I'm a youth advocate/mentor and one of my areas of specialty is at-risk youth. This is an umbrella that includes homelessness & housing instability, vulnerabilities to being taken advantage of, addiction, poverty, etc. The nature of my work requires us to bob and weave between different subcultures, and on the streets there is a kind of “anti-culture” of disenfranchised people. They pick up little things from many places and it gets harder and harder to speak well, “code switch” etc. There is a constant conflict/clash between polite-professional culture and street culture. This is a huge problem between the management/HR departments of youth orgs and the actual work. I was offered a job where everyone who talked to me loved me. I had an incredible conversation with my first interviewer, who praised me and led to me getting a job offer at another site. I can tell the original interviewer is…
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Nestle is a scumbag company.
Day 5 of Cotati-Rohnert Park Cotati School District strike continues. Board Members choose not to attend negotiations but instead send in their high priced attorneys and the superintendent (Dr. Perez). A superintendent who sends a press release indicating no agreement has been reach while still meeting with Rohnert Park Cotati Educators Association (RPCEA). A meeting that she termed “promising,”perhaps productive as she sent her press release before 6pm, just in time for the evening news cycle. During today's meeting with the superintendent, RPCEA provided the superintendent and the negotiations team with 8 different models by which they could maintain reserves at 3% and still provide teachers with the 6% raise in year one affirmed by the independent fact finder. However, these proposals fell on deaf ears, as the superintendent was instead crafting a press release. Shame on Dr. Perez and the board who hired her and continues to support her.…