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Tam not Lin
@WriteTam
vestigial degrees in Middle English. inept at birding in three different continents. accidental historical researcher. read too late last night. she/her
Virginia, USA Beigetreten Ekim 2018
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@RtrnSanity Yeah no—politicians’ kids should be out of bounds for criticism until they’re adults. I hated my scratchy white tights and Mary Jane’s and uncomfortable formal dresses when I was little—that was not my poor mother’s fault.
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Choosing violence today: you really see this with the Vice President’s kids. His kids are almost never dressed for the occasion, and you can tell they’re uncomfortable around adults.
TonyWendice@tonywendice1954
BS on that. All I see is American kids behaving badly. No respect. No decency. They cannot even dress properly.
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@TheJacobTurner My kid loved every sport he got to try. One of those high-energy kids. His sport got him acceptance to a lot of highly-selective academic schools, and his final pick was based on his ambitions to coach one day. Going pro is not the only goal.
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A PARENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH YOUTH SPORTS:
Age 5: “He’s got a cannon.”
Age 6: “He’s the fastest kid out there. Coach said so.”
Age 7: “Rec ball isn’t challenging him anymore.”
Age 8: “We tried out for select. Obviously made it.”
Age 9: “$2,800 for the season. Plus uniforms. Plus tournaments. Plus hotels.”
Age 10: “Cooperstown is basically a family vacation, right?”
Age 11: “He needs a hitting guy. And a pitching guy. And probably a mental performance coach.”
Age 12: “I’m not a crazy sports parent. The OTHER parents are crazy.”
Age 13: “We changed schools. For academics. (And also baseball.)”
Age 14: “Showcases are a requirement at this age.”
Age 15: “Ya his ranking just ticked up. We’re cooking.”
Age 16: “He just needs to get seen by the right school.”
Age 17: “The D1 schools want him to walk on. He’ll earn a spot by sophomore year.”
Age 18: “Okay, D2 is actually really competitive.”
Age 19: “He’s redshirting. Strategic.”
Age 20: “He’s focusing on school now.”
Age 21: “You know what? He’s so much happier.”
Roughly 7% of high schoolers play in college.
About 1.5% of those get drafted.
Less than half of draftees ever play one day in the big leagues.
The odds of our kids going pro are somewhere between “struck by lightning” and “find a $100 in old shorts.”
I love youth sports (all my kids play a bunch of them) just keep a good perspective my friends. ✌️
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@itsWillGram @dieworkwear In the case of my field (history), the AI answers are usually bad, poorly-sourced or just plain wrong.
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@dieworkwear Yeah it’s terrible, but standard google search has been awful for years. Search results always yield a bunch of bullshit at the top, at least AI answers your question. But I do miss the old internet dearly. It can’t be overstated how much better the it used to be.
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terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info
Culture Crave 🍿@CultureCrave
Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles • Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’ • Starts next Tuesday (via @TechCrunch)
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@ClayHorshimer13 @GabbyGabby222 @teachthemx3 In my generation, lots of folks who didn’t get their diploma went back and did their GED a few years later when they were ready to actually work. That is still an option rather than reducing the high school diploma to a meaningless rubber stamp.
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@GabbyGabby222 @teachthemx3 It doesn't. It also doesn't benefit a 19 year old kid to come back and take high school classes. Not that you're actually interested in what benefits the student.
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When you hear, “99.9% of our students graduate,” this is what it often means:
Schools put students on credit recovery courses, usually in Edgenuity. The program is multiple choice with unlimited attempts. And if the student can’t read, no worries, it reads the questions to them.
So they guess their way through it?
Not always. Sometimes they pay their friends to do it for them.
Students can get through 26 courses in a week.
At this point, the bar isn’t on the floor. It’s in the grave, and we have to dig it back up.
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"I do not think anyone over the age of 23, even if you are a teacher, graduate student, or professor, understands the extent to which AI usage affects every appendage of the university system." thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zo…
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@svjoonX @deaflibertarian Yep. If you’re dropping your child off at 7.30 am and picking them up at 6.30, you have time for a hasty dinner and bedtime and that’s it. Weekends are crammed with grocery shopping and all the chores you couldn’t get done during the week.
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People will come at me, but if the kids are in a facility from 6 months through kindergarten there’s not enough private time at home to train them. it will take longer development for it to happen in a weekend - and there’s nothing we can do about it because mothers need to into the workforce, and one salary doesn’t make it for a normal life in any city today.
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Schools are seeing more and more kindergartners who are not potty trained when they start school, and there's no medical reasons.
Why is this happening?
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@hulsey_ryan @lawdog1911 @MissesDread In our town, they concreted the public pool in after the local Black families went to court in 1965 to require them to integrate it. They won in ‘66, so it was concreted in.
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@lawdog1911 @MissesDread That's a very popular myth. But if racism had been the culprit, those public pools would have closed much sooner than they did.
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You really wanna talk about those public pools and why so many of them disappeared?
Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall
I'm watching the film “Sandlot” with our kids and just realized that the film’s version of America with baseball, public pools, county fair, block parties, etc is almost extinct.
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@Ange8D @JoshPhillipsPhD Babysitting, apparently. Workers gotta work.
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@JoshPhillipsPhD What is the purpose of school - education or babysitting?
