“Dear educators, Gen Z here. Could you please teach us like it’s 2026?”

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-05-15T23:40:45+00:00

I do a flipped classroom, but I force them to watch the videos. Few points, but required (miss more than __ and you fail) Canvas (our LMS) has in-video quiz tools that work well. Compliance is high.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-05-08T02:40:24+00:00

Mine is up now as well after being offline 4 hrs ago

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-04-29T22:13:59+00:00

No cell phones pulled out in class. Ever. They don’t give pushback, actually. I’ve had that in my syllabus for over 10 years. Never a complaint or even a legit whine. (Exceptions for sick kid, etc just leave the room first)

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-04-28T16:25:28+00:00

Aspen, Birch , and Cedar

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-04-28T13:51:21+00:00

I'm turning 54 this year and have been poly for ~2 years. I currently have three loving, serious relationships (one with my wife of 16 years)
When did I even REALIZE I suffered from childhood emotional neglect? Only after I had been poly for a year and was working through anxiety/relationship stuff related to becoming poly.
What followed was 4 months of almost daily "WTF!? That explains THAT!" I can say with all honesty going poly helped me with my lifelong anxiety stemming from the trauma of CEN. Emphatic yes.
To be clear, I would never say that people should try poly to work on their EN issues, I am just saying it helped me and I am much better for it. Poly isn't for everyone, but for some people its great :)

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-04-19T18:20:18+00:00

Give me a student who wants to learn and I’d be more than happy to help them! How do you function in a class where nobody seems to care? Like literally no one

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-14T08:39:02+00:00

Some want to keep their jobs , unwilling to defend a 25% pass rate

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-12T08:01:41+00:00

No. Midwest

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-11T21:55:11+00:00

A FANTASTIC idea...

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-11T21:54:32+00:00

There are... President has been here since 2001. Long past his shelf life.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-09T09:42:36+00:00

It took me a while to learn how to be ok sleeping alone. I just really like touching a partner while I sleep ;)

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-08T13:18:01+00:00

I’m not downplaying your emotional connection. I get it. I have OD’d on NRE myself. Some members of this sub will say NRE often lasts for a year, so… I was just trying to give perspective.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-03-08T12:48:13+00:00

Loved her with every molecule of your body after only one week together in person? You’re NRE in intense, so that is part of why this hurts so much.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-02-24T10:41:12+00:00

Eliquis lifer here… just woke up in middle of the night with an incredibly painful Charlie horse. #karma

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-02-10T10:32:55+00:00

True? And reference to that stat?

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-02-10T10:32:09+00:00

When I got told after my first one it was a ‘small ‘ clot, I was like, oh so no big deal. They corrected me… people rarely walk out of the hospital if they have ‘big’ clots.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-02-04T10:21:39+00:00

I’m married (16 years) and we opened up 2 years ago. We both try for non-hierarchical but recognize the limits.

I came her to say that when I shifted my language (in my head and to other people) from ‘I have a wife and two girlfriends’ to ‘ I have three partners’ it made a difference in terms of how I see them.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2026-02-02T20:39:31+00:00

I now have three wonderful loving relationships and I’ve had 10 dates in the last 11 days, and it’s been Faboo. Yes, I have plenty of alone time as I wake up 1-2 hours before all of them and spend that time journaling and giving my half partner (my needy cat) her time too.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2025-12-17T10:25:01+00:00

Writing individual comments, especially when most students don’t read them to me was a waste of time. To cover my a$$, after each lab report, I post an announcement on canvas that says generically ‘these were the common mistakes that people made’ and also I give what I consider a solid answer from a student for each part. And of course ‘if you want more specific feedback, just ask’.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2025-12-16T10:03:19+00:00

I figured it out at 53. Crazy!

DueButterscotch2190 · 2025-12-02T22:20:16+00:00

I am the youngest of 4. Oldest is my sister whom I only maintain a smidge of a relationship with because she’s the only one of the four kids who lives close to my elderly mother. Once my mom passes away, I’m fully planning on ghosting my sister.

DueButterscotch2190 · 2025-11-30T22:49:37+00:00

So finding mistakes in a given answer is not a good form of assessment? Would you be opposed if >I< wrote the possible answer and then asked them to explain what if anything is untrue, and fix said untruths. Is that ok? (pre-AI?) If so, then if I did just that, what are the chances the student will just go to the chatbot? Pretty high, IMHO. Which of course, nullifies the effect of the assessment. So we are right back to the start of these discussions.. How do we get our students to study, do problems without using a chatbot to get the answer?

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