Blackrose321

Absolutely, parents are causing problems and that's why I don't trust them to pick up the slack at home. I saw one video posted by a teacher who said that no matter how many 0's they write in their gradebook every kid is going to pass to the next grade. And this is far from being the only time I've heard of this happening. Here's a more recent case: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/henry-county/henry-teacher-fired-not-giving-students-unearned-grades-plans-run-school-board/PF55WJPGIRD6FB6HOQCMGCXDVQ/ Mind you, my original point was really just about not assigning homework, not whether the packet was a good idea. That said, you won't be able to convince me that critical thinking skills wouldn't have helped here. You break the packet apart, set an age-appropriate time limit to work on homework, then you follow it up with something fun. This would have worked for the majority of kids. It would have established a habit, bonded parent to child, and showed them how to begin managing big feelings. I know that takes more time and energy but why have kids if you don't want to raise them? They're completely optional...

I'm not a fan but I do love that about her and I hope she keeps it up. I hope her fans actually follow through with voting too, that would really chap Trump's ass. Lol

Or maybe his mother could have unstapled the packet and brought out one page at a time. But not everyone is a problem solver I guess. Also, you kind of skipped the entire part about teachers no longer assigning homework after you specifically asked me to research it for you and provide a link. You kind of demonstrated why not assigning homework is a problem - most parents *don't* pick up the slack. They can't even commit to one page of kindergarten homework a day. No thanks. Plus, you ignored that the solution the parent opted for was one page of homework a month... there's definitely a societal problem at play which was the entire point of my original post. I specifically said not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The right also tends to skew older and we know young voters are a large, and largely useless demographic. They'll post progressive diatribes on Twatter but they won't show up when they're really needed. Then they'll go back on Twatter and post more useless bullshit. About half of them voted in 2020 which was an 11 point increase but goddamn did shit have to get dystopian first for them to bother. Hopefully that number remains high this year.

Final thought lol - if ~94% of married fathers and ~72% of married mothers have jobs, who is checking in on the kids who aren't getting homework? What about the kids who get poor marks in school that aren't properly addressed AT school? My dad got home at 4:30 and fucked off the rest of the day. My mom got home at 9:40 after working 12 hours and picking up fast food for dinner before bed. Ain't nobody reading to us latchkey kids. 😅 (Sorry for making three posts in a row, I didn't want to overdo it in one. I'm trying to find info and formulate a response on my phone which I also hate doing...)

How many parents do we think read to their kids every day in place of homework? That line just completely threw me. Again, our reading comprehension as a country is too low so I don't know how that works out in the end. https://www.uscareerinstitute.edu/blog/which-countries-have-the-highest-and-lowest-literacy-rates https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now Like...yeah, I got graded in first grade, too. Why is that suddenly inhumane? I'm sure we can tweak things but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a bit much given our current performance.

The link I posted was about test scores, not homework or parental reactions to it. There was a viral Tiktok video about opting out of homework and apparently the reaction from some number of parents was generally positive. I don't have Tiktok so I can't read the comments in full but here's an article about it: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/mother-teacher-email-homework-tiktok-b2610648.html If the 15-20 page packet was for an entire month, that's a max of one page a day, excluding weekends. And if we're being realistic, given the age of the child, there probably weren't that many questions per page. The kid fell behind and his mom apparently only tried to help him catch up at the end, ultimately deciding to opt him out of it entirely. Big wtf for me. She let him fall behind, thereby causing unnecessary stress. Also, if you search for info about homework loads, you'll find countless articles and opinion pieces on it from both sides. Additionally, you'll find teachers saying that their students can't read at level and giving them poor marks doesn't hold them back, they still pass without addressing the problem. You'll have to look for those videos and articles, they're interesting. Over 70% of Americans can't read beyond a middle school level as it is. I don't know how too much homework is to blame but I know it's still up for debate. I know COVID had an impact but poor reading comprehension has been a problem for a while now. I'm not opposed to only assigning meaningful homework or even less homework but I worry about the end result in a society where parents are already leaving too much to schools to handle, and education is being defunded. I don't believe for one second that the average parent is picking up that slack at home, especially not given our current test scores. I just see this as a total devaluation of education, and a dumbing down of the population. Teachers tried to point out that kids always hate and worry about school at first but you can't opt them out in week 4.

So, schools are apparently moving away from giving kids homework and parents are thrilled because it's just one more thing they can be neglectful about. And yet... https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183445544/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades Where do you send your kid that the academic culture surrounding them won't rot their brains? Homework is too hard? Wtf? I'm just so...confused by and disillusioned with everything right now. My husband and I were thinking of trying to start a family but this shit is concerning...

