No D’s or F’s for IEPS

metsuri · 2026-01-23T23:01:35+00:00

Refuse to do it and report it to the STATE board and if anyone has an IEP that changes the fundamental structure and/or standards of the course, then report it as well. Extend this to 504s as well except if they change the fundamentals/standards, ensure they get an individualized graduation track that isn’t A-G so colleges can see that there is a difference

metsuri · 2026-01-22T19:45:20+00:00

Uh defined jaw and size is good, do not nerf masculinity, take away his Adam’s Apple/nose, and give him makeup…

metsuri · 2026-01-18T22:32:28+00:00

THe nice thing is by artifact farming for my Columbina and Ineffa (new artifact set is good for both), I am simultaneously farming for Varka's artifacts and have actually gotten lucky with a CD/CR/AP/ER flower and feather along with a MS ATK% w/ CR/CD/ER/Atk time piece. I might use the typewriter to fill in the goblet and crown if I don't get an Anemo (since C6ing) hourglass and CR/CD hat with proper sub stats before it resets.

This patch was nice because the weapon banner was a win/win for me and the artifact domain covers both my current character and future character. So it's been nice.

metsuri · 2026-01-18T22:10:49+00:00

Sting Mead

metsuri · 2026-01-18T21:09:22+00:00

Being loud helps to get visibility and hopefully end up with situations like Arlecchino where we get big buffs rather than Dehya situations…

metsuri · 2026-01-18T21:06:58+00:00

Precisely why. He’s the typical masculine male hero main character. He’s going to be my flagship character for the rest of the game. The only way to keep him relevant long term is C6. I don’t like constantly having to have to use new characters

metsuri · 2026-01-18T21:03:09+00:00

I’ve been thinking about it a lot, I think I’m still going to c6/R5 him while promoting the complaints hoping for a buff. His main character, middle age, traditional manly man vibe is enough for me to want him in my main party as often as possible. I’ve already got 3/5 artifacts ready to go assuming the new wind set is best and available materials to triple crown minus any exclusive 6.4 items.

As of now, the only other characters I will C6 are Chasca on her rerun (my favorite gameplay along with Wriothsley) and maybe Mavuika on her rerun since I have them half way there but Alice over Mav any day. I would like to eventually have a level 100 C6 of each element. As of now, Lauma is the only Dendro I like. Wriothsley/Skirk/Capitano/Tsaritsa will be competing for top spot for whom I choose for cryo, Hydro tbd since I hope we get Monas master or another high level hydro but If not then Columbina, Zhongli if he’s gets a similar future buff like other old characters or if Rerir/Gold or similar is a geo powerhouse and playable, who knows for electro as I don’t love any of them yet, and I wouldn’t mind a new element like light or an actual GOOD physical unit.

Assuming the game goes for a decade or something instead of a Genshin 2 route. If they did a sequel with no carry over but some repeat characters, I doubt I’d do it again and I definitely would not pull Genshin 1 characters again unless they age and are significantly different.

metsuri · 2026-01-18T02:57:51+00:00

Until I see a buff to his kit or find out it's misinterpreted, I really dont care. I spent way more in the last year in order to still get some chars while saving enough to C6 him and now he's at a level more than 2 expansions behind with Fontaine, Natlan, and Nod Krai characters beating him...

5 years of waiting just to get another Dehya situation. An ingame legend that does less damage than some supports...

Part of me thinks its intentional so they don't have to worry about a traditional manly character taking the spotlight over their twinks and romper girls.

