adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.
children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.
couple things here:
multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
I’m 32
couple more things:
Little kids really aren’t equipped to work full time without damaging their physical, mental, and emotional development and health, and when you play the “but adults work all day!” card you sound like a nineteenth century textile baron.
Highschoolers can easily be “working” 40+ hours a week, between school, homework, and extracurriculars and/or part-time work, and still hear this smug “:/ wait til you get to the real world sweaty” rhetoric all the time.
The original claim here wasn’t even “school is too hard,” it was “school is failing to perform its most basic function,” which is different.
One time my history teacher(he was a guy) told this girl she had to wait to use the bathroom. When she awkwardly explained she had started her period and needed to put on a pad, he said that she should have been prepared, and continued class. She ended up having to call her mom for a change of clothes because she bled through her shorts.
If anyone has a teacher who does this, go to your administration. This is actually a form of discrimination and the teacher should know better…it’s in almost every damn training I’ve had to sit through.
I always found it a bit odd. Hilarious, but it raised too many questions. When did Steve make these? Why did Steve make these? How did he manage to be so cheesy and overly sincere knowing how much crap he would get from the other Avengers for it?
Well, today my sister told me her headcanon. Picture the scene. Steve leans on the back of a chair, as above. Peter immediately launches into ‘So, you got detention…’. Cap blinks. Peter awkwardly tries to explain. It turns out Cap has no idea what videos he means, and neither do any of the other Avengers.
So they get in touch with the company who made them, and they swear blind that it was really the real Captain America, and that it all his idea. That he came in and said how much he wanted to help the youth of today.And the Avengers all lose it because someone is running around doing an unbelievably good impression of Captain America, they could have destroyed his reputation, they could have infiltrated the Avengers; and instead all they are apparently using it for is to make silly, embarrassing videos.
It’s completely baffling. Who could possibly be behind it all?
If you’re under say… 30… and don’t pay a ton of attention to US history you’re probably wondering… what does a Geiger Counter have to do with voting? But if you’re my age (almost 38) and older, you probably know, especially given some of the news this week.
SO for those of you who don’t know where I’m going with this… let me tell you some history, and where THIS Geiger Counter came from.
Following WWII there was an arms race between the US and the Soviet Union. We built a bomb, they built a bomb, we built a bigger bomb, etc. It was a dangerous game of “beat the Jonses,” except the neighbor we were trying to beat was another country, and we were showing off nuclear bombs instead of new cars.
But see, we didn’t get along with the Soviet Union, and all our combined dick waving (with nukes) led to the cold war, in which both sides were wondering who was gonna be an idiot and hit the button first.
Back in those days there were bomb drills in schools, and Bert the Turtle who taught kids to Duck and Cover. And the Civil Defense and Geiger Counters like mine (see the CD logo?)
Luckily we managed to avoid WWIII and mutually assured destruction when Reagan and Gorbachev started signing agreements to limit nuclear proliferation.
Agreements that are still in effect to this day, or at least until Trump tears them up as he’s threatened to do.
Yes… He’s threatening to pull the US from 30 year old agreements that limit the number of nukes. And while Russia’s probably been cheating, pulling out of those agreements is like giving carte blanche to two very very dangerous men to start their international dick waving with nukes again.
And now we’re to MY Geiger Counter, and why it matters.
See, I didn’t score this baby at a garage sale. Nor was it a hand-me-down. No, this particular Geiger Counter came from a school.
A SCHOOL.
I had a boyfriend who worked for the public schools, and he came across this and more like it when they were clearing out storage. He knows I have an interest in nuclear history so grabbed it for me before it could go in the trash.
But let me just say that again. THIS PARTICULAR GEIGER COUNTER CAME FROM A SCHOOL.
Because we thought we’d need Geiger Counters in schools during the cold war days.
As if our young people didn’t have enough to worry about with shooter drills and all the other modern crap. DO we want them to have to face the possibility of the return of nuclear proliferation?
Do we really want another cold war?
We need a congress to keep Trump in check, before it gets any worse.
Don’t let him take us back to the days when fucking Geiger Counters were needed IN SCHOOLS.
