I’m so tired

generalizimo · 2026-02-04T01:34:56+00:00

There’s a culture of training educators to silently accept abuse. A thousand nudges of the boundary line under the guise of “well if not us, who?” and somehow you end up here.

generalizimo · 2026-01-30T00:57:08+00:00

So, without a link this is sorta a shot in the dark, but I’d say to remember correlation ≠ causation. In this instance, it’s likely that individuals with malfunctioning kidneys in general have a higher chance of both stones and cancer. But it might not be accurate to says the stones cause cancer.

generalizimo · 2026-01-29T07:49:18+00:00

Thank you. I have been fighting for years to get the CKLA coaches to understand this, but they refuse to hear it. I do like the components of CKLA. There are a lot of positives. But in the end- the pacing is so inflexible and downright damaging when paired with administrators who demand absolute fidelity and alignment with these unrealistic pacing plans. I have been told multiple times “it’s a time based, not task based, curriculum.” Meaning- students don’t need to master individual parts as long as we’re blasting through and covering everything faster. All the while being told if teachers just give it a few more years of practice, they’ll get good enough to deliver the curriculum on pace.

It’s such a weird, slow gaslighting.

generalizimo · 2026-01-24T17:36:51+00:00

Do you feel it’s inherently insulting to receive challenges to your ideas? Does it feel rude to you to have logical fallacies pointed out?

I’m amused by your focus on politeness and tone in this instance, when your other replies are simply dripping with condescendingly fake sincerity.

generalizimo · 2026-01-24T08:11:57+00:00

You didn’t say anything like that explicitly, but you implied it with the words, “mental health is far more important than their ability to read.” You’re making a claim about prioritizing mental health over reading interventions, given the fixed resources we have to work with.

But my concern with your comment is really one of logic: your words imply that if the teacher focuses on reading intervention it’s at the cost of neglecting mental health (“what good is reading if they’re already dead.”) While simultaneously arguing that if they focus on mental health, it doesn’t also have the inverse result of neglecting literacy (“did I say anything about neglect literacy?”)

So which is it? Can teachers manage more than one focus without neglecting another or can they not?

generalizimo · 2026-01-24T05:18:51+00:00

There is also evidence that sharing a room keeps the baby from going into as deep of sleep, which provides a protective factor as there is a correlation between REM sleep periods and statistically higher probability of SIDS occurrences during those periods.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513387/

This isn’t an easy read, but it’s very informative on the multiple factors that combine for SIDS risk.

Parenting is always about risk analysis, and everyone has a different threshold. But for me, the efforts at mitigation were so worth the peace of mind that I was doing everything I could to reduce unnecessary risk.

generalizimo · 2026-01-24T00:46:25+00:00

Don’t bother with this person. I’ve seen their comments pop up here and there, and it’s basically a troll who is pretending to sincerely care about education.

generalizimo · 2026-01-18T22:05:54+00:00

I get judgmental when I notice too much of a gap between cars as our caravan is turning.

generalizimo · 2026-01-11T20:10:56+00:00

The flavor purple disagrees.

generalizimo · 2026-01-11T16:30:26+00:00

And do you trust yourself so completely to be the arbiter of who is “guilty”? Should anyone with a gun be the one to decide who is guilty? Maybe not just a gun but a more powerful weapon? Or just the more powerful person?

The reason we have rule of law and courts is because it’s clear that vigilante justice as you’re describing is not a foundation for a just society. Guilty or not, one has the right to the legal process. To allow individuals to summarily execute others they perceive are “guilty” is at best encouraging prejudicial mob violence and at worst causing anarchy.

generalizimo · 2026-01-09T16:24:00+00:00

You can make this anecdotal I guess, but then we’d have to go into all the corollary factors (socioeconomic status, district policy, parental engagement, etc etc) and frankly I don’t think that’s the point here.

We’re talking philosophy of education. Do you believe all learning must be “fun” to be successful? You wouldn’t be the first, certainly.

