Education Professors: Every single lesson plan you write has to be scripted word for word to the smallest detail, including every possible answer your students might provide for each and every question, otherwise your class will be chaos.
Every Single Teacher I've Asked: Except for the rare days that the school board asks me to submit a formal lesson plan, at absolute most I'll have like a dozen slides and a jot-note explanation of the activities/assignments we'll do.
Today, I helped with a school group. There were about 60 fifth graders. I took half the group and talked about inventing, documentation, and the Aerial Experiment Association while our director of education took the other half and talked about inventions and innovations that Glenn Curtiss made. We switched groups then all came back together to design, build, and fly poster board airplanes. I think the kids had fun.
When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community.
The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.
Most people think that creativity is naturally acquired by a child. However, this doesn’t always work this way. In reality, parents can help foster a child’s creative thinking abilities even in their early years.
We love Bruce's tragic ignorance of Sheila's role in Jason's death.
We love Jason never telling another soul what Sheila did, because he loves her, because he's grateful she showed him compassion as soon as it didn't cost her anything, because nobody needs to know.
We need to go further.
Jason's last act as Robin got an innocent woman killed. His own mother, a doctor who should've lived many more years making the world a better place.
Poor Doctor Haywood might've survived being forced to work for the Joker, but Jason dragged her into a dangerous confrontation instead.
It's obvious what happened: Jason was trying to show off. He wanted to impress his mother by revealing himself as Robin and taking down the Joker. Treating everything like a game, never considering the consequences.
And despite losing everything to his recklessness, Sheila still used her dying breath to praise him. It's a tragedy that such a sweet woman dedicated her life to caring for others, but her own son doomed her with his carelessness.
This was revealed on Barney Miller in 1981. Predictive programing hidden in plain sight, as per usual. Front running the truth with the "conspiracy theory" labels.
That script was greenlit on a comedy show, they knew they could flaunt it, and no one would believe it. 🤔
Apex predator, my ass. I’m going to pet the dog 🐻🐻❄️🐼
perhaps now is a good time for some responsible bear programming to remind everyone that as cute and cuddly as they may seem, bears are lethal apex predators and should absolutely be treated accordingly if ever encountered.
This is just SO cool and so cute!!! Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a wildlife & conservation organization, is celebrating their first "great-grand-baby" elephant! One of their many programs is raising orphan wildlife, primarily elephants. Their program has been going for over 5 decades! They discovered the right formula to sustain milk-dependent baby elephants, and I believe rhinos as well.
This year they've reached 52 calves born to ex-orphans in the wild, which is absolutely amazing. But now they have their first one born to one of THOSE calves, making ex-orphan Yatta a grandmother!
Here's the longer blog post with the stories for this amazing elephant family. This bit at the end made me cry -
@hope-for-the-planet this seems like your kind of post!!
A new study by the education watchdog Available to All reveals that school attendance zones and selective admission policies in the U.S. often exclude students of color and low-income families from elite public schools, thereby reinstating levels of segregation reminiscent of 1968. The study criticizes the use of residential addresses for school assignments, which supports "educational redlining" that favors affluent families, leading to systemic inequalities in access to advanced educational programs. Available to All calls for legislative reforms to protect enrollment rights and recommends that school districts minimize the importance of geographical boundaries to combat segregation and improve school access for all.
The resurgence of school segregation to levels seen in 1968 is a stark reminder of how deeply systemic inequality is entrenched in our education system. Policies that favor affluent families and perpetuate educational redlining deny many Black and low-income students the opportunity to access quality education.
but listen to the racists and coons, black people are just making shit up and "playing the victim/race card."
It was a busy day. In the morning we got the galleries all reset from Friday's event and this afternoon we had a drop-in solar eclipse program. Our education director planned several family-friendly craft activities and I told her I'd be there to help out if needed. We can never predict how many people will come to programs like this. In the past, it's been maybe 15 to 20 people. So, when three van loads of kids and parents arrived, I was called into action along with our office manager to help. In the first hour, more than 65 people came to the program! It was barely-controlled chaos and everyone seemed to have a good time.
They are hosting training sessions to teach right-wing judges how to bend the law in favor of the oligarchs and their Republican puppets.
“Billionaire-bankrolled judicial trips are nothing new on the right. In 2021 and 2022, an investigation by The Lever found just two conservative organizations, George Mason University and the Federalist Society, paid to send more than 100 federal judges on a total of 251 educational retreats.”
sitting on my hands so hard every time I see a tmagp theory post based on inaccurate information because it's impolite to constantly tell random people on the internet that they're wrong and it is in fact completely normal to not have encyclopedic knowledge about these podcasts and I, magnus trivia marina, am the outlier in this situation