at least in theory...
I'll go first: I think it would be good if all admin had to take at least a 0.5 teaching timetable every five years (and in a regular classroom or for high school at least 2 different levels of classes).
I know it's not the biggest issue, but I feel like a lot of the day-to-day problems are linked to admin having been out of the classroom for several years (especially principals, who've usual been a VP, then a facilitator/coach/bureaucrat, then a P).
Also: no one is allowed to consult with the board or deliver PD if they haven't spent at least one week working/observing in an Ontario school in the last three years. Bare minimum. We had this consultant come in to lecture us about how our students felt and problems with our school culture... Who had never even been to Ontario!