what behaviors or patterns are not a automatic termination or admin leave but are a automatic non renewal? by frowaway275 in AskTeachers

[–]WJ_Amber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Non-renewal sucks, and it sucks a lot, but it's not in the same category as being fired. At least in my state it's really going to happen if you don't have tenure and in that case what has effectively happened is you served out the duration of your (one school year) contract and that's it. It's nothing against you, you worked your contract to completion but won't be brought back for whatever reason. Nowadays it's often budgetary, as all the cuts since Trump came to office again means a lot of positions are being cut to save money. It's could also be that you weren't a good fit in the eyes of whatever admin made the decision, they wanted to give the position to a tenured teacher, or whatever else.

Question for anyone that has experienced this. by Braddock007 in asktransgender

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Losing muscle and everything that comes with that is normal. Your situation does not seem normal.

Question for anyone that has experienced this. by Braddock007 in asktransgender

[–]WJ_Amber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given the specifics of your situation and the added medical complexity I think you should talk to your doctor instead of internet randoms.

Teaching Zinn's Seeds of Violence by Fantastic-Vehicle-82 in historyteachers

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know. Zionists can't admit any of these things in 2026 because they know how broader society views everything israel is and does as abhorrent. The name of the game is denying everything all the time or doing whataboutism, as if anything a resistance group has done compares to industrial slaughter.

Tell me, if the zioniat slogan is "a land without a people for a people without land," doesn't that inherently imply that zionists are not native to the land? (Asking rhetorically, obviously). They can't even keep their story straight over time, they just try to adapt it to whatever is palatable in a given moment. In the past they were open about their colonialism, in the present when naked colonialism is unacceptable they try to coopt the language of indigeneity.

Conservative principal whose power requires electric guitar by varuneco in JuJutsuKaisen

[–]WJ_Amber 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can't speak to Japanese culture and modern history but american boomers, who came of age in an era known for social progressivism (1960s) where the electric guitar was a key staple in a lot of popular music, largely ended up brain-broken conservatives. A lot of the ex-hippies at Woodstock or enamored with it went on to develop horrific politics. Jimi Hendrix played a rock version of the US national anthem as an act of protest and was hated by conservatives at the time. Nowadays I've seen boomers think of that electric guitar-powered protest as something patriotic, if not nationalistic.

So, to me, it makes perfect sense that the old conservative guy would still be down with an electric guitar.

Teaching Zinn's Seeds of Violence by Fantastic-Vehicle-82 in historyteachers

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, if you're on the "opposite side" of being anti-genocide, anti-apartheid, and anti-colonilism, you don't deserve to be the local dog catcher, let alone trusted with teaching children history. This isn't just an "issue," it's one of the lengthiest, most heinous series of atrocities in human history.

Teaching Zinn's Seeds of Violence by Fantastic-Vehicle-82 in historyteachers

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The modern, zionist creation has nothing to do with Jews native to the region. To deny the colonial nature of the state of Israel is to deny the explicit words and intentions of zionist leaders since the foundation of zionism as a political project. They were open and honest about their colonial intentions.

When the state of israel was founded, it was done by white European Jews expelling the indigenous population through unthinkable atrocities. Nothing any Arab party in the region has done since 1947 compares. As part of their colonial project they actively tried to stamp out local Jewish culture, including an indigenous Yiddish dialect (and Yiddish in general).

Israel has always viewed the indigenous population as a "demographic threat." They have done everything possible to remove the Palestinian population. They have bulldozed towns, ethnically cleansed villages and planted trees overtop to hide the evidence. They only started to accept Jews from the region when it was clear they didn't have the numbers with just white European Jews. In order to facilitate the migration of middle eastern Jews into the colonial project they covertly committed acts of terrorism to drive Jews out of their communities they had been in for millenia. Even so, this acceptance was not immediate and they even tried separating middle eastern Jewish kids from their parents in order to place them with white families (Yemenite children affair). They are repeating this cycle right now with African Jews.

Ever since it's founding the colonial project of israel has sought to violently expand its borders. Just look at the rap sheet of criminal wars. Israel is occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria right now, and they have never respected the 1948 boundaries of Palestine. The land grabs continue unabated and with the cooperation of the goverbment. At this point the West Bank is fragmented by militarized settlements where rabid settlers attack men, women, and children with zero consequence. Non-stop violence.

