Substitute Teacher

A subsitute teacher reporting what he sees from a big city's classrooms.

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@catholic_comedy The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor

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@educator4ever36 @spikespeigel No, no it isn't.

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@educator4ever36 @spikespeigel Using up PTO just because you have it available isn't about mental well being.

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@spikespeigel @educator4ever36 F$!# the students, right?

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@Twolfrecovery @SecKennedy @SaraCarterDC @ONDCP That's an astounding number. The amount of money being generated on the drug trade in SF must approach how much we're paying as a city to fight it.

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@educator4ever36 Should it be? Yes. Is it? No.

So what's the follow-up question?

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@JamesAFurey I just wrote about this: https://t.co/AIT39AnO92

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"The idea a lone teacher can take a group of 25 or 30 students with disparate skill and knowledge levels and move them through a scope and sequence at the same pace without completely losing some and boring others would be funny if it weren’t tragic."

https://t.co/a04XgOGUky

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@vlal42 @BrianMendler I jumped on the thread to say exactly the same thing. Kids will live up or down to the expectations that you set.

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@ezraklein 's greatest skill is making the obvious sound intellectually cutting edge. Of course we have to rethink the purpose of education. Anyone who's spent any time in a classroom, knows this.

‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’ https://t.co/cVVeVRq2PP

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Watching Luke play defense in a win-or-go-home game, does anyone still wonder why the @dallasmavs unloaded him. There should be basketball tort law against being forced to watch it. Maybe not a felony, but definitely a misdemeanor.

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@JennyWarnertr Now, obviously, I have no knowledge of the context as regards your child's teacher, but it may be possible that this was the message they were trying to send.

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@JennyWarnertr I'll push back slightly. My stepson is dyslexic and, particularly right after his diagnosis, I noted a tendency to use his dyslexia as an excuse when he was tired of doing his homework. I'd have to tell him, yes, dyslexia is real, but should never be an excuse for not trying.

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@jaypgreene @rickhess99 @Portland_State faculty dues to @AAUP in 2023: $904,257, according to @open_the_books In October 2024, PSU laid off 17 non-tenure faculty to close an $18M budget deficit

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@MrDanielBuck Shakespeare, Milton, Melville, Faulkner, Morrison. Hell, Philip Pullman. It's difficult to read these authors without some knowledge of the Bible.

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Do educators really believe the slogans they attempt to instill in their students?

Success is happiness in your heart you made the best effort to promote yourself https://t.co/hfbsVG92gw

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

Prices are information. In this case, the information is that goods are scarce and people should go through extraordinary means to bring the goods to people that need them, even if those means are unusual and expensive. Price controls are a form of censorship; they do not alleviate the shortages, they just pretend they aren't happening, extending human misery instead of relieving it.

During the disaster following Hurricane Sandy in the NYC area, which I remember quite well, a number of gasoline pipelines stopped working. Hauling gasoline long distances by tanker truck is normally very inefficient, and thus more expensive, but in the circumstances, with limited fuel supplies and great amounts of need, "profiteers" with tanker trucks began to alleviate the shortage. Then, government officials decided to threaten them for "profiteering", that is, selling needed scarce goods at higher than usual prices. That meant there was no gasoline at all for many people who needed it desperately, instead of expensive gasoline that they could use for purposes like running generators to keep expensive goods from thawing in freezers or to transport people in need to hospitals.

"Anti-profiteering" laws do appeal to a certain thuggish human instinct. We did not evolve in large scale economies, and we tend to still have zero sum ways of looking at the world, where we assume that any person's gain must be someone else's loss. This is, of course, not true. We should get over that.

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I'm not opposed to SEL on spec, it's just that so much of it sucks.

https://t.co/2oFJo1gvyJ

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I strove to teach with, and to instill, a sense of equity. . . I wanted students to clear a higher ethical threshold than the law’s letter. In a Christian sense, avoiding sin isn’t enough; one must strive to do good.

Seeking a Higher Ethical Plane https://t.co/32eq5nP2fM