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RL Peeves
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@RightMeow You can do it!
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I did it. It’s all a bright auburn now. It covered all the blue and purple (yay color theory)
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Rather than hire subs for the day our district has opted for one sub per building that is there 100% of the time. It is supposed to foster relationships and cut down on behaviors because the kids know they will see her again and also that their teacher will communicate with her.
She’s insufferable though. She has an early childhood education degree (prek-3), but hadn’t passed her assessments nor finished her English as a second language or reading requirements for licensure. She hasn’t student taught. (Some COVID nonsense allowed her to graduate without it.)
But she ~insists~ she is a ~real teacher~ and it drives me BONKERS. She has zero classroom management skills, and when she is “teaching” often gets small but significant facts wrong that will lead to serious misconceptions later. All new teachers do this, but the mark of a good new teacher is that they listen to feedback and do better. She shrugs off all corrections and keeps insisting she knows best. It has gotten to the point I refuse to have her touch my reading groups because I know she will teach them an error it will take me forever to undo. She never follows the plans the teachers leave and has favorites among the kids. She has even requested one out special needs 6th graders be pulled out of class and sent elsewhere whenever she covers that level. (Um, feels illegal to me, but I have no idea.)
Then last night she was going on and on about ADHD and how she has it and so she knows what parents should/shouldn’t do about it and I wanted to go “IT DOES NOT MATTER. YOU ARE NOT A TEACHER LET ALONE A PSYCHOLOGIST.”
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@junipersky Oh god. She sounds like a nightmare. I love the idea of having a building sub or two who can be consistent for teachers and students but man, when you get stuck with a BAD one…ugh.
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@junipersky Zero classroom management skills, teaching leads to small but significant mistakes, plays favourites (like, we all have students we like more than others, we just don’t let that impact the lesson/class structure)…
Sounds like someone headed right into administration to me.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
She has even requested one out special needs 6th graders be pulled out of class and sent elsewhere whenever she covers that level. (Um, feels illegal to me, but I have no idea.)
Details matter, of course, but on the surface - yep, sounds like a likely violation of IDEA laws.
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I am becoming more emotionally immature.
I just got into an internet argument I’m gonna vague post about. They came to me out of nowhere, never having spoken to me before, to get homophobic at me while claiming their own vector of oppression justifies their homophobia. There’s no discussion to be had there, no reconciliation possible: the only thing for me to do is let the little weirdo have the last word and not let them trick me into making their problems my problems.
I know that. I do. And there’s a time when I would have already let this go.
But god do I want to go back and let them have it. Worse, this isn’t a one-off: I can remember a dozen times in the recent past I not only gave in to those childish temptations, I didn’t even have enough self-awareness to notice I was doing it.
Working on yourself never ends.
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Like I was telling someone earlier, sometimes we just make bad decisions that feel good. You don’t always have to justify
eating an entire pint of Phish Food because you skipped breakfast and lunchgetting into an argument online with an internet troll. Sometimes, it’s just the thing that makes you feel better. Embrace it, even if it’s not logical. -
People who treat the shoulder of the road like a right turn lane. You’re not getting out of anyone’s way! Your vehicle’s ass end still swings out into my lane when you make the turn because of how sharp you gotta cut the wheel on account of that NOT being a turn lane! Just–ugh, stop it!
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Fucking old townie racists that insist on bringing up the old (replaced) racist mascot again and again, start threatening people who point out that it’s racist and they need to stop, and then threaten and deadname the high schoolers who chime in to tell them to knock it off.
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When you are middle aged so its harder to tell if you are experiencing a medication effect, you are just out of shape so of course you can’t do easy semi mobile yardwork without sweating like you’re competing in Ironman, you are just feeling like a bitch, you look pale because you’re still recuperating from a procedure or maybe its also just stupid fun hormonal bullshit.
I had my older three kids relatively young so wasn’t going through this when they were teens/at home unlike a lot of my mom friends, I really can’t imagine dealing with that level of hormone clash on the daily.
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If it’s not cancer treatment stealing away my energy, it’s chemo brain stealing my mind away from me. I’m good. I’m fine. I’m ok. But honestly, I want to be able to join an game again without feeling guilty that I’d be letting folk down if I just didn’t have the energy to play or GM. Hoping to get back to that some time this year. Maybe. Hopefully.
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@mietze I feel this so hard while on cancer meds. I can only do 5 minutes at a time, but I have strawberries coming up!! And a few onions planted during “semi cold” season. And potatoes!!
It’s a start but not a finish by any means.
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Can someone explain to me why 19-20yr olds think they are entitled to literally every single food item in the house?
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@Cobalt If you want a serious answer, because of evolution. I honestly believe humans are wired so that the actions of children around the ages of 15-25 will piss off their parents, and likewise, their parent’s actions will piss them off, especially when they are living under the same roof.
During human evolution, this adaptation would have encouraged children to leave the house, spreading out the family’s genes and making it less likely for those genes to be wiped out by fire, viruses, predators, and the like.
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@Sage The existence of multigenerational households in a huge number of cultures in the world, as well as the fact that they really dwindled in the United States during the rise of suburbia, strongly implies that this is a cultural trend and not an evolutionary one. Be very, very careful of assuming that what you see as the norm around you exists that way for purely biological reasons, the implications aren’t great.
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The simpler answer is that food is energy, and energy is a necessity, especially for those whose brains are developing at an alarmingly speedy rate (which isn’t the same as saying it stops developing after this point; that’s not true). Modern food is also just really dang tasty, so it triggers the reward pathways in the brain more readily.
Add to this a diminished level of responsibility, since food acquisition is someone else’s job, and “take food, feel good” is the primary reason.
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The realities of dealing with illness and a chronic condition are hitting pretty hard. Trying to keep my chin up, I’ve certainly navigated even more stress in my life but im pretty tired and airplane crud sucks and not even in a fun way. I am used to being able to power through just about anything. I feel pretty gross and annoyed to not be able to anymore.
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Getting yelled at by a 7 year old just minutes after they woke up is apparently a huge trigger for me. Who knew?
