exocrinous

joined 9 months ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website -1 points 8 months ago

Well, if I lived in a small town I would need to either walk or give little kids asthma to get anywhere. And seeing as I have both a conscience and the pressures of 21st century fast paced living, it's impossible for me to live in a small town.

Also small towns don't got any gay bars

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 9 points 8 months ago

Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams, no siree!

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I think even one life of a trans person or Palestinian is important.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago

Did you tell them they were only expected to work on the assignment during the school term?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I figured that out in high school too. I think it just irks me that different students are being graded on a different standard, subjectively speaking. The neurotypicals are being judged on their ability to learn, while the gifted kids are being judged on their ability to explain. Maybe the gifted kids wanna learn too. They're all told their whole lives the point of school is to learn, and then they're met with disappointing reality. We expect gifted kids to grow up so fast, and having to explain the material back to the teacher to prove they know it doesn't help. I wish they got to spend a little longer just being kids.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago

You didn't read my other comment in this thread where I directly said Biden was supplying arms to the genocide in Gaza, did you?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How do you deal with students who say "my gut says it works this way. This is an easy problem, the answer is obvious. I don't know how to explain it to you any more simply"?

I mean, it takes 162 pages to formally prove that 1+1=2, but we got by just fine before we wrote down that proof. We just knew the answer, we couldn't explain how. If a student is gifted, a high school level problem could be as simple to them as 1+1 is to most people. They might know and not be able to explain how. Now, in a university environment I'd expect them to learn the proof, but that's not the point of high school maths, is it? The point of high school maths is to know how to solve the problem, not to know why the solution works.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Kids cheat when they're not engaged with the material enough to learn it properly, or when the consequences for not cheating are too much for them to bear.

You gave them an assignment to do when you weren't actually teaching them, which means there's no way they can be properly engaged with the material. And you threatened their spring break with sitting in a room alone doing homework if they didn't get it done fast enough. You created a perfect breeding ground for cheating. Try creating an environment where kids don't feel that they need to cheat.

When I was in university I never heard of anyone cheating, because we were all treated like adults and we were engaging in material we liked. Try inspiring your students and treating them like adults. That means respecting their free time. If you don't give them respect as people, you won't get any respect as an authority.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Look, you're obviously so committed to defending capitalist Vlad that you'll never realise "Genocide Joe" is a nickname for a guy whose name was actually Joe, Joe Stalin, so I'll engage you on your own silly terms and post a list of things Biden did to help queer people. https://www.hrc.org/resources/president-bidens-pro-lgbtq-timeline. Biden has done plenty to harm queer people as well, of course, but nothing he's done is as bad as a law sending all gay people to prison, which is what the original Genocide Joe did.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do Thrax drop lanthorns at a higher rate than regular enemies?

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Oh, sorry, I meant the other Russian Genocide Joe. The one who banned being gay.

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