I'm back. slightly conservative. slightly liberal. slightly radioactive. Will write for dopamine! Writes about pop culture at https://teapawt.net/t.co/hgCA80cB5i
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After two years off this hellsite, I am back. Why? Because I spent the same amount of time I wasted on here reading Substack anyway, and "X" always had the freshest news. I doubt I'll be writing anything new, but anyone interested can find my writing linked below.
My son let me read his senior thesis (after it had been graded) to graduate from an acclaimed college. In the very first line he wrote "Barrack Obama". The rest of the thesis was well done, but it was a glaring and inexcusable error. His teacher gave him a 4.0.😯
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after spending a year as a teacher, I am now convinced that the last ~50 years of education research was flat out wrong. like, "sun revolves around the earth" levels of wrong.
time to drop the epicycles and return to empiricism in education
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Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.
We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds.
We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers.
We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate.
The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best.
That's not education. That's sabotage.
The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying.
Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.
I've been waiting for people other than me to finally connect the dots with this one
Making mistakes as a parent (losing temper, being selfish/unfair, mild benign neglect) is actually formatively necessary to the development of a child's psyche, and the more we try to perfect parenting, we are removing experiences children must have to be functional adults
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A very practical concern for young people is finding a spouse. I am trying to help by hosting events for singles at my parish. The last event I hosted, we had FIVE marriages come out of it!
But like last time, I have to scratch and claw to get men to sign up! Right now: 50 women registered, 18 men, and 10 more women on the waitlist.
I hear men constantly complaining they can't find good Catholic women. Well, here's an event with Mass, bar trivia, and drinks. And the women are actually showing up!
So, what's the deal? Why are men so hesitant to sign up for these events? Genuinely asking.
the one of them is insane, but the other one is using that insanity to make herself look like a good person - sick
A lot of kids can and do learn to read using these types of context clues. That's why these methods were developed in the first place. But the problem was, the kids who could learn like this were natural readers and what they were able to do could not be extrapolated to others.
People are skeptical that teachers don't know their students can't read.
Yes, teachers know students can't decode words. But teachers have been taught that words aren't necessary for "reading".
Here's a teacher teaching kids to "read" by looking at pictures. In fact the word they're "reading" is covered up so the students can't even see it!
And listen to how she describes it at the end of the video: "reading and analyzing text"
I want to scream this from the rooftops. And it's not just a message of the 60's and on...I saw a cartoon from the 1920's where a cat's girlfriend had kittens and he went to a factory and sucked poison gas so he didn't have to get married and take care of the kittens.
I was told my whole life men did not want to marry women.
By everyone.
That it was some kinda punishment for men to be married and their “ fun “ life was over and that they really didn’t want to be with their families.
Am I the only person that got this message?
It was on tv daily.
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This went on for years before I was born and it goes on now except in Neoland they blame the women for not wanting to be married to them.
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It’s actually wild how many boomers got remarried later in life to people who have utter contempt for their children. Like what are you even doing lmao? Why would you marry someone who doesn’t even get along with your family? All this mess because they’re scared to be alone.
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People say, “At least you have insurance.”
No.
If you can't afford to use your insurance, you do NOT have insurance.
You have a monthly bill.
