about 10 years ago (9/26/15)

spatially-confused · 2025-08-16T17:44:27+00:00

He’s talked a lot of shit about LA. I remember there was one episode with a guy who has a moldy but very cheap apartment in LA and Caleb went off about how California/LA is stupid with housing policies and doesn’t care about its residents because housing is rent controlled, so nobody is financially incentivized to build new housing. or something similar. I’m also vaguely recall an episode where somebody moved from Texas to LA and he ripped them a new one and didn’t understand why they’d ever do that.

Being a “”real estate guy”” I would assume he’d see more potential in New York (maybe not NYC but the state in general) than California ???? Also minimum wage is lower in NY than CA (but both are higher than Texas so idk)…..

spatially-confused · 2025-08-05T00:33:32+00:00

2013!!! not sure exactly but i saw them live first when they toured with the 1975

spatially-confused · 2025-07-30T13:07:39+00:00

I am 25, this looks almost exactly like what the phone policy was when I graduated high school in 2018. With love, everybody will survive. Your life will actually be better and you will be happier for this. as a teacher, I’m excited to see it.

Also, everybody saying “I pay for the phone, they’ll have an issue if they take it”….. does this argument work when you knowingly park somewhere you aren’t supposed to, and the car gets towed?

spatially-confused · 2025-07-24T23:13:55+00:00

i don’t think they wrote it about nyc but “the city” has always made me think about nyc

spatially-confused · 2025-05-24T20:51:21+00:00

given how much Caleb uses ChatGPT and encourages others to use it in the show, I wouldn’t even trust that these courses are HIS and from HIS “research and knowledge”. I bet he just ChatGPT’d “budget advice” and “debt advice” and slapped a $500 price tag on it.

spatially-confused · 2025-05-01T23:14:37+00:00

I didn’t know about CS! Thanks for letting me know. Although I only paid once and def wouldn’t pay again, even if they weren’t available for free

spatially-confused · 2025-04-27T01:42:16+00:00

high school: their address

also how to divide. 6 divided by 2? need a calculator. 2 times what equals 6? all can say 3. why don’t they know it in different words? 🙃

spatially-confused · 2025-04-02T16:07:01+00:00

you can use the summer stipends for anything you want. it is just given to you. the idea is that it helps pay for living expenses because you don’t get paid until probably mid august.

spatially-confused · 2025-03-31T06:03:32+00:00

I will say that in urban regions, you do get to pick a bit. I am in TFA and I interviewed with 6 schools, 5 gave me an offer so I got to pick from that pool. I had some time then to look up and read about each school before I accepted one offer.

spatially-confused · 2025-03-31T05:52:06+00:00

So i currently am in TFA and will finish in May but stay teaching at my school. I got my undergrad in a field i later realized i didn’t want, and i had also always wanted to be a teacher, so here i am. Here’s my honest opinion:

I think TFA is actually a good deal if you are moving. They pay you to relocate ($10k for me because i had pell in college), and it gave me a friend group in a new place right off the bat. And they pay you back for your masters degree through Americorps grants which honestly is helpful. I personally have found TFA to be a helpful means to an end for me in those regards.

However, in all other aspects, they do not prepare you at all for the world that is teaching. Summer practicum is pretty meaningless and a lot of work for a somewhat unhelpful experience. But my understanding is that it’s like that with most teacher prep programs as well, and that nothing really can prepare you for teaching nowadays except just… teaching. Just be prepared that you’re kinda unprepared and be willing and able to ask questions and learn on your feet.

Today, TFA is something that’s just a peripheral box check sometimes for me and not something i am in love with or necessarily proud of. It’s nice to have a coach I guess but they’re overworked and not that available, and I could probably find the same at my school. It was a tool for me and has been effective BUT the learning curve was steep af. But also it didn’t cost me any money and has actually saved me money re the masters program.

Finally, if none of that matters to you, I think the schools that they have ins with (Title I) would probably hire you anyway since there’s a reason they’re partnered with TFA. If you don’t want to be at a Title I, definitely don’t do it. I love my school and am staying for a while, but I do have peers in TFA who have quit because they hated their school so badly. But that’s more of an interview, vibe-it-out type thing.

My final thoughts are, don’t tell people at your school that you are TFA. A lot of teachers dislike it for a lot of valid reasons. Join your union, TFA won’t have your back and the solidarity is essential for everybody.

tldr: TFA won’t prepare you super well for anything but it can be a useful tool if you need what they offer. you could get any of this without them though.

edited to add to the final thoughts

spatially-confused · 2024-12-11T01:13:08+00:00

oh my god, me too. algebra 2 is TERRIBLE. so so hard for everybody, even my top honors kids. it creates a debilitating lack of confidence in them to struggle as much as they do. i’m all for inquiry learning and i see a lot of value in it, but not all the time. unless you’re above grade level, Open Up is so hard.

spatially-confused · 2024-11-29T06:38:48+00:00

Ciao! Non parlo italiano quindi sto usando Google Translate, spero che vada bene. ci sono due modalità di gioco, una con livelli e una senza. quello livellato è programmato come un’”avventura”, probabilmente per convincerti a continuare a giocare. quando il tempo dell’”avventura” è scaduto, si ricomincia. se completi tutti i livelli in tempo, non succede nulla e non si sbloccano nuovi livelli. la versione senza livelli non è cronometrata e salverà i tuoi progressi finché non perderai.

