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The story is linked below the pic and probably stranger than you think.RTHKI wrote:
what the fuck is that orange blob
17 days suspension for having a vape, or a joint, is pretty harsh and will disrupt his education.
Suspension from school seems like a dumb means of keeping kids on the straight and narrow.
A light tasering would have been more appropriate.
Suspension from school seems like a dumb means of keeping kids on the straight and narrow.
A light tasering would have been more appropriate.
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Drug test within 24 hours monitored by the school? Wtf is that?SuperJail Warden wrote:
A good student of mine was found with a vape, probably marijuana, in school. They suspended him 7 days. Since he didn't take a drug test within 24 hours with an approved doctor they suspended him an extra 10 days.
In total, the kid was suspended for 17 days for getting sparked up between classes. Seems excessive especially since the kid is pleasant and does my assignments. He even will pay attention. Shame.
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The school will make them go through some drug program too if they want to return. Really funny when you consider the fact that there are plenty of teachers who get stoned after work and sleep around with each other too.
being tough on crime (big c) is way more important than an expendable teen's schooling. /s
Its as if they don't want kids to go to school.
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I have one student with ADHD. Probably the worst case I have ever seen. For example, if you tell him to focus he will do it for a moment and then immediately start acting on impulse again.
I don't think the kid takes any medicine to manage it. Why? His parents are religious. He was absent yesterday because his parents don't celebrate Halloween. It's against their religion.
He came to class today looking for leftover candy. I buy those giant bags of candy to give out every Halloween.
I didn't have any leftover candy to give him but I wouldn't have given him any of it if I did. The reason I wouldn't give him candy has nothing to do with his ADHD. The reason I wouldn't give him any is because I don't want to upset his religious family. I could totally see his parents complain that the kid got a leftover piece of candy.
I don't think the kid takes any medicine to manage it. Why? His parents are religious. He was absent yesterday because his parents don't celebrate Halloween. It's against their religion.
He came to class today looking for leftover candy. I buy those giant bags of candy to give out every Halloween.
I didn't have any leftover candy to give him but I wouldn't have given him any of it if I did. The reason I wouldn't give him candy has nothing to do with his ADHD. The reason I wouldn't give him any is because I don't want to upset his religious family. I could totally see his parents complain that the kid got a leftover piece of candy.
combination seems likely jehovah's witnesses, though other possibilities exist. they have hang-ups about some forms of medicine. between the two, a bit more concerning than skipping the holidays. but it sucks for the kids who get left out of celebrations (even secular) due to parental requirements. exiled to the corner of the room away from their peers, or off to the library, alone, to read only the approved literature. classic strategy to make the cult a member's only community. i don't recall a single classmate who looked happy having this happen to them. it's like veganism, but less hip.
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Yeah, it is sad that some people get so into religion that it affects them socially like this. Socially this kid isn't working out. He needs medication to chill him out.
His file says "Areas of concern: Defiance, high activity level, impulsivity, inattentiveness/distractibility, level of maturity, motivation, oppositional behavior, overactive, sense of responsibility"
Some of those are redundant but usually a kid will get 3 or 4 max. This one has a bunch stacked together. Going to be a long year.
His file says "Areas of concern: Defiance, high activity level, impulsivity, inattentiveness/distractibility, level of maturity, motivation, oppositional behavior, overactive, sense of responsibility"
Some of those are redundant but usually a kid will get 3 or 4 max. This one has a bunch stacked together. Going to be a long year.
"high activity level" is a weird and unnecessarily vague way to put it. it would be just as concerning to me if it said he had a "low activity level." spending all day slumped over the desk, or draped across the gym bench at PE.
"high activity level" evokes scenes of detectives' stakeout description of hoodlums carrying boxes out of a warehouse at 3am and loading them into a nondescript van. "jim, we're going in, over and out." "lock and load, bob."
the boxes are filled with stuffed animals. it was all a ruse. a decoy! a cop cuts one open, but it's just stuffing.
the stuffing is actually the drug, but the long-suffering chief won't hear it. "you're a loose cannon. take your wife on a cruise, that's an order."
"high activity level" evokes scenes of detectives' stakeout description of hoodlums carrying boxes out of a warehouse at 3am and loading them into a nondescript van. "jim, we're going in, over and out." "lock and load, bob."
the boxes are filled with stuffed animals. it was all a ruse. a decoy! a cop cuts one open, but it's just stuffing.
the stuffing is actually the drug, but the long-suffering chief won't hear it. "you're a loose cannon. take your wife on a cruise, that's an order."
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I helped a girl that was being bothered by a boy. She complained that a boy kept following her around and was creepy. I took her and her friend to the social worker.
I went out of my way to do it. I am supposed to be on my break right now.
I went out of my way to do it. I am supposed to be on my break right now.
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American children reading scores all time low.
ALL TIME LOW
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One of my students came to class smelling like marijuana. I have two air purifiers and the room still smelled. The kid doesn't do any work either. Clearly doesn't want to be here. My little sister and complained that I should have not said anything.
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One of my students cut class yesterday. His 7th time cutting class. He got arrested at ShopRite during that period. He tried shoplifting at one of the worst places to try.
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I am failing three kids for the year. I am just putting together the records for it. All three have come to class super stoned. Like so stoned they can't stay awake.
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My school had a fight last week that resulted in the cops coming. A girl student punched one of the cops too. Craziness.Reading Scores Fall to New Low on NAEP, Fueled by Declines for Struggling Students
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One of my students came to class smelling like marijuana. I have two air purifiers and the room still smelled. The kid doesn't do any work either. Clearly doesn't want to be here. My little sister and complained that I should have not said anything.
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One of my students cut class yesterday. His 7th time cutting class. He got arrested at ShopRite during that period. He tried shoplifting at one of the worst places to try.
