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Alex Constantelos

@constantelos

I teach math at Pioneer High School.

Ann Arbor, MI Katılım Nisan 2013
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
Video game idea: an NPC sends you on a bunch of fetch quests. You dutifully bring back items, thinking you're being helpful. Turns out the NPC is a clinical hoarder whom you've been enabling. It's tearing their family apart. You feel terrible about yourself. I would play this.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@mshodl @jesseylynne I can absolutely promise that we take home paper-and-pencil tests and assignments and grade them, and yes it does take hours and hours of time.
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Justine Harper
Justine Harper@mshodl·
Everything is online these days. Teachers don’t give lessons anymore, kids just sit in front of them looking at the online lesson. Teachers aren’t grading papers anymore, it’s a freakin computer program. They also have “teacher work days” and every single holiday under the sun off. This is more about the refusal to work outside of their scheduled hours, while expecting kids to do most of their work on their off hours. It’s gotten kind of ridiculous.
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Jesshausen
Jesshausen@jesseylynne·
Do people have any idea how long it takes to grade? Even if you spend only 2 min/test (usually more), when you have 150 tests, that’s 300 minutes (5 hr). The teacher will definitely spend their own time grading; just not committing to have them all done over a weekend.
Amber Apinions@fvckerysprinkle

So my daughter had a test and asked her teacher if she was going to grade them over the weekend so she could know her grade on Monday. Her teachers reply “I’m not spending my weekend grading papers.” Okay then.. moving forward my children will not spending their after school hours doing hours of homework. They will not spending their weekend working on projects. They can do that during school time then.

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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@s0ymalia @matthewstoller Genuinely, why? I found the Woke Years kind of annoying, but it had no impact on my life beyond irritating aesthetics. But some people's brains seemed to log it as an existential threat, and that seems weird to me.
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Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller·
Yes DEI was annoying and bad in many ways but no DEI consultant ever attacked Iran and caused $100/barrel oil and global fertilizer shortages.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@nickforok @okman918 @mattyglesias There are smart ways and less smart ways to criticize ICE. The best-polling line seems to be "they're taking money from health care to pay them," and of course talk about how they're killing citizens. The dumb way is to talk like a grad school race theory seminar.
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Nick Singer
Nick Singer@nickforok·
@constantelos @okman918 @mattyglesias Lots of things. Nobody is saying run campaigns on overtly unpopular niche issues. But if you think the ICE operations in MN is about border security and not white nationalism/anti-immigrant xenophobia, I don't know what to tell you. Turns out it's also really unpopular!
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Nick Singer
Nick Singer@nickforok·
It's unbelievable this guy can't remember how progressive Obama campaigned. Also, the sick willingness to sacrifice different groups selected by the right-wing propaganda machine that is constantly changing their targets. Great electoral strategy!
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Nick Singer
Nick Singer@nickforok·
@okman918 @mattyglesias Trump 2.0 should prove none of those issues are about the rhetoric as framed here. It is very much about erasing trans people, white nationalism and authoritarianism. Dems problem is telling people that, then backtracking and losing to the real deal. Maybe run on real things.
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Cheese For Everyone!
Cheese For Everyone!@CheeseForEvery1·
We do surveys where students say they want in-person classes, yet so many of them don’t bother to show up and our online classes fill up like *that.* Revealed preferences!
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@DaoshanS @neetu_arnold As a high school teacher and union member, it is really striking how unions are silent on discipline/behavior issues, in a way that fails to represent their rank and file.
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Daoshan Sun@DaoshanS·
@neetu_arnold Thousands of teachers are physically assaulted in schools every year. The unions don't say anything about it. The union bosses only care about their own power they get by supporting politicians.
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Neetu Arnold
Neetu Arnold@neetu_arnold·
Massachusetts Dems finding out unions don’t represent all teachers as the state pushes literacy reforms: “It was telling & disappointing, quite frankly, to hear some detractors at the higher level of the union saying one thing, representing teachers, when most of the teachers were saying, ‘we need something different’”
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@questionableway IMO it creates a worse system. Candidate selection gets handed off to polarized activists in low turnout primaries. The smoke filled rooms of old did a better job representing the silent majority.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@nicholas_bagley I'd like to point out that many union members were also calling for schools to be reopened. Teachers were far from a monolith on this.
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Nicholas Bagley
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley·
The gap between what was good for kids and parents, and what the union wanted, had never been wider. And the union's true colors showed. This is not an isolated instance. It's just a very visible one.
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Nicholas Bagley
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley·
My thinking on public sector unions was deeply shaped by the extended shutdowns during COVID-19. When I worked for Governor Whitmer in the spring and summer of 2020on the COVID response, we aimed to drive cases down so that schools could safely reopen.
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley

Democrats have a public-sector union problem. It’s not a popular thing to say, but continuing to ignore it won’t serve us well. My latest, together with the excellent @robertmgordon, at @nytimes (link in thread below):