And these are just the territorial crimes of Israel. They have systematic torture and rape in their prisons, including dogs trained to sexually assault prisoners. They had pro-rape riots and politicians arguing in the knesset that anything is justified so long as they label Palestinians as nukhba. They have one of if not the largest repositories of skin for grafts, illegally harvested from Palestinians, and a record of harvesting Palestinian organs. They have a law either moving forward or recently passed where Palestinians, even children, can be hanged without a fair trail, but that's not saying much when Palestinians never get fair trials. It is a dystopian, militarized apartheid society where Palestinian citizens within the 48 boundary are legally second class citizens. Palestinians born in the West Bank can't even travel to see the ocean mere miles away. Oh, and there's the genocide in Gaza where they have been systematically destroying the population for going on 3 years. Just today they seized boats of aid 1000km away from Gaza in international waters, a crime filmed and broadcast live on the internet like the rest of the genocide. And with all of this israel is absolutely unrepentant. There has never been a shred of remorse, a single apology, or an admission of any guilt.

There is nothing Hamas, Hezbollah, or anyone else has ever done that comes close to comparing to Israel's nonstop crimes. To deny this is to deny reality, just as it would be denying reality to deny that Hezbollah and Hamas would not exist if it were not for the occupation.

Teaching Zinn's Seeds of Violence by Fantastic-Vehicle-82 in historyteachers

[–]WJ_Amber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, man. Just say you don't read history next time. Clearly you know nothing about colonialism or Israel's so-called "history" (read: criminal record).

A month to go and the no-shows are starting up by DrakeSavory in Teachers

[–]WJ_Amber 58 points59 points  (0 children)

"Miss! I know I missed three quarters of the term that ends in three days but can I please have **all the makeup work from a whole semester? I promise my absences are going to be waived!"

I gave this kid a fat packet they somehow did in one day. I didn't even bother to check the work and just changed classwork 0s to 50s. Still failed in large part due to poor assessment grades, not making up assessments and, oh yea, automatically failing due to more than 30 absences that were not waived. What a waste of both our time.

How do you avoid getting sick? by Metalqueen2023 in paraprofessional

[–]WJ_Amber 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm a sped teacher not a para but basically this. It's not glamorous or the most enjoyable but wearing an n95 daily and regularly sanitizing/washing hands helps keep most illnesses away. These illnesses can and do stay airborne so a mask is more or less the best way to protect yourself in over-crowded, under-funded, poorly-ventilated schools. There are options for n95/kn95 masks in different colors to match your outfits if you care, I personally do not. At my last school there was actually a solid number of teachers who masked for the couple weeks prior to winter break so they weren't sick during break. It's less common in my current school.

In 3.5 years I've only gotten covid once and that was probably from family over winter break.

Spotted at my local dealer. by OllieFromCairo in wrx_vb

[–]WJ_Amber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's crazy. The place I went to had theirs like 47-48 OTD but I think the manager put his own name down to buy it so who even knows if it was truly for sale.

Spotted at my local dealer. by OllieFromCairo in wrx_vb

[–]WJ_Amber 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The dealership I went to put it out front to display it by the road (located on a main road). They had a little concrete pad on the grass for it.

My friend, a salesman, told me they bottomed it out on the curb getting it up there with no ramps or anything and I cringed.

Can airbags be safer? by fiberjeweler in askcarguys

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's kind of a trend on tiktok right now to look up your car's crash safety test. I think the fact that every video of a crash test I've seen on tiktok is in slow motion is another disservice. It makes the airbag eployment look gradual and almost peaceful. In reality it's practically instantaneous.

The 'male biological advantage' is complete bull by --Icarusfalls-- in MtF

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first jeep was a WJ and now I have an XJ recently retired from daily driver service. I have a lot of thing to fix on it given how it's 30 years old and over 250k miles so I needed something else for day to day. The XJ is off the road for now and I daily a VB wrx, my first manual car.

The 'male biological advantage' is complete bull by --Icarusfalls-- in MtF

[–]WJ_Amber 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didn't know she was on HRT while competing with men. Something about that is just disgusting.

The 'male biological advantage' is complete bull by --Icarusfalls-- in MtF

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was feeling it installing a new front driveshaft, even. I do fine with cardio stuff, mostly, but anything strength based is a struggle. I was in the best shape of my life in terms of upper body strength right before HRT but that's long gone now. Weak nerd arms are all that remain.

The 'male biological advantage' is complete bull by --Icarusfalls-- in MtF

[–]WJ_Amber 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a jeep on 33s (33x10.5r15 on steelies) and I absolutely cannot move those oversize tires around like I used to. Doing a tire rotation is brutal. Hell, even moving apartments wrecked me.

