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@JasonJAnger The value one has for reading is deeply personal. The goals of literacy instruction should depend on the context of the instruction and the desires/interests/abilities of the unique individuals being instructed. What we would prefer for our kids is often made irrelevant by them.

@JackieDawnM @D4nEvans @BabeTruth2 @JacquiDeevoy1 @tiggerroo35737 At least put a space after your commas for your pointless comment.

@D4nEvans @BabeTruth2 @JacquiDeevoy1 @tiggerroo35737 Hey,Dan… just curious,what kind of lumber? Oak,cedar,pine? (Lumbar,at least spell the word correctly for your story.)

Meningitis is NOT contagious, so what’s with all the nonsense? As my friend Kat Watkins says on FB today: “Meningitis is an infection in the brain caused by toxins passing the blood brain barrier. You cannot 'catch' it, it's not contagious 🙄🙄 So all this closing of schools is just theatre. It's to scare you into making sure you jab yourselves and your kids up. How many of those who have presented with meningitis, had the covid vax? Since its a side effect? As well as a side effect of many other jabs 🤷🤷”

@JacquiDeevoy1 This is a good opportunity to learn more about this subject. Remember, humility is the key to lifelong learning! 😃

@Jake_W x.com/iowahawkblog/s…

Paul Ehrlich was wrong. Re-upping this.

@NotRob6 @robbysoave Being hotheaded "feels" good to people who don't have the discipline to control how their emotions make them behave. Also, how is being a hotheaded government employee "effective?"

@robbysoave Hotheaded sounds good to me at DHS. I don't want sniveling platitudes or something that just makes me "feel" good, I want effective, that is all.

Mullin needed to apologize, say it was the heat of the moment and he made a mistake. At that point Paul could have let it go. But Mullin didn't do that, despite being given ample opportunity. I don't want a hotheaded DHS secretary.

@tonyannett When the facts about nuclear are taken into consideration without consideration of gender, it seems that your post is a good example of "culture war bullshit."

I am convinced that the obsession with fossil fuels and nuclear by men in particular is that they are coded “masculine” whereas solar and wind are coded “feminine.” Get culture war bullshit out of technology!

@WaskJosh @LilaGraceRose

@LilaGraceRose You reacting this way is exactly why we need to. You do not care about the greater good, no matter how much evidence is stacked against your voting habits.

Maybe the "repeal the 19th!" grandstanding by a few folks is not so helpful to conservative causes after all nymag.com/intelligencer/…

@True_Zenith @LilaGraceRose

@LilaGraceRose You're right. We should stop grandstanding and simply do it. It's not exactly like women could stop us.

@esterdiol @KelseyTuoc @brazen__head This is MAGA levels of denial.

@KelseyTuoc @brazen__head like no shit "oh people buy iphones so things must be better than the 1800s" have some self respect.

I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do this just in case there's someone out there who has never had it explained to them. When a business opens - or really, as soon as a business starts making plans to open - a defining question for the business is how it will collect payment for the goods or services it provides. If you trust the people you sell to, you can be pretty relaxed about this; send people an invoice, most of them will pay it on time, any who don't will pay it a bit late. You have to think about convenience and mistakes but not about people trying to cheat you. This saves you so, so much defensive planning to make sure you get paid. It's so much easier. But if you're selling to the general public, you do have to think about people trying to cheat you. You have to structure the physical store so that it's hard for them to steal. You have to not carry some items that you'd like to sell, because they'd also be attractive targets to steal. If people swap price tags between items, you can't use stickers. If people put things on in the dressing room and wear them out, you need to pay someone a full time salary to monitor the dressing room. The world that we all live in is much poorer than the world we'd live in if people didn't steal. The stores don't carry things that they could carry if people didn't steal. They don't use pricing and inventory systems that would be way easier and more convenient if people didn't steal. But it could be much worse! If I walk down to my local Whole Foods today, items on the shelves won't be locked behind sheafs of plastic - that is only worth it when the background rate of stealing is much higher than it is at my local Whole Foods. When more people steal, businesses have to further intensify security, or go out of business. When you shoplift, you directly and unambiguously impoverish your community. You make prices higher for everybody else, you make stores less usable for everybody else, or you make businesses not viable that would otherwise be viable. The direct impact each time is small, but it's a lot larger than the direct impact of taking some trash out of the trash can to throw on the ground, or pouring just a tiny bit of poison into your local river, and most people have a deep, instinctive abhorrence of antisocially wrecking your community like that. So don't steal. The other thing that it seems possible some people might not understand is that while you might have a social circle that is incredibly nihilistic and cynical and thinks that everybody steals, in fact this is not true. Most people do not steal. Most people, if they learn that you steal, will lose more respect for you than you had to lose. I don't know anyone who has shoplifted except 'as a kid/teenager'. It is not always the case that virtue is rewarded and vice is punished but even before you bring the legal system into it, the risk-reward tradeoff of having everybody you know know that you steal things sometimes is absolutely terrible. Who would hire someone who steals things? Who would trust them around a vulnerable person? Who would want to live in a society with someone who will delightedly and routinely wreck it for the slightest personal benefit? I hope that "Gina" turns her life around. I hope that Gina realizes that she needs to. And if you have been told that it's just a corporation or that having ethics is lame or that if you think about it, other bad things happen too, like wage theft, so that means stealing is okay, I hope you really, actually, think about whether you'd accept any of those as excuses for anything else.