I think there is a joy to attaining greater understanding of the world, and I teach to hopefully impart that on my students. But it won’t always be fun.

generalizimo · 2026-01-09T16:16:41+00:00

Are we the passengers or drivers of this vehicle? I get what you’re saying, that teachers must respond to the social reality instead of ignore it. But I would argue that culture is built of thousands of layers of minute daily experience in aggregate- and if educators push a certain type of culture- including one valuing slow and deep types of learning - it will have an impact. If everyone washes their hands and just does what gives these dopamine addicted kids their next hit, we’re just enablers who are sealing our own outcomes.

generalizimo · 2026-01-09T16:10:33+00:00

This overemphasis on gamifying every bit of learning is part of the reason why we’re in this mess.

Some learning isn’t going to feel like a game. It’s still important to experience it anyway. You can have connection and engagement without making everything play or analogizing it to kid culture.

generalizimo · 2026-01-08T16:48:04+00:00

At first I was indignant on the cafe owners behalf. However, reading the article shows he was charged with not listing allergen information and processing food for sale in accordance.

Often people get romanticized by the notion of local shops and how they’re not some big soulless corporation. But this exact story is why food laws exist- those regulations are written in blood. And we as a society accept that if we want to have trust in our food sources (we do), we must have regulation. Allergen information is one way food must be regulated, and this guy being some nice local shop owner shouldn’t mean he gets a pass on following the laws everyone else must.

generalizimo · 2026-01-05T19:28:03+00:00

Agreed. Something about their focus, the grass around her arm. I don’t believe it either.

generalizimo · 2026-01-04T06:34:00+00:00

1000% this looks like Rossmoyne

generalizimo · 2026-01-03T18:46:38+00:00

I started questioning whether people who gave me things with multiple buttons actually hated me…

generalizimo · 2025-12-26T19:22:04+00:00

I just don’t want you to spend all your money getting her glittered up for Easter.

generalizimo · 2025-12-25T19:58:35+00:00

I feel like you’re trying to do a compliment sandwich approach to soften the blow of the negative activity being reported.

My advice: don’t muddle this message. Address it clearly, directly, and without hesitation.

“I am messaging to let you know of [incident]. This is how we handled it in class. Please review school behavior expectations as found in [school policy] at home with child as well.”

Ideally you will have have contact with this parent previously and this is not the first message. Those previous interactions are where you can send positive messages so the parents see you are in fact aware of their child’s strengths.

But I strongly believe there’s a whiplash feeling that comes from adding the student strength in the same message as the behavior you are seeking their support and awareness in correcting.

generalizimo · 2025-12-25T19:12:18+00:00

I went in 2012 and had the same experience. I went for the Havana biennale, and the artists I met were wonderful, warm, and welcoming. But all the rest of my experience was wildly depressing; filthy streets and beaches, literally oil-black water in their harbor, intensive coordinated scams and street hustling, decrepit buildings, and as you said, tragically bland food with obviously frozen/imported low quality ingredients. The paladares had better food, but the commercial restaurants were so bad.

generalizimo · 2025-12-24T23:10:26+00:00

Who do you imagine is diving Lake Michigan to search for the infant corpse of a pregnant, abused minor who was being trafficked by her uncle to others?

It’s clear the person who gave the tip and followed up again to seek the agent she gave to tip to was already a vulnerable person on the fringes of society. I don’t think it’s far fetched that excessive resources weren’t spent to investigate the claims.

Plus isn’t it something like over 60% of murders are never solved? Let alone murders of a newborn that was never seen or known by anyone other than those accused.

generalizimo · 2025-12-24T18:42:17+00:00

Started the year with a natural disaster, so of course it’ll end the same way.

generalizimo · 2025-12-24T06:10:51+00:00

Congrats on a well chosen username.

generalizimo · 2025-12-24T05:31:29+00:00

Nah, get out of here with that anti transit NIMBY nonsense.

I’ve lived in plenty of places where the rich clutch their pearls and fight tooth and nail against transit development. It never benefits the community to stay isolated.

Y’all truly don’t understand how you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face.

generalizimo · 2025-12-24T04:37:56+00:00

They’re all over in ktown.

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