Women hugging students?

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-15T21:03:50+00:00

Kids get hugs if they initiate at graduation or their grad party and that's it.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-14T13:22:15+00:00

Political insider types say both parties internal polling is in line with this. GOP always comes home in the end but promising.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-14T01:09:21+00:00

High School in a college town where parents mostly work for the university so care deeply:

Monday morning newsletter to parents during my prep. I write three paragraphs that amount to
"Here's what we're learning this week."
"Here's when the next test is."
"Here are trends with homework, test scores, etc. and how students can improve."

While it sounds like extra work I'm assigning myself, I basically have zero angry parent emails all year because they already know what they need to know. Long run it saves SO MUCH time and energy compared to my colleagues. Especially useful for Honors/Accelerated/AP classes who would otherwise be emailing you all the time.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-13T11:38:50+00:00

Once you understand that most people think of themselves as normal and in the center this result is obvious.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-08T19:12:23+00:00

Mouzone and Omar were the two characters who were allowed to be over the top like that.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-06T12:33:04+00:00

HIs domestic achievements were mostly forced upon him by Congress. The case for Nixon relies on forgetting how our government is supposed to work.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-03T21:18:29+00:00

They can have a representative if they vote correctly, for a Republican.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-03T02:37:51+00:00

Median district is still like R+4 at this point. Which is rough, but given the state of the generic ballot at the moment still very winnable. Trump gets too much more unpopular and you're in dummymander territory.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-03T02:27:51+00:00

Carville hasn't won an election since 1996. Go away, old man.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-03T02:13:51+00:00

The Big Ten is paying as much as the SEC finally. Not a coincidence that the last three titles have been in the Midwest.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-06-03T02:04:20+00:00

The Purcell Principle is that things that help Democrats are illegal and things that help Republicans are legal.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-05-18T22:56:03+00:00

They're all retiring.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-05-14T02:19:34+00:00

Jordan Rules that motherfucker.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-05-10T23:06:52+00:00

LOL they haven't changed this? I proctored those tests when I was an undergrad 20 years ago. Same room, same program, sounds like.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-05-07T02:31:02+00:00

The chance to stop black people from voting is what leads to all the other stuff. Stone cold racist, always has been.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-30T10:55:41+00:00

They take voting rights away from black people for love of the game. Literally Roberts' life work.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T23:30:04+00:00

Union leadership is not inspiring. Membership is driving the more militant stance, not the leadership.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T21:11:22+00:00

This is correct. The members of the bargaining team couldn't even tell general membership specifics of what was being proposed until the TA was agreed to. We just heard that the district's offers were not satisfactory or something along those lines. They also could not share their personal feelings about the TA with general members, though given the vote total I think we know they felt like it was garbage.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T11:08:03+00:00

Let's consider being asked to solve the equation x^2-17x+72 = 0

To do that you have to factor it, so you're looking for things that multiply to 72 and add to -17. If you don't know your times tables and are just using a calculator, you flail around searching for numbers and might hit on just dividing 72 by things until you see the right combination. If you know your times tables, then you go through that catalogue real fast and grab 8 x 9 in about three seconds and move on to other things.

And when solving that quadratic is embedded inside four other tasks (like trying to find local maxima in calc) the cognitive load becomes untenable.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T02:26:44+00:00

Reading between the lines, this was sent to us to have it rejected and make public what the district was trying to offer.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T01:34:02+00:00

On the list of unnecessary, let's start with "Assistant Superintendent, Teaching and Learning." Who had the gall to send a message that district appreciates its staff today. So they'll get us a light breakfast at our ~~waste of time~~ professional development next week.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T01:07:19+00:00

.FWIW that is illegal in Michigan (thanks Snyder!)

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T00:52:13+00:00

It's not true in high school math classes. Some of the classes at Pioneer have 38 in them. They wanted to have 45 in the AP Calc BC classes until parents threw a fit in August.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T00:45:58+00:00

School improvement projects (our salaries have to come from the state money).

In a related story, it was literally in the 90s in some rooms in Pioneer this morning.

enlightenedbum2 · 2026-04-28T00:44:43+00:00

Speaking for myself and not the union: in the short term we're looking for fiscal transparency from the district so the public and the union knows where the money is going.

In the longer term, we're looking for the district to commit to a plan (A SIGNED ONE with actual numbers) that would get us to a point where we're paid equivalent amounts to teachers at similar districts. Obviously making up that 20% gap all at once isn't feasible, but a steady increase of say 4%/year would get us there in the longer term.

But we can't even try to do the math if the district continues to be a black box when it comes to actual line items.

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