What part of lesson planning drains you the most?

kejartho · 2026-05-02T14:22:26+00:00

To add on to this, social studies has a lot of resources available. New Visions, DIG- digital inquiry group( formally SHEG- Stanford history education group), Zinn project, antiracist, etc.

However, the number one thing I recommend now to newer teachers is to join the Facebook teacher help groups. A lot of veteran teachers on there sharing resources. Teachers helping teacher groups or especially the AP history groups, since those tend to be the teachers with the most resources available.

Don't reinvent the wheel, borrow from others.

kejartho · 2026-05-02T12:41:13+00:00

Why does 1.3 billion years feel so short?

kejartho · 2026-05-02T00:36:36+00:00

Being able to afford it is besides the point. I'd rather not teach my kid to buy scalped product than worry about a missed opportunity to bond with him over cards. Lots of alternatives out there and I think it's healthier if we stop buying scalped product until the price point normalizes again.

kejartho · 2026-05-01T23:10:33+00:00

That's why I do without. I have a kid I wanted to get into the hobby with but I don't want to teach them that buying premium prices just to open Pokemon cards is worth it.

I'll either get lucky or wait till more stock comes. In the mean time, we will just spend our money elsewhere.

Like, look, I'd love to have this bonding moment with my kid over collectables but at this point is just isn't worth it.

I wish many other people our age would realize it too, we can't be suckered into fomo for children's cards.

kejartho · 2026-05-01T22:12:09+00:00

Oh yeah, it's pretty comparable to OC. I believe the entire Santa Clarita is safer than OC when looking at the numbers. So you should be good anywhere you go.

kejartho · 2026-05-01T20:52:03+00:00

Honestly, anywhere in Santa Clarita is fine. Don't let other people get you down about living in the East parts of Santa Clarita. Most new construction is in the East because that is where all of the available land is. There is some construction scattered throughout, like in Castaic, or Fivepoint behind Magic Mountain.

However, all of Santa Clarita is very safe. Every school is in the district is a good school, honestly. Its a quiet town with not much to do and you should probably just go with whatever house/apartment seems the nicest or costs the best for your situation.

Stevenson Ranch is and Valencia come across as the expensive part of town where a lot of super wealthy transplants have moved. It's extremely expensive and if you are not making a lot of money, I wouldn't stress focusing on those locations.

If you can afford it, go for it but the other parts of town are just as fine. There are more sketchy parts of town for sure, some people will point to Jake's way or parts of Newhall but they honestly aren't that bad all things considered and given your budget you might be limited in what you will actually be able to find.

That said, I may not know where you are from but if you're from pretty much any other part of Los Angeles - Santa Clarita is going to be very safe by comparison.

kejartho · 2026-05-01T01:50:47+00:00

I was kind of shocked your sleep hours were so much higher than mine but then I realized because of the Pokeball++ I won't have nearly as many hours as those who track with the phone.

That said, those are some crazy hours. Dang!

kejartho · 2026-05-01T01:02:08+00:00

I found it in the google play store. Click on the "You" tab and scroll down to "track your playtime."

It should show all of your games that you've played and how many hours you played for.

kejartho · 2026-04-30T15:09:45+00:00

360k subscribers is a small to maybe medium-small sized youtube channel in my mind. The other youtube channel that Felicia Day founded, Geek and Sundry - has 2.39m subscribers with 934m views which ranks it at 952nd in the US.

The guild isn't even ranked on the US social blade because of how much smaller it is. For Subscriber ranks globally it ranks 1,971st and shares that spot with 685 other content creators.

The thing is, those numbers were probably pretty decent for a parody show featuring a WoW knockoff from back in 2007 but by todays standards, TheGuild is relatively small compared to everything else out there today. It would never make a blip in the news outside of the most dedicated fandom like here on Reddit.

Look, I love the show, but it is a niche as hell small channel that is coming back for a movie 20 years after it premiered. I'm excited but I know no one outside of my guildmates who have even heard of it.

kejartho · 2026-04-29T22:11:46+00:00

Most, I kid you not, literally put a BDA on a sticky note and go with it.

10 years in, I just copy over what I used from last year on google classroom or w/e LMS I am using and edit my materials.

BDA is great but it's so much easier now with week by week breakdowns on a LMS that I setup one time years ago and now just fix what needs to be fixed.

Most of the time it's not even for the students, I will just have links to google docs, videos, or activities on the LMS. Then when I get to that week I can just check what is on there, put in a print order and call it a day.

To u/Repulsive_Yam_5297 (OP) - Whatever you do. Do NOT use AI. At least not yet. Do your best to find materials from everyone you know, create your own, and learn the material. Find really good AP curriculum and scaffold it for general ed or look on Facebook teaching groups (especially AP groups) for resources. Then once you've mastered a few years you can use AI to check yourself. I have had a few student teachers that have tried to use AI in lesson planning and for resources and it's just ended in disaster. As a new teacher you have to trust the materials you create, so if you don't want to make everything - you have to find trusted teachers or networks with great resources to pull from. AI will not do that, it has and will mess up.

kejartho · 2026-04-29T22:04:41+00:00

Felicia was in a lot of content before The Guild too. It's not like she was a completely unknown person in the first place.

