Michael Fujimori

How does positrac on the rear end of a Plymouth work?

Life's a garden, dig it.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@steph_schieble @RedactedDeGen @JimsTweets They take them, and then pass them regardless of how they do. Kids that don't plan on going to college click C on every answer so they can take a nap. That's just standardized testing but even tests in class don't REALLY determine their grade or if they pass/fail.

- a teacher

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@JimsTweets Public school kids don't have to pass any tests either. They can fail their way to a high school diploma which is part of the reason why a high school diploma is meaningless now

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@madebygoogle DM sent

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@GooglePixel_US why is your Google support team making it impossible to repair my pixel 9 (which is less than 2 years old) that has a known factory defect. Green vertical lines on screen are only covered for Pro and XL models?

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@Dat_Boi_Nick9 @EZ_Wrestling American excellence 🇺🇸

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@alextvalencic @sage_stage I don't make the tests. The material has been made so easy that anyone can pass it with bare minimum effort. I don't know what else to tell you as I have been teaching this particular course for 3 years now and I have students pass with a D who have learned nothing.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@alextvalencic @sage_stage Instruction no, grading system yes. I can only teach the curriculum I am given. The bar has been lowered. Just like we are doing with 50% minimums.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@sage_stage @alextvalencic The problem is that on top of everything @sage_stage was saying is that we have ALSO dumbed everything down so much that, yes, a student with less than minimum effort absolutely CAN decide one day to try on a test which brings them to passing after not learning 90% of material.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@ufc @danawhite sign the kid!!

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@C_Hendrick Granted it's a school of 3000+ but come on....

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@kidasnow LITERALLY EVERYONE? I don't think you've met enough people.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@Leeleeliberty11 @educator4ever36 The best wrestlers are long skinny-ish dudes. Show him pictures of David Taylor in high school and look up his accomplishments. @magicman_osu (no offense GOAT if you see this)

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@Leeleeliberty11 @educator4ever36 Wrestling has weight classes for a reason

My son is 47 pounds and 8 years old and he loves wrestling because he can be just as successful as a kid who's big for their age.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@chris_mukiibi @SciInTheMaking I teach biology and you'd think to would be better but it's not. Middle schools passing kids along means they're bound to struggle whether it's bio, phys, chem, alg 1, geo etc

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@Truthbandit19 @karenvaites @JonHaidt They will use their laptops to play games. At best, they're a distraction. At worst kids are using Vpns to access things like porn, people getting their heads cut off etc. in class. the tech guy at our school said there's nothing they can do. The kids find a new VPN if they block

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@karenvaites @JonHaidt 1:1 has been the worst thing since NCLB

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@Hersh__11 @FixingEducation Bingo. And instead of giving them a vocational option that would be constructive to their future, we keep them in high school for 4/5 years while they disrupt everyone around them and STILL don't graduate and end up working an entry level manual labor job. (Which is fine btw)

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@BenCarsley I don't know you or follow you but I just found this old screenshot. Gotta say, frustratingly spot on.

#goms #sodomojo

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Not every kid deserves to stay in the classroom. Some students have earned their way out of it.

It is not cruel to admit this. What's cruel is forcing 25 other students to sit in the room while one kid makes learning impossible.

And every teacher knows what kid I mean!

Some are experts in low-level disruption, but others constantly talk, make noises, refuse to do work, roam the room or hallways, etc.

Worse, there are kids in school who regularly pick fights, bully others, and make threats to the safety of students and staff. Yet, we keep them in.

In these situations, schools are held hostage by their worst students. When that happens, we're no longer in an instructional environment; we're in the business of crisis management, with the kids who actually want to learn getting ignored while teachers put out a thousand little fires.

This results, de facto, in the removal of kids from education, just not the ones who deserve it. We essentially force the good kids out of the education they deserve by making them to sit in chaotic classrooms, wasting day after day.

It also results in teacher burnout because they are tasked with tolerating failure instead of being supported to fix it. We're forcing good people out of the profession, people who may, under different circumstances, raise reading and math scores and help prepare our students for a useful and fulfilling citizenship.

"Every child has a right to an education"?

Yes. But no child has a right to steal one out from under everyone else. Maybe it's time we consider what it takes to lose that right.

[Michael Fujimori @the_Obake]

@C_Hendrick How much money have we spent on making sure every student has a laptop so that they can forget it at home, forget their charger at home, find ways to get around the firewall and play games during class time, bring a similar looking personal laptop to do whatever on, etc.