@NYYRC History doesn't care about your feelings. x.com/i/status/20311…

The United States of America was created by the Founding Fathers, who were Christian, “for ourselves and our posterity.” Where do Muslims fit into America? We’ll save you the search — they don’t.

@kelleylowens @ThatNickGraham I do think it can be done! I just don't think it can be done effectively in an involuntary context. Even the best things in life can be made into tortuous misery when forced on us.

@LesterJMilton @ThatNickGraham Taste can be cultivated and trained. In fact I would argue that one of the main purposes of education is training affections toward what is good. But that's a whole other convo.

Every educator needs to keep this Flannery O'Connor gem in a back pocket for the next time a student complains about the relevance or boringness of an older book... “And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.”

@ThatNickGraham @kelleylowens That's great! Unfortunately, it's not the case for far too many people. And there's no reason to think that you wouldn't have discovered his works if you hadn't been forced to read them as a child. While reading is essential, "taste" is subjective & can't be forced onto people.

@LesterJMilton @kelleylowens Erm, not really . . . in school I was forced to read Graham Greene (TP&TG, as it happens) & cordially hated it. 53 years later I'm currently entranced by his novels. It's never too early to improve & refine your taste.

@C_Hendrick That shouldn't be overlooked. But I think we should aspire to realize a school system which can teach kids how to read and write without also teaching so many of them to hate reading and writing and school itself.

Apart from the fact that school taught him the most powerful tools we have for learning, the ability to read and write.

@StatisticUrban Used to live in that neighborhood. Miss it so.

The Linda Mar Taco Bell

@DeclineTheWest @CathyReisenwitz I respect your position and appreciate that sentiment very much and wish you all the best.

@LesterJMilton @CathyReisenwitz You've answered my question, thank you. I won't try to convince you that porn is wrong, since our impulse to self justify is so strong. But I would encourage you to seek God while you're still alive to do it. Love you man.

Scott Galloway, et al are doing their audience a terrible disservice by peddling this porn addiction narrative. It feeds the source of the problem, which is not porn itself, but shame around it.

@DeclineTheWest @CathyReisenwitz I agree that porn consumption is decidedly different now than in the past! Whether or not I enjoy it really doesn't change the fact that most people who use it, as with drugs, do so without problematic behavior.

@LesterJMilton @CathyReisenwitz Most of history doesn't have any bearing on the present. Porn is a social ill. But before I try to explain, do you consume it? If so, I'm not going to win this argument.

@DeclineTheWest @CathyReisenwitz Like drug use, for most people and most of human history, it isn't. If someone doesn't like the way it makes them feel, they shouldn't do it. If they can't stop doing it, they should figure out why, maybe get some help.

@LesterJMilton @CathyReisenwitz Yes, and porn is a negative behavior.

@DeclineTheWest @CathyReisenwitz As a response to negative behavior, sure. As a response to neutral or positive (normal) behavior, not so much.

@CathyReisenwitz Shame is a good thing.

@eenuttings It could be lots of things? But we probably agree that this video isn't really a solid illustration why people should "homeschool your kids." x.com/LesterJMilton/…

@LesterJMilton i would hope the OP would know the lesson if anyone, and they don't when asked

the kids going "now that is science" at the end and the parents agreeing is a really perfect encapsulation of how home schoolers conceptualize things

@effortfuleduktr @HeatherMJames3 I've been telling my fellow homeschoolers that homeschooling is just like every other kind of education: great for some, okay for some, and terrible for some. The key is to pay real attention to your kids. x.com/LesterJMilton/…

Thank you for your comment. I was mostly talking of those who generalize that homeschool is always good and public school is bad and doesn't work for anyone and is ruining society. Like just about everything in life, both homeschooling and public schooling can be done well or poorly. I cannot stand the generalizing of either.

Stumbled into homeschool twitter over the past few days and...