Jennifer Edeburn

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Your body is chemistry.

Your food is chemistry.

Your medicines are chemistry.

The entire argument about wanting a “chemical-free” life ended before it started.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@InlandCaGuy And also - less mature! Lots of people quoting her from the comments that her daughter read it and thought she was not hard enough on herself, but I am thinking "When I was 17 I thought my father such a fool ... " -- lets check back on that one later before final judgment.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@TolentinoTeach And also, how to clearly separate multiple lines of thought. (i.e., divide up what goes into each paragraph.)

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@moultano definitely at least when they failed the state exam.

But, hindsight is very 20/20, and it's easy to criticize from a distance.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@moultano I think that, like leaving kids in cars, it's very easy to dismiss the horror stories as things that "only happen when the parent was somehow at fault" -- until one happens to you.

I think if it was my child, I would have gotten an independent assessment 1/

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@HistoryBoomer in elementary school, well before you need separate schools to separate the streams.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@HistoryBoomer That is true, but I think your point (some kids should go to more challenging schools) is only a tiny piece of what is to be found here. I 100% disagree with her take on the SHSAT exam schools (and full disclosure, I attended one), but her daughter was failed 1/

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@ClwnPrncCharlie And in the end, they did get her that help. It does not undo what is done. But it's not clear to me that her daughter's life has been inextricably set on a terrible path.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@ClwnPrncCharlie Yes, I agree that the mistake made here was not the thesis. She writes in the beginning that they knew they could get outside help to overcome deficits! But, they did not correctly assess / respond to questions hinting at or exposing deficits.

Hindsight is very 20/20 though. 1/

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@tracewoodgrains @mathillustrated I do not agree that the _single_ opinion offered by her daughter that perhaps there was something positive to come out of the experience is peripheral.

Also, to be clear, I don't agree that you were taking a victory lap, and I found the rest of your commentary thoughtful.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@MiriVinni What is impressive to me is that if you shift the ground just a bit to frame this as a YIMBY/NIMBY issue, the parallels are immediately obvious. But so many YIMBY advocates jumping all over her ...

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@monalisa_sapers @tamarawinter I do not even agree that she was a priori wrong. I think she didn't do adequate risk management (for instance, getting an independent assessment when the daughter failed the state algebra test), but there are counterfactuals where the needle was threaded.

[spicy ops @OpeAdedeji_]

First they came for the em dashes, and I did not speak out.

Then they came for “not X, but Y,” and I did not speak out.

Then they came for the rule of three, and still I did not speak out.

Now they’re coming for curly quotation marks. This is actually where I draw the line.

[Jennifer Edeburn @jheymoux]

@constans I think what you are missing is that if they started college at 16, the 18-year-olds were mostly not their peers (in this context).

Their peer group in this study is the ones who _could_ have started at 16 but waited until they were 18.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Reminder to those who apparently don't know: the Kennedy Center was financially robust, with many private donors, before this administration undermined it, chased out the National Symphony, Washington Opera and others. Trump has forced it into bankruptcy out of sheer vanity.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

It's ironic that Hillary getting pilloried for this kicked off a decade of nitty gritty political purity tests that created minefields for Dems. You couldn't just say, "Here's how we move forward politically;" your politics had to maximally align w/ utopian internal ideology.

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Gloria Steinem have all proven that you don't need to have biological children in order to impact lives as if you were a parent.

[Park Lore✨ @ThemeParkLore]

Just remember, if you got rid of a preshow – any preshow – then every second you currently spend in that preshow is a second you would instead simply spend in more line. 😇

[S.L. Void ʚʕ•ᴥ•ʔɞ @bornfilmbear]

i have nothing to say about the rocky horror discussions happening here except: it is a sincerely horrifying concept to me that one can die and the first thing that the masses do is debate the merits of your work and shame people who found joy in it.