The harm from such ignorance and misinformation is the problem.
Grandma said, “If you can’t say something nice about someone . . . aww, just go ahead and make fun of them.”
I had a great evening: awarded $2.5 million in mental health funds for our traumatized kids. I worked on that.
On the internet, 14 year-olds can write definitions of stupid things.
This future is stupid. I want my personal jetpak.
I love your paper holder.
I think mine might still be in my father’s house.
yeah, if I were in contact with the Demons of the Hoary Netherworld I would be asking them for the winning lotto numbers or something
My poor old giraffe, he’s lost his googly eyes, and felt ears long ago.
But come on this has to be the most practical art project that any kindergartener ever made their mother in any year. He’s 50+ years and still going strong.
Intact family is proving to be one of the defining metrics. That, and gender. When you roughly match families by socioeconomic, intact families’ kids outperform those from broken homes.You will see more on this in the coming years. Single families can certainly overcome, as my kids will testify.
" I object to the bridge because it is for TRANSportation - which will make my kid gay when he crosses it. "
I do. Like many other people, I’ve taken versions of them.
And much of it doesn’t measure anything at all save your ability to test well and memorize bullshit.
Real life, you have endless resources at your fingertips, memorizing when the battle of 1066 happened or how long the 30-year war lasted is purely an exercise in memorization and being able to regurgitate specific things on demand in a limited window of time.
Back in the real world, knowledge of how to look up when the Battle of Hastings took place is more valuable, but you’ll not see standardized tests working to figure that out, too complicated.
Well, we’re doing pretty well there. Lviv and the West have gone totally silent, been a bit since Kyiv was hit.
Ukraine has been getting significant influxes of jets, the remaining attacks outside of the active combat zones are all cruise missiles. Also received lots of anti-aircraft and counter-missile equipment.
So pretty well, all things considered. I’d have hoped for a direct and active role enforcing it, but if we have to do it the sideways way, providing toys and Intel but not allowed to shoot it ourselves, that’s how things are going to play out.
I tend to change my mind when I see clear evidence. It’s called “rational thinking”.
You’ve “written” and “looked at data”. Big fat hairy deal. Deal with 400 students a week in a real classroom like I did every day. The kids skipped out on on-line learning because they weren’t supervised and hated it. They stayed home and played X-Box and hung out on social media. Teachers were having fits trying to keep up with missing children who wouldn’t log in. We handed out over 1000 Chromebooks and fed families etc. We came back this year and everything went smoothly. Kids fell right back into their routine. I know of no kids who were traumatized by missing school. I’m sure there are some somewhere but it’s not a large number.
ETA: The Department of Ed did NOTHING.
Damn. Hate having to like one of your posts. 
While those things get a bad rap, there are a lot of cognitive skills that get engaged in both of those arenas. Typically gets discounted because it’s not the “traditional” way of learning, but there is real value there.
Sure, the lack of physical activity in those isn’t helpful, but for expanding minds, absolutely. Even a simple game like call of duty, much maligned, contains a lot of education, including things like teamwork to achieve goals, analysis of maps to determine best places to “kill”, AI vulnerabilities in single player modes and other stuff. Let alone the social interactions and possibilities there.
The biggest risk to our kids, to me, is to tell them that they’re victims and they’re going to be behind unless they catch up. Kids internalize that shit in so many ways.
Well, see, it’s kinda like this “white-collar crime” thing. That describes boring, untelegenic, can’t-even-understand-half-the-words kinda crimes. Unlike the kind of crimes the so-called base likes to be tough on (you know, like selling loosies), because it’s actually just a code word for whomping on the dark-skinned types.
“Make me one with everything”?
They put a shit ton of pressure on the kids to up test scores because it’s the be-all and end-all of their education and for teachers it’s even worse. The Education Department is always threatening to take your teaching license for the least infraction or mistake.
How nice of them to provide a suspect list.
Get it right! Lock them up! Lock them up! Lock them up!
Some of these people were criming right along with TFG.