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10 am seems too late
But I’ve never understood why school isn’t 9-5 (like a normal work day). Drop kids off on the way to work. And mom and dad don’t have to worry about afterschool care.
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Rule of thumb for A.A. Milne ‘quotes’: if it doesn’t sound like an emotionally-repressed and sardonic Englishman from the 1920s wrote it, it wasn’t him. If it’s cutesy and twee, it’s almost always from an American made-for-TV movie.
The Royal Family@RoyalFamily
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne As we mark the 100th anniversary of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Queen has presented a very special gift to the New York Public Library, reuniting baby Roo with his friends from the 100 Acre Wood. The Library is home to the original collection of toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, which inspired the characters in the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection is missing Roo, the baby kangaroo who was lost in an orchard in the 1930s. The new addition of Roo was created by Shropshire-based company Merrythought, who also created the original toys. 👀 Watch Roo’s great adventure travelling from Buckingham Palace onboard Their Majesties’ flight to his new home in New York.
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“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” – A. A. Milne
As we mark the 100th anniversary of the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh stories, The Queen has presented a very special gift to the New York Public Library, reuniting baby Roo with his friends from the 100 Acre Wood.
The Library is home to the original collection of toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, which inspired the characters in the beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series. The collection is missing Roo, the baby kangaroo who was lost in an orchard in the 1930s.
The new addition of Roo was created by Shropshire-based company Merrythought, who also created the original toys.
👀 Watch Roo’s great adventure travelling from Buckingham Palace onboard Their Majesties’ flight to his new home in New York.
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@FreddieForThis @JosieStratman Yeah, there’s no way to return it to one of these nations without kicking off a massive diplomatic furore.
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@JosieStratman Why India? Why not Pakistan or Iran or Afghanistan who also claim the diamond? It’s almost like it’s ownership is more complex than some soundbite by an American that doesn’t think beyond the surface of an issue.
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Curtis Sliwa agrees with Mamdani, says the British royals should return the diamond:
“The royalty, they're a bunch of deadbeats, slackers, the worst welfare cheats in the world,” Sliwa says.
Josie Stratman@JosieStratman
Mayor Mamdani, pressed on what he would say to King Charles if they talk later: “If I was to speak to the king… I would probably encourage him to return the Kohinoor diamond,” Mamdani says, referring to the gem in the British Crown Jewels, which taken from India.
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@RoyalFamily This is not an A.A. Milne quote. It’s from a much later Disney movie.
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@vast_differ3nce @FixingEducation Every year, flu, strep, some vomiting bug and now COVID whip around my kids’ schools. It’s not that hard to hit 10-20 days off if you keep your kid out for 24 hours after a fever or vomiting episode. So tired of contagious kids going in.
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@FixingEducation Personally, I don't think schools ask the right questions about the causes of chronic absenteeism. I say this as a teacher and the parent of a child who has been chronically absent due to bullying and health reasons.
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Schools don’t need a dashboard to understand chronic absenteeism.
They already know why 1 in 4 students miss a month of school (Ohio).
This just adds more work for teachers/schools while pretending the problem isn’t at home.
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@greg_ashman Studies show that if you put an advanced kid, two average kids, and a kid below class standards in a group together, the latter three will perform better. I’m convinced that’s because the gifted kids wind up doing 90% of the work to the detriment of their own learning.
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I am sure there is a version of project-based learning, led by researchers, that’s not like what I’m about to describe.
However, in my experience, setting kids a 3-week history or science project is mainly about the teacher not having to prepare lessons for 3 weeks. The teacher can check emails and catch up on other work while the kids cast about ‘researching’—which now often means using AI—and focus their attention on presentation, if they focus their attention at all.
Some students won’t do much for three weeks. They will chat and sometimes resent not being taught anything. This lack of work may or may not be addressed, but if it is, the teacher will quickly move on. Three valuable weeks of teaching will slosh its way down the drain.
If it is a group rather than individual project, I can guarantee that a maximum of two kids in each group will do any significant work.
Project-based learning of this kind is very tempting for time-poor teachers because they don’t have to do very much, but it isn’t teaching.
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@0Beanie05923291 let’s hear it for those Florida online MEd degrees
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I know teachers who went through the motions and got pointless graduate degrees just for the pay raise. Most will tell you that those degrees didn’t make them better teachers but it was the only way to make more money. There needs to be another (better) way.
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@coach_kevin_m My son got picked out for an elite soccer travel team. Then I visited the UK where I watched a bunch of scrawny Scouse kids kicking around a ball on the verge of a motorway, and realized they had far superior ball control and skills than any of the ‘elite’ US kids I’d seen.
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@upstatefederlst The little old baseball field within walking distance of us has been turned into pickleball courts for Boomers and Gen X.
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Basically every one of these "this is weird" kid things extend from the fact that Boomers and Xers made it illegal for kids to play outside unsupervised.
Allie ✞@allie__voss
It’s not just Catholics, travel sports in America occupy a really weird niche in family life It’s completely normalized to have your kids’ weekends monopolized by sports they’ll never play professionally, and many Christian families see no issue with it preventing church
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@Messinadress1 Was homeschooled competently (by two people with college degrees, one of whom was a teacher). I can confirm that I knew kids who weren’t homeschooled well enough to get them close to the GED level. What happened to them was educational neglect. As adults, they struggle.
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