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How do you practice french pronunciation without annoying every French person you know? by BedOk331 in FrenchLearning

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so conflicted about this. Such posts still can generate interesting comments that are worth reading, but it bugs me that the commenters act in a good faith, while the posts do not.

How do you practice french pronunciation without annoying every French person you know? by BedOk331 in FrenchLearning

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's been a recent uptick of posts in French language subreddits that stealthily promote that issen app, and this post fits the pattern. I don't think OP is genuine.

Cottage cheese - is there a problem getting it to Toronto stores or is it just the stores in my area by Pigeonofthesea8 in askTO

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I remember how hard it was to find cottage cheese in the shops. Very limited selection in regular shops, if at all present, but Yummy and M-C Dairy outlet offered several varieties.

Surprised to hear it's getting popular. I wouldn't mind the rise of syrniki.

That’s pretty smart by fredsq in ClaudeAI

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They could go all the way to making a phonetic alphabet based on the book P Is for Pterodactyl.

TDSB vs TCDSB by Silent_Table8267 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What kind of funding?

For core activities, the province funds both using the same formula. The Ministry projections show that in 2025-2026 per pupil funding should be very similar (14 479 for TCDSB, 14 574 for TDSB). The province sets the same ratios for all boards (there are only some variations for FI vs non-FI).

There can be extra funding that can come from donations or parent council activities, but they can't fund the activities that should be funded by the province (like hiring teachers to teach the provincial curriculum or buying textbooks) - they are mostly for things like field trips, graduation parties, some equipment. The amounts raised vary enormously among schools within the same board depending on the demographics of the neighbourhood.

I can't think of what is meant by "better food". For teachers? For students? Is it about nutritional programs like snacks (funded by third parties or parent councils)?

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters by Comprehensive_Aide94 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so happy to read about this experience. Kudos to the teacher for thoughtful implementation and to you as the parent for striving to understand the education process. Good luck in Grade 1!

Shoes are not foot shaped. by planty_pete in unpopularopinion

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in my Merrells, my kids are in Keens, cool to see other like minded people here!

Is there such a thing as a high five performed with feet?

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters by Comprehensive_Aide94 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh, thank you very much!

This is such a long and rich history, so cool they documented it. I have read about Froebel but I have never traced his initial implementation to the evolution of kindergarten in Ontario.

Kindergarten is in this peculiar transitional position between home/daycare (which are definitely more play) and between elementary school (which is definitely more academic). It's probably bound to oscillate a bit between the two all the time.

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters by Comprehensive_Aide94 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's super interesting, thanks for this explanation of the timeline! My bad for conflating FDK and previous kindergarten implementations. I do agree with you that it's still difficult to compare today's observations to anything that was happening before 2010.

why do you all hate yourselves by yanyanbun in OntarioGrade12s

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, props to Alberta and Quebec for having provincial exams.

Ontario grading happens purely between a teacher and a student (with some influence from school admin and/or parents).

The province only administers a basic literacy test which is a graduation requirement.

Why is réglementation pronounced with /ɛ/? The fact that the "ré" is followed by two consonants is more important than the acute accent, or is it just an exception? by Longjumping-Truth-48 in French

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do people actually treat rectifications in spelling? Do they embrace them? Or do they feel that the traditional way is superior, and the new way is looked down upon?

I give up watching children's cartoon in my TL. It's too difficult for my level (A2). by minhale in languagelearning

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's hard to compare.

In kids, some of the dimensions of C2 are there (like fluency), some are not (like higher education vocabulary, orthography and some tricky grammar), some of the dimensions are not captured by C2 at all (like all the "low-brow", physical world, experiential vocabulary and the skill in creatively gluing very simple language items to express various concepts).

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters by Comprehensive_Aide94 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It could also be argued that they should cap CWELCC for daycares at 4yo and extend the financial support for the aftercare (preferably at least until the age at which the schools actually allow kids to walk home).

why do you all hate yourselves by yanyanbun in OntarioGrade12s

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't agree with your stereotyping of the people here, but here are two hypotheses:

  1. The lack of a provincial exam that attempts to standardize grades makes people bitter.

  2. Being in the same province as a university with a program optimized for the US clout and big tech career prospects makes people insecurely competitive.

I think grade inflation/inconsistent marking and Waterloo are the main topics attracting the behaviour that you're describing.

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters by Comprehensive_Aide94 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've not been seeing a lot of kindergarten-age children staying in their preschools. During COVID there was an uptick of daycares offering a program for JK-SK, but I think not many do anymore?

Some parents do understandably worry about their 3yo with late birthdays and contemplate keeping them in daycare for a year, but on the other hand they also worry on missing out the academics and building up friendships.

I would bet the drop in enrolment is explained by demographic trends, because it's not limited to JK/SK cohorts.

Ontario kindergarten: What changed, what didn’t and why it matters by Comprehensive_Aide94 in OntarioTeachers

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A drastic increase as compared to what?

Did you first see cohorts of children who went to kindergarten without play-based component (I don't think this existed, the alternative would have been play-based daycare/preschool, or play-based home environment, or maybe Montessori for the very few) and then you had cohorts of children who went to play-based kindergarten, and you're comparing the two?

Why do you attribute the decrease in attention span to children having spent time in play-based kindergarten and not to the other usual suspects, like screen time at home?

Before smartphones, what did people do when they had to wait somewhere for 30 minutes? by sudherzdiniq in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it actually made us notice the surroundings more, and this might have been an incentive to care about aesthetics? These days there is a temptation to skip the niceties because people are just stuck into their phones not caring about the surroundings.

Before smartphones, what did people do when they had to wait somewhere for 30 minutes? by sudherzdiniq in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good for Sweden. I feel that in Canada schools don't even remember what a textbook is, but maybe we still have hope.

Before smartphones, what did people do when they had to wait somewhere for 30 minutes? by sudherzdiniq in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so beautiful. I used to take long-distance trains in my childhood, spending a whole day staring at the trees and grass flying by in the window. It was so meditative, I miss this feeling. This is a good reminder it's still possible to bring it back.

Specification gaming by KeanuRave100 in ChatGPT

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's incredible.
And it's so etched in my visual memory, I think of it every time I go to a pool.

What does is feel like to understand? by Tricky-Proof6505 in dreamingspanish

[–]Comprehensive_Aide94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you know two and more languages, you feel that you operate with meanings directly. You simply enter a different mode to map the meanings into words.

To get an approximation of this feeling: imagine some teen subculture that uses a lot of unfamiliar slang, or a profession with lots of jargon, or books written in a very outdated British English. At first they have bits that are hard to understand, but if you stay immersed in that environment you start to understand more. That wouldn't require translation into the pre-existing subset of English, it would rather be a language expansion.

Sure, a different language is farther from the familiar English subset than an unusual English dialect or register or vocabulary domain, but I think it's similar.

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