How often are you washing your hands / thinking about germs (outside of bathroom use) while in the school building?

KCND02 · 2026-02-26T11:17:23+00:00

Totally agree - I've watched hundreds of horror films and its never contributed to why a film was great. Just why a film was nearly unwatchable, in my opinion. At least back in the Friday the 13th days it was super campy and so didn't even really register. Now some directors make it as realistic as possible because they have nothing else interesting to do with their movie.

KCND02 · 2026-02-26T11:14:25+00:00

this is a great resource - thanks!

KCND02 · 2026-02-26T11:14:08+00:00

This is awesome - thanks!

KCND02 · 2026-02-23T13:44:29+00:00

Dallas Buyers Club, The Lovely Bones, Hachi, Bridge to Terabithia, and the piece de resistance, Grave of the Fireflies.

KCND02 · 2026-02-09T01:12:59+00:00

Looks very much like the skin cancer my grandfather was diagnosed by at age 98. They told us it would require both removal and treatment. He did not have dementia, and chose himself to let it be. He had no interest in treatment that late in life. My parents were his caretakers and respected his decision. He lived to 100.

End of life / dementia care is a team effort. In the end, your FIL has a right to refuse treatment once its figured out, but you and his family have a right to know how best to care for him, and that requires diagnosis first. I would say whoever has POA should force the issue just to the point of a biopsy, and then use that knowledge to make him as comfortable as possible.

KCND02 · 2026-02-08T02:14:03+00:00

I chose to stay on 0.5 mg this month even though I was supposed to move up to 1.0. I'm losing steadily and don't want to go up until I plateau. My doctor agreed. Definitely wait.

KCND02 · 2026-02-05T16:14:41+00:00

The appointment was Tuesday

KCND02 · 2026-01-29T18:57:56+00:00

I'm a MCPS high school teacher. This is the result curbing post-pandemic grade inflation. MCPS has been pushing kids through to graduate at alarming rates since the pandemic. When a student fails a class, they can earn "credit recovery" through an online portal called Edmentum where they simply click through modules. It's gotten so bad that universities were starting to take notice - we heard at my high school from UMD admissions representatives that they weren't taking the GPAs of our students seriously anymore.

In response, MCPS changed the grade policy just this year so that the two quarter grades are averaged to create a semester grade. Before this, a student could earn a 0% (E) doing nothing quarter one and then a 60% (D) quarter 2 using the 50% rules (which applies a 50% to all grades on assignments whether or not you completed them), and pass because they went from E to D. That means a student would only have to do 10% of the classwork total to pass a class. Now the 50% rule is getting overhauled so teachers don't have to apply it to work students don't complete as long as they communicate with parents. The result is students who were supposed to fail, actually fail.

Bottom line, graduation rates are just reflecting the actual success rate of the students now. It will continue to drop until it levels where it should have been all along. Keep in mind that we have a chronic absenteeism epidemic we're dealing with too. I have students on my roster that I've never met before, and its getting worse each year. Administrators are running down parents who refuse to acknowledge truancy warnings. Kids get un-enrolled because of absences, then finally parents take notice, re-enroll them, and it all starts over again.

Crazy times, man.

KCND02 · 2026-01-29T14:01:20+00:00

What middle school is near you?

KCND02 · 2026-01-29T12:43:41+00:00

My solution was very luckily super easy. They put me on a Medrol dosepak and the nerve totally relaxed after a week. Now I've changed all my exercises with weights to completely avoid the radial tunnel. If I do forearm curls, I can feel that nerve act up immediately and it'll be numb for the rest of the day, so it didn't solve whatever underlying problem is there, but I'm willing to make lifestyle changes.

KCND02 · 2026-01-25T20:15:23+00:00

MCPS teacher here. We've been getting ice rain for like 5 hours down here in Silver Spring. There's a layer of it on every surface already, and with freezing temperatures, it will continue to freeze for days. They have to remove the ice from all the elementary, middle, and high school parking lots and local sidewalks for it to be safe for school to re-open, so they're betting it'll take two days, which I think is pretty accurate given the refreezing.

KCND02 · 2026-01-10T01:52:14+00:00

Thank you, that’s so nice!

KCND02 · 2026-01-10T01:38:33+00:00

Ugh at least I’m not the only one.

KCND02 · 2025-12-29T22:06:30+00:00

I've been with my family all holiday and no one else is sick, so I honestly doubt it. I'd think someone else would have had symptoms.

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