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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@SockJustSock @jbarro Isn't this sort of a random coincidence of which jobs are unionized and how powerful those specific unions are? In schools, for example, there are often separate unions for teachers, admins, parapros, etc... Some more effective than others.
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Professor Sock 🐣⚡️🧦🇺🇸🇲🇽
Professor Sock 🐣⚡️🧦🇺🇸🇲🇽@SockJustSock·
@jbarro You midwits never report on how most of government depts are understaffed and one experienced employee getting sick away from massive disruption. You obsess w/ the two bart employees that make tons in overtime but not the legions of women that keep cities going for Min wage + $2
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Josh Barro
Josh Barro@jbarro·
As I said at Welcomefest last year, when you look at what's standing in the way of Abundance in New York, you'll often find a union forcing the government to spend more money to provide less public service
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley

Democrats have a public-sector union problem. It’s not a popular thing to say, but continuing to ignore it won’t serve us well. My latest, together with the excellent @robertmgordon, at @nytimes (link in thread below):

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Sandeep
Sandeep@Chaps51046093·
@nicholas_bagley @robertmgordon @nytimes Absolutely, despite 50% increase in budget in CA, more taxes pushed by unions, the outcomes have barely improved. Take your favorite measure and you will not see much improvement despite throwing more money at it.
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Nicholas Bagley
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley·
Democrats have a public-sector union problem. It’s not a popular thing to say, but continuing to ignore it won’t serve us well. My latest, together with the excellent @robertmgordon, at @nytimes (link in thread below):
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@Mark_J_Ryan @nicholas_bagley @jadler1969 @robertmgordon @nytimes I agree, single party rule is quite bad for governance. Perhaps the GOP should do some soul searching why they are utterly uncompetitive in most urban areas (you almost get a sense they despise big cities and don't mind losing them 80-20). *also applies to Dems and rural areas
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Mark Ryan 🌻
Mark Ryan 🌻@Mark_J_Ryan·
@nicholas_bagley @jadler1969 @robertmgordon @nytimes The problem is de facto single party rule. Nothing will ever change until the people who are fucking things up so badly start losing an election every now and again. Thats the only thing that will make the need to change real for them. That isn’t going to happen any time soon.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
If you ignore policy, leftists are hyper-individualists, MAGA are solidaristic collectivists, and establishment Democrats are conservative traditionalists.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@SpumoniTakes Republicans control Congress and could pass a national gerrymandering ban tomorrow if they wanted to.
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Castellammarese War Vet
Castellammarese War Vet@SpumoniTakes·
“Erm the only way to achieve [ostensibly neutral goal] is [for my side to win completely].” Ironically the only viable path to banning gerrymandering nationwide is to make it illegal to vote for a Democrat.
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James Levine
James Levine@JamesHSLevine·
One of the worst mistakes a lawyer can make is prejudging another lawyer‘s ability based on where they went to law school or the firm they practice at.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@MattZeitlin Counterpoint: democracy can still have virtues even if voters are clueless about policy. Voters in 1932 didn't have to understand Keynesian economics, they just knew Hoover was doing a bad job.
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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
really incisive point by timothy shenk here. if you really don't think voters have policy preferences and vote accordingly, it's hard to actually justify democracy
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@analytichegel Winning the ~30% of committed MAGA voters is a lost cause, but there are a large number of politically disengaged swing voters (the kind of people who voted for Trump because "he's a good businessman") who are absolutely getable.
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Jules
Jules@analytichegel·
This is why all the dems looking to win back republican voters by “moderating” have lost the plot. Adopting moderate policies will not win back voters as these voter only care about aesthetics.
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Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@ZacharyLipez @xwanyex Me too. In some ways the most small-c conservative faction in our country is Establishment Dems. The whole punchline about that group is an obsession with "preserving our institutions" — but that's exactly what wanye is talking about!
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Zachary Lipez
Zachary Lipez@ZacharyLipez·
@xwanyex I’m genuinely baffled at this post. I realize that this may just be a sign I’m old and grew up with the Washington Monthly, but why do you think left is in favor of high taxes and unions and public works? Because roads and bridges (and schools) take maintenance, people and $.
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wanye
wanye@xwanyex·
I actually think the percentage of people who really get this in their bones is maybe like 20% and the number of people on the left who get it is maybe like one percent
Anna Riedl@AnnaLeptikon

Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost.

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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@AlexGodofsky @rakishromantic There are many states where the SAT is used as a standardized test for all high schoolers and data is used to measure things like literacy, so we do need to be able to make meaningful distinctions between say an 800 and a 900.
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Alex Godofsky
Alex Godofsky@AlexGodofsky·
@rakishromantic the SAT is intended as a college admissions test. it doesn't need to distinguish between test takers well below the cutoff for any selective university.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@mattyglesias Funny enough, people tend to have irreconcilable differences on the meaning of a "good life." Rather than try to dictate one shared meaning (which in practice causes repression and bloodshed), liberalism lets us "agree to disagree," and cooperate only on temporal matters.
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Alex Constantelos
Alex Constantelos@constantelos·
@LzSeishi @TrueSlazac People don't understand that moderate policies (electable) and raging partisanship go perfectly well together. Hell, Trump won 2 elections where opinion polling showed voters thought he was the "more moderate" candidate, despite his "I hate my enemies" energy.
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Slazac 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🌐
Slazac 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🌐@TrueSlazac·
The two main criteria for the democratic nominee in 2028 should be electability and a vicious, malignant hatred for Trump and the GOP
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