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  • insubordination for actions like calling parents without her permission

    To the principal that's insubordination, to me it's a big red flag. A teacher should not require formal permission to contact a student's parents.

    And in this particular case, maybe the teachers are calling parents directly because administration refuses to do anything at all regarding student discipline, and the teachers are simply trying to get the behaviors corralled by any means possible just so they can get back to teaching the kids who want to learn; if so, again, that's a much bigger problem than the fact that a teacher called a parent, IMO.

  • Not that I know of, at least not on the large scale. I just left a longer reply on this same thread about it, but the only alternative I can think of for individual sellers is eBay. But eBay is not for makers, they take a pretty big cut, the whole Paypal thing is problematic as well, and the only thing I use eBay for anymore is the odd discontinued appliance part. Sorry. I wish there were another maker's seller space like Etsy used to be, that'd be fantastic.

  • No, I sure don't. I wish I did.

    BUT -- I will say this. Depending on the product it's pretty self-evident who the individual makers are on Etsy. If you do your research, like doing image searches, it's also usually pretty self-evident what is mass-produced and/or counterfeit.

    So I still use Etsy, but only in a very limited way, and only if I can assure myself with some level of certainty that the item I want is actually what some individual maker produced themselves.

    Nothing wrong with mass-produced items if they're not counterfeit, I just prefer not to get them through Etsy.