Actually I think cursive has a use in the development of hand eye coordination and probably in some language retention value. Which puts is miles above test prep. Of course I also think handwritten things are something we should have kids do a lot, especially notes, because it does improve memory by forcing development of multiple connections.
Fun headline I saw today, some schools have cut lunch time down so much it is causing kids to not finish their meals.
Why?
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Actually I would probably say teaching young kids how to meditate and work through feelings and stress in a healthy manner would be an excellent use of a schools time.
We can replace looking at this list, cursive. Oh and these 50 hours of standardize test prep that do little for actual retention or critical thinking skills.
How about we cut those things and replace them with more detail on oxbow lakes
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Actually I would probably say teaching young kids how to meditate and work through feelings and stress in a healthy manner would be an excellent use of a schools time.
We can replace looking at this list, cursive. Oh and these 50 hours of standardize test prep that do little for actual retention or critical thinking skills.
Now children, meditate on the permutations of the cursive letters
Cut cursive, replace it with Marain.
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Let's be honest if you raised a kid on the Rules of Acquisition they would probably do pretty well for themselves in the modern economy.
not sure dishonesty or lack of ethics is any more profitable than it ever was
the modern economy is mostly notable for income inequality and lack of opportunity, I think? I mean who knows, it's hard to generalize from lived experience
Teachers would need to know how to work through feelings and stress in a healthy way in order to teach it, is the problem
That's far from common
#1 and #2s school worked with child psychologists and social workers/counselors to develop a social emotional curriculum that's a subject that gets taught every day, same as math and reading
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Teachers would need to know how to work through feelings and stress in a healthy way in order to teach it, is the problem
That's far from common
These are skills that can be taught.
I mean we teach teachers a bunch of things, some not really useful. Building this into licensing, continuing education, and so on would work.
i don't think it would, at all
training without enforcement tends not to cause change
people take the training and then keep doing what they've always done, in the absence of incentive
The enforcement is it becomes part of the required curriculum. Its not, "teach this and give folks the option to maybe do it."
Also I wouldn't be surprised if there is an appetite for this among teachers. Its a stressful job. Giving them tools to help with that would help as well.*
*This is me pulling from my best friend who teaches at a low income high school in Arvada.
I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
Thats bullshit. Social literacy makes your ability to hurt someone nuch more refined.
I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
Look there are enough horrible people EM that we can just wait for them to appear instead of needing to preemptively create them in our minds
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my mom taught a course in feelings mediation and interpersonal problem solving for years at a public elementary school and it had a huge positive effect on students, but the school ended up cutting it because it was really expensive and none of its outcomes reflected directly in any of the performance metrics they were being judged on.
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Teachers would need to know how to work through feelings and stress in a healthy way in order to teach it, is the problem
That's far from common
These are skills that can be taught.
I mean we teach teachers a bunch of things, some not really useful. Building this into licensing, continuing education, and so on would work.
i don't think it would, at all
training without enforcement tends not to cause change
people take the training and then keep doing what they've always done, in the absence of incentive
The enforcement is it becomes part of the required curriculum. Its not, "teach this and give folks the option to maybe do it."
Also I wouldn't be surprised if there is an appetite for this among teachers. Its a stressful job. Giving them tools to help with that would help as well.*
*This is me pulling from my best friend who teaches at a low income high school in Arvada.
I imagine trying to get 35 students to sit still, and guide them in meditation while making sure they do not fuck with each other would in itself be pretty stressful.
I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
Look there are enough horrible people EM that we can just wait for them to appear instead of needing to preemptively create them in our minds
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I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
Look there are enough horrible people EM that we can just wait for them to appear instead of needing to preemptively create them in our minds
Creating horrible people in my mind is literally one of my favorite pastimes
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Students who complete the President's fitness challenge will receive an additional butterfly knife, with flame decals on the handle.
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I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
oh yes my mom's program was constantly under attack for this by parents who were irate school time was being used for some hippie bullshit
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I expect some parents react to the social literacy program with worries that it's making their kids "soft" and actively undermining it with shaming and verbal abuse
probably, but I haven't heard any of it from the parents I've talked to. I suspect that the nature of private schooling is such that those types of parents end up taking their kids elsewhere if they really don't like it.
this school is fairly supportive of the progressive ideas of like, acceptance and celebration of multiculturalism and such.
e.g. at the yearly talent show, there was a 7th or 8th grade girl that went up and did a high energy rap performance, followed by an 8th grade boy that pranced and leapt around the stage with a ribbon (think Will Farrel in Old School) and the audience was screaming and cheering loudly for both of them
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lol a course in feelings
what's next, classes on singing? dancing? WRITING? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I learned all my social/emotional/interpersonal skills from math class.
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Anxiety and hypochondria suck.
Not as much as actually being hurt or sick
but still
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Fun headline I saw today, some schools have cut lunch time down so much it is causing kids to not finish their meals.
Why?
How about we cut those things and replace them with more detail on oxbow lakes
Cut cursive, replace it with Marain.
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That's just high school.
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That's far from common
not sure dishonesty or lack of ethics is any more profitable than it ever was
the modern economy is mostly notable for income inequality and lack of opportunity, I think? I mean who knows, it's hard to generalize from lived experience
"Just let me do it."
Yup, checks out.
there's definitely good stuff going on so I am sticking with it... only on episode 4 s1
These are skills that can be taught.
I mean we teach teachers a bunch of things, some not really useful. Building this into licensing, continuing education, and so on would work.
literacy is still taught as it was 70 years ago, I think
decentralized schooling makes improvements to education really difficult to implement
#1 and #2s school worked with child psychologists and social workers/counselors to develop a social emotional curriculum that's a subject that gets taught every day, same as math and reading
i don't think it would, at all
training without enforcement tends not to cause change
people take the training and then keep doing what they've always done, in the absence of incentive
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The enforcement is it becomes part of the required curriculum. Its not, "teach this and give folks the option to maybe do it."
Also I wouldn't be surprised if there is an appetite for this among teachers. Its a stressful job. Giving them tools to help with that would help as well.*
*This is me pulling from my best friend who teaches at a low income high school in Arvada.
how the fuck should I know
Ask them
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Thats bullshit. Social literacy makes your ability to hurt someone nuch more refined.
Look there are enough horrible people EM that we can just wait for them to appear instead of needing to preemptively create them in our minds
I imagine trying to get 35 students to sit still, and guide them in meditation while making sure they do not fuck with each other would in itself be pretty stressful.
Assume you'll get your mower back until proven otherwise
Creating horrible people in my mind is literally one of my favorite pastimes
Students who complete the President's fitness challenge will receive an additional butterfly knife, with flame decals on the handle.
oh yes my mom's program was constantly under attack for this by parents who were irate school time was being used for some hippie bullshit
probably, but I haven't heard any of it from the parents I've talked to. I suspect that the nature of private schooling is such that those types of parents end up taking their kids elsewhere if they really don't like it.
this school is fairly supportive of the progressive ideas of like, acceptance and celebration of multiculturalism and such.
e.g. at the yearly talent show, there was a 7th or 8th grade girl that went up and did a high energy rap performance, followed by an 8th grade boy that pranced and leapt around the stage with a ribbon (think Will Farrel in Old School) and the audience was screaming and cheering loudly for both of them
what's next, classes on singing? dancing? WRITING? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Maybe I can justify a pizza tonight
I just listen to pop radio
Those don't seem STEM focused.
Not as much as actually being hurt or sick
but still
The S in STEM stands for singing