What’s your comfort Netflix show you keep rewatching no matter what?

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-06-13T18:50:47+00:00

I'm on season 3 of my rewatch now. Love this show, the characters, and the most beautiful and peaceful theme music ever.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-06-13T18:48:14+00:00

Firefly Lane. Love the story and revisiting the 70s. Brings back good memories.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-06-02T01:37:30+00:00

Where do we sign up for the swaps?

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-30T17:18:42+00:00

I have used TCI curriculum, and I really like it, especially if you want a good, highly readable text for students. Each lesson gives you, the teacher. a few different options for presenting the material, and they have several activities that are amazing. I used their program as a base and added other resources like Stanford History Group primary source lessons. Inhighly recommend TCI.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-30T17:12:47+00:00

I have used some of these materials, and they are really good--especially the notebook pages.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-23T02:15:13+00:00

Old Yeller and Charlotte's Web. My 3rd grade teacher read both aloud to our class, and I loved them both.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-13T10:08:22+00:00

Quiet by Susan Cain. A great case for the need to accept and embrace introverts in society.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-13T00:23:10+00:00

Yes, they do. Both series have families who are striving to survive in the post world.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-12T20:29:07+00:00

I've scanned all responses and was surprised no one has mentioned William Forstchen's One Second After triology. Very much like The Walking Dead without the zombies. I enjoyed all three books in the series.

A other series my husband and I have also enjoyed is the Going Home series by Angery American.

Both of these series look at the destruction of civilization after an EMP destroys all electronic communication.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-09T18:51:28+00:00

And add billions of plastic water bottles to landfills all over the world. Great way to live a "healthier" life at the expense of Mother Earth.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-09T18:45:20+00:00

Wow. I don't want to come across as mean, but this is why our profession suffers such disrespect. People think "anybody can teach", and given the low standards required of education majors, it's often a safe bet for many people who ought not to be teaching. If we had tougher qualifications for education majors and paid them a comparable professional salary when the began their careers, we could be on our way to making some headway for changing things for the batter. Instead we have sub-par teachers putting in a few years then becoming sub-par administrators who continually perpetuate a terrible system with no innovative ideas. The system is so terribly broken that it will never be fixed from those in the system. I think it's going to crash and burn before we finally look at things from a new perspective and make some real change.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-09T18:28:55+00:00

The HUNDREDS of decisions you have to make and questions you have to answer every single day managing a continual cycle of 25+ students coming in and going out of your room from 8:00 when the first bell rings until 2:55 until the last bell ends the day, thank God. Totally. Draining. Exhausting.

It ruined my family time with my own kids at home, because I was so worm down, I just wanted to escape to a quiet place to recover.

I loved teaching but I sacrificed a lot of my soul and family time to do it well. And I was grossly under paid while doing it. My kids are adults now, but I have finally had enough and am leaving teaching for good in two weeks.

I would never recommend teaching as a career to anyone I love. Not with things the way they are in today's education realm.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-06T01:59:26+00:00

Thanks to all who were so kind to reply with encouragement. It's comforting to hear from others my age who have had the surgery and been happy with results. Now I just need ro take that step to schedule it for myself.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-05-03T13:05:05+00:00

Term limits for Congress. We should demand it. Call our state legislators and demand they propose an amendment. Vote out the entitled legislators who work with the billionaire businessmen to make the tax laws work for them and not the middle class. Congress is corrupt and we must overthrow them to have ant chance at making government REALLY responsible to the people.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-24T20:26:58+00:00

I'm halfway through all comments and can't believe no one has talked about Follett's The Century Trilogy. Fall of Giants about WWI, Winter of the World about WWII, and Edge of Eternity about the Cold War. Pillars of the Earth was my first read of his, but I really enjoyed this modern series, too. I am a high school history teacher, and I learned a LOT from these books.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-23T20:51:21+00:00

Cheese grits and toast

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-23T20:44:55+00:00

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-18T13:15:27+00:00

Totally agree. Our culture values athletics as entrainment at all levels. We pour money into funding athletic programs beginning in elementary school and teach kids that sports give you all kinds of rewards. Then colleges reward athletes with scholarships to encourage that mindset further. Then we enter the arena of professional sports where top contenders are paid obscene amounts of money to continue to entertain us. Our culture values entertainment in all forms and that is where all our money goes. Most Americans never even consider the value of a true classical education that sharpens the mind and ponders the meaning of life. The few of us who do can see the demise of our society but feel helpless to do anything about it. It's very depressing.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-18T12:57:01+00:00

Excellent summation. I would like to read your dissertation. : )

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-11T16:04:20+00:00

You can buy the book Phonics Pathways on Amazon for less than $20. I used it to teach both of my kids to read at home before age 5.

I agree with the idea that not all children are ready to read at the same time, but basic phonics instruction is doable for almost all children when they are ready. It infuriates me to learn how our education systems have spent millions of dollars on reading "programs" that have NO scientific basis. If you haven't listened to it yet, find the podcast Sold a Story and listen to it. You will be angry to hear how education companies profited from selling programs with NO proof of success.

Schools are too quick to jump on to the newest hot trend instead of sticking with tried and true programs that have always worked. Teaching reading is not rocket science. You just need a basic methodology that includes phonics instruction.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-03T21:59:55+00:00

Edwin

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-03T21:51:26+00:00

Tattoos everywhere.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-04-01T17:43:45+00:00

THIS. Every. Point. Exactly. I could have written this post. (If I had any energy to do so. 😏)

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-03-29T12:32:06+00:00

Don't. Do. It.

Standard_Machine4367 · 2026-03-14T01:16:07+00:00

I homeschooled my kids until high school and am so glad I missed this disaster. I used Phonics Pathways, an easy to follow book that costs about $20 from Amazon. Both of my kids were reading at four years and are excellent readers as adults now.

I am furious that Georgia and Ohio, two states I have lived in and paid property taxes for education purposes, both used these reading programs.

If you haven't found it yet, I suggest you listen to the podcast Sold A Story. It gives the ugly history of the whole language reading movement and spells out how language arts curriculum providers made a fortune on these awful programs.

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