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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

The "judge not" stuff may be one of the most befuddlingly abused biblical quips ever. It makes zero sense that the intent was to bar judgment from society. Isn't it supposed to mean only judge others by the same standard you would wish to be judged? And with humility? Book of Matthew wasn't big on hypocrites, I guess.

Out of necessity, a teacher like that should be judged.

public servants and people in roles taking care of children should be held to good ethical standards. i wouldn't want a pedophile teaching children and i don't want racists either. especially racists that tell young people that they are inferior because of their skin colour.

if i aired my kooky pseudo-scientific ideas about race in the office, i'd reasonably expect some consequences from HR. i don't know why this guy decided to blow up his own job prospects by spouting claptrap to students who were openly recording him. i think you really must have a screw loose if you're prepared to lose your livelihood over some crank racialist theory.

uziq wrote:

i think you really must have a screw loose if you're prepared to lose your livelihood over some crank racialist theory.

Also there's literally no point trying to teach black kids anything.

I have a long and crazy education story from today.

The 26 year old at work is still being crazy. I don't think about her anymore. She was at a meeting I attended today though so I guess I can give an update/drama story.

The meeting was with our director. After we were dismissed, a bunch of people stood around afterward to get a moment with the director. She and her work best friend, a tiny dude that looks like Jeffrey Dahmer, stood around too. They were ahead of one other guy and me to talk to the boss. When she got to the boss, he said "maybe we should sit-down for this." And they all sat down.

I listened to bit and pieces of it from across the room while I waited my turn. Something about one of her kids being creepy, and looking up dangerous stuff in class and yadda. The boss, who I very highly respect, mentions the word "radicalized." Something like "he is clearly radicalized" (???) At least I hope this was a kid she was talking about. Anyway, she mentions how she "doesn't feel safe" and had to have Jeffrey Dahmer walk her to the meeting. She also mentioned she wrote an email to the local head of the union I am close with. And she must have emailed the boss she was talking to also if he knew what she wanted to talk about.¹

Anyway, she started crying. At that point, the other guy and me put on our coats and left together.

School started September 6th. It is Nov. 17th. In the 3ish months we have been in school she needed to go to the director twice, once to get her classroom moved down the hall because she made another teacher cry and now this. This is just the stuff that I know about. Who knows what else is going on. I don't get how you can create that much interpersonal drama. Over the summer she also made a report about something a kid said and it was a big deal.² It feels slightly like I dodge a bullet.

She roped the guy teacher friend into sitting with the boss to provide emotional support and witness to her probably totally unnecessary drama. If I had managed to steal her away from her man, I would be the one sitting with the boss going over that bullshit when I instead wanted to talk about a curriculum writing project today.

"He was listening to very scary music. Macbeth heard it too and said it was definitely Arabic."

5 minutes later


"Macbeth, how is the 9/11 project going?"

This girl does the exact opposite of my work MO of being everyone's friend and creating no paperwork. It wouldn't be professionally smart to fight this girl's endless battles. I have worked very hard to build up good will capital. It would be a waste to spend it on her. I am staying away from her as much as I can. I don't need her "feeling unsafe" or whatever with me and sending emails.

"Macbeth, I was looking through my old emails and found an email from a teacher made in 2025. She said you dicked her down during summer school 2023 and then turned the other teachers against her when she wouldn't let you dick her down again. Please remind me how that all went."

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¹ Unnecessary paper trail. The SOP is to email a guidance instead of going to the directors. You aren't supposed to email the union head either. You are supposed to go to your local union rep before escalating things to head of the union unless you are close with the union and literally leadership like me. She is opposite of close with the union head. (She disagreed with him at a meeting about a statewide initiative. Then she never went to any union events afterward. But she still emailed the union head for help.) She could have emailed her vice principal but she might have a bad relationship with him since literally last week he needed to talk to her about sharing her room after school because there was no more space in detention. She got angry when the detention people tried to put kids in her room and eventually the VP needed to go talk to her and explain that the kids are going into the damn room. The VP's secretary, the gatekeepers to the VPs, probably doesn't like her either since the secretary is best friends with the other secretary she didn't have a good relationship with either. The two secretaries literally drive in together. A really bad show.

² Don't engage the teens in conversation or take an interest in their lives if you are the type of person who feels the need to report stuff.

you don't need to read. go watch cars go in circles

I'm just reading a validation of all my cautionary advice against "work spouse, but-not-at-all-platonic." Maybe there are some happy stories about people getting hitched that way or whatever, but who the heck normally wants to balance their work life and dating/intimacy all in the same package. It sounds like a nightmare.

I told you she was immature. Bathe me in karma!

Who the heck centers their sex life around internet memes.

The wiki:

Although No Nut November was originally intended to be satirical, some participants claim that abstaining from ejaculating and not watching pornography has health benefits.[3][1] An Urban Dictionary entry for No Nut November was published in 2011, and, in 2017, the movement started to gain popularity on social media.[2] It is associated with the NoFap community on Reddit, which encourages its members not to masturbate.[1] The Reddit community /r/NoNutNovember grew from 16,500 subscribers in November 2018[4] to 52,000 subscribers in November 2019.[3]

After some far-right public figures, including Paul Joseph Watson, promoted the campaign, E. J. Dickson of Rolling Stone suggested that the movement had been co-opted by the far-right.[3] Vice criticized the challenge in 2018 after adherents sent threats to xHamster on Twitter, similarily saying it had been co-opted by far-right figures.[5]

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Very fitting concept though, innit. Incels on reddit get a whole month of challenge they can complete with no change of effort on their part.

I hope Morocco wins the world cup. It will be the perfect way to cap this World Cup from hell.

I hope the French crush the dreams of England.

Why not both

I used to play in an adult soccer league here for a few years, but I quit because of the injury potential. Every season someone on my team snapped an ankle, tore an ACL, etc. If I were still in my 20s I'd be playing.

Now I get my competitive fix playing softball.

lmao, of course you can't just dislike football because you were too soft for the frosty mornings.

no, you need to shoe-horn in some usual pseudo-scientific bollocks that sounds vaguely evolutionary. 'dexterity with hands ... unlocked the human genius'.

and what a coincidence! the only physical activity you ever do is shoot target pistols. isn't it funny how every fact in the world points to the same conclusion: dillbert is just brilliant!

i played football through my childhood too, centre forward, goal hanging and taking all the glory. suited me fine.

i stopped, however, because i didn't like getting woken up on my weekend mornings to go shiver in a muddy field and be shouted at by a little league drill sergeant.

i preferred solo sports in adolescence. team sports can be fun but i got too frustrated with team dynamics.

mainly i don't follow football anymore because i can't stand all the 'fan' culture and the immense amounts of effort and time that gets wasted on football theorizing. there's a certain sort of university-educated hipster thesedays who takes things like football Very Seriously Indeed. they're currently rejuvenating half of the worn-out clubs in leafy suburbs of south london. it's 'cool' to like middling local clubs over the big premiere league billionaire's pet pageant.

world cup can be fun but people who take it seriously are weird. i can't imagine crying over the outcome of a spectator sport. something over which you have no control whatsoever. letting sports make or ruin your day seems pretty dunderheaded.