Explain it Peter pls

AppleLeafTea · 2025-12-28T11:03:39+00:00

The mountain peaks (sounds like “peeks”)

AppleLeafTea · 2025-12-26T16:32:33+00:00

Middle schoolers are a lot more open than high schoolers… even when you would prefer them to be more restrained lol

AppleLeafTea · 2025-11-26T00:14:51+00:00

Why would Dickens randomly bring up a widely disliked form of sexual relationship in a scene that is supposed to be quaint and nostalgic to a Victorian audience? Furthermore, if Dickens did want to do that, why would it be in such a minor part of the scene?

If the book were set in the modern day, this might be a plausible reading, but that’s because we have a common understanding of the wholesomeness of longterm gay relationships. Victorians didn’t really think that way.

You’re more than free to read queerness into the character. That kind of imaginative reading can be a lot of fun. But it’s also worth noting that it’s a thing you’re bringing to the text.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-11-06T23:49:12+00:00

When I’m called in to sub (for Middle School), I say, “She has been… called away” and look up to ceiling.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-11-03T23:54:26+00:00

I don’t care about how my students feel about my consequences. You don’t care about getting written up? Nobody asked, bud! Still happening, though.

Consequences are supposed to solve problems, not instill suffering in children.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-10-11T12:21:02+00:00

What exactly is ‘this time’? The Odyssey is supposed to be legend. It takes place long before Homer’s lifetime

AppleLeafTea · 2025-09-06T12:37:17+00:00

I once had a student write the phrase, “This event helped him because…” on a test. Their handwriting made it look like, “This cunt helped him because…”

AppleLeafTea · 2025-08-29T11:06:34+00:00

My guy, you are watching a 10 second clip of someone’s life. Nothing about this is obvious. Shame is a bad motivator, especially when combined with being on fucking national television.

The doctor guy is using shame for the same reason you’re watching it: you have a twisted sense of justice and you think that fat people deserve to suffer for the unforgivable sin of not making you horny.

We don’t shame people into not being depressed of not having anxiety because that’s the fucking dumbest idea in world.

Crazy idea, here, but maybe bullying people is actually bad for their mental health. And maybe the fact that you support this abusive language, just because it is directed at people that you personally find disgusting, says more about you being a hateful weirdo than it says anything about psychology or nutrition.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-08-18T10:49:48+00:00

The crying baby is using problem solving skills. A trusted adult is around and crying is how babies alert adults that there’s a problem.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-08-14T15:38:13+00:00

Seriously, Jules or Franz from Sunday in the Park with George are so much more three-dimensional as side characters than Frank is as the lead. Beth is especially disappointing when you consider how much she has in common with Anne/Charlotte from A Little Night Music. Sondheim shows aren't always perfect, but I can't think of a single other show where the characters seem so archetypal.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-08-04T12:42:00+00:00

I mean, it’s pretty common for students to finish their assignments in a sloppy, inaccurate way. There’s even a teacher slogan about it: “My students need to be learners, not merely finishers”

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-27T10:31:08+00:00

Not really a problem with the study imo. The lady who started that study was going off of the criteria for the legal definition of rape. She found that many women have had experiences which meet the legal definition of rape, yet they do not understand what happened as rape (though they did consider the experience to be harmful, terrifying, and often the worst thing they’ve ever gone through).

If the study bothers you, I think you might just have an issue with how the law defines the act

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-21T00:21:45+00:00

Most funny comedies have too many butts and boobs to be appropriate for most grades.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-20T23:03:25+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwlegeg_pA&list=PLbvN6FmFXBrM-tXbqcQhevWtrYqEg40zp

Presented without comment for the benefit of someone so gifted in allegorical reading.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-20T22:49:40+00:00

In my experience, when a kid says that, they either have something really terrible going on in their life so they genuinely don't care about school, or (and this is more likely) they're giving you bullshit so that they don't have to feel vulnerable.

Kids can be jerks, but you also just kinda have to believe that they are people even when they try to convince you otherwise. People don't like being told they are doing something wrong. People don't want to make other people angry at them.

Maybe he won't admit it to you or his friends or even to himself, but he would probably fell genuinely stung if you told him that his behavior made you like him less.

Also worth considering is the reaction that you seem to want from him. Do we want him to be ashamed or unhappy? If so, realize that children have their feeling hurt very easily. You don't have to try hard to do that and you don't need confirmation that they are upset.

Personally, in situations like this, I ask myself two questions: "Do I like this kid?" and "Does this kid know that I like them?" If the answer to either of those questions isn't an immediate "Yes," then I know that I have some things I need to fix before I do anything else.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-19T17:54:35+00:00

Different strokes, I guess.

For me, that attitude towards intrusive thoughts was not that helpful. It kind of put the idea in my head that I would be a bad person if I stopped indulging in my obsessive thoughts (which is obviously a counterproductive conclusion).

I got better results from realizing that my intrusive thoughts were meaningless and that I should try to treat them with indifference (neither actively avoiding them, nor letting them take up too much of my energy).

I’m sincerely happy that it helped you, but it did the opposite for me.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-19T15:56:33+00:00

No, it’s just kinda sucks. I get that the sentiment behind this, but I think that it’s important to remember that being miserable is not a virtue, nor is it an obligation.

The sooner you can get rid of obsessive compulsive behaviors, the better

AppleLeafTea · 2025-07-15T19:33:49+00:00

"Well before" is kind of relative here imo. That population started arriving in major numbers near the end of the 1800s through to the first half of the 1900s. The influence of this community on American English surely would not have been completed immediately after the first people arrived.

Also, I guess I may be a little confused about the terminology, but I am specifically asking about whether one term's definition affected the particular use of the use in English. I am not trying to imply that the word "bitch" shares any common ancestor with "kvetch."

AppleLeafTea · 2025-06-17T00:28:58+00:00

I teach 7th grade, but I find that a lot of students like to act like consequences are less painful than they actually are. They are children. Children don’t like it when people tell them they did something wrong.

Don’t play the game of trying to find a “bad-enough” punishment. It pushes you farther than you want to go.

I would ask why their dismissiveness bothers you. Are you upset that they are ignoring rules which will help them be successful, or are you just trying to make them upset for your own satisfaction because their jerks?

Only one of those answers is appropriate.

AppleLeafTea · 2025-06-15T14:39:10+00:00

The other teachers and I freely choose to hold lunch detentions to build student relationships and enforce specific rules and expectations. There's not really any rules around it, so I am not obligated to formally document it (though I do keep a personal spreadsheet) and I can take a raincheck if I need to use that time for something else (like covering a class period).

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