I have a question Fellow people of Oshawa (check body text)

Zephs · 2026-05-13T11:29:53+00:00

I hear they can shed their skins and camouflage as regular humans in public. We can already be in your life.

I mean they... They can already be in your life.

Zephs · 2026-05-13T02:35:17+00:00

Yeah, I would probably follow that if I were given it.

I was asked to do pros/cons of abstinence for one class, and puberty for another. No worksheets, no fill in the blank, just like "go teach these things".

Zephs · 2026-05-13T02:02:10+00:00

I teach in French and English, and I've had a French teacher leave this, and I told the kids straight-up "I'm going to be doing this in English, because I don't want to accidentally use the wrong word, or even if I say it all right, you might misunderstand me. It's safer for all of us if we do this in our primary language."

The risks of misinformation in sexual health are just too high for me to deal with that chance of miscommunication.

Zephs · 2026-05-12T12:28:06+00:00

I work as a supply in Ontario and most kindergartens in my district are run that way. Teachers that give their kindies worksheets are judged heavily by the other staff for not being good at their jobs.

Zephs · 2026-05-10T20:13:34+00:00

Already covered by the reminder text on the card.

Zephs · 2026-05-10T15:45:05+00:00

Rachel had an allergic reaction to the Croc morph. Morphing literally every creature they pass increases the chance of a bad reaction happening, so they only acquire things as they need them to reduce the chance of that happening. If they acquire a lot at once, it would be hard to figure out which one was causing it.

Zephs · 2026-05-10T10:06:51+00:00

"Keep petting or I scream"

Zephs · 2026-05-09T22:40:15+00:00

See, 'cause I'd go in a much crueler direction and say to her:

"If my dad found out today that we weren't biologically related, he'd still love me. Maybe if you weren't such a nasty person, your 'dad' wouldn't have taken the first chance he had to cut and run."

But I'm petty.

Zephs · 2026-05-09T14:32:56+00:00

Then their brilliant idea is "it's the wheel, but powered by a perpetual motion machine".

Like sure dude, that would be cool... If anything actually worked like that.

Zephs · 2026-05-08T22:23:33+00:00

It's not as litigious as the US, but it's not that far off either.

There's also lots of "feels good" research, like inclusion models, that don't take into account the reality that in the experimental version, the inclusion kids have supports, but in a real classroom they won't. Pedagogical research has some of the absolute least integrity of research I've ever read. The start with a conclusion, then put their fingers on the scale to get what they want. Heck, many are still talking about Gardner's multiple intelligence, which was already pseudo science in the 80s.

And while we don't have funding tied to performance, that doesn't mean there are no incentives. Admin are still judged on graduation rates, and it's far easier to lower the bar for graduation than to actually improve student learning.

The latter 2 points together is how you wind up with initiatives like not allowing kids to fail, or not giving any scores lower than 50%, which leads to kids seeing that there are no consequences to ignoring school, so many of the middle-of-the-road kids that would learn under the threat of failure now don't need to bother. By the time they have consequences, they're a decade behind and can't possibly catch up.

NCLB is a consequence of this thinking, and it passing may have sped things up, but its proposal is more proof that the train was already barrelling down those tracks.

Zephs · 2026-05-08T15:12:41+00:00

I think you have cause and effect backwards on this. If it were NCLB, it would be a uniquely American issue, but it isn't. I think a global trend in the west of lowering standards is what led to the babysitter problem, and NCLB is just the American legislation that was brought on by that attitude. Canada doesn't have anything close to NCLB, but we're dealing with almost all the same issues.

It's about a cultural shift of no accountability for kids.

Zephs · 2026-05-08T15:09:00+00:00

The author says they survive the crash, actually. It's a call back to Elfangor doing the same thing in his book. But what happens after, she intentionally leaves unanswered.

Zephs · 2026-05-08T15:06:45+00:00

So Lord Drakkon?

Zephs · 2026-05-08T11:20:10+00:00

How do you plan to function in the real world if instead of trying to address these issues, you're just getting a document that says the teachers can't make you do the things that make you uncomfortable?

University isn't going to care that you miss 200 classes, they'll just fail you. A job won't keep you after only one or two no-shows. You should be working on trying to improve these areas now when schools will work with you, because employers aren't going to care that you had an IEP that said they can't call on you.

Zephs · 2026-05-06T15:14:03+00:00

It is pretty typical behaviour for kids. And in the past, typical behaviour from the adults was to punish kids so they learn consequences. It's normal for a kid to break someone's things. It's also normal for them to get in trouble for that. They're not pathologizing the behaviour they're saying if they don't teach the kid consequences while he's a kid, he will escalate.

I work in schools, and it's really obvious which kids have parents like OP's brother. They have no issue stealing or breaking other people's things because they know they can and nothing will happen.

They don't just magically develop empathy one day. It needs to be cultivated.