Most people don’t even use cursive for signatures. Eventually, they all just dissolve into squiggles.
Plus Some people’s cursive can be pretty unreadable even when they do put in the effort.
Oh noooooooo, society is chaaaaaaanging, what will we dooooooo~???
I was taught cursive, told I would need it in high school when we started writing essays.
Teachers didn’t accept anything in cursive. By the end of highschool teachers were not accepting hand-written essays and everything had to be typed. Though, they assured me cursive would probably be a thing in university because you have to write essays in class sometimes too and wouldn’t have access to computer to type it up.
In university, we were warned, that cursive can be a faster method of writing, but harder to make legible when writing quickly. We were warned if the professor couldn’t easily and quickly tell what we were saying, it would count as not having written anything. This included in-class exam essays on a time limit. So no one used cursive.
So while I was constantly being assured that cursive would be very useful when I grew up, it only became increasingly obsolete.
Why would we continue to teach obsolete skills? Why waste the time?
That being said… kids are exposed to a lot of different fonts… some of which are cursive. I think they can figure it out.
cursive is more of an art form than it is a way of life now a days and i appreciate the beauty of the script but its not practical unless you can do it really well and quickly for anything school related tbh.
The initial comic is annoying as hell, but I will say that being able to write in cursive absolutely is practical. It’s a godsend for fast note-taking. If you’re a kid who never learned it in school, I’d recommend doing so before starting university.
Knowing both print and cursive is very handy when writing quickly because, once you’re used to them, you can write some letters is one way and some letters in another way, whichever is quickest
I have a thing about my students knowing cursive, so I handed out handwriting packets. I let them know that the packets were extra credit and entirely optional. I also told them cursive might be something that they never use, but at the worst they can impress someone they like with it. I still have students BEGGING for their packets.
I am not a legal expert, but I believe you are currently protected by Title IX, and your teacher is violating your civil rights. Trump and his awful allies haven’t changed the existing laws, yet.
I mean, your teacher sounds like an asshole who is violating your human rights, but I believe they are also legally violating your Title IX rights. I’m sure that if I’m wrong, someone who is smarter than me will correct me.
So if I’m right, you should be able to contact your local ACLU and ask them to help you fight for your rights.
Also, you don’t have to apologize at ALL for feeling like I’m a person who can listen to you when you are struggling and feeling the things you’re feeling. That honestly makes me feel like I’m one step closer to being the person I always needed when I was younger.
I’m so sorry you are dealing with this shit. I’m so sorry your classmates are bigots. You don’t deserve to be treated badly by anyone, especially when you’re in a place that’s supposed to be safe.
I want you to know that I see you, I hear you, and I stand with you.
*EDITED TO ADD* I presumed you are American, so I’m speaking about American laws. If you’re not from the United Dumpster Fire Of America, I apologize for making a presumption that I shouldn’t have made in either case.
Hey just to add: I’m a teacher and can confirm the Title IX bit. If I were to continue calling a trans individual by their dead name, there would be an intervention by the student support team within the school. If the school doesn’t have those kinds of progressive systems, I also encourage you to speak to the admin concerning your legal rights. If nothing else, the school will want to avoid legal action and will hopefully intervene to correct the teacher … Hopefully you’d even have the option to switch teachers. I’m so sorry you have to deal with that, but please know that there are many, many people who support you and respect you for exactly who you are.
Signal boost.
I hate to be the teacher who mentions this out loud (I really actually don’t), but if the school refuses to respect your Title IX rights, go to the district PR department. They will bend over backwards to prevent any of their schools being put on blast in the media.
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No, but read this post in your head with the voice of the priest from The Princess Bride and it becomes 10000% better.
For the record, if you are a follower of mine and are able to vote in the U.S. for the midterms and choose not to? Go ahead and click the unfollow button because fuck you. We’re in this mess and we need every single person able to vote to go to the polls and help fix this shit. We wouldn’t be in this shitty situation with Cheeto Fucker in Chief if everyone who voted independent or stayed home had voted democrat in 2016.
I get it, the two party system is bullshit. We get that. But we have bigger fish to fry in the next two years than fixing our electoral system.
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