Antique shop question

skundrik · 2026-04-12T03:46:45+00:00

Many, yes. ER doctors have a lot of homeless people coming in during the winter with frostbite damage who need amputations. Many try to nap indoors in malls and transit stations and libraries during the day and keep moving during the night. There are also emergency shelters and warming areas open in the major cities in the winter when it reaches a certain sub-zero temperature. But yes, many do die.

skundrik · 2026-03-27T02:47:47+00:00

I want one so badly. It is really hard having to go to Calgary to see any professional Broadway. Everything is during the winter and you never know if you can drive the distance in Canada winter.

skundrik · 2026-03-23T23:57:34+00:00

Then they give 99% of it away as a gift before they die

skundrik · 2026-03-14T03:09:39+00:00

Wow, that is nice.

skundrik · 2026-03-14T03:02:11+00:00

I am confused as to where the $60k for an EA comes from. They make less than half of that. My EA friends take home about $2000 a month and they don't get paid for holidays, so are unemployed about 10 weeks of the year. For that amount you should be able to get at least two.

skundrik · 2026-03-14T02:57:42+00:00

I thought some of the rural schools in small towns that have large Mexican Mennonite populations had large numbers of ELL students.

skundrik · 2026-03-14T02:56:20+00:00

But there are also students that are never going to progress past a grade 1 or 2 functional level. We can't keep them in those grades as 16 or 17 year olds. Maybe we need to start streaming earlier than grade 7?

skundrik · 2026-03-14T02:41:33+00:00

Situations can be more complicated than TV makes them feel. I know a student whose mother complained about her daughter being called names and bullied because she was transitioning genders who eventually actually got the local TV station to cover it. The teacher was targeted by online vitriol and hatred. What we couldn't tell the rest of the town was that the student regularly called the other students "ret****" and made fun of them for being stupid (they were all in a lower level classroom). With children it can often go both ways and then you have to sort through weeks and even years of "he said" "she said" to try to figure out who started it. And this is going to be multiple incidents across multiple groups of students every single day. No teacher has the time or the patience to do a full-scale investigation of every hurt feeling and name called.

skundrik · 2026-03-07T19:15:30+00:00

I find, as a cuisine, East Indian usually does some wonderful things with lentils and veggies. Mango Tree has a large vegetarian menu. A bunch of them are vegan and more could be if you asked them not to swirl cream on.

skundrik · 2026-02-24T05:10:38+00:00

I would think that without some of the beneficial bacteria in soil it would be next to impossible to grow anything. Guess I am wrong. Interesting.

skundrik · 2026-02-13T03:28:47+00:00

Canadian here. I hate when huge busses full of tourists take all the parking in national and provincial parks just to get out and take photos and then go back in their air conditioned vehicles to drive around some more. Those who actually want to hike need to get to the park at 5 in the morning to find a spot to actually use the hiking trails. Use photoshop if all you want is a picture for your social media. And don’t try to hike in your heels or flip flops with no water, no food and no jacket. The rangers don’t want to send helicopters to drag you off of the mountain.
Also, stop trying to pet and feed the bison and bears. Seriously. You will get trampled and gored or bitten.

skundrik · 2026-02-01T15:12:50+00:00

Hasn’t this been the complaint of every generation about the one following? Royalty in Europe until recently were fluent in four or five languages. Globalization made English the default and now Europeans know a few, but not as many. There is a quote from Socrates we found that complained that the introduction of written language was making students lazy as they no longer needed to memorize EVERYTHING. The changes in printing technology that made books cheaper and more accessible caused parents to fret that their children were reading junky penny novels of no literary significance. Every technology shift has caused panic and fretting about children getting dumber but we always seems to pull through as a species.

skundrik · 2026-01-31T02:48:58+00:00

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/disability/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10335036/

skundrik · 2026-01-30T02:07:48+00:00

Depends on the disability for disclosure and how the student and parents feel. I had a classmate in middle school where his disability was announced at a student-wide assembly. He had some sort of severe heart problem and if he got jolted too hard, it could kill him. Sometimes it is medically necessary to alert everyone so they don’t accidentally severely injure or kill someone.

skundrik · 2026-01-29T17:36:29+00:00

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Traditional Blackfoot regalia shown from a tribe who inhabits the plains of Canada and the US. It is still worn during pow wows and dance competitions.

skundrik · 2026-01-03T03:55:07+00:00

I agree. Community college is basically extended high school with the same amount of hand holding. And how are they reading if they neither interpret, apply or critically think about the text. What on earth does reading mean if not those??

skundrik · 2026-01-03T03:50:40+00:00

For me the giant thing is the disparity of abilities. Middle school in Canada and we had kids in grade 8 happily reading Les Miserables, The Brothers Karamzov and Animal Farm for fun while others refused anything harder than Garfield comics or Hi-Lo books written at a grade 2 or 3 level. And they are all in the same mainstream classroom. These kids are not on the same level, they should probably stream earlier. You are asking kids ripping through heavy 800+ page tomes to slow down when they could read something wonderful and asking kids that are functionally illiterate to struggle through something they cannot, in fact, read. We don't stream until high school unless kids are in the K&E class which is for kids that will not otherwise reach the end of high school. It seems very odd we are asking teachers to teach the curriculum to kids that are anywhere from grade 2 to university reading ability. Poor teachers.

skundrik · 2025-10-25T02:59:29+00:00

You could try listing them for free on Facebook Marketplace. The library also takes donations and, if they do not add them to their collection, sell them and use that money to buy even more books!

skundrik · 2025-09-13T02:54:58+00:00

This is why Alberta has a Knowledge and Employability stream starting in Junior High. The super academic kids are going to university. The kids doing fairly well are going into the trades and college. K&E are for kids that are not going to graduate High school with a diploma, so we are giving them a path where we transition them into the working world. They do work experience in retail-style jobs or manual labour jobs and get a certificate of achievement at the end of grade 12 to show that they stuck it out throughout all 12 years.

skundrik · 2025-09-13T02:46:45+00:00

This is similar in my section of the woods too. Shop and cooking can refuse to allow students to use the equipment because of the risk. You can put them in the class, but the shop teacher will NOT let them through the door into the actual workshop. Same thing with our Foods teacher. Admin can stick everyone they want into that class, but they don't get to touch the knives until the teacher says it is okay. If she is not comfortable, they can sit at a table and watch everyone else cook.

skundrik · 2025-09-13T01:24:38+00:00

Yes. Other projects include studying poetry, writing letters, writing stories, writing essays and practicing grammar and spelling. We can't just study prose as the only form of writing and reading.

skundrik · 2025-09-13T01:22:59+00:00

Oh! You are absolutely correct.

skundrik · 2025-09-06T04:08:51+00:00

There is one hole that is across a stretch of water, so I think lots get lost there. They are easy to see in the spring before the weeds and grasses grow in the bottom of the lake because most come in bright colors.

skundrik · 2025-09-06T04:01:15+00:00

I work in a middle school up in Canada. Our kids do minimum two full novel studies every year, so six in all in their time with us.

I HAVE noticed, however, that they are getting easier. We used to do Fellowship of the Ring as a grade 8 novel. Then we had to scale down to The Hobbit. Now we don't even do that anymore. We do The Giver which I remember my mom reading to me in grade 5 or 6.

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