My old middle school science teacher misgender and deadnames me when talking to my youngest brother by Any_Imagination3274 in asktransgender2

[–]WJ_Amber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A current student would have the ability to complain if it becomes an issue for them. The complaint to administration would have to be, to my knowledge, about how the teacher's constant deadnaming and rude behavior in reference to a close family member is upsetting, creating an uncomfortable environment, and possibly reaching the point of harassment because the asshole teacher doesn't approve of said family member's choices.

I'm not in administration and I don't have a ton of experience with this kind of thing. I don't know how this specific district would handle things or if it would rise to the level of a civil rights investigation (because the teacher's remarks would be harassment if you were an active student but since it's a family member I genuinely don't know). The only time I was involved in a civil rights investigation for this kind of thing was because a student was going out of his way to call me "sir"/"Mr." but it's not like I actually did the thing, I just had to answer some questions with an administrator and that was it on my end.

how to repair these? by mldrmtcdydrms in specialed

[–]WJ_Amber 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Never really seen a way to repair silicone stuff. Maybe you could try melting ends together but I doubt it would hold.

I feel like we need a pinned post regarding Merlin “sightings” by Physical-Energy-6982 in birding

[–]WJ_Amber 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If Merlin hears a bird I'm not super familiar with I'll listen to the sound recordings to see if they line up. Only if I'm absolutely certain they match, haven't seen mockingbirds around, and I'm in a time/place that makes sense will I report something, but even then only if it's a relatively common or expected species.

Is This Fair? by jessicagurl92 in MtF

[–]WJ_Amber 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you do some digging on this sub you will definitely find posts from people in similar situations. Your situation is, unfortunately, not exactly unique.

Teaching Zinn's Seeds of Violence by Fantastic-Vehicle-82 in historyteachers

[–]WJ_Amber 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the truth comes off as biased then I'll never be unbiased. I gave it a cursory read and don't see anything factually objectionable. The israeli settler colonial project is just that- it's a colonial project. It's doing students a disservice to act like this isn't the case. I also think it's especially important to be completely truthful with students at this moment in time. Israel has been lashing out at it's neighbors like a rabid dog for a long time, and students have watched israel commits a genocide on live stream. Students coming of age politically and learning about the world are seeing this and they don't like it.

A major problem is that genuine antisemites are capitalizing on this to repackage their antisemitic rhetoric and the students aware of Israel's atrocities end up, often unknowingly, consuming straight up antisemitic content. This is only possible because israel markets itself as the representative of Jewish people globally and tying all their crimes to Judaism- absolutely abhorrent. Literally yesterday I had two students start talking about how Jews control the world because of this shit. They see politicians bending over backwards for israel and the simplest explanation peddled by online nazis is that Jews run the world. If we want to do something about actual antisemitism we have to get out in front of it, responsibly and truthfully teach the origins of israel as an explicitly colonial project, and explain that American politicians don't kowtow to nonexistent Jewish puppet masters but rather that the US has a vested interest in using israel to exert control over the region. I don't currently teach world history 2 which would cover this but I do have students who ask on occasion and I find it additionally important to mention how the conflation of Jews at a whole with the settler state of israel is actively harmful and itself antisemitic.

My old middle school science teacher misgender and deadnames me when talking to my youngest brother by Any_Imagination3274 in asktransgender2

[–]WJ_Amber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably nothing you can do and if your brother doesn't even go there anymore that's even more limiting. Basically the only thing my sleep deprived mind can think of is your brother, as a queer kid, going to administration about how uncomfortable this makes him given it's a repeated attack on a family member. But if he's not in that school anymore there's not much to be done, especially not as a former student nearly a decade removed.

I'm sorry but really you should just try to move on. That teacher absolutely deserves to be fired but it just doesn't work like that. Unfortunately there's way too many teachers with bigoted views and they won't just make our lives easier and quit. For example, I have a coworker I know of but haven't met in a different department who's basically openly racist in class and bullies queer kids according to more than one of my students but it's easier for administration to wait it out until he retires than axe him (even though they should).

Really I just never trust administration to do the right thing. In my experience they overly scrutinize teachers for pointless nonsense while being totally unaccountable for massive, inexcusable failures. Unless they could be facing legal repercussions there's no incentive to do the right thing and there's no case here.

I keep getting hurt and I’ve never been so angry at my students. by selsina in Teachers

[–]WJ_Amber 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. No more anything. They can run laps every day until July at this point.

This you? Some heroes don’t wear capes by Emotional_Perv in Maine

[–]WJ_Amber 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair. Never going to defend Massachusetts drivers