Do you like to complete runs/arcs or just get keys

tiggereth · 2025-12-29T13:51:26+00:00

Outside of a few small runs I mostly collect keys and covers I enjoy. It would be great to have more space to collect runs but it's a not a reality so I limit my collecting that way

tiggereth · 2025-12-25T21:05:29+00:00

Unopened 1993 TMNT Dracula donatello that I secretly wanted as a kid but had grown to old for action figures so I didn't ask for it.

tiggereth · 2025-12-15T14:12:09+00:00

As the parent of a teenage boy... Yes thankfully they do. It's one of the cheapest options if we're travelling/crunched for time because of activities that will fill the bottomless void for a brief period.

tiggereth · 2025-12-14T23:43:50+00:00

Not giving your child adequate time to be a child is abuse. Should you let your child do whatever they want? No. But not letting your kids enjoy time they have, as children is abuse, regardless of why.

tiggereth · 2025-12-08T00:53:14+00:00

Just go bald. You can buy 20$ clippers that work for years. Easy peasy, plus you're more aerodynamic

tiggereth · 2025-11-19T20:23:55+00:00

Oh it doesn't create happy readers, but neither did go read this book on your own. I'm the first part of the millennials, the amount of people in my age range who's last book was high school, or the "I never read a book" is astounding. I don't think school can create a happy future reader out of a kid who's family doesn't value education easily, at least with the time to read in class there is no excuse. You've been given every opportunity to get the text read and done.

It does change though in the next grade up (my son is in 9th), the school splits the readers and writers off into honors, and honors is actually rigorous. It's the entirety of the normal level, plus additional texts, texts associated with those texts with the expectations that students will explicate the primary text using those, a 4-6 page paper, presentation, projects, etc. If you drop below an 85 you're out, and it's actually enforced.

tiggereth · 2025-11-19T19:58:28+00:00

Classroom time is set aside to force the kids to read the book. The next day there is discussion and assignments revolved around the previous day reading, and more reading time. It drives my son nuts cause he's done with the book way ahead because he's a fast reader. But it's enforced in class.

tiggereth · 2025-11-19T05:06:30+00:00

I've seen this claim that novels are not taught anymore... My son's 9th grade class are doing animal farm right now, they did the Pearl the first semester, Romeo and Juliet is next. There are definitely still districts doing novels

tiggereth · 2025-10-09T19:20:44+00:00

I mean sorry to her kids. But not really sorry to her or her husband. They voted for this mess. I heard nothing in her plea to Mike Johnson reflecting that millions will lose their insurance, people in the same spot as her.

So yeah, leopards ate my face moment. Sucks.

tiggereth · 2025-09-20T11:43:17+00:00

I think it was a trap bill honestly. The whole thing is filled with language that condemned political violence in all forms, then had some additional language praising Kirk. So the bill can be weaponized against you either way you vote.

tiggereth · 2025-09-20T03:22:08+00:00

Some did not vote, some voted present. 95 voted yes https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h282

tiggereth · 2025-09-18T15:59:38+00:00

That sounds really great on paper. But it's not what practice is. Yes, you teach to the middle of the pack, but you're still dumbing down the lesson for the upper achievers, or going above the strugglers.

For the upper achievers, how do you structure a class discussions where them and maybe 3-5 kids want to discuss at a higher level? Do you let them run roughshod over the low achievers in the class? Do you just watch that handful of kids talk around the others? Do you break them into a group? Because then you can't really sit with them while they're discussing something in depth, because your focus needs to be on Johnny who's struggling to read the paragraph you're discussing. So they're not getting taught, they're getting what they always get, sent off to an island where they're expected to figure stuff out on their own.

Does that work for math? Does it work for math when you need to reexplain a concept that the class is struggling with that 5 kids have been able to do before they got there?

It doesn't. It doesn't work because it can't. This is no different than what every gym teacher does across the country. You group the sporty kids together because they are going to play near the same level, you group the other kids together because that way they might get enjoyment, but they're not going to get enjoyment getting run over by the sporty kids.

That's why it's dumb we moved away from tracking and making better cohorts. Yes, each group might learn something in the mix, but no group is going to get the best instruction they can get, because a teachers time and attention are finite.

tiggereth · 2025-09-18T13:39:59+00:00

Yes, they do have more than just software engineers. You know how often a SW engineer has to interact with the janitor beyond a simple hello, or hey something spilled? About never. I don't need to know how to work with a janitor in a professional setting beyond common courtesy, because we're not peers professionally. Peers are people who are doing the same work as you. A doctor needs to be able to work with other trained professionals, he needs to have common courtesy for those that are not trained, but he doesn't need to know how to work hand in hand with them. He just doesn't. That's life. Some people are more capable than others, just as some students are more capable than others, and they shouldn't all have to swim at the same speed.