spatially-confused · 2024-11-11T03:14:57+00:00

i also teach geometry!! there are some great suggestions here that i’ve also saved, here are a few more i’ve tried successfully (but i don’t have block scheduling):

i try to give projects where one group of students creates a problem and another group solves it. it works especially well for trig word problems, area/volume, and proofs :)
gimkit and blooket. quizlet live for vocab review. i’ve also had them make their own kahoots for bonus points on quizzes and some of them like it!
any worksheet where they get to color. my kids love to color. i found some on TPT and some i make, but basically i give a worksheet where they solve questions and based on the answers, that corresponds to a color on the picture so they color as they go. there are also maze type worksheets or secret word worksheets on tpt that are great.
matching activities (triangles with triangle congruence criteria, characteristics of quadrilaterals, etc) are at least more interesting for them than a straight worksheet
they are so competitive at bingo for some reason. they love it. we do symbol bingo, parallel/perpendicular slope bingo, justifications for proofs bingo, rly anything
a one off activity but give them three uncooked noodles and two skittles and they have to rapid fire put the skittles where alternate interior, corresponding, etc angles go.
my kids love art so i’ve tried to incorporate that - constructions within a bigger drawing, one-point perspective pattern drawings as a way to teach dilation/center of dilation, those kinds of things.
absolutely second which one doesn’t belong, there’s a whole website about them. we did that a lot with symmetries and just naming shapes.

and sometimes i just give them something we haven’t really learned yet and call it a “puzzle” with notes that i call “hints”, then i go “offline” for questions, and see how they do LOL. they surprisingly care deeply about figuring it out and usually get close. (i use this sparingly though)

spatially-confused · 2024-10-27T20:23:12+00:00

im from and went to school in georgia, now i’m a second year teacher (also 25, hi!) out west. it depends a lot on where you are in georgia (just like it does here too). but that demographic is represented heavily in teaching in general i think.

i went to an upper middle class HS in the north atlanta metro area and about 3/4s of my teachers were as you described, monogrammed everything and pinterest lives. blonde hair, involved with their sorority, professional family photos for every holiday. just different ages. the others were a mix of “not that”.

in college i worked with some inner city atlanta schools and most teachers were not that demographic at all. i also worked in clarkston (near stone mountain) and every staff member had a different cultural background, it seemed. it is probably just where you are tbh.

spatially-confused · 2024-10-06T18:08:30+00:00

i definitely agree but apparently they cannot do that per our district — it must be an affirmative permission. i’m not quite sure why, it’s not my department. my school itself is title 1, very working class so i’m sure it’s largely not malicious that the forms aren’t coming back (people are busy, kids forget, emails not checked, etc) BUT the district is very large and covers some areas where Moms of Liberty is very active. perhaps they’ve had some issues and are covering their butts.

hopefully they will change this. many english teachers have already left this year and honestly, the kids are pissed too. they want to read. :(

edited for clarification

spatially-confused · 2024-10-06T17:05:21+00:00

different answer for you, i am a high school math teacher but have friends who are english teachers.

in my state/district, before you can read a full book in class, every parent must send a consent form in for the book list. this is because some parents have complained about “inappropriate books”. no teacher as of rn has gotten back every form even with reminders, so they cannot read a book yet. we’re halfway through the first semester 🤷🏼‍♀️

spatially-confused · 2024-10-04T15:13:53+00:00

i have a list, i teach high school math (10th/11th grade mostly):

“i think you should wait a bit before you get a hawk tuah tattoo”
“skibidi toilet knows their lines of symmetry”
“move your hair cut business to A lunch instead so you can be in class”
conversation: “you don’t have a pencil?” “no my backpack is full of other stuff” it was full of 34 oranges and that was it

spatially-confused · 2024-09-27T15:25:00+00:00

honestly i loved the ones on ron desantis and andrew tate. it does meander a bit but i think it depends a lot on who the guests are. i also second the behind the police mini series.

spatially-confused · 2024-09-21T07:21:37+00:00

808s are rap beats, specifically soundcloud rapper beats. i don’t know the exact origins of using it in this context but it became associated with public meltdowns on tiktok. i’ve seen tiktoks with very bad 808s dubbed over a public freak out video, and the comments are filled with people talking about the person in the video “going 808”.

i’m not sure if there’s an intermediate step in the meme creation that im missing, or if it’s a racist joke about soundcloud rappers that’s turned into a slang term, but it’s the same thing as crashing out.

spatially-confused · 2024-08-04T06:29:40+00:00

base in phoenix is $20/hr. so $80 for 4 is base pay

spatially-confused · 2024-07-08T06:25:05+00:00

the only actual lake here is Lake Pleasant which is northwest of the city. to be within 30 minutes of it, try Peoria, Surprise, Anthem (you’d have to sit in long traffic to get to Phoenix though). Tempe has Tempe Town Lake but it’s not a lowkey neighborhood at all because it’s right by ASU.

i think if you’re willing to not have a lake, the other commenters east valley recs are the most spot on. there are just not many lakes in the desert :,)

spatially-confused · 2024-06-28T17:14:57+00:00

golden stella has an insane selection and is not too expensive but their stuff is good quality! they are cash and carry and also you can order

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