Ugh, I hate that you're right about how that works out. They don't change their minds, they just go back to where they feel comfortable being crazy. I have no idea where we'll go from here. You know those classics that called out fascism years in advance only to be eerily accurate decades later? Do we think any such books have been written about 2064 yet?

I don't believe they actually think he's the best choice, I think they see him as a means to an end and they just pretend that he's brilliant. Just like I don't think he wants to be president, he wants to avoid prosecution. Both sides are users with ulterior motives and the country is suffering for their selfishness. Consider this: In 2023, 72% of married mothers worked. The rise of women has caused a shift that angry guys on the right want to reverse for their own selfish gain. If your wife is working 40+ hours a week, you can't brag about providing for your family because you aren't. You and your wife are. You can't expect a cold brewski, a hot dinner, and a foot massage after dicking around at the factory anymore because your wife is probably also just getting home, or is still at work herself. This means that men have had to pick up the slack at home, while also losing their main claims to fame - those being their earnings and their "protection" (evidenced by their fantasies of shooting people). Men have been called on to change how they see themselves and their roles in society and the ones on the right are failing. These guys have to pretend to love their kids now, they can't just drag them around for show when they want to look like a "family man". As we've seen from Vance, MAGA men can't stand their kids. They hate being dads. Having to spend time with their kids is the worst thing that could have happened to them. They went from having "me time" 8 hours a day to actually having to be useful. In spite of their complaints, society continues to progress - women continue to go back to work, and we continue to fight for equality both at work and at home. We've seen what happens when men are allowed to reign supreme - you get put on an allowance, marital rape becomes legal again, you have no savings, you aren't even allowed to open a bank account. You don't get to make decisions for yourself, no-fault divorces are banned, and when your hubby cheats on you with an 18 year old after 20 years of marriage, he gets to kick you out into the street. This is what these guys mean when they refer to the "good old days". So how does a lazy, neglectful, do-nothing guy get things back to the way they were? He pushes a religion that hates women. It's already got a base and since fear is central to religion - fear of the unknown, fear of the "other" - it's a great starting point. If Trump can inject that fear into the mainstream and get people voting, it doesn't matter that he's not a Christian. Being Christian doesn't mean anything anyways. The rules are made up, they're constantly shifting, and they're only sometimes applied to certain people. It's about tribalism, which makes it even easier to utilize as a tool. If they can enact Project 2025, they will restrict access to birth control and implement a full ban on abortion, effectively turning women into breeding stock. We've already seen the consequences of overturning Roe. They don't care if women die in childbirth, because they can always breed some other poor woman. Several states are already eyeing no-fault divorces, which will lock women into harmful marriages. Add onto that the rolling back of civil rights protections. Suddenly it's legal to refuse to hire women and that pesky 72% will drop as women are shut out of the workforce, and locked into unhappy marriages. The point is very obviously to return women to what they once were - property - which is why they are constantly talking about "childless cat ladies" and how miserable everyone supposedly is. It's why Elon's first thought was "I wanna rape/breed Taylor Swift". They want to get women back under control, because if you think they're going to change a dirty diaper or wash some dishes you're out of your mind. And if you expect them to stop grabbing you by the pussy, you can forget that, too. "Everyone" knows boys will be boys. Women exist to breed, it's perfectly normal for men to lose control, women just have to tolerate it. Everything they say, excuse, and do is 100% in line with the attitude that "boys will be boys", a phrase that exonerates males, subverts women, and then blames women for mens' failures. The same motivation exists for POC and LGBTQ+. They don't want anyone pulling a chair up to the table, they want it all for themselves. History has shown that any amount of progress made will always have an equal or greater push back in the other direction. This is that push, and if they have to use Trump as a battering ram they will. They are blatantly trying to return us to a time when only straight white men had any power, before they were expected to think before speaking, take a breath before acting, and actually contribute. As for the non-straight white male MAGAs - I pity them. This culture war the right is so attached to has been in progress for decades and we know that humans already struggle to process new information about their most strongly held beliefs. As you get older, it only gets worse and disinformation spreads far faster today than it ever did at any other point in history. They have no idea that they are voting away their rights, while not addressing the fact that unregulated capitalism has fucked us all up the ass without lubing up first. In truth, some number of working mothers would actually love to stay home with their children but they can't afford to live on one income. Vance just makes his wife and MiL do everything, while Trump abandoned his kids to his ex-wife and their nannies. They don't give one shit about childcare. Plus, they like collecting those sweet corporate bribes so they'll continue to talk about the "nuclear family" while making it impossible to raise one on a single income, even when you may want to. They are setting the country up in their favor, and the rest of their followers are still waiting on that trickle down...

This is hilarious. Before they'd even gotten to the first debate, Kamala was being nagged about why she wouldn't agree to more debates. It was obviously an attempt to make her look weak and frightened but she handled it so well that the constant badgering just sounded childish. Now that the first debate is over, Trump should have jumped back on it, demanding another round. That it was Kamala who did so is a display of what we already knew - she is more resilient than him and she's far more organized. He couldn't focus on anything if his life depended on it and he's scared.