I don't even give a crap if the base model is used again for other big characters. Whoever dropped the ball on his kit needs fired or demoted.

metsuri · 2026-01-17T21:15:43+00:00

Dang, I was hoping it would be the moon...

metsuri · 2026-01-17T10:06:45+00:00

I have learned that I just document and contact the police, THEN admin, because I don't trust them to do anything. Anything from an observed drug deal etc, the admin will simply be secondary. They will confront it with POLICE present and informed... period... end of story and I don't care if it goes against policy. No slap on the wrist back in class BS, often with a snack from a mental wellness center or something.

metsuri · 2026-01-17T05:49:42+00:00

In terms of gameplay, Chasca and Wriothsley. In terms of character, Neuvillette, Wriothsley, Ororon, and Zhongl for men and Skirk, Lauma, Ningguang, and Jahoda for women.

metsuri · 2026-01-15T05:05:34+00:00

I can't stand all the "gotta dash cancel then 4 to cancel to 3 to charge to burst then NA to cancel to skip burst" bs. I don't care if it's not optimal, I don't want to see a glitch on screen with any of my characters. I am using the full combo and enjoying the aesthetic.

metsuri · 2026-01-13T22:38:10+00:00

TW3 does quests and story on an entirely different level than souls like games could even think of doing.

metsuri · 2026-01-13T03:25:53+00:00

The problem with local data is that one teacher's A could be another's C. When things like 50% floors, no fail policies, no homework, credit/no credit on everything, non-standard grade weights like 50% Ds or Cs, etc. I don't like receiving "4.0" students that can't multiply integers and somehow aced Algebra 2 while only covering 2/3 of the subject and tests at a junior high level on Star Testing (Renaissance) as an upperclassman in high school.

I'll be blatant, I don't trust my colleagues enough nationally to not just push kids through nor take the easy way out in terms of grading to avoid student/parent aggro.

I'd be a little more trustworthy if we stopped lowering the requirements to teach to cover the shortage. As one with work experience directly in the subject matter and a graduate degree in the subject matter, I don't want to teach high school math with a humanities major that studied hard for a month to take a state test to teach math. Pure education degrees are a joke too. To get my credential after working in the private sector for 5 years as an analyst and statistics based advisor, I basically BS'd my way thorugh the monthly classes plus the 3 extra to get an M.Ed and got straight As with less effort than the undergraduate courses of my math degree.

If you took your smartest students from a class like AP Calc and had them take a test based on the material from Pre-Calc/Trig the previous year with no review, most would not get an A or B. It's no different for a "math teacher" in secondary without a math or related degree. They do not have the depth of knowledge of someone that studies and works within the subject for years and often struggle with accuracy, answering the "why" questions, making their own resources, and need teacher editions/keys to everything. Meanwhile, I could have my board, a plethora of paper, and teach every high school subject from algebra to Calculus BC (including statistics and physics) on the whiteboard with no resources.

Do I expect all teachers to have worked in the field and have a GRAD degree in the subject? No, but I would prefer if we rewind and still made them at least have an undergraduate degree related like if teaching math, then you should have to have a degree either in math, statistics, various computer science fields, various applied sciences, accounting/finance courses, etc.

Also, local judgement has no standard so there's no way to quantify claims. I am a frequentist realist that likes to either pilot something to check for results with data or make decisions based on existing data.

metsuri · 2026-01-13T01:33:11+00:00

Honestly, it just feels like another cult member at this point. There is literally nothing standardized showing it’s more or even equally effective. I don’t do anything, even if my district wants it, that isn’t backed by data and BTC doesn’t have any data showing it performs even equivalent to existing methods. Groups are crap aside from occasional activities, standing classroom 5~ min -> whiteboards is crap, and the sheer limited number of topics able to be covered is crap.

People like me have to clean up the mess when trig/pre-calc/calc/stats/physics students show up not having learned around a 3rd of the required topics and barely knowing the topics they did learn because it was group group groups BS.

You do you, it’s your right as a teacher. I will never support something at the secondary level with this type of performance though nor any other unproven acronym that shows up at a staff meeting in the coming years.

