I also have talked to my classes about how stressing about grades doesn’t get you good grades. Doing your work does! you don’t have to be attached to grades to do well in school, and sometimes the mental noise and anxiety of the attachment makes it harder to do your best. Ofc easier said than done.
It’s worth talking w him about why he feels such a strong attachment to grades (and why maybe “the best” vs. “good”). What does he think they say about him? What does he think about himself when he gets a B vs. an A? Putting grades aside, is there anything he feels disappointed in himself for?
What i see with my kids a lot is that they have succeeded in school historically without any real difficulty, and their sense of themselves as “smart” as measured by external validation from teachers is a load bearing part of their identity and it can feel like a real crisis when that goes away
Sixth grade is a big transition in a lot of ways. It’s a big shift in how school operates, how much executive functioning is required to succeed, and how salient a kid’s own identity is to them. I teach middle schoolers in their first year at an especially rigorous school and it is always a shock.
It would have been much clearer and simpler to just say “taboo”
I know what kind of friend I need. I need friends who like know-it-alls. I should go to jeopardy trivia nights.
This part is truly horrid. He’s not even trying to make an argument that he was being violent and the force was necessary.
Hell, not even just boosting salaries— mitigating budget cuts and layoffs would be a good start!
And if you are someone who really wants to hold expectations for students, it only takes one colleague or administrator who is cynical about the abilities of your kids to make your job so, so much harder. Without a united front and institutional support it’s really hard to stop AI cheating.
The other thing that’s going on here is that in under-resourced districts with larger class sizes, students reading significantly under grade level, and lower expectations for students, teachers often don’t have the time or desire to root out this behavior.
And the school district had programs and coordinators to support students who were parenting, including a community partner that provided free daycare.
There are still a few communities where there’s a substantial teen pregnancy rate (though definitely lower than before). I taught for a year in one of the cities with high teen pregnancy rates in MA. It was a city with a high population of immigrants who tended to be pretty devoutly religious
I’d bet anything this is more based on the fact that she probably hasn’t spent any significant time in cities while living in the states aside from going to the Hard Rock Cafe and she’s now living in a city for the first time after only shopping at suburban grocery stores with 98% white shoppers
The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain.
(Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?)
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The rise in antisemitism is so, so ugly. It feels like dams of restraint have been breaking open steadily.
And 12 year olds really know very little about the world because they simply haven’t been alive long enough to think about most of it. They’re just a couple years into being intellectually capable of understanding the systems they live in, and elementary school doesn’t emphasize social studies.
When it comes to adult expectations they are much more stressed about grades and identity, and those stresses usually come out in more diffuse and individual ways rather than memes.
For my specific 12 year olds it’s a joke (the kids who do this are the ones who joke around about anything and everything). I think they are getting it from social media influencers who are experiencing genuine anxiety and malaise about living under capitalism.
It’s easy to shut it down by just telling them “haha ok but seriously”
It is a bit, but it’s a bit the 12 year olds are doing. They know it’s silly!
I feel like one of the reasons the Atlantic is Like That when the new yorker is Not is that the new yorker is still primarily a magazine with weekly issues and has few online exclusives + doesn’t tailor their stories to online engagement. The Atlantic has been doing a lot of trend chasing
They had a career planning presentation from the guidance counselors and before guidance arrived one student raised his hand and asked if we could refrain from saying “the j word”
Did you know that it’s been a meme among 12 year olds for at least the last couple of years to spell “job” with an asterisk and treat it like a slur? As a humanities teacher who teaches about job specialization among other things I have had to shut this down a fair amount
Over 17 THOUSAND people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora in the US, spanning the entire period up to its inception 70 years ago, lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ inaction.
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That is honestly probably the main way he’s jazzed up and manipulated by his inner circle. He loves AI generated pictures and fake news stories of himself getting plaudits and looking cool. He’s reposted delusional shit like that on Truth Social many times
Just underneath the absurdity lies one of the most volatile fault lines in city politics: The rift between elected government on the one hand, and the political power of the NYPD and the constellation of interests with which it is aligned on the other.
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I love this for all of them
Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱
Honestly this is about the punishment I’d expect for this in any comparable non-political situation. Kids fight in school all the time.
A blue drink in a martini glass with a floating garnish of blue flowers.
This drink is called the Blue Sky Tea and it has blue curaçao in it, so naturally I had to try it
