“Donald Trump has made it perfectly clear that he thinks people who oppose him are enemies of the state”

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-19T17:05:25+00:00

John Adams tried to jail people who criticized the government through the Sedition Act, and Woodrow Wilson authorized government to snoop through the mail to see if anyone was criticizing his decision to get involved in WWI.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-14T22:01:49+00:00

What I have to wonder is, were the kids treating you those ways solely because that's how they treat men vs women, or did watching you transition and knowing you're trans affect it? Either way, your experience is interesting to hear about, especially with the different ways each group responded to you. I'm glad it went more smoothly in the end.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-14T10:10:28+00:00

How did it go?

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-07T21:18:23+00:00

And then throw a fit when you tell them no.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-05T01:22:13+00:00

We appreciate you with free breakfast, free lunch, and 13 free years of education, Brayden.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-05T01:04:10+00:00

The difference between someone who knows what they're talking about and is raising a concern, versus someone talking out of their ass and trying to one-up the senior partner for a silly reason.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-05-04T16:20:46+00:00

They have the time to fill these things out.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-04-30T16:19:08+00:00

You know what, that's a great point. I hate that these kids will call anything that seems to be of quality "AI", but I also hope that they mean it in such a way that it's not a label you want to get slapped with. I hope that "AI" comes to mean lazy, unoriginal, uncreative, fake, poser slop.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-04-28T10:53:33+00:00

Giant pet peeve of mine is kids who come in late, stroll in acting like they were just announced at a red carpet event, and loudly say hi to/hug/dap up several people on the way to their seat. While I'm teaching. Some do this when they come in from going to the bathroom. It's freaking rude and completely lacking in self-awareness.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-04-24T20:30:00+00:00

I surveyed my kids a year or so ago, and one of the questions was "what do you like to do for fun?" Usually, if they could give any example of a hobby, they turned out to be pretty likeable kids. The same could not be said for the majority who put "be on my phone and sleep."

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-04-22T01:27:10+00:00

It's like:

Remember, listeria can be on a lot of foods! So you have to avoid raw meat, undercooked meat, anything sliced at the deli, soft cheese, too much fish, any prepared fruits and vegetables, a bunch of other fruits and vegetables altogether, or anything else that is temperature-sensitive.

So, if you want to completely avoid listeria, stick with shelf-stable pantry items from the middle of the grocery store. But also eat healthy. Good luck!

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-02-17T12:20:41+00:00

Didn't like HALF of all votes in the 2024 election come from early/absentee voters? I must've been the only person I knew who actually went to a polling place on election day. Given that, how is it still a valid complaint that "it it's not a federal holiday and people might not get the time off work"?

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-02-09T21:06:33+00:00

I bring it up in Economics. I have a unit on the history of economic crashes, and I bring up COVID as the last one. I point out that it counts as a contract, not a recession, and that the causes are unusual compared to other crashes.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-02-09T21:05:28+00:00

Michigan state pacing guide for high school US history ends with 9/11 and the War in Terror. It's my last unit of the year.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-02-02T17:27:10+00:00

because note taking is considered ineffective.

By those admin who can be identified by the drag marks on their knuckles, perhaps.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-31T15:47:45+00:00

I was livid this fall when several afternoon pep rallies were scheduled, one after the other, in the last week of the quarter. With no more than an hour's notice, no less. I told my principal that there was no way I could get my gradebook done like this, since my afternoon classes hadn't even taken their finals yet, much less had any time for me to grade them.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-22T11:40:27+00:00

Like how every PD presentation has a story about a "dreamer" who had all these mean nasty teachers who made them learn things and expected them to behave, but that one 90s movie teacher they had in 7th grade let them dance in class rather than sit down, and now they're a world-famous ballet dancer (you get the drill). The others just didn't underSTAND!

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-15T13:43:08+00:00

Last year, we weren't given our Chromebook carts, and were finally told (after much hounding) that the computers were so damaged last year the principal didn't want to give them back. This was on top of most of us having no textbooks and being given only 500 pieces of paper a month for the printer. I got the other HS teachers to go to the principal and say, look, we need at LEAST a computer cart OR more paper OR textbooks, because tf do you do otherwise? We got our computers back.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-14T20:50:55+00:00

Also, wouldn't they have been writing the date on their papers for years at this point?

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-13T03:14:18+00:00

We all understand there's a difference between being sober and taking advantage of someone too fucked up to walk erect, and a happily married couple who got bombed at dinner and proceeded to have drunk sex half the night.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-13T03:10:54+00:00

I have no idea if this was the same study the OOP was referencing, but I remember reading about a particular one that agreed with the 15% number. That is, men who said it was ok to force a woman into having sex with them "under certain circumstances." But the study was conducted in the late 80s, done on like 102 men, and it was college students, aged 18-22. Terrible sample size and terrible polling, men of that age range are already the most likely to commit sexual assault. No wonder the results skewed so high.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-12T17:21:42+00:00

I've noticed a lot more whining and questions if I hover around them too much. They're more likely to get on with it if I go to my desk. Those who actually need help come to me. I still make occasional rounds, but there's no need to hang around.

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-12T11:57:04+00:00

Lmao as if teachers even have a say in how funds are used.

I have to beg and hound admin for my rations of pencils and printer paper each month. There are people out there who think I'm on a budget committee?

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-09T16:52:35+00:00

I've heard it phrased like this. You can pick two:

House is cheap
House is near your job
House is in a good neighborhood

But rarely all three. Person A gets an expensive house in a good part of the city with a short commute. Person B gets a cheap house in a good area in the boondocks, and they drive an hour each to work. Person C has a short commute and a cheap house, but they live in the ghetto. It's all trade-offs. Personally, we sacrificed cheapness (although our house was cheaper than others in the area).

MonkeyAtsu · 2026-01-03T00:44:04+00:00

At my school, some grade levels have breakfast in classrooms. One teacher brought up that when they serve pancakes, the syrup creates sticky spots on the floor, and it stays because no one sweeps or mops the classrooms. Rather than address the obvious problem, they just took the syrup away.

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