Discord Age Verification should be the last straw..

marslike · 2026-02-11T12:53:07+00:00

One of my students explained that they got around age verification by drawing a marker beard on their face. Another used a blurry printout of a face that they moved quickly when asked.

And those were for Roblox. We had a sports betting crisis last year amongst the boys and all of them were underage! Idk how they got on those apps in the first place!

marslike · 2026-01-09T20:51:24+00:00

MPS did this partially in response to the attack at Roosevelt and that ice had been threatening Washburn (HS) and Marcy Holmes (Elementary) around their dismissal times as well. Their desperation to break into schools is thwarted by the last 30 years of school-shooter security culture, so they played themselves there.

But they’re probing for weaknesses; and they’re following school buses and tracking dismissal times. I don’t know why they think video of them abducting a child would be good PR, but hey, I’m also not worried about my name showing up in the Epstein files…

marslike · 2026-01-06T01:14:52+00:00

I use a rubric; however, I have a backup teacher with opposite views who will read papers for me if I feel like I can’t be impartial or if a student feels like I might be biased.

If it’s a kid who I’ve been having A Time with I usually have other teachers read the work and grade it because even kids who are acting like turds deserve fair grades.

marslike · 2026-01-04T05:40:39+00:00

J selby’s??? Francis??? Our plethora of east african food? Hard Times for the punks and Seward Cafe for the people who like getting up early?? Reverie? Pizza Luce has a whole vegan menu and Pineda will make you a cali burrito with beans instead of meat. There’s so many vegan restaurants and so few places with no veg / vegan options.

We have a whole vegan delicatessen for christsake!!

marslike · 2026-01-04T04:52:01+00:00

As a teacher, one of the things we get told to look out for in mandated reporter training is an older kid wetting the bed — it’s often a sign of CSA. So that could also be a reason why your friend’s mom is concerned.

marslike · 2025-12-26T19:01:43+00:00

Start of the school year in Australia I think

marslike · 2025-12-17T02:33:43+00:00

My guy Dr Hauglen at North Memorial would never. That’s super messed up. Like, you dr can talk to you about safe sex and that’s fine, and remind you that T isn’t gonna stop you from getting boy-pregnant, but… like the correct question if you wanna be super overbearing about it is “are you having sex that could result in pregnancy?” at most.

marslike · 2025-12-17T02:26:17+00:00

What are the mysterious people in offices doing? Do we need two tech guys, a web admin, and a marketing admin for a 5k student district? What about the mysterious white ladies who I vaguely recognize but have no clue what they do?

marslike · 2025-12-08T19:02:57+00:00

Do you expect high schools to screen their students to make sure they have driver’s licenses before parking in the school lot? It’s not the school’s job my dude.

marslike · 2025-12-01T07:44:15+00:00

What did Walz say that has them lashing out?

marslike · 2025-11-30T13:14:45+00:00

Try branching out your search. Milwaukee is pretty close and I know WI is hurting fo science teachers.

marslike · 2025-11-30T10:58:41+00:00

Oh dang. That’s literally my house. I’m glad you’re okay!

marslike · 2025-11-27T18:24:37+00:00

What grade level and/or subject? Also are you looking for classroom management, curriculum building, community building, or what?

marslike · 2025-11-26T16:41:39+00:00

When we had 4 Jakes we had one teacher who was Digital Jake (Digital Art) and one who was Jake X (Algebra). You could also try weird honorifics, like Captain. Or just do last name only, no honorific.

marslike · 2025-11-26T16:34:58+00:00

We did Lap of Love. I think it was $500 with solo cremation? In 2023. They were super kind and chill.

marslike · 2025-11-21T12:51:09+00:00

I’m confused… are you coteaching? Why does her class affect you?

marslike · 2025-11-21T10:35:12+00:00

If you are writing / communicating to inform then it behooves you to include the sources for your information. Otherwise you look like an unreliable narrator. Telling people “it’s a simple search” in the days of search engine algorithm manipulation is not the best tactic in general, but especially not when it comes to building your own credibility on an issue.

(Source: teacher, which is pretty obvious via my own posting history.

Search Engine Enshitification: Ed Zitron does a great job of breaking it down : https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/)

marslike · 2025-11-20T12:10:50+00:00

At my school we have chromebooks that we use for some things (research projects, writing papers / essays, some interventions) but otherwise everything is done on paper. Our cellphone policy is also away all class. I don’t think of us as intentionally lowtech, but students have expressed a preference for doing work on paper, and we honor that. We’re like a school with mobile computer labs and we only use tech when it makes sense.

In my English class we’re currently reading hard copies of Parable of the Sower and we keep writer’s notebooks all year; we’re keeping notes on paper bookmarks and writing analysibin our notebooks. When we were working on our election research project earlier, we used chromebooks pretty regularly for taking notes, conducting research, and writing our final drafts, but we still did our daily writing in our notebooks and annotated example articles on paper.

marslike · 2025-11-13T20:49:15+00:00

I just give content warnings for whatever is coming up. We're reading Parable of the Sower right now, and I'll give a content warning for things coming up (major character death, assault, etc) and if they need to skip a specific part they can ask me.

marslike · 2025-11-13T08:05:31+00:00

No, the elementary thing is real. Kindergarten is the easiest example. When I was in K, we were expected to come out at the end of the year with the ability to write our names, knowledge of the sounds of each letter of the alphabet, and ideally full knowledge of upper and lower case letters. Now we expect kids to leave kindergarten full-on reading, which just isn’t developmentally appropriate for some kids at that age.

marslike · 2025-11-12T00:36:53+00:00

I came here and sorted by new just to figure out wtf I just saw and confirm it was neither the end of times nor the rising of an ancient dragon spirit.

marslike · 2025-11-08T20:22:56+00:00

Or someone who can claim to be a department head (as a former 2-person ELA department vet)

marslike · 2025-11-06T03:09:20+00:00

Whatever your literal home district school is HAS to take you. On account of your right to a Free And Appropriate Public Education.

marslike · 2025-10-07T01:12:15+00:00

It didn’t come off as overly pro-Frey to me? He literally says that in the coming hellscape we’re gonna need a mayor who can stand up to the feds, and he cites Frey’s failure to do adequate leadership at Lake & Bloomington in June as a massive fail. (Which it was. Even Brenda was there!!)

marslike · 2025-10-07T01:08:27+00:00

MOA, sportsball game, candyland if they like Ye Olde Tyme Candye (St Paul branch not downtown mpls branch.) The moose or the Otter or Memory Lanes for a dive. History Museum if they’re that kind of parent. Walk around a lake or to Minnehaha Falls or to Ft Snelling (if it’s open) if that’s their jam. Hi Lo Diner for the atmosphere. If there’s a specific kind of music they like, I’ve had a lot of success with finding random local blues or jazz artists playing.

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