Nate Dunn
@altruismaddict.bsky.social
Husband & Papa; 27 yr. vet in Education; CTE Engineering & Robotics; Science Guy; Robotics Coach; Mobile DJ; Announcer; Soccer Enthusiast & Soccer Referee; Diehard MN Sports Fan; Minivan Driver & owner of weekend mobile 1986 300Z.
Was told today in class, “Mr. Dunn, you should be an Engineer!”- probably not, but lack of ability aside- I mentioned, I probably can’t at this point in my life, but my brother did leave teaching to do that- realizing he couldn’t support a family teaching. Which is a sad indictment on our society.
September 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Was told today in class, “Mr. Dunn, you should be an Engineer!”- probably not, but lack of ability aside- I mentioned, I probably can’t at this point in my life, but my brother did leave teaching to do that- realizing he couldn’t support a family teaching. Which is a sad indictment on our society.
Had the entire bundle- ESPN, Disney+, & Hulu.
Cancelled all on Thursday.
Target used to get part of our grocery money 2/3 times a month and all our big box daily life purchases.
Costco has gotten that money since April 2025.
We vote and we can also vote with our money.
Cancelled all on Thursday.
Target used to get part of our grocery money 2/3 times a month and all our big box daily life purchases.
Costco has gotten that money since April 2025.
We vote and we can also vote with our money.
September 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Had the entire bundle- ESPN, Disney+, & Hulu.
Cancelled all on Thursday.
Target used to get part of our grocery money 2/3 times a month and all our big box daily life purchases.
Costco has gotten that money since April 2025.
We vote and we can also vote with our money.
Cancelled all on Thursday.
Target used to get part of our grocery money 2/3 times a month and all our big box daily life purchases.
Costco has gotten that money since April 2025.
We vote and we can also vote with our money.
The ratio of negative replies to this nothing-burger of a story is epic! There is a delete button that @politico.com can use to undo this crap post. I’d delete the article too. Garbage “reporting”…. I guess asking the media to report the actual news is a tall order these days…
July 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The ratio of negative replies to this nothing-burger of a story is epic! There is a delete button that @politico.com can use to undo this crap post. I’d delete the article too. Garbage “reporting”…. I guess asking the media to report the actual news is a tall order these days…
I refereed 8 soccer games- all but 2 ECNL 16+ age group over the course of a weekend w/ a torn MCL & fractured tibia as well. Hurt like a sumbitch, but I was able to get up & down the field as a center ref for 4 of those games & down the lines for the other 4. Can attest it’s possible, but painful.
July 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I refereed 8 soccer games- all but 2 ECNL 16+ age group over the course of a weekend w/ a torn MCL & fractured tibia as well. Hurt like a sumbitch, but I was able to get up & down the field as a center ref for 4 of those games & down the lines for the other 4. Can attest it’s possible, but painful.
27 years in and working 3 side jobs.
Wife is a 25 year veteran teacher.
We have 3 kids and make “too much” to get any kind of aid, but can barely make it & live paycheck to paycheck. We spend $2,000+ each per year for our students. Just got our 1st raise since ‘19. They use our altruism against us.
Wife is a 25 year veteran teacher.
We have 3 kids and make “too much” to get any kind of aid, but can barely make it & live paycheck to paycheck. We spend $2,000+ each per year for our students. Just got our 1st raise since ‘19. They use our altruism against us.
July 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
27 years in and working 3 side jobs.
Wife is a 25 year veteran teacher.
We have 3 kids and make “too much” to get any kind of aid, but can barely make it & live paycheck to paycheck. We spend $2,000+ each per year for our students. Just got our 1st raise since ‘19. They use our altruism against us.
Wife is a 25 year veteran teacher.
We have 3 kids and make “too much” to get any kind of aid, but can barely make it & live paycheck to paycheck. We spend $2,000+ each per year for our students. Just got our 1st raise since ‘19. They use our altruism against us.
“My Friends” by Fredrik Backman
“Art is a fragile enough light as it is. It can be blown out by a single sigh. Art needs friends, with our bodies against the wind & our hands cupped around the flame, until it’s strong enough to burn brightly with its own power. Until it’s an inferno. Unstoppable.”
“Art is a fragile enough light as it is. It can be blown out by a single sigh. Art needs friends, with our bodies against the wind & our hands cupped around the flame, until it’s strong enough to burn brightly with its own power. Until it’s an inferno. Unstoppable.”
July 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“My Friends” by Fredrik Backman
“Art is a fragile enough light as it is. It can be blown out by a single sigh. Art needs friends, with our bodies against the wind & our hands cupped around the flame, until it’s strong enough to burn brightly with its own power. Until it’s an inferno. Unstoppable.”
“Art is a fragile enough light as it is. It can be blown out by a single sigh. Art needs friends, with our bodies against the wind & our hands cupped around the flame, until it’s strong enough to burn brightly with its own power. Until it’s an inferno. Unstoppable.”
“The president’s memoir/coloring book…” 🤣
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“The president’s memoir/coloring book…” 🤣
Can you give raises to folks to livable wage for them to not just teach, but also have families themselves, & can you take things off teachers plates that are “required” & expected? These are the 2 largest obstacles to younguns making a career of this, STILL, noble pursuit of a life of service.
June 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Can you give raises to folks to livable wage for them to not just teach, but also have families themselves, & can you take things off teachers plates that are “required” & expected? These are the 2 largest obstacles to younguns making a career of this, STILL, noble pursuit of a life of service.
Holy Hannah! What is going on with DeNiro’s fingernails in this picture?!?! They are long as all get out- stab worthy for sure. Crazy look for him.
May 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Holy Hannah! What is going on with DeNiro’s fingernails in this picture?!?! They are long as all get out- stab worthy for sure. Crazy look for him.