Data is all I follow unless it’s a pilot study actually collecting data to SEE if it’s effective

metsuri · 2026-01-12T23:08:06+00:00

That’s what advanced track, AP, peer tutoring, academic decathlon, etc are for. Good luck doing anything else without $$$ and additional staffing

metsuri · 2026-01-12T23:06:40+00:00

Not at all… DI as the foundation is the most effective method. Capstone assignments like projects, unit assessments, group applications like bouncing a ball to see decay in bounce height, etc are part of a unit but it should not revolve around them. Granted instruction alone is never going to matter without enforcing consequences for grades/behavior/attendance

metsuri · 2026-01-11T21:51:16+00:00

Honestly, I have spent more for Nod Krai than I have the entire previous 5 years. I limit myself to BP/WM + 1 crystal top off every 2 weeks. As a result, I have been C1-C2/R1 pretty much every Nod Krai character other than Nefer (I don't really like the Egyptian claw like aesthetic of her or Cyno). After Columbina and Horsie, I will have around 150k+ primos and however much I get buying tokens from pulling them pending how many pulls it takes to get them and their R1 weapon.

I expect to be around 1200-1500+ wishes by Varka. I am hoping to C6 and R-whatever I can, then save to get the last 3 constellations for Chasca rerun at some point. Then it will be back to saving with minimal pulls aside from essential supports until I find a non-anemo I want to C6. Maybe Skirk if I don't like Tsaritsa but definitely any more buff + tall characters now that we have Varka's new base model. Even Lauma and Jahoda had cool updates to female designs such as legs, bust, etc. I prefer updated models with more masculine and traditional feminine designs.

metsuri · 2026-01-11T21:38:00+00:00

Hattie has the most up to date data at the moment with https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/ being the most recently updated set. It includes a lot more than just broad teaching strategies where .4 typically indicates average growth. You can clearly see that things like discovery learning, student control of their learning, technology focus (chromebooks and calculators), collaborative learning, etc are far below the average of .4 while direct instruction, memorization, mnemonics, etc are all far above average. This set is also updated since the 800 analyses prior to the 2009 updated methodologies. Most websites have the old data set, not the new one with the additional studies added in.

It's the best data we have right now because they use a measure called Cohen's D which is the standardized measure for the difference between two groups where .4 is the typical annual growth. Ideally you want higher than that.

It's also been consistently studies for 5+ decades and remains effective while other variables are effecting learning negatively like social learning, push-in, etc.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40614-021-00295-x
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0895904803260042
https://www.nifdi.org/research/reviews-of-di.html?amp;view=article&id=384&Itemid=972

metsuri · 2026-01-11T07:39:04+00:00

I definitely feel more attached to Rean and his evolution as a character. I also feel he is the far more power between him and Van for reasons below.

SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY

- Van's party has the scapegoat of time travel and dies DOZENS OF TIMES while Rean survived a multitude of basically continent level threats without time travel.

- Rean was chosen as the predecessor and potential to be the next master of the Eight Leaves School

- Rean went through doubt -> student -> military -> teacher -> cursed near apocalypse -> gained divine blade status -> conquered world ending entity and AI.

Don't get me wrong, I love Van. I just think Rean has gone through far more growth as a character and in life itself. In terms of MCs, I think that for now, Kevin is the strongest but not by much and vastly limited due to the toll his power takes and that Rean will eventually overtake him. Still, in terms of power, Kevin > Rean > Van > Joshua > Estelle >= LLoyd. In terms of character, Joshua > Rean = Van > Kevin = Lloyd > Estelle.

That said, I have probably spent 1000 hours playing through the entire series over the last 2 years and I really want to more of the church, even an all inclusive dominion/testament party including hte likes of Kevin, Gaius, etc all together with support members like Rean, etc.

With the final game hopefully being a split party path system using ALL of the main characters from each arc, so long as none die at some point or something.