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I am failing three kids for the year. I am just putting together the records for it. All three have come to class super stoned. Like so stoned they can't stay awake.
i've read quite a lot about the rising tide of illiteracy in america and elsewhere. people don't read anymore. they're using chat-GPT to do all their 'easy' assignments, not realising that by not doing the ordinary labour of reading and writing and putting together arguments, that they're essentially kicking away their own foundations. a lot of the gen-z zoomers raised on ipads are growing up seriously unequipped for critical, independent thinking.
coasting was already underway in the 90s.
i remember right-wing radio sneering at "critical thinking" as some liberal group think "push your desks together" designed to strip away red-blooded, rugged american individualism (and if you disagree with me, you're a communist, next caller). was one of the wokes, deis, what-have-you of the time.
in my experience, "critical thinking" itself wasn't really talked about in class directly, apart from passing mention in AP subjects where some of the students actually cared enough to listen.
i remember right-wing radio sneering at "critical thinking" as some liberal group think "push your desks together" designed to strip away red-blooded, rugged american individualism (and if you disagree with me, you're a communist, next caller). was one of the wokes, deis, what-have-you of the time.
in my experience, "critical thinking" itself wasn't really talked about in class directly, apart from passing mention in AP subjects where some of the students actually cared enough to listen.
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strange to frame critical thinking as a group activity ... when it is literally about learning how to think for yourself. i understand (small-c) conservatives taking umbrage at that because it can lead to that type of thinking that is always questioning the status quo, interrogating power and authority, etc. it's a relatively short hop from 'critical thinking' and 'do your own reading' to 'look at this what i found that contradicts your official narrative'. hence why conservatives have staged that huge reactionary project 2025 thing or whatever it's called to seize back control of what history is taught in schools, etc.
feels like that hits the nail on the head.
the average fox enjoyer probably never even heard of dei until conservative pundits tacked on a few spooky embellishments and presented it as the new year model boogeyman. now they're experts. nobody knows more about 'woke' than shades-wearing, greying men self-recording rant videos about it from the driver's seats of their pickups where the fam can't overhear their bigotry. i wish that was just a stereotype.
i wonder what the next concept will be they misrepresent and roll out as the replacement whipping boy.
the average fox enjoyer probably never even heard of dei until conservative pundits tacked on a few spooky embellishments and presented it as the new year model boogeyman. now they're experts. nobody knows more about 'woke' than shades-wearing, greying men self-recording rant videos about it from the driver's seats of their pickups where the fam can't overhear their bigotry. i wish that was just a stereotype.
i wonder what the next concept will be they misrepresent and roll out as the replacement whipping boy.
Don't misunderestimate how hard thinking is for people who've never done it.
Thinking is hard, learning is harder, applying learning to thinking and extrapolating from there is more harderer again.
How many people spend time in self analysis or strategising and how many plop themselves down with a beer in front of the TV or in-person sportsball?
Lets face it most people subcontract that to their newsfeed or church.
Thinking is hard, learning is harder, applying learning to thinking and extrapolating from there is more harderer again.
How many people spend time in self analysis or strategising and how many plop themselves down with a beer in front of the TV or in-person sportsball?
Lets face it most people subcontract that to their newsfeed or church.
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The achievement gap is growing. AI is making it much worse. Students who are smart and adaptable can leverage AI in a stunningly effective way. Kids who aren't bright are doubly fucked in this AI accelerated world.uziq wrote:
i've read quite a lot about the rising tide of illiteracy in america and elsewhere. people don't read anymore. they're using chat-GPT to do all their 'easy' assignments, not realising that by not doing the ordinary labour of reading and writing and putting together arguments, that they're essentially kicking away their own foundations. a lot of the gen-z zoomers raised on ipads are growing up seriously unequipped for critical, independent thinking.
I can see the value of having a non-digital upbringing. Like homes with no TVs and kids don't get a device with a screen until they are 12 or maybe 14.
I still haven't used AI besides watch it create awful images. Maybe I should look into it.
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You haven't used ChatGPT at all? Such an amazing tool.
My childhood wasn't exactly device-free (we had a computer before pretty much anyone I knew, and an internet connection before almost everyone i knew), but my parents severely limited TV and video games. We weren't allowed to watch TV during the week (except Jeopardy, natch) and were only allowed 30 mins of video games on the weekends. It forced my siblings and I to play outside, read, and engage with each other, and be a bit more creative than we probably otherwise would.SuperJail Warden wrote:
The achievement gap is growing. AI is making it much worse. Students who are smart and adaptable can leverage AI in a stunningly effective way. Kids who aren't bright are doubly fucked in this AI accelerated world.uziq wrote:
i've read quite a lot about the rising tide of illiteracy in america and elsewhere. people don't read anymore. they're using chat-GPT to do all their 'easy' assignments, not realising that by not doing the ordinary labour of reading and writing and putting together arguments, that they're essentially kicking away their own foundations. a lot of the gen-z zoomers raised on ipads are growing up seriously unequipped for critical, independent thinking.
I can see the value of having a non-digital upbringing. Like homes with no TVs and kids don't get a device with a screen until they are 12 or maybe 14.
I look at one of my sibling's families and how they allow ipads at the table and TV and video games to be kind of babysitters so the adults don't have to engage as much with the kids and it makes me sad. My nephew loves to read, is incredibly bright and creative, but i feel like he isn't challenged enough intellectually to really foster intellectual growth due to the reliance on electronics.
It's frankly crazy to me that tablets and video games and TV and "being online" is so perversely engrained with the generations after me, especially new parents. I remember growing up hearing "TV will rot your brain". If TV rots your brain, being terminally online is like a prion disease.
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