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alwaysbewoke · 1 month

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arcticdementor · 2 years

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“They play things like Siren head, Huggy Wuggy, the walking dead etc. I’ve had to shut entire stations down.” Complains kids don’t play... Immediately shuts them down when they do play because she doesn’t like the themes of the games they play. . Video Games didn’t kill play, Teachers did. Kids would love to be playing tag, snowball fighting, having dirt clod wars, wrestling, tossing eachother around in king of the hill, having sword fights with wooden or foam swords, having little wars between their toys. Give boys little toy soldiers they can line up and make go to war and they love it... you’ll never see such elaborate shared story telling. But preening teachers took all the rough-housing out of play, and they forbid even violent or mere conflicting themes in imaginative play. Imagine if they did play McDonalds and one of the students playing the manager said “I don’t care about your daughter’s birthday you have to work friday” or one of the boys played a homeless person that had wandered in and was harassing another kid playing a customer and the one playing security might try to force him out... These are things Kids might actually see and play to try and understand... but nope it makes the teacher uncomfortable, and there might be a conflict where a kid gets a booboo or cries so shut it down... (kids are like babies, if they don’t cry once a day then they’re dying somewhere inside) So ya of course kids play fucking video games its the only place they’re allowed to ACTUALLY play and imagine instead of modelling some obscene demonstration of compliance and subservience the teacher wants I remember at my school we had a jungle gym, it had a metal rope bridge, slides, monkey bars, pull-up bars, and railings that were about waste tall for a kid and made of bars you could stick your hands through. We’d play Grounder every fucking day on this jungle gym it was great. One kid would close their eyes (we had the entire thing memorized) and would walk along hands out trying to touch one of the players she couldn’t see, and we’d all be climbed over the side hanging on by those bars, or on top of the covered slide, or hanging on dangling under, and when the blind person who was it cornered someone they’d have to dart along the loud gravel, and if the person who was it shouted Grounder that would be a catch. I was it one time and was deeply confused that I hadn’t caught a someone i had heard on the metal in front of me then the chain hand swings, i hadn’t heard him touch the gravel which i knew he had to have done, and there was nowhere for him to go... the bell rang, i opened my eyes... and there he was above me, he’d pulled himself up and was standing on-top of the pull-up bar... the teacher screamed at him “get down you’ll hurt yourself” so he jumped, landed on his feet, was perfectly fine. A few years later we came to school and there were massive fibreglass sheets bolted to the jungle gym... the rope bridge you couldn’t slide outside, the railings made of bars were covered in fiberglass so all the hand hold were gone... sheets of fibreglass extended past the corner-posts so you couldn’t climb around onto the outside, half the features were effective raised from chest height to above your head... we never fucking played grounder again. I walked by the school years later and even that was too unsafe they’d torn down the jungle gym... there’s now some unclimbable posts with a wooden roof there and a bench, such as you might see outside an old-folks home so some wheelchair bound geriatric and her friend in a walker might rest from their 50meter walk and go back inside to die. I see kids today and they don’t even look like we did, the muscle and way of moving just isn’t there... When i hear boys talk they arent swearing to each-other and contesting for dominance, when i hear the girls they aren’t making up something unspeakable about a girl not there...the thrill of combat the rush of scandal is just gone from them. . And this teacher has the goddamn nerve to say its the screens and video-games stopping kids from playing? The same fucking video-games they were playing in the 80s!? The same cheap entertainment my friends and I experienced when we played GoldenEye or watched Retarded Animal Babies on Newgrounds!? No YOU are what’s stopping kids from playing you fucking witch. Ask yourself what would happen if the teacher left the room unattended for 2-3 hours and came back? I know what she fears, that it’d be chaos! Ie. the kids would be actually fucking playing instead of the miserable performance she demands, the boys would actually be socializing and swearing and fighting with each-other, the girls would be gossiping and ostracizing and lying and making bizarre things with the stuff about the room... No chance in hell they’d be longing for their screens to free them from their misery then, they would, for the first fucking time in their life, actually be able to play. And this fucking witch blames the screens. No YOU are the thing that has been damaging these kids. You are the one who abuses them day in/day out and breaks them to the bureaucratic machine. . All Teachers is a bastards. Every single one deserves life in prison as if they have kidnapped 20 kids and abused them for years on end. Because that is what they have done.

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anonymousdandelion · 8 months

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A general tip for students who are sending those dreaded Religious Absence Emails to your professors: Rather than asking permission to take the day(s) off, politely let them know that you will be taking the day(s) off.

In other words, consider not saying this:

"May I miss class on [date] so I can observe [holiday]?"

It's not that there's anything wrong with the above, per se. But because it's phrased as a request, it risks coming across as optional — a favor you hope to be granted. Problem is, favors are not owed, and so unfortunately asking permission opens the door for the professor to respond "Thanks for asking. No, you may not. :)"

Instead, try something along the lines of:

"I will need to miss class on [date] because I will be observing [holiday]. I wanted to let you know of this conflict now, and to ask your assistance in making arrangements for making up whatever material I may miss as a result of this absence."

This is pretty formal language (naturally, you can and should tweak it to sound more like your voice). But the important piece is that, while still being respectful, it shifts the focus of the discussion so that the question becomes not "Is it okay for me to observe my religion?", but rather, "How can we best accommodate my observance?"

Because the first question should not be up for debate: freedom of religion is a right, not a favor. And the second question is the subject you need to discuss.

(Ideally, do this after you've looked up your school's policy on religious absences, so you know what you're working within and that religious discrimination is illegal. Just in case your professor forgot.)

#this strategy got me through all of college #and some professors were a lot more supportive than others but no one ever told me no #because i didn't give them the chance #jumblr #judaism #religious absences #relevant to other minority religions as well #as well as non-religious accommodations #and non-school settings #dandelion says #jewish dandelion #note: the policy/legality details will vary depending on where you live and go to school #when i talk about religious discrimination laws this is based on public universities in the us

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airinn · 16 days

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happy almost black butler day to those who celebrate

#myartsystuff #kuroshitsuji #black butler #ciel phantomhive #sebastian michaelis #i have been waiting for the public school arc for almost 10 years

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dashmore-springs · 8 months

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An Intelligent Economy

Quite an economy this dumbing the intelligence of people down.

Example: you use an influential surname to link people to encouragement. a good creative idea and process to establish. but you then marginalise the source of encouragement and set about disabling it. your hypnotised employees now disable or encourage as and when it suits their master's want. Are you now wondering how long public schooling will remain?

#economy #dumbing down #people #encouragement #creative ideas #employees #public schooling

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phoenix-reburned · 11 months

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If you could answer this, put your country/state in the tags, and share this it would be appreciated! I'm an ex-homeschooler from Texas and I'm genuinely curious on what people from outside of America think about homeschooling or if it's even a thing elsewhere

#boost #b00st #share #poll #polls #i love polls #homeschool #homeschooling #school #public school #study #world #worldwide

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bezierballad · 15 days

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