Sure, let’s just “unschool” all the children. As adults, we are never expected to pay attention to things we don’t find interesting or do things we don’t want to do, so that’s not a skill we need to teach children.

Ah, so you work with ADULTS who PAY YOU MONEY. Not the same as K12 baby girl.

Again, go substitute. I am sure that there are tons of openings near you.

Your lack of critical thinking skills and ability to comprehend what you read might hamper you, but it would help you realize that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Maybe I should come to your workplace and tell you how things work.

When children are being faced with algorithms designed by adults to literally addict them. Lootboxes, short form video content, slop… it’s tailor made to be irresistible to adults - why wouldn’t we expect it to be less so for children?

It does not matter how engaging your lessons are, there are children who will always choose the infinite dopamine machine over anything else when given the option. I’ve had lessons where students have thrown things off buildings, blown shit up for them, where we’ve launched rockets they designed…. and had kids fucking around on their phone.

When I was in college, I was in a program where they took my phone at all times except night for about two weeks and I survived.

I do not understand why everyone thinks they know how to do a teachers job. There’s a reason I got a degree. There’s a reason I studied child psychology as part of my program. Children are not tiny adults.

I am still absolutely fucking furious that you suggest that I hate my job or hate my students. I fucking love teaching and my students. This job is absolutely brutal and difficult and requires me to pay my own money for supplies and work outside my contract hours while paying me so little that I have two part time jobs alongside it. I have pour my heart and soul into this job, and what matters to me is what helps me help these children learn.

And what helps these children learn is not being constantly in proximity to something designed to hook you to an endless stream of short term dopamine bursts.

How about this? Since you are the expert on teaching, why don’t you go sub and show everyone how it’s done?

You, on the other hand, see metal detectors in the halls and think it makes kids safer. You see squad cars outside and think they’re going to protect you. You get to work with the same cop that might kill the parent of one of your kids one day

Now you are hallucinating. Where the fuck did I say any of that. Sorry you failed to make your argument, now you’re just spouting nonsense.

Time to admit that you have ZERO experience here and have to resort to non sequitors and straw men. (FYI - one of the papers I wrote in graduate school was a literature review on why metal detectors are ineffective. Maybe my dissertation will be about how cell phone bans are effective… I also fought cops in middle schools locally, so doubly fuck you by the way)

Mate, my first year teaching was the year after the district decided to combine several high school across multiple gang lines. Reality and Dangerous Minds have nothing in common, brw.

It’s nice that you got experience in a specialized setting with children from privileged backgrounds in a school designed to meet their needs (not as a teacher even? as a student?) That’s not what most schools like.

You do not understand anything about teaching in a public school. That’s okay. But you can’t pretend you know anything about it. My job is a profession and i am a professional with skills and expertise specific to this environment. Can you imagine someone with no training or experience telling you about how your job works? For lemmings - if someone with zero experience in sysadmin was telling you to just use simple blacklists?

but sacrifices must be made for the corporate machine to turn out adequately educated fodder.

Eat shit and die, please.

Do you work with thirty children at a time? Are you aware of the fact that children in groups in public act differently from children in their home with their parent? You are totally going to be the “no, Johnny doesn’t throw things at home!” type aren’t you?

I have done lockdowns which weren’t school shooter related. It does not matter how well you “train” them. When there are 30+ kids, one of those phones is coming out to be a flashlight, another two are being used to livestream…

Also - school shooter situations are not every day situations. I can tell you in the everyday world, they are absolutely antithetical to any learning. Adults can’t keep off the fucking things at work trainings, why would you not flip through TikTok during math class? They all want to be streamers, so they will insanely stupid and harmful things to get it recorded. They will share awful pictures of each other and say awful things. They will take random phone calls, which are always “from their parents.”

Notice how you had an IEP? Some students also have a 504. There are already systems in place to handle the issue you are describing. I have had 504 kids responsibly use their phones to do things like monitor insulin. Most students this does not apply to.

What do you think happens when 500 kids call the police station at once?

What do you think happens when the kids start talking on their phone during a lockdown?

Children do not need 24/7 access to phones.

I’m sorry, but if you have not run a lockdown drill, you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.

Why do people say this?

You WOULD NOT WANT CHILDREN TO HAVE THEIR PHONES DURING A SCHOOL SHOOTING. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ANYONE WHO SAYS THIS UNDERSTANDS ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING ABOUT CHILDREN.

School classrooms have phones if you need to call the police. Multiple children calling is not good and would tie up the line. Children talking on the phone to their parents while they need to be huddled up in a silent and dark classroom is the most obvious fucking problem that anyone who says this shit must have a room temperature IQ.

Not to mention how many of them would be live-streaming it.

Since my state banned cell phones, it has been night and day with behavior. They aren’t recording each other in classrooms, they aren’t blasting TikTok’s while I’m trying to teach. There’s no reason for children to have 24/7 access to the instant dopamine and bullying machine.

What do you think about her IRL inspiration, Divine?

Baculum? I hardly knew him!

Sex bots make zero sense to me.

The entire appeal of sex is that there’s another person involved! Two (or more) humans working together to make each other feel good!

Like, if you’re not going to have another real human involved, why not just a vibrator/dildo/fleshlight?

Male puberty as an adult rocked. Being that level of “eat an entire pizza” hungry and being able to sate it is one of the greatest feelings in the world. Best parts of college were splitting a pitcher of beer with a bro and eating the kind of pizza that leaves a snail trail.

Ohhhh, 90 minute is already a treat in itself. That sounds delicious.

Reminds me of “The Necklace.”

fully fresh start.

Technically, Nethack will let you encounter your own graves from previous runs, so you can pick up your gear from last time (although usually it’s mostly cursed).

Yes! I was reading him during ElevatorGate, and I remember the reaction to that stupid Dawkin’s “Dear Muslima” comment. (What a s surprise Dawkins turned out to be a complete chucklefuck.)

Not a hint of sexual pest behavior, still very actively fighting back against conservative Republican shit heels.

Pharyngula and Slacktivist are ancient and still running. I’ve been reading both since I graduated high school/had a Google Reader feed with 1k+ blogs. Both very different: Pharyngula is a ran by an atheist biology professor, while slacktivist is a Baptist laid off journalist who was/is working retail.

The big thing with these blogs in the heyday of blogging - these comment sections were spectacular. Slacktivist drew me in because he did page-by-page analysis of the Left Behind series, and the commenters would write often high effort, good fan-fiction in response to whatever passage. On Pharyngula, you could see multiple actual scientists rip a stray creationist wandering in to shreds.

There’s just something different about old school blog culture versus “link aggregators” - nothing like the feeling of a “free Friday thread.”

I’m just wondering why I’m on the regex list. I guess leftist and trans is probably enough.