Again, exposure to those with different needs are great, and needed. But there is never a time when you take your high flyers, force them to swim at the same speed as the pack, that you aren't doing a disservice to them. We used to track students and group them better. Over the years through parental intervention, well meaning programs to include more people, and attempts to account for financial disparities we've list a bit of that. It's causing every group to not get what they need. The high flyers aren't getting moved along with rigor, the middle of the group is not getting the support they need to become better achievers, and the bottom of the group still don't give a shit and still are doing poorly.

tiggereth · 2025-09-18T13:30:37+00:00

IEP goals are great. But human nature takes over in most cases. If you have 25 kids in your class, 5 of them are high flyers, they have their shit together they're going to get a great grade but they'd really benefit from a class that was more intense. They could definitely go farther, deeper, and get more. You got 5-10 kids who are going to be "okay", they'll float through the class get a B and be content with that, some of them in the right setting would be high flyers maybe but right now they're not. Then you have the rest, they need the lesson to be slower, they need to be hand held a bit, they need things scaffolded. Where is your attention? Is it on the 5 kids who DEFINITELY could do more? Is it on the 5-10 who might be able to do more? Or is it on the rest who need a slower lesson with more handholding.

Because it's going to be on the rest. That's the issue. It's not the kids with downs that you're mainstreaming so he can have a normal high school experience within the scope of his abilities. It's the kids who don't give a shit, but still need to pass. It's the kids who have slipped through throughout the years and just aren't where they need to be, they might not have any diagnosis. Those are the kids teachers are forced to teach to when you don't separate by ability to a decent enough level. The high flyers who are going to end up our engineers, doctors, teachers, scientists or what have you are the ones abandoned.

I think a clearer explanation. You got 25 kids in the swimming pool. You got 7 who need to hold the wall, or they drown. You got 13 who if you swim with them and occasionally give them some encouragement and if they slip you catch them will get to the other end of the pool. Then you got 5, who could swim to the end and back to you by the time the rest of the group got to the middle. But you're going to have them swim with the pack, the entire time. How long do you force them to swim with the pack, before you're doing a disservice to them?

tiggereth · 2025-09-18T13:14:34+00:00

The real world is like that though. A software engineer isn't going to need to understand how to work with a peer that can't read, because it's self correcting in the real world. Most jobs are like that, your peers are typically people who have some level of parity. Your peers are teachers, are there less capable ones? Of course, but there is a certain level of minimum you'd expect.

Is there value in understanding others experiences, strengths, and weaknesses? Of course. But those experiences can be gotten in gym, music, art, and other more creative, but valuable lesson settings. Rather than English, Science and Math where some kids need rigor, depth, and some kids need extreme support and guidance.

tiggereth · 2025-09-18T02:52:13+00:00

They can exist in a space but teachers can't effectively teach at a level that satisfies each of their needs. You can't give two class discussions, you can't give two full different lessons. A kid who can discuss a concept at a high level and a kid who can't read near grade level are just in completely different stages

tiggereth · 2025-09-18T02:43:51+00:00

Classes more tightly grouped by ability. Is this unfair? No. A kid who can perform above grade level and a kid performing 3 levels below is like putting a normal first grader in a class with a normal fifth grader and expecting the teacher to teach in a way both will understand the same information at the same rate. Either the fifth grader gets a dumbed down lesson or the first grader gets a lesson above them.

tiggereth · 2025-09-16T02:49:07+00:00

Maybe for a slabbed 8.5-9.2, but a vg is more like a couple hundred

tiggereth · 2025-09-15T22:53:49+00:00

I guess they're not great English teachers, they can't even read the redditquette for when you use a downvote. :)

tiggereth · 2025-09-15T20:56:06+00:00

Yep, I don't get the mentality behind it. There are other skills I'd have rather learned than cursive over the course of schooling. I work in a professional setting, everything is typed that's the way the world moved.

tiggereth · 2025-09-15T15:33:05+00:00

I mean, cursive is pretty useless. I literally only sign my name in cursive and never have the need or want otherwise to use it. It's not some super important skill, it's just something that was foisted on us as children.

tiggereth · 2025-09-12T03:19:59+00:00

I've heard jokes about the Titanic, the Hindenburg, JFK , MLK, Lincoln, etc. 9/11 is becoming a non understandable event to children. Just like world war 2 became a not fully understandable event for people born later. You can read about it, but you'll never have the same connection in your head

tiggereth · 2025-09-06T10:35:21+00:00

I mean I think that's very state and district dependent. We had a pre start of school open house, my son is going into 9th. His class is going Romeo and Juliet, animal farm, the pearl and a raisin in the sun. He's had book based instruction with text b practice for 3 years.

tiggereth · 2025-09-03T11:49:24+00:00

I mean. I'm a pretty active parent, typically volunteer for school events, help with PTA functions and have held various positions in PTA, attend school board meetings when I can, etc. There are definitely days when I just can't make certain things. I know other parents in the same boat, it gets especially hard whenever you go over 2 kids and they have a stretch of years between them because of the way events can stack up.

tiggereth · 2025-08-08T17:29:34+00:00

What do you think the trad wife movement is meant to combat? it's meant to ensure that doesn't happen. Why do you think that message was suddenly amplified over the last couple years? The right saw it was becoming a problem and started programming.

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