Elvis married a 14 year old. Name your favorite rock band and I’ll find you a kiddiefucker. I’m not going to bring that up in every c/music thread.

There’s an argument that Muhammad married a few of his wives out of charity. That a misogyny driven culture such as pre Muslim Arabia just didn’t have options for some women.

Aisha also later turns out to be a pretty powerful figure in her own right.

What makes me homicidal is that the companies that make those cubes don’t make them a centimeter cubed. I want the kids to fucking measure them with rulers and be able to make that connection!

6-12 are in Piagets “concrete operational” stage. They need manipulatives, things they can touch. Like you can do algebra with them - you just need to show them the explicit comparison with a scale and even ideally have them physically manipulate a scale to solve for x.

Even a lot of teens/I suspect many adults aren’t able to operate fully in “formal operations” mode.

It makes me very sad. I love wasps. I like to imagine them as placid enough as to be able to be in that situation, and I really want that picture to be real.

I’m at 68 hours this week.

One salaried FT job (which, tbh, requires more than 40 hours most weeks and requires me to buy my own supplies. Also I’d lose it and get death threats if people knew I was LGBT!)

2 part time jobs that vary from 20-30 hours together each week.

I’m exhausted. I’m burnt out. I was thinking earlier about how nice it would be to get injured in a car crash and just sleep in the hospital all week.

I’m a single adult. I don’t understand how people do this with kids.

I showed this exact pic to my students and they were convinced all the wasps are dead.

The rape scene is fucked up and traumatizing. Everything else that goes with that scene is fucked up and traumatizing, but the rape is uncomfortable (and I’m someone who’s seen A Serbian Film - I think the Eclipse is worse.)

just giving up and not even trying tho

When I needed that kind of help, it was pretty much inaccessible without navigating a complicated maze of forms and paperwork and unsympathetic bureaucratic officials, which are something I just can’t do when stressed, and I’m a fairly literate person.

Maybe this is a state by state thing, but accessing welfare as a single able bodied adult where I live seems pretty unimaginable.

Have you ever tried applying for public assistance? Do you think that a government which is already failing to enforce the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is doing much to ensure that welfare is accessible to anyone?

My family let me stay with them about two weeks after my ex husband illegally kicked me out. I slept on a friends floor for about a year after. I was lucky to have that level of help. Many do not.

The way I got out of that situation was working (and continuing to work) 60-80 hours a week.

It’s not legal in the U.S. either.

The issue is that the EEOC is essentially useless.

You are hereby no longer allowed to get angry about “man versus bear.”

”Gorilla snot” is a real brand.

They are also working on teenage girls with the “TERF” thing. Pink fascism and SAHM trade wife propaganda is huge on Pinterest.

They’ve been repeatedly using SpongeBob characters, the Pokemon theme, pretty much any song they like…

Can we just say copyright law doesn’t exist any more for a certain class of people?

That idea comes from James Ussher, an Irish religious leader, based on his interpretation of the biblical genealogies.

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?