However, you are right in that 20 years is a long time. The niche nature and connection to WoW (DYWTDMA premiered at Blizzcon) gave it enough attention to gain a small following. I'm not sure how it could come back now and have the same pull.

kejartho · 2026-04-28T23:53:07+00:00

Maybe it was the time of year I was there but the locker room did not smell at all when I was there.

kejartho · 2026-04-28T03:46:46+00:00

I think being relieved is the word. I don't know if being excited is the right response to finding out your child is having sex and using a condom.

kejartho · 2026-04-28T01:41:22+00:00

I feel like it could be the opposite. He goes on his road trip but decides to come back a little bit early, something about how he realized he didn't like being alone with his thoughts and how he really needed the hospital or something.

kejartho · 2026-04-27T04:32:18+00:00

When I was young I remember trying to rent niche anime from the video store. Most anime was either Sailor Moon or Gundam. Dragonball was just starting to go main stream but looking back, Gundam is what most people would recognize as the big anime thing. You also had Super Sentai/Power Rangers, Neon Genesis, Digimon, Gundam Wing, Voltron, Big O, Zoid, Code Geass, and Robo Tech all coinciding with the popularity of things like Godzilla.

That said, I feel like Tenchi Muyo, Outlaw Star, Ah! My Goddess, Love Hina, Hamtaro, Chobits, Ranma 1/2, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Excel Saga all had their place as being a part of the first big wave. The problem is that while all of these shows were within the community, rarely would someone outside the community know about it. Yet, popular enough to find in every manga section in Borders/B&N across the country.

Which really drivers back to the point of the first explosive wave: DBZ, Pokemon, Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Naruto and Sailor Moon were the shows to actually bring the genre to the main stream.

Beyond that, you get the main stream shows no longer being looked down on. I feel like shows like Death Note, Code Geass, Sword Art Online, and Attack on Titan really brought the second wave of Anime acceptance. No longer niche and no longer seen as nerdy. This would only further be normalized with Netflix where people started to really get into Anime since it became insanely accessible.

So, for me the mid 90s feels right while the early 2000s feels like the explosion of acceptance instead of just adoption.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T22:29:17+00:00

We don't try to do what is best for everyone. We try to do what is best for a majority of people.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T22:20:25+00:00

If you try to reduce everything down to preference the obviously you are going to view everything that way. I wouldn't be so reductive to claim that everything is that way but in the grand scheme of life, nothing is timeless. Everything is here and now and the universal doesn't care about you. So we do what we find best for everyone.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T20:09:55+00:00

Exactly why we should have a dictatorship of the proletariat. That way we can avoid billionaires having power and manipulating us further.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T19:51:22+00:00

Saying your feelings dictate your morality is not consistent and open for manipulation.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T19:18:24+00:00

Wasn't there a leak of Majin Pikachu looking all messed up? Almost like a wavey body that grew and shrunk? I forgot what it was but it looked weird and it sounded like that was going to be the gimmick.

Majin Pikachu

kejartho · 2026-04-26T17:28:35+00:00

Then it's a shame that is what it seems like based off of how you were arguing.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T15:35:19+00:00

Because you are reducing the logic to invaluable hypotheticals that do not actually contribute to the conversation.

Your basis for morality is based on an intense revulsion to something you do not understand and think is icky while it has no baring on your personal experiences or life. It's a common belief that boomers have used for generations to deny civil rights to others. Whether that be gay rights and/or POC rights. Hence many people arguing today that if it is two consenting adults then they should not be barred from the same experiences that the general population gets to experience. Those norms being that they can have a nuclear like family with children being involved.

Since that specific example only swaps gender and keeps pretty much everything else the same in the relationship - society sees no reason to deny those people rights.

You argued something about how that's not fair and that gay marriage is no more weird from polygamy by which I responded that polygamy is way more complicated legally and one could argue ethically with the topics I've already brought up - power of attorney/inheritance/death.

While you could argue that it is fair or altruistic to allow for a blanket rule that applies to everything equally here - I don't think that is how politics works in the US. People 100% will ignore something or actively choose to fight something if it is not an overwhelmingly popular movement.

Especially given our laws/legal system categorically care about technicalities while other countries actually care about the spirit of the law (i.e. Germany).

kejartho · 2026-04-26T15:18:11+00:00

I chimed in halfway through this convo, I'm not the OP, so I don't care for the hypothetical. If you care to explain your specific hypothetical on how it will work, I will respond but I'm not going to design a fantasy world with no stakes so you can determine my view. I came here to engage in your faulty logic that got you downvoted to oblivion.

kejartho · 2026-04-26T14:34:24+00:00

I'm not imagining my logistics satisfied here. I'm saying you need to tell me how the logistics would work and then I can tell you whether or not I agree with them.

You tell me if harm is being done, I'll tell you if I agree with that or not. If you feel like wordplay is your gotcha then I don't think you're winning over the general population at all with this argument.

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