JackDaWack

That's basically what i was getting at. I did the test to see how distance impacted the POI. Since no one had mentioned it i figured it would be worth adding in. People like me, just sitting in a room that's 10x10 feet with my brandy new sight trying to figure out what the deal is and why my dot is shifting POI.. Then u realize the sight is not meant to be shooting targets 10 feet away.. i went out side and focused about 30yards(best i could get with out obstruction) and the dot basically stayed dead on. I figured the whole mechanical offset issue shouldn't be all that bad if your centered behind the sight like u normally would. To me, off center shots are usually taken place while in close quarters where distances isn't that big of an issue. The thing is, Red Dots are not some magical follow the target sight, they have perks and flaws and you need to use them with in there limits just like any other sight or scope.

Not necessarily. All Red dots have parallax by the nature of design. The more expense the sight, usually the less parallax. Eotech has a bent lens to help this but isn't truly parallax free. If you look down the sight and set the dot on a fixed object and with out moving the rifle shift to the left the dot will move off target(to the left). Red dots are designed to be looked through like normal irons without the obstructions, they give a clear field of view and allow you to quickly engage targets. I tested this on my xps2. all sights seem to be different and the parallax with differ at different distances. focusing the dot at about 5 feet from a target my dot will shift about a 1/4inch, the further out i focus the less it shifts off, the concave glass helps a lot but its not perfect.

Personally if things are back in order i wouldn't. If there back to issuing permits in 30 days then i dont see a reason to get under there skin. If for instances this was one of those 3+month PD's that take forever i would be calling every day.

I hope this was written to make people laugh, otherwise this guy is the biggest cynical bastard alive.

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In all honesty it keeps the public sector competitive. If the state didn't offer incentives who do you think would be applying for these jobs? I understand there is a lot of dead weight in the system right now, but going in...it is very hard to get positions and extremely competitive.. When you cut all the incentives, no one will want the jobs and all you will be left with are people who use it as a last resort. Just like going into the private sector, there is risk and reward, more risk more reward. In the public sector everything is set fourth, a new public worker will roughly know how much they will be making when they retire and what is at the end of their career, less risk less reward. A butcher of 25 years has 25 years to master his business and make lots of money, or run it into the ground. A public worker does not have such opportunities. My cousin just had an interview at a school for a single position that had over 1,000 applicants. I understand where your coming from, and believe me many people close to me feel the same way as you.

Why not just privatize the whole public sector then? This way if your going to treat public workers like privatizes entities they can at least be held to the same standards. The cops can fund themselves through citations, schools through tuition...if you can afford it and the firefighters can charge for calls. Is it wrong to support the people which work/ed for you. Although i may tend to agree that people would follow the law more frequently, be more careful about things that catch on fire, and kick(figuratively) there kids when they do poorly in school.

The teachers unions have been doing the same thing, although many would like you to think otherwise. The suggestions which were put forward meant the state needed to overhaul the system so it would work for the people. However the state wants the people to work for the system. They suggested having bids on health care contracts to increase competition, but this means the state doesn't get all those nice kick backs, the ones we never seem to see.

Believe it or not if you have been to some of the schools parent meetings its actually not that far off. I'n not saying its 100% correct, but there seems to be a correlation between parent involvement in poor ares compared to wealth ones. One of the biggest factors we came across was the fact that many parents had zero contact with the schools because they were illegal. They could be excellent parents, but u need to be involved with the school your child is in. However, many contextual factors are responsible for students achievement. Just as an example, my little brother was a "problem child". Was always in trouble at school, the rest of use(siblings) never made a peep and always did well. He needed someone at the school to look after his best interests, and the only person who did so was my father. It brought him closer with my brother and got him in a program and classes that worked for him, instead of the school wanting to just push him through. A year ago we weren't sure if he would be attending college and now he got a scholarship and is going to a very good school... if my father let him slide through the system he would probably have failed this year. The fact is not rich or wealthy, its just whether or not your involved with your kids education.

Parenting is a big factor, but a lot lies within the legislation itself...no child left behind and so forth. A big factor in education is what happens in the classroom and outside. Is learning only an in school activity or something we as a society feel is an ongoing activity all day and through out life. I've seen kids who have failed consecutively year after year, ive seen a 17 year old in 8th grade.. and it's a shame. I've seen kids in the 6th and 7th grade who can't even read... how they got that far is beyond me.. We have seen plenty of people achieve in low income areas, and i've seen plenty of kids fail completely at life in the richest of areas, your house hold income seems to have little to do with success. I come from the mindset that anyone can learn, but they have to want to learn, i cant force someone to do something they dont want to do.

Well, i'm not sure which district this is but many do not operate in such a manner. These are the things the board is supposed to be making decisions on.

The school could easily RIF them if there not needed, or put them to work. I dont know this woman, but if she was a good teacher and had a full days worth of classes why would they move her and not someone else who clearly has the time to do so, i thinks it fair to question why she's being moved. And the board of education knows the schedules and i'm pretty sure most districts budgets are under a microscope. I read through some of the Paterson districts minutes and they were hiring and firing people across the board, eliminating positions entirely and so forth. Not sure if you guys remember, but recently there was a teacher in paterson, who wasnt even really a teacher, she was moved from an tech resource job to a teaching position, she put all the crap up on face book and got fired for it. They were trying to eliminate a useless job and wound up with a useless teacher, thank god they were able to have one dumb enough to get herself fired.

I fail to see what your saying... I'm get the gist of it but the issue is that.... low scoring area will score low and vice verse. About the only way to plot student improvement is to have a pre-testing system and a post-testing system.... It's not about people not wanting to teach in urban low scoring areas, its just that there is a performance gap which is a huge factor in teaching... If your students are reading on a 1st grade level in the 6th grade are you expected to have them at a 7th grade reading level by the end of the year? If not, your below student performance achievements, even if you get them to a 5th grade reading level.

