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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.

Drug test within 24 hours monitored by the school? Wtf is that?

being tough on crime (big c) is way more important than an expendable teen's schooling. /s

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

I still haven't used AI besides watch it create awful images. Maybe I should look into it.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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