Priests being arrested

Jeff. This succinctly captures it. Wow. Yes.

Still just absolutely blows me away that we taught a generation of kids *coping strategies for functional illiteracy* rather than actual reading skills

why did this ("once every 9 months") call to mind that ole Yeats poem? 🤣 ...
"vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

They'd better be depicted as belly-up and peaced-out on the back! 😂🤣

Looks like its whole Ars(e) Technica(lly) fell off.

#amreading

Yup. And you'd be shocked by how many good, smart, well-intentioned people 'go along to get along' with whatever new paradigm is cast about.

As an English teacher, I would like to sincerely apologize for the state of things; I'd also like to note that I'm doing literally all I can.

seems like a poor sample size

JCO -- her flaws aside for a moment -- wrote one of the most disturbingly powerful and consistently anthologized short stories of the 20th century, which punched the number of the current threat to American normality decades and decades ago. Jus' sayin'.

That doesn't suck. Congrats!

JB did. JB CAN. JB will.

knee-jerk encouragement, stating the hyperbolic but very, very obvious