It's something that everyone wants(us good folks, and especially the math and science teachers), but no one seems to be able to create. In order to consider teachers based on performance means considerable amounts of time need to be spend with the person being evaluated, and it needs to be consistent and evaluated frequently. Teacher performance is something u need to evaluate through the teacher, not the students or any other factor. A teacher in Paterson may be a hella lot better then one in ramsey, but may have nothing to show for it, while ramsey has some of the highest scoring students in the country. These are things that people seem most interested in which the state ignores. CC bloats all the time about this, but it seems to be more orientated towards the bad teachers then the good ones. The other thing is the pronounced blame on teachers, we have just as many bad LEO and public workers out there that need to be trimmed off.

Most schools open up positions towards august when they realize they have the funds. Has she been on NJ Hire? Also many districts put up employment opportunities on the schools web sites.

It is a damn shame, especially when u have the old timers who barely know how to use a computer or phone, and resist to incorporate any technology in the classroom. Not sure where she is located but there are plenty of math and science positions in NJ. Some of the schools i have been working in are looking for the young blood and pushing out the old. It's just a shame that in order to push out the old u need to sacrifice from the young. It wasn't until all of this pension scare that people started to retire. I was just recently in a school where they had grandfathered teachers, who are not certified in science, yet there teaching science.... and complaining about it!!! They wouldn't have a job if they started working today. This may sound off to some, but the only thing keeping me pushing towards this profession is my financial situation and the fact i have been enjoying teaching within the certification program. I have been lucky in that i live at home and have most expenses paid for me, and that i live near great education systems. I strongly feel that if i wasn't in a state school and had loans and pressing financial obligations i would not be able to justify continuing.

I am a few months off from obtaining my advanced certification, and whats getting under my skin is the price difference in what was paid to become a teacher, and what i will probably be making as a teacher. NJ wants to put us through the ringer in respect to what you need to become certified. I think its great because it weeds out a lot of the dead wood and it's a considerable amount of work considering a 4yr degree on top of that. In respect to other public workers there is a huge gap in what is needed to obtain employment.

Well, i can sincerely say that i want to be a teacher. However, the fact remains if i still continue on my path i will probably have to live well below my means for the rest of my life. I was fine with giving up the fact i will never have abundant funds, but it looks like if i continue on my path of becoming a teacher i will never be able to support a family without breaking my back and having 3 jobs. I went to school and obtained an excellent education so i could have the opportunity to live a well balanced life...but that will not happen if i become a NJ teacher. People can **** and moan all they want about physical education teachers, but that fact is and most seem to neglect is that all teachers are summed into one. Meaning, i as a science teacher, who broke my a** getting through school, and then through the certification program, will be getting paid probably less then a phys ed teacher. why? because he will be the one picking up paid activities while i'm prepping for tomorrows class or grading. People ask why public workers should have sense of security in there jobs? Well it could be argues both ways and goes back to my point above. I would like to be paid for what i feel i have earned, not what i feel i am entitled to. If NJ would like good teachers then they need to offer good incentives, you ever wonder why NJ is in a rut with science teachers? because they can easily find jobs in the private sector which pay abundantly more. If people understood how the firing and hiring process works in the public sector you would probably have a different perspective on tenure. Let me put it this way, i am the president of the board of education and my niece just obtained her teaching certification and needs a job, scenario a) no tenure, fire a teacher and give her his job. scenario b) with tenure, hire her as a sub and have her go through the same process every other teacher goes through, earn your stripes. While tenure protects bad teachers in the system, it also keeps bad people from taking advantage of there positions with in the system. Also, would u want schools that have teachers who cannot speak their minds in fear of being fired? Say my principal was anti-2a, i now have to fear or hide my passion for firearms or else i could be fired. Yes this is all in the private sector i know, but that doesn't mean its right. And it goes back to the point that the private sector complains about, we dont have xyz so why should you. The whole system needs an over hauling, but again NJ is clumping everyone together and neglecting to put blame on those responsible. The reason i bring this up is because i am seriously thinking about either teaching in another state, or dropping it as a whole. I can clearly see that NJ has no interest in education, they just care about the bottom line and dont care who covers it.

It's far past pennies at this point given this new legislation. I do agree that reform needs to take place, but unless its accountable i see no reason to pass useless reform or "blind" reform. The unions seem to have suggest many possible ways to reform the state pensions and health care, but CC didnt even care nor listen to there opinions, this was fact and a senator voted against because of it. What kicks me the most about this is that a 100+ page bill was passed 3 days after it was originally released. Public workers will be loosing a chunk of there pay, which means what ever there budgets was/were is now anywhere from 3-35% out of balance.

I dont think many people would disagree with this fact. However, i feel that we just traded the lesser evil for NJ legislation...and we as firearm owners know exactly how legislation in NJ works.... And lets not forget the state stood by for some reason while the unions ran wild.

Good point.

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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/health_and_pension_overhaul_cl.html So I've been following this for the past couple days to see what would happen. Apparently a bill was put together last week and introduced about 3 days ago, and today it has passed the assembly. I'm seriously confused on the motives about this bill because there seems to be no details or little details on exactly what they plan on doing. They basically just wrote the state a blank check curtsey of the public workers. I'd like to know if you guys even herd about this, and for the public works here on the forum their thoughts. The public seems to be 25% for and 75% against.... seems like our representatives don't care what we think.

Whats the net weight of the OP shotty with all the shells?

lol, just making sure people won't look for the show on tbs. I was wondering where all the automatic weapons came from... pretty sure i was an FA AK.