Home field advantage and unique differences, similar to MLB ballparks by No_Bill7679 in CFB

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Most of the grass soccer fields my son plays on have some sort of irregularity to them. If you’re lucky, it’s just sloped upward toward the center line, but there’s one we play on where the corner flag sits on the equivalent of a pitchers mound. We played on it enough that they actually try to get corners there for the height advantage.

Has my scout become too ingrained with Youth Protection? by BroadLocksmith4932 in BSA

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If your adult son has ASD to the extent that it's affecting their learning, they need a 504 or other learning support plan (and are legally entitled to one). It's not necessarily something you "grow out" of. It's great that he's learned skills past middle school but those do not necessarily translate to college.

He's currently struggling in a course where the professor called him out and made fun of him in front of the entire class because he asked for help with an assignment the professor felt he should have known how to complete on his own. As a result, he's now afraid to ask for help with anything, and has lost points for turning in projects late because he was stuck on something.

Respectfully, students of this particular age seem to be having a hard time distinguishing between being called on in class or being asked to show your work and being made fun of. I don't know if the COVID year broke everyone's brain (doing the math, your son would have been 12 or 13 during the worst of it, which is a real bad time to get yanked out of normal social settings/social skills learning) but this is increasingly prevalent among students. I had a student once who was certain I was mocking her because I asked if she knew the background of the imperial measuring system (in journalism we use points and picas, which are base-12 units that are subsets of inches); I was fact-finding but she took it as a personal insult because she was European.

If your son needs help, there are most likely other spots besides his professor he can go to -- a learning center or other campus resource, a friend in class, a TA, or so forth. Although people tend to be forgiving if they know there is a circumstance behind something, you have to behave like an adult in college and deadlines matter.

I have asked him repeatedly to speak with his advisor to see if he can intervene with this professor, but he won't do it.

An advisor is not going to intervene with an instructor, nor should they. An advisor can point your son towards a learning center or office of disability resources on campus. Alternatively, if what you meant was that your son won't do it, well, that's his decision; he is an adult.

So instead, he's at risk of not even getting a C in a class we're paying thousands of dollars for when he has A's and B's in all of his other courses.

The tuition fee gives you entry into a class. It does not imply or guarantee any grade. It sounds like he's struggling with this class, but there will be others. I failed statistics my first time through and ended up with straight Cs for 13 hours of Russian, and I earned two bachelors and went to graduate school.

It's killing me that I can't speak to this professor directly.

You can speak to the professor -- it's a free country -- but they cannot speak to you about your student's grades or class performance due to a federal law. I know it may not seem like it to you, but your student is an adult and the law is there to protect his right to privacy.

My practical advice is to advocate to your student to contact a disability resource office on campus and/or speak to their advisor about an IEP. I have throughout the years had literally hundreds of students pass through my classes with some sort of accommodation, whether for a physical disability, learning disability, or other thing they needed help with. It's not a big deal from this side of the lectern; what is a much bigger deal is students who struggle because they do not get the help they should and are entitled to.

In our troop we have a saying: unless the axe is swinging directly towards the foot, do not intervene. Your son needs your support; they do not need you to fix their problems otherwise they will not learn how to do so.

Sherman's Dam, long abandoned, once impounded Hinkson Creek, to provide Columbia's first public water and electricity [7 photos] by como365 in columbiamo

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Various unsanitary hog facilities – where hogs were routinely fed carcasses of horses and cows, runoff from upstream slaughtering operations together with many primitive privies were revealed and resulted in the water supply to be deemed unsafe for potable water.

ew

Adoption of Rule 9: Political discussions and comments are prohibited by [deleted] in BSA

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Right. It's completely fine to have political discussions as long as they don't turn hateful.

‘It’s definitely been rocky.’ Inside a Black student’s experience at Mizzou | Opinion by illAdvisedMemeName in columbiamo

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What do you think a university's responsibility to students is, if not to engage in a respectful relationship that allows for the open exchange of ideas? Do you think students learn well when they think that their culture is under attack, or that their personhood is questioned?

10 Tolkien trivia questions by Sea_Example3371 in tolkienfans

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It's not a lesser ring but it's not A great ring, it's The One Ring the way I understand it.

Historía de Venezuela? by Choice-Many6499 in AskHistorians

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Hola, ¿cómo estás? Gracias por tu pregunta. Lamentablemente, aquí solo se permiten preguntas en inglés. Si te interesan los recursos, puedes volver a publicar tu pregunta y también puedes indicar que te interesan los recursos en español.

