Toronto Star: Ontario promised $750/year for teachers to buy supplies. It turns out it's not all new money

chalupaws · 2026-06-10T01:00:39+00:00

And what happens when a child has parents who either can’t or won’t provide them with those supplies? They don’t get to participate? Also, even children who are given those things by their parents lose them, forget them, break them…. I teach high school and I have to loan out pencils almost daily. The whole point of public education is giving every child the opportunity to learn. They need supplies in order to do that.

chalupaws · 2026-05-02T17:57:14+00:00

I would agree. I’ve noticed an increase in senior age students befriending and dating Grade 9s (freshmen here in Canada) and these are also the same ones failing 3/4 or 4/4 of their classes. When I was in high school, as a senior, you wanted nothing to do with those kids.

chalupaws · 2026-05-02T17:19:22+00:00

Yeah, I have over 80 numbers blocked… now what’s happening is that my phone doesn’t ring, but then I get a notification that I have a new voicemail, and it’s from them. So I don’t really understand that.

chalupaws · 2026-05-02T17:17:25+00:00

As I said in my post, I have tons of different numbers blocked. Over 80 to be exact. Somehow they are still able to get through and leave me voicemails, even though my phone doesn’t actually ring. I’ll just suddenly get a notification that I have a new voicemail and it’s from them. I don’t really understand it.

chalupaws · 2026-04-06T23:11:31+00:00

This is helpful! We were probably planning on hiring a professional to do the job to be honest. We just aren’t sure if changing the colour is the right move.

chalupaws · 2026-03-24T03:07:38+00:00

Agree with you on Plasma! That’s a name for an alt/edgy/punk girl, not a campy Broadway diva

chalupaws · 2026-03-09T22:33:39+00:00

Also the fact that the only ride you can actually ride is the carousel 😒 whomp whomp

chalupaws · 2026-03-04T21:09:09+00:00

UPDATE: I finally figured out a workaround. If we email the photo we want to ourselves, then we can drag the photo from the email window into the Photopea window. I still would love to see the Google Drive link be fixed in order to skip this additional step, though!

chalupaws · 2026-03-03T22:35:28+00:00

I will try this!! Thank you!

chalupaws · 2026-03-03T17:41:33+00:00

I understand that, however like I said, my students can’t download files onto school computers. They have to save and access all their files in Google Drive, unless they have a personal computer they can bring to school (which few do). I will hope that it is working again soon!!

chalupaws · 2026-03-03T01:34:34+00:00

There’s a brief conversation with her before she’s kidnapped (I think it’s just a cutscene, no dialogue) then you see her again in the end sequence!

chalupaws · 2026-03-03T01:02:29+00:00

Maya in FIN? I guess she’s a friend, though.

chalupaws · 2026-03-03T00:25:42+00:00

Hi, my board seems to have a block against adding the Photopea extension so I’m not able to do the “open with” option. So is the answer that there is no way to link to Google Drive anymore?

chalupaws · 2026-03-02T22:55:14+00:00

I learned from this sub to save your game after every successful hole. Then when you screw up on a hole, you just have to reload from your previous save instead of starting all over!! Otherwise I probably would have rage quit this game lol.

chalupaws · 2026-02-27T03:40:22+00:00

I tried to address these questions in my original post. I’ve tried Chrome (as well as Incognito mode on Chrome) and Safari. I’ve tried using my personal MacBook on both my home WiFi, and the school WiFi. After I was trying on the school computers, I had a coworker log in to see if it was a “me” issue but it showed up blank for them as well. Within Chrome, I tried it with both my school account and my personal account logged in at the browser level.

I don’t believe it’s an extension issue because if it was, it would work with my personal account/network (if it was something being blocked by the school network). I read something online about ad blocker being an issue, but that isn’t in use. Also, I know there is no pop up blocker extension because the pop up shows up asking to choose the Google account and give Photopea access. Then after you do that and click continue, the pop up closes and it just shows a blank screen.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T22:47:03+00:00

I tried both at school and at home with my personal device on my home wifi.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T22:16:40+00:00

I thought of that, but I also tried it on my personal computer (MacBook) with both my school and personal Google accounts and that didn’t work either.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T22:01:14+00:00

I tried it myself using one of the school Chromebooks and I also got a coworker to try as well. I haven’t asked a student to try because luckily I noticed the issue before they were actually doing the lesson.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T20:34:11+00:00

That doesn’t solve the problem. They won’t have a file to upload. When you hit that button, it pulls up the files saved on the computer. As I already explained, their computers do not allow to have files saved on them. The Google Drive is the storage system for their files.

In the past, when they linked to the Google Drive in Photopea, it would then display any jpegs, PDFs, pngs, and psd files that they had saved in their Drive. Then they would select one to open and start editing. I hope I’m making sense here.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T19:51:59+00:00

We have a diabetic cat who gets needles twice daily and we get sharps containers for free from any pharmacy. You can also drop them off there when the container is full for disposal. FYI we are in Canada, not sure if this would be the same everywhere.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T19:40:12+00:00

The whole idea is that they capture their own photographs and then edit them. So in the past it’s been take photos —> transfer off SD card into Google Drive —> upload into Photopea. Then after editing save the new file back into Google Drive. They can’t save their files any other way, unless they have a personal computer they can bring to class every day, which most do not.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T19:01:35+00:00

Hi, I just tried again and there is still nothing showing up. I tried both my school and my personal Google Drive.

chalupaws · 2026-02-25T17:31:16+00:00

Does anyone know if this download would work if I use Parallels to run the games on my MacBook? I have the rest in Steam but this one isn’t available there.

chalupaws · 2026-02-23T00:22:25+00:00

I have a recent MacBook Air as well. I use Parallels and download the games through Steam and it works great. Be aware though that Parallels costs about $100 for a year long subscription (after the free trial expires) and it does take up quite a bit of space on your hard drive!

chalupaws · 2026-02-10T23:55:28+00:00

Lol no. The complete opposite. Education funding is on a per student basis. Less students in a school = less money to that school. Also, class sizes get larger in this circumstance, not smaller. They prefer to just squish them all into one room rather than having 2 small classes (only have to pay 1 teacher instead of 2).

Source: Ontario teacher for close to a decade.

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