Alex Constantelos

I teach math at Pioneer High School.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

Video game idea: an NPC sends you on a bunch of fetch quests. You dutifully bring back items, thinking you're being helpful.

Turns out the NPC is a clinical hoarder whom you've been enabling. It's tearing their family apart. You feel terrible about yourself.

I would play this.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@IramiOF You know what, I'd happily agree to performance pay *if* I could guarantee that every kid entering my classroom came with the prerequisite skills to succeed in high school math. But judge me on the results achieved by kids who get passed along when they can't multiply? No way.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@JimBond6 @JTAlexander Anyway, most of us have average, unremarkable ideas about politics and society.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@JimBond6 @JTAlexander Literally what are you talking about. I just hung out a group of teacher colleagues after school today and the main topic of conversation was their kids' hockey leagues. At one point Trump briefly came up; "His rudeness is a bad example for children," was the point raised.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Your child's school has an assistant superintendent for curriculum, an assistant superintendent for instruction, a director of teaching and learning, and a coordinator of academic services. Your child's teacher has thirty-two kids and no copy paper. This is not a funding problem. It is a priority problem.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

It's fascinating how often the plots of history are driven not by iron or grain, but by spices, bananas, tulips, opium, indigo, fur hats...

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

Teachers should be able to keep a secret second set of grades that show how well students actually know the material, and those are the ones that are used for important decisions.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@LeboTeacher Absolutely, if we're really doing a "who has it worst" misery race, the clear winner is anyone who has to read large volumes of student writing (not me, I'm a math teacher).

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@ageewriter @GWHayduke97 Living and walking, without a doubt. But on a road trip, I pick the desert.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@ageewriter @GWHayduke97 Nah, wide open spaces make for better scenery than tree wall.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@tracewoodgrains Education law is one of those things where the whole field could be abolished and education would be better off.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@oaw117 @allie__voss What area?? As an 11th year teacher, I make two thirds of that salary in a county with an 89K household median.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@educator4ever36 @shirky17 Tell me the last time anyone lost their job over test scores. Anyway, I'm a math teacher, but under your system, the highest pay should clearly go to anyone who has to read large volumes of student writing.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@eatpraydiehard @Empty_America I'm a teacher. If you do this, it will be pitch black outside for up to 1.5 hours *after* students have arrived at the building. Some of us like to see the sun on the way to work.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@LydiaJ007 @ferald_gord In 1973, I never would have said that "due process" contains the right to an abortion. In 2022, I would have said it was a well-established right, and would have let the earlier ruling stand, even if I didn't agree with it from first principles.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@RobAlexTheGreat @ferald_gord Brown wasn't effective enough at achieving its goals to make the top 3 for me.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@RobAlexTheGreat @ferald_gord That's a fun one: cases that are overhated but right. Wickard, Kelo v. New London, Employment Division v. Smith come to mind.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@ferald_gord Ironically, Roe and Dobbs were both terribly written, and the Court got it wrong in both cases.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@TheLastNeocon @dilanesper ...strike it down. But in that case, I would ask for there to be a really clear textual hook before the Court acts, and judicially created penumbras don't satisfy that for me.

[Alex Constantelos @constantelos]

@TheLastNeocon @dilanesper Absolutely! But legislatures as well as courts are tasked with looking after the people's rights, and it's only the former who can be voted out if they do a bad job. Now, once in a while, Congress may do something super illegal, and the court may have no choice but to