DJed a 43rd Bday party 7-10pm tonite- left waterpark, unloaded all Battle Bots materials at school, showered at home quickly & then at the Bday house by 5:15 to unload & setup. Refereeing 3 soccer games tomorrow to end my “weekend”….love all these jobs, but also why is this what it takes to survive?
May 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
DJed a 43rd Bday party 7-10pm tonite- left waterpark, unloaded all Battle Bots materials at school, showered at home quickly & then at the Bday house by 5:15 to unload & setup. Refereeing 3 soccer games tomorrow to end my “weekend”….love all these jobs, but also why is this what it takes to survive?
*DJed Prom at Perot Museum from 6-11pm Sat nite
*Had to cover a class during my planning period Fri- time I needed to enter Robot Game scores to determine class winners- & ended up covering part of next period & having only 15 min lunch as other teacher forgot to relieve me.
The week is over now tho
*Had to cover a class during my planning period Fri- time I needed to enter Robot Game scores to determine class winners- & ended up covering part of next period & having only 15 min lunch as other teacher forgot to relieve me.
The week is over now tho
April 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
*DJed Prom at Perot Museum from 6-11pm Sat nite
*Had to cover a class during my planning period Fri- time I needed to enter Robot Game scores to determine class winners- & ended up covering part of next period & having only 15 min lunch as other teacher forgot to relieve me.
The week is over now tho
*Had to cover a class during my planning period Fri- time I needed to enter Robot Game scores to determine class winners- & ended up covering part of next period & having only 15 min lunch as other teacher forgot to relieve me.
The week is over now tho
Emailing selections & those who didn’t make it- also hosting 1st practice afterschool Mon.
*Went to see Maren get an award from mayor of Ft. Worth mid morning on Thurs. which required another sub & sub plans
*Watched Rowan & friends soccer games Thurs nite
*Refereed 2 soccer games 9 & 11am Sat
*Went to see Maren get an award from mayor of Ft. Worth mid morning on Thurs. which required another sub & sub plans
*Watched Rowan & friends soccer games Thurs nite
*Refereed 2 soccer games 9 & 11am Sat
April 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Emailing selections & those who didn’t make it- also hosting 1st practice afterschool Mon.
*Went to see Maren get an award from mayor of Ft. Worth mid morning on Thurs. which required another sub & sub plans
*Watched Rowan & friends soccer games Thurs nite
*Refereed 2 soccer games 9 & 11am Sat
*Went to see Maren get an award from mayor of Ft. Worth mid morning on Thurs. which required another sub & sub plans
*Watched Rowan & friends soccer games Thurs nite
*Refereed 2 soccer games 9 & 11am Sat
*DJed a Boys Soccer Banquet from 6-10pm Wed
*DJed Band Banquet 6-10:30 pm Fri
*Both of these required me to leave school a 2 periods early to make it in time to setup before the start times & consequently requires subs & sub plans
*Announced 15 new Robotics Team members- reading &evaluating apps &
*DJed Band Banquet 6-10:30 pm Fri
*Both of these required me to leave school a 2 periods early to make it in time to setup before the start times & consequently requires subs & sub plans
*Announced 15 new Robotics Team members- reading &evaluating apps &
April 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
*DJed a Boys Soccer Banquet from 6-10pm Wed
*DJed Band Banquet 6-10:30 pm Fri
*Both of these required me to leave school a 2 periods early to make it in time to setup before the start times & consequently requires subs & sub plans
*Announced 15 new Robotics Team members- reading &evaluating apps &
*DJed Band Banquet 6-10:30 pm Fri
*Both of these required me to leave school a 2 periods early to make it in time to setup before the start times & consequently requires subs & sub plans
*Announced 15 new Robotics Team members- reading &evaluating apps &
Get you some colleagues who support, challenge, & appreciate you the way these 5-6 folks- some of whom I only know as teachers hired after I left 2 yrs ago who work w/ my former coaching colleagues- do for me. It’s little conversations like these that keep you in the trenches fighting the good fight
April 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Get you some colleagues who support, challenge, & appreciate you the way these 5-6 folks- some of whom I only know as teachers hired after I left 2 yrs ago who work w/ my former coaching colleagues- do for me. It’s little conversations like these that keep you in the trenches fighting the good fight
Just got a BUNCH of great news for my FLL Robotics Teams- donations from the State Championship we hosted, vendors that helped us making donations, AND news of matching donation from a Fortune 500 corp, but hard to get super stoked as I know I should given current education climate. Bittersweet….
March 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Just got a BUNCH of great news for my FLL Robotics Teams- donations from the State Championship we hosted, vendors that helped us making donations, AND news of matching donation from a Fortune 500 corp, but hard to get super stoked as I know I should given current education climate. Bittersweet….
Arkansas.
I was married in its twin in Ft Worth.
It’s on the Lena Pope Homes campus- a children’s home.
Picked it because of the stunning natural architecture, light & connection to my upbringing. My parents were houseparents at a Children’s home in NC for 13 years- better part of my own childhood.
I was married in its twin in Ft Worth.
It’s on the Lena Pope Homes campus- a children’s home.
Picked it because of the stunning natural architecture, light & connection to my upbringing. My parents were houseparents at a Children’s home in NC for 13 years- better part of my own childhood.
March 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Arkansas.
I was married in its twin in Ft Worth.
It’s on the Lena Pope Homes campus- a children’s home.
Picked it because of the stunning natural architecture, light & connection to my upbringing. My parents were houseparents at a Children’s home in NC for 13 years- better part of my own childhood.
I was married in its twin in Ft Worth.
It’s on the Lena Pope Homes campus- a children’s home.
Picked it because of the stunning natural architecture, light & connection to my upbringing. My parents were houseparents at a Children’s home in NC for 13 years- better part of my own childhood.