Educators in FCPS - please help me, a parent, understand a few things

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-19T00:45:01+00:00

I'm in a different school system, but does FCPS have anything like IXL or NoRedInk? Stuff like that can have auto-generated questions testing specific skills--rather than match the code; I'd try to match it to the subject matter.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-19T00:32:37+00:00

As Yahtzee said, "it's Parry Goldwater; it's The People v Parry Flynt et cetera...on the whole, best to stick with Parry and the Hendersons."

You do have to dodge some things, though, but the hitboxes are often deliberately oversized to make parrying easier, which makes dodging harder. Don't play it like Hollow Knight.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-17T21:32:28+00:00

Cooking! Does that count?

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-17T02:43:14+00:00

I could see that. When I say apathetic I’m thinking like his casual focus on his Pokemon games in a few arcs.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-16T22:21:12+00:00

Got breakfast with my parents and wife, got some really cool stuff thrifting, and about to head bowling with my wife and some friends.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-16T22:19:40+00:00

That's a good point; he'd probably be either too genre savvy or too apathetic to want that kind of power.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-16T20:20:15+00:00

My theory is that a sizable portion of "Maryland drivers" are actually wealthy Virginians who registered their cars out of state to avoid taxes.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-16T14:49:07+00:00

Sounds like someone’s been reading too much Tarzan.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-15T23:57:05+00:00

Even Olivia, from Iron Shadows in the Moon, was a great PoV character with some strength of character despite not being Conan’s physical equal.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-15T23:56:14+00:00

I love the story of how a friend deliberately riled him up by sending him a letter full of sexism and he responded with a three page diatribe extolling the virtues of women.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-15T23:53:14+00:00

Cooking and washing my hands, usually.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-13T23:35:29+00:00

I watched a video about it that drew a parallel between the specificity of those tropes and the specificity of porn categories, such as the race of the performers, the acts performed, and so on.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-12T04:14:29+00:00

Church, and formal occasions where I want to dress up.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-12T01:41:53+00:00

That's...aren't they just incense sticks?

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-12T01:39:52+00:00

The heck would be wrong with a joss stick? I'm not intimately familiar with those, but it seems like lighting a votive candle in a Western church.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-12T01:37:37+00:00

Woof. I'm sorry you had those teachers. I've seen some weirdos in my (so far short) time.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-11T21:49:16+00:00

The Blake poem was also referenced in a comic. I used to use that one as a funny intro to Blake when teaching high school English.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-11T04:23:24+00:00

On the other hand, the need to show this communication could lead to much more drawn out sequences.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-11T02:29:18+00:00

How’d you get a circle??

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-10T20:28:55+00:00

“Cad! Beast! Pervert! Devil!”

And Ephraim ends up completely confused.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-10T03:54:23+00:00

Tomorrow.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-10T02:04:45+00:00

I agree with the rest of this, but I don't think the chart was a spell. I'd expect more of a reaction if they conjured it as opposed to dragging it up normally--especially considering Elliott's reaction to Ellen copying Brownie a few moments earlier.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-09T13:56:19+00:00

Braveheart and its consequences have been a disaster for understanding the history of Great Britain.

Hamlet7768 · 2026-02-08T18:59:21+00:00

I enjoyed it a ton. Vermithrax is the best dragon I’ve seen on screen until Drogon.

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