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Aw, I was looking forward to seeing him at our Japan meetup

Caring about the environment is cuck behavior. The wildlife you care about will try to eat you if it can.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Caring about the environment is cuck behavior. The wildlife you care about will try to eat you if it can.

Weird mindset for a teacher.

What's the point of being a teacher if you aren't interested in empowering and inspiring the youth with intellectual curiosity and the toolset to critically think to make their own positive impact on the world? No one says you have to enjoy your job, but you should at least strive to be great at it.

for mac:



srs note, i don't know that i'd enforce a ban. seems like a dick move divesting your students of a device they can text their parents their farewells on when the next mass shooter comes through.

might have no choice with a maga assistant scrutinizing your every move like a commissar, though.

https://x.com/litcapital/status/1897854231341580311

seems my 'lindy' take on the changing sociology of STEM and the sciences is basically playing out, every day, in real time.

STEM jobs and actual research is for H1B rubber dinghy immigrants. even genius kids in the sciences are becoming quants for investment firms. that's where the new elite appeal rests. all the 1500 SAT perfect A's high-IQ asians going to MIT/stanford/caltech/harvard/etc now see the STEM undergrad as a stepping stone to a high-status job in the fake numbers high-finance game.

the people still clinging to this outmoded idea that STEM degrees produce an 'elite' of engineers and technologists are basically petit-bourgeois reddit moderators from 2014. STEM don't pay! and it doesn't carry the same kudos it did even a decade ago.

"become a legendary engineer", "change medicine and help millions of people", "design the next great architectural masterpiece".

actually it's just fin tech and hedge funds. hope you like AI-assisted SaaS apps.

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it is much, much higher than 1/3rd now. research jobs and academic careers have plunged in compensation and prestige since the 1980s.

and i doubt that most engineering firms or the tech sector were drawing their new hires from china or india, then.

Last edited by uziq (2025-03-07 06:02:22)

is that even allowed in 2025? sounds like lawsuit material. let the cafeteria and vending machines handle that stuff. imo, if i were a teacher, i'm not about to get blamed for making a kid sick.

i can't think of a single reason for a trump commissar to groom kids like that except as an in for their future votes. did she look constipated while handing out snacks? conservatives hate giving kids free stuff, don't they?

an adult giving candy to kids not their own (outside of holiday events like halloween) is creepy optics, man. if she has a sketchy economy van beater i'm gonna lose it.

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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

for mac:



srs note, i don't know that i'd enforce a ban. seems like a dick move divesting your students of a device they can text their parents their farewells on when the next mass shooter comes through.

might have no choice with a maga assistant scrutinizing your every move like a commissar, though.

Amazingly this is another thing Australia has achieved with little fuss or the sky falling in.

I get that kids need a phone to send their last text during a school shooting but it doesn't really counterbalance every kid being on tik-tok all day every day during class.

Well, I had my interest in reading completely destroyed, still doesn't mean kids should have phones in school.

These days don't many schools have to suffer 'child-centred teaching'? Isn't that far more flexible than it used to be?
I know it means the teacher has to spend 90% of their time on the kid with ADHD but still.

Dilbert_X wrote:

These days don't many schools have to suffer 'child-centred teaching'? Isn't that far more flexible than it used to be?
I know it means the teacher has to spend 90% of their time on the kid with ADHD but still.

look to mac on this. i'm very much commenting from a comfy armchair.

i very much like the idea of not leaving children behind if it can all be helped, and there should be systems and funding in place to make that happen while not disrupting other student's concentration. i've mentioned before, problems are on a more holistic scale than what schools could address even if they got more staff and funding and facilities and didn't have to min-max for filling classrooms to capacity. and for america, trump 2.0 is certainly not going to fix things.

Well, I had my interest in reading completely destroyed

well, what you can do (since you're setting yourself apart form the general population a lot) is overcome your learned aversion and get reading, even if just out of spite. are you going to let some schmucks who may even be dead by now rule you? you may come to enjoy a book when it isn't attached to a banal assignment. try a book club and expand your horizons beyond ww2 reprintia.

still doesn't mean kids should have phones in school.

that's probably going to be a losing battle. they couldn't even get calculators away from students decades ago, and those weren't (usually) a central part of a student's social life.

school takes up too much of a person's life. you get up while it's still dark, sleep through first period, leave way past noon, and then you're doing homework when the sky begins to darken. "it builds work ethic!" celebrated boomer parents who later lamented mobile phones bringing their work life home. lol.

when my elderly family got sick, they spent time recovering. when kids my age got sick, they got a pile of homework assignments to keep them company. get rid of homework.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-03-09 23:14:37)

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

is that even allowed in 2025? sounds like lawsuit material. let the cafeteria and vending machines handle that stuff. imo, if i were a teacher, i'm not about to get blamed for making a kid sick.

i can't think of a single reason for a trump commissar to groom kids like that except as an in for their future votes. did she look constipated while handing out snacks? conservatives hate giving kids free stuff, don't they?

an adult giving candy to kids not their own (outside of holiday events like halloween) is creepy optics, man. if she has a sketchy economy van beater i'm gonna lose it.

She is strange. On the one hand she complains about the kids and how they act. On the other hand she doesn't want them to go hungry. Lunch is free in our school but the kids often don't want the school food. So she provides snacks to them.

The annoying part is that oftentimes the kids come in and ask for snacks and make a scene if they don't get one. They will also repeatedly ask for snacks and stuff like that throughout the class. I don't want a situation where the kids make a scene about snacks when they first come in.

I don't want to have to explain to kids how to politely ask her for snacks if they want one. It is more work for me. I also don't want her comments or judgment about how the class is run or complaining about how the district is run. My two observations for the year are over and I want to take my foot off the gas and work on my side work projects. But I have her here making comments about the kids being disengaged, I get paid too much, technology is paid, politely asking for snacks. Etc.

I just want an assistant who sits there and doesn't say anything.

I look up from my best and see the assistant looking at me like