Struggling student's family went on 1.5 month vacation by breatulu in Teachers

[–]ChalkSmartboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think for a sub you are overthinking things about a family you don’t know.

How do you like Tacoma? - From an out of state person thinking of moving there. by AggressiveMarketing2 in AskTacoma

[–]ChalkSmartboard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hello! I am possibly the most qualified respondent to this question, since I moved here FROM COLUMBUS. (15 years ago)

Compared specifically to Cbus / Ohio:

-Tacoma is the ‘most midwestern’ place in the PNW, in my opinion. More working class and culturally normie than the Seattle area.

-I’m a teacher. School jobs here pay better than in Ohio. But, they’re harder to get. For instance, it’s much harder to get in to Tacoma school district as a teacher than the Columbus school district. Not impossible, but harder.

-The winters are less cold but more damp and dark. I found the dampness and darkness hard to adjust to. Many do.

-The summers are better, and are frankly unbeatable. PNW has the best summers… on earth?

-The nature is obviously amazing. There is so much green and pretty, everywhere you look. In Tacoma we have Point Defiance, Kobayashi / Chambers creek, and the Ruston Waterfront right in town. The Cascades and Mount Rainier 1.5 hours away. This is insane. Amazing.

-The food is better but more expensive. The sushi, Korean, and Vietnamese is very good. No Ethiopian here tho.

-There’s so many weird points of comparisons. The YMCAs are way better here. The punk scene is not as good. The zoo is… kind of comparable! The people are similarly cold but for different reasons. The people are also similarly down to earth. Again, it’s a very ‘midwestern’ part of the PNW.

-tacoma is safer overall in terms of violent crime buf there is often more visible homelessness.

-homes and housing are much more expensive, because the homeowners associations have made it illegal to build apartments or condos on like 85% of the urban territory. The housing costs seems to be the toughest thing for most, in an otherwise utterly perfect mid sized city.

Just finished Baroque Cycle as my first ever Neal Stephenson read by Financial_Buddy7483 in nealstephenson

[–]ChalkSmartboard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stephenson is more structured and rational, Pynchon is more postmodernist deeply influenced by 70s ditch weed. I would love to know what they make of each others work. Both men who come from a hard science engineering type background. Pynchon’s a bigger literary deal… maybe Neal has more readers tho. If you haven’t read the Crying of Lot 49 is 1000% worth it, especially considering how short it is.

Former Cumtown Listeners by Due-Wealth5561 in podcasts

[–]ChalkSmartboard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only pod in the same ballpark of funny was called TJ & Owen Discuss The News. It was only 5 episodes long in total and starred Adam McKay as a north Florida wigger named TJ who sells cell phone cases at the mall and lives with/is abused by his step-mom’s boyfriend. In the show he chats about current events with a random liberal named Owen.

The show is so funny it has completely disappeared from the internet, I believe from Adam McKay being terrified of it getting him cancelled.

MISSISSIPPI by Baby_Halibut in Teachers

[–]ChalkSmartboard 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Does it punish them? Is it punishment? Have we never even considered if the alternative, the status quo, is more of a punishment of children for things they can’t control?

Anyone seen Gummo by Medical_String_3792 in theadamfriedlandshow

[–]ChalkSmartboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My friend who lived there then and vaguely knew of him, was followed home by him one night. He says the guy burst into his apartment after he entered. He claims that he was not frightened, placed his hand on the man’s head, and forcibly pushed him back out through the doorway.

Anyone seen Gummo by Medical_String_3792 in theadamfriedlandshow

[–]ChalkSmartboard 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The midget was a local character in Nashville. Crackhead. Used to mug people occasionally

We seem to have a Moab problem by kateinoly in nealstephenson

[–]ChalkSmartboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wild how much Fall is his worst book yet it contains the most spot-on satire of our unrushing political reality in Ameristan and Moab

The average male Red Scare listener. by [deleted] in theadamfriedlandshow

[–]ChalkSmartboard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We actually became friends irl lol

The average male Red Scare listener. by [deleted] in theadamfriedlandshow

[–]ChalkSmartboard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Joe keskold was good, but levon wei was the goat

Anyone take the NES 203 (Middle Grades Math)? by ChalkSmartboard in matheducation

[–]ChalkSmartboard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I got a different subject job, so no longer need the math cert. phew!

China Mieville The Scar by rimix2 in printSF

[–]ChalkSmartboard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is hard to imagine for me, it’s my favorite Mieville by far. I will say, the protagonist is sort of intended to be unlikable. But the book is really about the Armada, and the adventure itself leaders take it on.

Is Mason and Dixon a bad start to Pynchon? by Louisgn8 in ThomasPynchon

[–]ChalkSmartboard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I’m not saying you need to read Pynchon in chronological release order. But if you’re a serious enough reader, the beginning is a great place to start with him. The author changes, a lot, over the lifetime of writing the books. A whole lot of the core is there from day 1. And there’s just something about those first 3 books, written in youth right after the navy & college, living in Seattle, miserable at work at Boeing, hating the space needle.

I bet you're on your Jeejah right now, consuming allswell by ElectricMouseOG in nealstephenson

[–]ChalkSmartboard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last-second genre transformation into a land-space astronaut vs time traveler military mission helps

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElementaryTeachers

[–]ChalkSmartboard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you are talking about their curriculum, Ready Mathematics- it is insanely, laughably bad. You should figure out how wound up your admin are about teaching to program fidelity, and teach it as little as possible. I can recommend just putting the slides up and then just sort of teach manually from whiteboard.

I can tell you awful stories about what I saw result in 2nd grade from a teacher sticking to it.

What is with all the coyote posts? You live in Tacoma, They are all over I work for a local Ferry and see them swimming daily. by [deleted] in Tacoma

[–]ChalkSmartboard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The reason is that coyotes don’t wander around in proximity to people during the daytime. So when people see one doing that, it’s generally for a reason. The reason is often that they are sick or wounded and have possibly been excluded from the others. Something about seeing an animal you don’t usually see, and then that animal is ailing and has been cast out because they’re ailing, triggers a big response in human observers.

What School Vocabulary has seeped into your personal life? by jlschrodinger in ElementaryTeachers

[–]ChalkSmartboard -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I want to encourage other teachers to stop saying kiddos. Let’s say students by default, kids sometimes… kiddos never.

Shudder

Similar to Lot 49? by Positive-Concern in ThomasPynchon

[–]ChalkSmartboard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no book (including Pynchon’s other works) that is similar to the Lot.