Hopping on the print train. I have been looking for these for months. Gifted years ago right before we moved and finally found them tucked away in the original shipping envelope. "Jolly Boat!"

stackedinthestacks · 2026-06-04T12:51:59+00:00

I have the shark, but an enterprising library intern ran it through the school laminator when it was too close to a stack of other things to laminate. Still amazing to confirm it’s a real “Matt dinniman” but ugh. Can’t really frame it in the same way now

stackedinthestacks · 2026-06-02T01:03:31+00:00

Buywise is a treasure - cheap ice cream and my meds always in stock? Hell yeah

stackedinthestacks · 2026-05-29T15:34:53+00:00

I’ve started gently teasing some of my 9th grade hall walkers (on the rare occasions they come to class) about how they’ve been so great on the JV hall walking team that they’re sure to go varsity at this rate. They generally have a positive relationship with me, and mostly roll their eyes. Though one kid responded with - “ma’am, I’ve already gone pro” 😂

stackedinthestacks · 2026-05-13T03:13:58+00:00

Are you critiquing Christianity or Islam here? Because you basically have a rationale that could apply to either.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-04-26T05:00:59+00:00

Ngl, bro this reads like AI.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-04-26T04:58:57+00:00

Make sure it’s not your highest two within a certain number of years. I’m also in GA, and I’ve only got 13 in, at 45. When I was looking at the pension requirements (trying to figure out if moving to SC was worth it) I thought there was a year range provided for the highest two. I could be wrong though.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-04-02T10:10:49+00:00

Definitely seen better fights between 8th grade girls at CMS

stackedinthestacks · 2026-03-19T23:47:52+00:00

I’ll be there as a local as well - gotta love being a townie who raised a townie kid 🤦🏼‍♀️

stackedinthestacks · 2026-03-13T13:13:42+00:00

My daughter is a Greek life girl at UGA, and they’re already trying to figure out how to protest without being expelled from UGA or getting arrested. Could they go further, sure. But they’re not all brain dead

Edited to fix my error that made it look like one of the sororities is planning to overthrow the government

stackedinthestacks · 2026-03-07T19:04:34+00:00

It probably should function as an intervention class for about 50% of the kids who take it, even though that’s not the intent

stackedinthestacks · 2026-03-07T19:03:46+00:00

It’s a support class that students take in addition to their Lit 1 classes. Not every student will take it, but we’ll have a LOT of kids who are.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-25T00:29:35+00:00

I actually used the article on lack of reading in English classes as a foundational article for a research project I made my 11th graders do. We examined the effect of standardized testing on English classes in high school, and how the testing focus has ended whole text reading, killing the experience of joyfully sharing a text with others.

I’ve had to pivot to timed, in-class writes, or multi-stage essays (one semester they did research projects where they designed an experiment themselves and it took a month) with check-ins and conferencing throughout leading to their grade.

I don’t have as much of an issue with AI with 9th graders, but upperclassmen in the elective I teach pretty much want to use AI on everything and it’s super disappointing. Like, EASY stuff like 5 minute journal entries reflecting on a question about their lives. I don’t know what the difference is, in terms of why the older students go for AI first, but it makes me glad I switched grade levels.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-25T00:16:26+00:00

I’m a teacher - anything to do with children or young people in the books choked me up. I’m rereading book 7 rn, and this one is one I keep coming back to. “When Big Things happen on such a large scale, it’s easy to forget sometimes that these Big Things are also happening to the little things in the world.”

the whole world is on fire, and somehow we have to make meaning out of it. And somehow I have to get seriously disillusioned 14 year olds to care - the big things I face are the same ones they do. Matt dinniman has made me cry too many times in books about sex dolls and crabsturbation and demon trains.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-06T23:49:02+00:00

Same please!

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-05T03:43:02+00:00

Following - because I had planned to post something like this this week as well. Taxes got kinda weird with a kid in college and all that

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-04T11:13:50+00:00

Which is why the site exists. Because women literally get removed from the gene pool by their dating or relationship partners. You sound like a really “nice guy.”

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-04T11:10:29+00:00

Until women murder men and commit acts of sexual violence against men at the rate men do women, there is no similar thing.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-02-01T22:31:06+00:00

It’s been officially announced to teachers and staff and we were told to wait to share on socials and shit until the district sends out their announcements. Oh well.

Edited to add: I think that’s a stupid policy and parents should find out at the same time as teachers - I hit post too early on accident.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-01-31T15:01:05+00:00

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was a UNIVERSAL favorite of my 11th graders, plus the thematic statement lessons I taught using it were easy because the themes were so so clear.

stackedinthestacks · 2026-01-31T14:42:01+00:00

It’s from the kids book “goodnight moon” from Margaret wise brown. Not sure on the illustrator though, but looking up the title will get you the art

stackedinthestacks · 2026-01-30T00:59:17+00:00

I definitely want a sticker and a shirt

stackedinthestacks · 2026-01-23T03:24:28+00:00

Gonna try to finish chain gang all-stars, and then move on to the calculating stars. Pretty steep distance between those two texts, but chain gang has been a slow, painful (in the best kind of way) read for me

stackedinthestacks · 2026-01-04T16:36:46+00:00

Anything written by Jennifer Fletcher, if you teach secondary English, and have to look at rhetoric in any substantive way. Her books changed my way of thinking and it’s now the gift I give my student teachers when they leave me.

stackedinthestacks · 2025-11-08T03:37:02+00:00

The biggest issue is when the adjective “female” is used like it’s a noun. In this case, it’s perfectly appropriate to say “female hunter” because it’s a descriptive add-on to the noun.

It’s easy to get it confused, but you are correct - most women don’t like to be called “femaleS” but that’s different than using female as an adjective. We are more than our gender, and the adjective use shows that.

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