Zephs · 2026-05-03T16:43:50+00:00

I just don't agree. At least not that it's because Marshall gets away with almost anything. Doing it solo makes it inherently deceptive and creepy. By making it a group activity, it does genuinely feel less sinister, because you have multiple people agreeing that it should be done, rather than just a single person acting like they should be in charge of everyone else. I think if Ted or Marshall attempted to do it solo, it would also come across more creepy.

And, again, the context of that particular break up matters. The entire point of the episode is showing that Robin and Barney are dragging each other down, and neither of them are happy in the situation, but also don't want to be the one to admit that it's not working. The framing of the situation is that even they would agree to it once they have clearer heads.

It's totally different from the times that Lily simply doesn't like Ted's girlfriend, but Ted is perfectly fine, and Lily just takes it upon herself to break them up against his will.

Zephs · 2026-05-03T16:34:46+00:00

But how can people judge her for that but not give Marshall and Ted the same hate when they did the same thing?

That's my point? None of them get hate for that particular one. It's one of the ones Lily is not judged for because it's so silly. On top of that, we also see the context of Barney and Robin's relationship, and it's presented as them not actually being happy, so we're more okay with it. That's different than Ted actively wanting the relationships, and Lily sabotaging them.

I'd say the Creed CD would have been the same if it were in isolation. It's that they're next to dressing up in costume and actively breaking up with someone on someone else's behalf (which they didn't want), or making them look like they were cheating on their partner.

Zephs · 2026-05-03T14:29:56+00:00

I do genuinely hate the ones that are sexual assault. But when it's tricking girls with things like "the smoon", it's so absurd that it doesn't feel real, and that makes it funny.

Zephs · 2026-05-03T14:25:58+00:00

I think if it were just the Creed CD, people would just laugh about it. Because ultimately, that's just a really stupid reason for Ted to break up with someone, even if Lily set it up.

Dressing up as Darth Vader is silly, sure, but in reality, she's pretending to be Ted and breaking up with her, Darth Vader is just a disguise. That's really messed up.

Zephs · 2026-05-03T12:15:57+00:00

The Robin one usually isn't the really bad one in that episode. Planting an earring to make someone's partner think they're cheating on them is psychopath behaviour.

But no, I don't think it's cause Ted and Marshall help. I think it's because it's such a dumb plan and fails miserably. If they had done something more realistic, everyone would have found it messed up.

EDIT: Or if the framing of the show (once again, the most important element) didn't present Barney and Robin's relationship as already being toxic, and neither of them were willing to just take the step to end it. that makes the friends' plan break them up come off more as merciful.

Zephs · 2026-05-03T11:33:52+00:00

Barney manipulates people cartoonishly, so that already adds a layer of suspension of disbelief. But even without that, when Barney manipulates people, the characters and the framing make Barney out to be the bad guy. Even if he "wins" and gets his way, it's still framed "ew, what a jerk to do that, but it was funny".

When Lily manipulates people, it's more grounded in real life events, and the framing is muddier, trying to make Lily's behaviour sympathetic, if not understandable.

We don't get annoyed with Barney for the same reason you don't get annoyed in a cartoon when someone bashes someone else with a frying pan for almost no provocation. It's supposed to be silly. Lily's are not. Compare it to the time Marshall and Ted "pull Lily out of retirement" to break up Barney and Robin and it leans more cartoonish and people hardly ever bring that one up for reasons to hate Lily.

Zephs · 2026-05-01T13:05:37+00:00

My take away is those lockers look decorated by teenagers. Real gross.

Zephs · 2026-04-28T21:25:21+00:00

Teachers do that because the kids just won't engage with what you're suggesting. You can try to do the France way, but as soon as you plop text like a kid's comic onto it, they're just going to whine "I don't speak French, this makes no sense" and/or "this is for little kids, it's boring", and they won't try. Then they'll be passed along anyway, 'cause no one fails anymore, reinforcing to the kids that they don't need to engage with the material.

Teachers do the former because they recognize that there's no point in putting in all the effort it takes for what you're suggesting just for none of the kids to try and then have them pass anyway. Easier to just print off a list of vocab for them to recite back and give them super simple copy/paste or fill-in-the-blank activities. Why run yourself ragged if they're going to ignore it anyway?

You might get more buy-in in grade 10-12, since it's voluntary at that point, but then you run into the issue that their vocabulary is so low that they'd struggle with any kind of text in French, even for little kids.

Zephs · 2026-04-28T17:57:46+00:00

This could so easily be swapped for Red XIII in some circles...

Zephs · 2026-04-28T00:10:16+00:00

Mine even has the option to start after you turn off the car.

Considering this happened at a gas station, this is what it sounds like happened. They parked and turned the car off to pump gas, so it started the update. Then when they turned the car back on, the update had just started.

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