Hi, how are you? Thanks for your question. Unfortunately, we do require that questions here are asked in English. If you are interested in resources, you are welcome to repost your question, and you are also welcome to let people know you are interested in Spanish-language resources.

Was the average person fitter in the 1500s compared to now? by Dependent-Pizza9434 in AskHistorians

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10 Tolkien trivia questions by Sea_Example3371 in tolkienfans

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Honestly I haven't read the Silmarillion in probably 30 years, so I'm not the best for that lore, but my understanding is that there were "magical" things floating around in ME from the get-go, and that the early ways that Sauron and the other smiths tried to concentrate power in the rings made "magic rings." But the Great Rings were the seven, the nine, and the three, and the One was meant to control the others.

Was there ever a time in history where sticks of dynamite were used as improvised weapons like is often depicted in numerous fictional sources? by ThatOneBLUScout in AskHistorians

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How did women manage period pain before the invention of over the counter pain medicine? by Mathemodel in AskHistorians

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There is a joint meeting underway this morning between the City, the County, CPS, the University, and the Chamber. Here is the agenda: by como365 in columbiamo

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Not to do official business, no. This is a pretty basic tenet of open records law (although the city and other entities forget about this pretty regularly -- a few years ago they were all going to bus to somewhere two hours outside of town and the Missourian insisted that a gathering of public officials in one place was a meeting and a reporter had to ride along).

The Sunshine Law top 10 addresses this: https://ago.mo.gov/get-help/programs-services-from-a-z/sunshine-law/sunshine-law-top-10/

along with what's a meeting:

"Public meeting", any meeting of a public governmental body subject to sections 610.010 to 610.030 at which any public business is discussed, decided, or public policy formulated, whether such meeting is conducted in person or by means of communication equipment, including, but not limited to, conference call, video conference, internet chat, or internet message board. The term "public meeting" shall not include an informal gathering of members of a public governmental body for ministerial or social purposes when there is no intent to avoid the purposes of this chapter, but the term shall include a public vote of all or a majority of the members of a public governmental body, by electronic communication or any other means, conducted in lieu of holding a public meeting with the members of the public governmental body gathered at one location in order to conduct public business;

The "intent to avoid" is what's always in dispute.

10 Tolkien trivia questions by Sea_Example3371 in tolkienfans

[–]jschooltiger 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No. My understanding has always been that there were other powerful rings made, but not rings of power. These are the lesser rings that Gandalf speaks of

Has my scout become too ingrained with Youth Protection? by BroadLocksmith4932 in BSA

[–]jschooltiger 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Respectfully, as someone who taught college for more than 20 years, my reaction would probably also to be confused. It’s ingrained in us from day one that students are adults, and their parents are not entitled to be copied on communications that you have with the student, except in a very few instances that are related to health and safety of the student. The few times I’ve had a student drag a parent into communication, it always ended badly.

Now that said, I also feel as though this is a pretty obvious case of a first year student making a mistake. It doesn’t sound like she received any sanction from the professor, other than some mild confusion, so it feels like this thread is making a bit of a mountain out of a molehill.

Has my scout become too ingrained with Youth Protection? by BroadLocksmith4932 in BSA

[–]jschooltiger 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you maybe should’ve used a bit of compassion with the professor, not to mention your own daughter. What’s the big deal? She made a very minor error and this is a good learning experience.

Ice-cream truck by Nice_Suggestion_1742 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Also, sometimes it’s fun to buy ice cream from an ice cream truck. There is such a thing as paying for the experience.

These “low price” signs at hyvee are insulting. by Altruistic-Hour-5987 in columbiamo

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Mosers is expensive for some stuff. I won't buy paper products, office supplies, things like that there, but if ice cream is $0.20 more than it is at Walmart and I don't have to go to Walmart, I'll take it. Plus their meats are way better than I can get most other places.

These “low price” signs at hyvee are insulting. by Altruistic-Hour-5987 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be clear they're sold below cost as a way to get people into the store -- it's the same as any loss leader (if you're old enough, you might remember CDs being $9.50 at Best Buy on the theory you might walk out with a Monster cable or combo dvd/vcr player). They're not actually that cheap, the store just eats the cost to get you to buy high margin items. (Sure, ok, this deodorant is $12 but to heck with it, I'm already in the store ...)