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Science and math classrooms de-prioritizing memorization of the basics is what gave me my class of juniors who thought only earth has gravity and randomly lose equal signs or variables when we do math problems.
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Science and math classrooms de-prioritizing memorization of the basics is what gave me my class of juniors who thought only earth has gravity and randomly lose equal signs or variables when we do math problems.
Took the district up on the offer of some therapy sessions for an event in my classroom and every session was just an hour of talking about what I'm doing in my classroom to help the other students process (none of them were present at the time and most don't know).
October 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Took the district up on the offer of some therapy sessions for an event in my classroom and every session was just an hour of talking about what I'm doing in my classroom to help the other students process (none of them were present at the time and most don't know).
Sorry, that turned into a rant at a stranger. Just feeling very discouraged this morning and lots of horrible stuff happening at school lately, meanwhile our PD was almost two hours straight of ice breakers because the company we hired has nothing better to say to us.
October 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Sorry, that turned into a rant at a stranger. Just feeling very discouraged this morning and lots of horrible stuff happening at school lately, meanwhile our PD was almost two hours straight of ice breakers because the company we hired has nothing better to say to us.
And when we watched a simulation together and wrote down comparisons of how fast planets were going compared to their distance from the sun, only a few could identify the pattern and several asked "how are we supposed to know that on the test?" when the answer was farther= slower.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
And when we watched a simulation together and wrote down comparisons of how fast planets were going compared to their distance from the sun, only a few could identify the pattern and several asked "how are we supposed to know that on the test?" when the answer was farther= slower.
An uncomfortable number don't know whether the moon is a planet or not. Some are still asking "doesn't the sun go around the earth?". On an average day, more than 10% of any class just didn't come to school. Most will outright tell you they copied someone else rather than even open a simulation.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
An uncomfortable number don't know whether the moon is a planet or not. Some are still asking "doesn't the sun go around the earth?". On an average day, more than 10% of any class just didn't come to school. Most will outright tell you they copied someone else rather than even open a simulation.
Overall understanding of most things has. My class just spent 6 weeks learning how stars work, what gravity is, and how orbits work. Only about half can correctly predict whether they'd experience more gravitational force on Jupiter or the moon. Most report that they just randomly picked.
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Overall understanding of most things has. My class just spent 6 weeks learning how stars work, what gravity is, and how orbits work. Only about half can correctly predict whether they'd experience more gravitational force on Jupiter or the moon. Most report that they just randomly picked.
Native South Carolinian checking in. Anyone who thinks the south is full of good people is just someone the southerners didn't talk candidly to. 90%+ of them have wanted this violence for decades and they'd love nothing more than to have the torture be made public so they could watch and j/o to it.
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Native South Carolinian checking in. Anyone who thinks the south is full of good people is just someone the southerners didn't talk candidly to. 90%+ of them have wanted this violence for decades and they'd love nothing more than to have the torture be made public so they could watch and j/o to it.
It's gonna be something weird like voter registration.
September 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's gonna be something weird like voter registration.
Yeah, that one's throwing me too. Unless it was sarcasm. I haven't followed this field, but I imagine that's been published on to death already, too? It's killing me.
September 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Yeah, that one's throwing me too. Unless it was sarcasm. I haven't followed this field, but I imagine that's been published on to death already, too? It's killing me.
Maybe it's filling for unemployment? August would be end of construction season. You'd think January would uptick from seasonal job loss.
September 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Maybe it's filling for unemployment? August would be end of construction season. You'd think January would uptick from seasonal job loss.
I saw someone mention August as divorce month. I could absolutely see it being a thing that all the summer divorces got pushed back and dads finally had to use their days as single parents. Also court houses opening back up. January stumps me.
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I saw someone mention August as divorce month. I could absolutely see it being a thing that all the summer divorces got pushed back and dads finally had to use their days as single parents. Also court houses opening back up. January stumps me.
This is the most enjoyable puzzle in a long time and you have to tell us once it publishes. This is better than spot-that-lizard.
September 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is the most enjoyable puzzle in a long time and you have to tell us once it publishes. This is better than spot-that-lizard.
I'm going to say not depression, because you'd see more seasonal affective disorder in January. Unemployment? Men's seasonal work drops off in August if it's cold enough.
September 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I'm going to say not depression, because you'd see more seasonal affective disorder in January. Unemployment? Men's seasonal work drops off in August if it's cold enough.
January being super low screams pto to me, but also people going remote would explain it falling after March. I cannot explain the August peak for men, for the life of me.
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
January being super low screams pto to me, but also people going remote would explain it falling after March. I cannot explain the August peak for men, for the life of me.
I feel like it can't be childcare because you'd see more mirror in the peaks in Jan through March. If women go down, men would go up, eg. I'm assuming that you didn't separate the lines, so women do it more anyway. August is weird. I'm going to say taking sick days/pto/vacation time?
September 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I feel like it can't be childcare because you'd see more mirror in the peaks in Jan through March. If women go down, men would go up, eg. I'm assuming that you didn't separate the lines, so women do it more anyway. August is weird. I'm going to say taking sick days/pto/vacation time?
Lol. I'm a teacher, a profession famous for good insurance making up for the bad pay. I pay almost $900/month and that doesn't include what the district also pays on my behalf. Our deductible is huge. I changed to the district I'm in now for the *better* insurance.
September 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lol. I'm a teacher, a profession famous for good insurance making up for the bad pay. I pay almost $900/month and that doesn't include what the district also pays on my behalf. Our deductible is huge. I changed to the district I'm in now for the *better* insurance.
I didn't want to end up at "I'm here because it pays my bills and I see my own children more often". I have not been able to offer an educational opportunity is want my own kids to have four at least a couple years now without major pushback.
August 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I didn't want to end up at "I'm here because it pays my bills and I see my own children more often". I have not been able to offer an educational opportunity is want my own kids to have four at least a couple years now without major pushback.
So now I'm not supposed to make them read. Or do math. Even having them practice remedial math as we ease into the class is multiple parent emails. I reminded them how to multiply fractions together. They used calculators. They're high school juniors.
August 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So now I'm not supposed to make them read. Or do math. Even having them practice remedial math as we ease into the class is multiple parent emails. I reminded them how to multiply fractions together. They used calculators. They're high school juniors.
The standard to fail is "did not partially complete/engaged totally off-topic".
When almost half of our graduates don't read at 3rd grade level or do math at 8th grade level, please don't call that gatekeeping.
When almost half of our graduates don't read at 3rd grade level or do math at 8th grade level, please don't call that gatekeeping.
August 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The standard to fail is "did not partially complete/engaged totally off-topic".
When almost half of our graduates don't read at 3rd grade level or do math at 8th grade level, please don't call that gatekeeping.
When almost half of our graduates don't read at 3rd grade level or do math at 8th grade level, please don't call that gatekeeping.
Meanwhile, the second kid keeps saying "they're really going to have to cope when I get there" with NO prompting and I'm cracking up
August 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Meanwhile, the second kid keeps saying "they're really going to have to cope when I get there" with NO prompting and I'm cracking up
It's hard to follow after the fact, but I think someone called him gay weeks ago, a parent took it seriously and got "concerned", then the glitter made them lose it.
August 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's hard to follow after the fact, but I think someone called him gay weeks ago, a parent took it seriously and got "concerned", then the glitter made them lose it.
But we need to stop the bad representation of...???? Being friendly? Getting in the way of their middle school boys scoring? Idek. Proud of my kid, who told them to "cope".
August 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
But we need to stop the bad representation of...???? Being friendly? Getting in the way of their middle school boys scoring? Idek. Proud of my kid, who told them to "cope".