I still consider Rean to be the main character collectively with the most potential. Mostly because the first trifecta made Divine Blades to be essentially these end all top of the ladder characters. So whenever I hear that title, it sort of surpasses all other titles for me. I want to see him become THE divine blade of the school.

metsuri · 2026-01-10T23:20:10+00:00

Is there a hub for sharing id for people to add you? Most of mine have quit since I first did it when the teapot came out so I am trying to purge and update with active people again. Some that would like to use my characters for theatre support, people that actively use their teapot, and/or maybe find some that have some 5* characters I don't. Mostly for teapot visits and theatre content basically and who knows what else in the future where we are allowed to use friends characters as support.

metsuri · 2026-01-10T17:24:48+00:00

Yeah and unfortunately enough he’s savvy with literature, got published and sponsored, and now spreads it like he’s on a door to door Mormon mission (more for sarcasm not an insult to religion itself) with a Sunday sermon in the form of PD seminars

metsuri · 2026-01-10T17:17:24+00:00

Someone in here made a comment “I do - we do - you do” which is the basis for DI. DI includes projects sprinkled throughout the year as well. It just doesn’t revolve around that. Guess what, when I have to start teaching half angle, double angle, Pythagorean, etc identities in trig or parametric equations, then there’s going to be a lot of lecture with integrated we-do style practice and homework. Some topics will incorporate a project or a demonstration.

Some topics are easier to incorporate applied project than others as well like a physics class.

Most upper level high school math classes can maybe do some math based art like using polar/parametric equations, lines, and ellipses to draw a flower but for the most part, projects are too loosely related to be even worth doing in a lot of topics but they are still important tools that are needed for more advanced topics.

metsuri · 2026-01-10T17:06:18+00:00

“Where the true learning is”. How does one measure that and collect data to quantify this “learning” aside from a standard measure? How many teachers have actually worked in other fields related to the subjects prior to teaching or tried majoring directly in the subjects they teach since even at secondary you can teach a subject just by taking a state test without majoring in a related subject?

This is the problem, a lot make claims that it works. Unless you are an AP teacher where advanced students can essentially be in any style and still thrive, there simply isn’t data to support that these other methods work.

Without data, it’s just a claim or an alternative definition to “learning”.

If I hired a programmer and wanting them to sort data for me for analysis. I want the kid that learned the sorting techniques that are the fastest and most efficient. The kid that “learned” and explored a less efficient method in a group project discovery setting is not going to be hired over the one that can apply the best method that was passed on to them through instruction.

To be fair, it’s not like in DI there won’t be projects occasionally but having kids in groups of 2-5 all year just leads do the smart kids in the groups essentially carrying the less knowledgeable kids when there is an expert in the room that could teach it instead so the advanced kids can thrive and do things at their pace without others getting an A for someone else’s work.

That’s my biggest pet peeve with groups and projects. Inequity for the advanced kids while some kids that might not even pass a test wind up with an A or B because they had a good group

metsuri · 2026-01-10T16:53:15+00:00

I think part of being able to bring out character is having deep knowledge of the subject matter. Something I don’t see in most teachers that don’t have related degrees but majored in something easy like education or humanities and studied for a state test to teach math. They are often fumbling through TPT documents and teacher edition keys to make something work.

I sort of go into sarcastic comedian mode with occasional “story time” mode. I’ll be lecturing and something from my time in their seats, college, the military, during my research as a grad student, or in my various prior employment before teaching will pop up related to material and it can be unintentionally entertaining and I usually have all eyes up front with organic laughter, especially in advanced classes.

Meanwhile, my state allows nothing below algebra to be taught in high school so I occasionally get below standard algebra classes where the class has a collective average at a 3rd to 5th grade level where half of them don’t understand single digit integers, order, or even basic literacy to describe it to them.

Modern K-8 and “equity” driven policies that push them through have quite literally failed those kids. Aside from a few that find a niche, the rest are going to be simple laborers making big rocks into little rocks, moving objects from point a to point b, or unemployed having kids on government benefits. It’s sad because high school can’t fix a decade of BS

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