That's probably for the best, I think people like him thrive on sowing discord. A direct challenge like that would merely be an invitation for him to escalate, not explain or rebut in good faith.

I find myself feeling irrationally angry that social media is most commonly used to put people down and stifle communication. It's had an immeasurably negative impact on society that we'll probably never overcome. Of course I knew this before today, it's just becoming harder to handle. I used to follow someone on Insta, mainly for the owner's animals. But today she decided to post a "clapback" video because she'd apparently received some feedback she didn't like on a different video. It was so uncomfortable to watch the toxic power of parasocial warfare in the hands of a brand new narcissist. The comments she was replying to weren't even that bad but she intentionally framed them as "coming for her"'. My sister...it's called communication. People say/write things, you hear/read them, you consider them, you reply, and, in an ideal world, one or both of you learn something. Why must everything be some self-righteous, narcissistic fight to the death? Watching this person turn their platform into the same bullshit that's already out there was too much. I unfollowed her and then just decided to delete the app altogether, I'm just so fed up with "influencers" and everything to do with them.

I still have to work on mine. My husband said that we should use a generator that will randomize the squares so that we can't put the most likely ones in a row.

Is anyone planning on making a bingo card for the debate?

I was today years old when I finally got my first orthopedic boot. This really helps my social awkwardness and feelings of insecurity.

That is such a shitty way to treat a friend who helped get you a job, I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Are you guys still friends? In my case, my friend actually referred me for the job after insisting she would be okay with having to answer to me. I'm not her boss but I'm in charge of keeping her on track and she's not making it easy. I think she has trouble setting boundaries, so other clients take up a ton of her time. She's a nice person so she doesn't mean any harm but, without meaning to, she's kind of taken advantage of our boss's patience, because her other employers are more demanding. She missed two of our meetings last week because she let a previous meeting run over by one hour - why is it more acceptable to blow off our meeting than it is to contain that one? I don't think she's realized what kind of message she may be sending without meaning to. I also think she gets overwhelmed and procrastinates as a result. We had two weeks to build, one week to test. I think it's likely that she didn't use that first week and tried to shove everything into the second week and the testing week. I think she sees "three weeks" and doesn't follow the precise plan for those three weeks, figuring she can get it done even if she starts late...even though she usually doesn't. The procrastinating, extra long meetings, and missing deadlines all combine to make her more stressed and therefore more likely to continue procrastinating, taking long meetings, and missing deadlines...I'm trying to get her to stop, even just for her own mental health and happiness, but it's hard. So this time I've insisted on having a meeting to discuss why we were late - I want her to reflect on it. Did she use all three weeks correctly? Did she run into an issue and, if so, why didn't she communicate that? Was the timeline too short to begin with, should we build in more time in future projects or will she waste any additional time we try to add anyways? We really gotta nail this down, we've got big things to get done and this has been a major roadblock in getting them done.

She's a grifting opportunist with no ideas of her own, she'll definitely try to capitalize on the momentum of Trump's campaign, it's how we got stuck with her in the first place.

Ugh, I hate having to get tough with my friend when she doesn't finish her work on time and won't answer messages. It gives me so much anxiety but I'm supposed to keep things on track and she's making is so damn hard.

That was my feeling as well. He didn't call Trump out by name but he expressed unhappiness over the way the party was rotting. I wonder if he's just reluctant to open the floodgates given how reclusive he's been. He doesn't seem to have any further political ambitions although I suppose that doesn't mean he has no financial ambitions. I really don't know what the guy has been up to besides painting.

I'm not saying this would make up for anything, or that it even matters in the grand scheme of things...but is anyone else waiting to see if Bush steps up?

I don't give one flipping, flying fuck who supports Emily Armstrong joining Linkin Park—it's bullshit. Scientology is dangerous and should never be normalized, no matter how many braindead "fans" think it should be, because questioning it has suddenly become too inconvenient for them. It's a grifter's fever dream, shat out by a fiction writer while he floated around on a yacht, high on pills. The fact that Chester Bennington's widow supports this doesn't lend any credibility to the decision. Danny Masterson still has buddies; is he a great guy now? Armstrong allegedly showed up at his trial, so I guess he must be! In my opinion, Talinda's support of this bullshit, given Chester's mental health struggles, makes me wonder what was actually going on in their household. I would never, ever support someone whose beliefs were so thoroughly at odds with my husband's experiences, struggles, and needs. Never. What could she, or anyone, possibly know about a cult member that would change the fact that they're in a cult? No thank you—I'll hang onto my moral compass. It actually works, whether it's convenient or not.

Happy birthday!

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