Some Sort of Salamander Cryptid
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If you're against ICE when it's being used as intended from a republican admin but not against ICE when it's being used as intended from a democrat admin, then you're not actually pro-immigration. You're just someone who dislikes Trump and doesn't want to think about the humanity of others too hard
January 9, 2026 at 4:57 AM
If you're against ICE when it's being used as intended from a republican admin but not against ICE when it's being used as intended from a democrat admin, then you're not actually pro-immigration. You're just someone who dislikes Trump and doesn't want to think about the humanity of others too hard
It's a mess. I hope folks don't pester you regardless of what you decide to do.
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's a mess. I hope folks don't pester you regardless of what you decide to do.
9. Accomodations are truly the way to level the playing field to make the whole idea of school tenable.
* Also there's a massive amount of literature to show timed, high stakes exams, have pretty poor outcomes across the board.
* Also there's a massive amount of literature to show timed, high stakes exams, have pretty poor outcomes across the board.
December 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
9. Accomodations are truly the way to level the playing field to make the whole idea of school tenable.
* Also there's a massive amount of literature to show timed, high stakes exams, have pretty poor outcomes across the board.
* Also there's a massive amount of literature to show timed, high stakes exams, have pretty poor outcomes across the board.
8. So even if you know someone who's making a bad faith argument about how diversity isn't important or some similar garbage, school is inherently a system that can be gamed. If you truly believe in meritocracy (don't) school as a system is set up as a system to learn and play.
December 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
8. So even if you know someone who's making a bad faith argument about how diversity isn't important or some similar garbage, school is inherently a system that can be gamed. If you truly believe in meritocracy (don't) school as a system is set up as a system to learn and play.
7. So the only way to make a fair system is one that accommodates for various types of learning, otherwise you're always giving better grades to students who can game the system (rather than those that understand best).
December 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
7. So the only way to make a fair system is one that accommodates for various types of learning, otherwise you're always giving better grades to students who can game the system (rather than those that understand best).
6. So then we need some way for a student to demonstrate competency. But there's no real way into a student's brain. There's always going to be some level of affordance and, in that, ways for savvy students to game the system.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
6. So then we need some way for a student to demonstrate competency. But there's no real way into a student's brain. There's always going to be some level of affordance and, in that, ways for savvy students to game the system.
5. Simplest way would be to ask, right? But a students met cognitive awareness of their understanding may or may not be where a teacher wants it to be. I have had SO many students tell me they "got it" only to very much demonstrate they do not.
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
5. Simplest way would be to ask, right? But a students met cognitive awareness of their understanding may or may not be where a teacher wants it to be. I have had SO many students tell me they "got it" only to very much demonstrate they do not.
4. With that in mind, having a timed exam doesn't evaluate capacity to understand, it evaluates who's keeping up.
That brings me to my second question: if timed exams aren't a great idea* how do educators make sure they've successfully put information in their student's brain?
That brings me to my second question: if timed exams aren't a great idea* how do educators make sure they've successfully put information in their student's brain?
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
4. With that in mind, having a timed exam doesn't evaluate capacity to understand, it evaluates who's keeping up.
That brings me to my second question: if timed exams aren't a great idea* how do educators make sure they've successfully put information in their student's brain?
That brings me to my second question: if timed exams aren't a great idea* how do educators make sure they've successfully put information in their student's brain?
3. The ideal, would be I (a teacher) teach you stuff, check in on your understanding, and then teach you more complicated stuff. So in short, speed is valuable for being a good student but not learning.
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
3. The ideal, would be I (a teacher) teach you stuff, check in on your understanding, and then teach you more complicated stuff. So in short, speed is valuable for being a good student but not learning.
2. Picking up new information quickly doesn't yield a better or more thorough understanding of material.
BUT it does make existing in a school system way easier so that a teacher can get through their laundry list of interrelated topics by the end of the semester (or year)
BUT it does make existing in a school system way easier so that a teacher can get through their laundry list of interrelated topics by the end of the semester (or year)
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
2. Picking up new information quickly doesn't yield a better or more thorough understanding of material.
BUT it does make existing in a school system way easier so that a teacher can get through their laundry list of interrelated topics by the end of the semester (or year)
BUT it does make existing in a school system way easier so that a teacher can get through their laundry list of interrelated topics by the end of the semester (or year)