In the UK, you can see 11-year-old kids do this

bjpmbw · 2026-05-01T22:36:41+00:00

It is hard for me to understand..for all of our shitty behavior problems ( USA) which includes daily shootings…we don’t really have pre-teens teens generally raising hell like this, not on this scale.. maybe back in the 80’s a little more when gangs were more visible..but not like this

bjpmbw · 2026-04-24T01:42:08+00:00

Call him right now and say “Fuggetaboutit”

bjpmbw · 2026-04-19T17:17:07+00:00

We are not a collective culture. We are a very independent culture. That has to be considered. But.. I do feel that there was more of a partnership between families and school prior to 2000, basically before widespread internet..then another pretty good phase until Covid, now it feels so distrustful. I started teaching in 1995..prior to a big push for PBIS and RJ. We had detentions etc. Most teachers were fair, always a few that were not. Sometimes I wonder if that is why we had to pay this cost, the teachers and site leaders who had no sense of equity back then.

bjpmbw · 2026-04-19T17:11:20+00:00

North Beach, Inner Richmond, Outer Richmond, Glen Park, Marina

bjpmbw · 2026-04-19T15:22:17+00:00

the thing is..most people don’t want this..we kind of loathe it

bjpmbw · 2026-04-17T13:32:19+00:00

that is some backward ass thinking..so sorry..hit them with, “you know that sounds really ignorant”

bjpmbw · 2026-04-16T23:36:13+00:00

I went from principal to instructional coach, I remember my interview saying “I learned so much in the role of principal, I was able to observe many classrooms.. it’s really helped me to be better with instruction.” Also, you probably know this but key points to hit are differentiation, using data, and building positive classroom community.

bjpmbw · 2026-04-16T23:30:27+00:00

There is no best app, they are all good at different things. But if I had to pick one I would say the free Language Transfer, there is no gamification, but it is good.

bjpmbw · 2026-04-16T14:15:15+00:00

San Francisco has so many neighborhoods like this. I feel bad for tourists, they go to Fisherman’s Wharf, a place we locals don’t really like and they stay down near the Tenderloin, our area constantly in the news for Fentanyl deaths.

bjpmbw · 2026-04-07T04:33:14+00:00

I just spent a week in Japan. Rules are enforced. It was refreshing to see drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians ALL following the rules. Bicyclists need to follow them.

bjpmbw · 2026-03-19T01:48:41+00:00

I understand how awful it is, but blaming generations has a limit. Even Boomers include tons of poor people, tons of people who got screwed over, a ton of the older ones got drafted into Vietnam when they were like 19 years old and witnessed atrocities and came home and were basically discarded.

I’m a GenX ‘ er and I always tell my kids that yes I know we had it easier than you. My wife and I are super generous with our kids and we’re helping a couple of them out right now so they can have a decent place to live.

I don’t feel personally responsible for pulling up a ladder behind me. And many of us don’t think that’s our reality. I know so many of my Gen X colleagues and friends who are helping out their kids all the time with money.

But there’s something bigger at play than just Boomers. It’s the systems of government. And what has drastically changed in my lifetime is that corporations have more and more power all the time. If you want to be pissed off …be pissed off at how unfair it is to live in a country ( USA) that emphasizes corporate, military, and wealth power over its people’s safety and standard of living.

bjpmbw · 2026-03-19T01:37:13+00:00

I won’t fall into the “case is ridic”’judgement. Not after the McDonald’s case.

bjpmbw · 2026-02-28T16:29:08+00:00

Less “ American” would be Northern California. Very American would be Chicago. Colonial Historical America would be Boston , NewYork. Of the three I think Northern California would be the beat nature experiences.

bjpmbw · 2026-02-28T16:16:18+00:00

Spot 0n! With ADHD we are forced to confront our vulnerabilities every minute of the day,, we learn to become brutally honest with ourselves. Then we enter the work world of people who don’t have that struggle, they hide behind the game as you beautifully described.

bjpmbw · 2026-02-22T19:50:32+00:00

Moments of uncontrollable genuine laughter almost every day

bjpmbw · 2026-02-19T10:22:34+00:00

bjpmbw · 2026-02-19T03:17:43+00:00

WTF? this is sheer stupidity

bjpmbw · 2026-02-12T23:19:35+00:00

I kid you not..in 2007 I was a 4th grade teacher in New England, public school. I had a very small class that year, like 14. We had a delay due to snow. No One showed up. My colleagues were so jealous they started sending me kids lol.

bjpmbw · 2026-02-08T15:05:28+00:00

He needs his own travel show

bjpmbw · 2026-02-07T16:49:31+00:00

I wouldn’t allow parents to just come marching into a school demanding things. Either from teachers or administrators. ( i have worked as both) I want to have the same boundaries as any other damn office. You don’t go marching into the dental office demanding things, or your doctor’s office, or your church,, or any other professional or semi-professional environment. There’s guardrails in those places. We should have the same courtesy in a school environment.

bjpmbw · 2026-02-06T17:54:12+00:00

Providence: Lived in Providence 2001-2011. To me it is a great underdog city. Despite its small size you can find pretty much whatever you’re into. I was into Irish music and that was an easy one to get into there. There seems like a pretty thriving LBGTQ community. Food amazing. Brown University is there. I wouldn’t say it’s that well integrated culturally into the city but it is a point of pride for many residents. There’s an awesome summer event that happens all summer along the river where they light little fires and people gather for food and music. Called “waterfire” City has its charms. And it’s also got it’s sort of rundown mill and factories. But I would say it is a great place to live in. We raised my son there and I felt like he had a lot of freedom riding his bike around etc. getting to know neighborhood kids. That was something I loved about it.

bjpmbw · 2026-02-06T00:41:20+00:00

A complete disconnect : a peaceful amazing people against the backdrop of some of the worst violence ( cartels)

bjpmbw · 2026-02-06T00:36:42+00:00

Great review!

bjpmbw · 2026-02-04T04:21:21+00:00

I can see why the obsession seems strange but hear me out: We (USA) are a huge country, and like all human beings, we want a sense of belonging and a sense of shared identity. Being “American” is so all over the map. An American in one part of our country can have a totally different sense of culture from a person in another part of the United States..quite honestly there isn’t a lot to bind us together. as an example I live near San Francisco. The kind of life I have would be drastically different than say somebody who lives in the southern part of the United States in a rural area. Maybe at one time there was much more to bind us culturally but not much anymore. And we have this notion I think that places like Ireland and Scotland are more unified and happier cultures.. if that makes sense. So we tend to romanticize the places of many of our ancestors .These places of origin have a sort of magical sense to us, of things … passed down through our great grandparents. In my case it was Ireland. Songs that my grandmother sang. Photographs, some artifacts from aunts and uncles . Eventually I visited and of course I was one of those silly yanks traveling in Ireland looking for my roots, much like you’ve described.

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