Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Taco Bell Tower]

The company is pinning a resurgence on games it's been developing with Walt Disney Co., which agreed to invest $1.5 billion in Epic two years ago. Epic is on track to launch the first game in its new Disney partnership in November, according to four current and former employees. It will be a shooting game along the lines of Embark Studios' hit Arc Raiders, but with Disney characters battling enemies until they can reach an extraction point, according to the people. So far, internal reviewers have expressed concerns that the game mechanics are not very original, but some of the employees are optimistic that Epic will get it right by the launch date.

 

Is Disney retarded? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-epic-games-pins-‘fortnite’-comeback-on-disney-partnership-disney-themed-extraction-shooter.1488196/

No wonder Ree love Disney

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-the-2028-democratic-presidential-primary-were-tomorrow-which-of-these-candidates-would-you-vote-for.1488235/

Logged into the riotious account to vote

Andy Beshear
Votes: 9 2.3%
Pete Buttigieg
Votes: 11 2.8%
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Votes: 284 72.4%
Kamala Harris
Votes: 6 1.5%
Gavin Newsom
Votes: 12 3.1%
Jon Ossoff
Votes: 8 2.0%
JB Pritzker
Votes: 61 15.6% 

They really loathe black women, huh?  Get 'em, NepNep!

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/valve-reportedly-developing-%E2%80%9Csteamgpt%E2%80%9D-ai-tool-for-support-and-anti-cheat.1488232/

AI handling bans and support tickets is bad

betcha you'd get more thoughtful moderation from AI than your forum's jannies, tho

[Greatness Gone]

NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM

finished a playthrough of MGS2 a few weeks ago and it's still so so so fucking good 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

Fellow educators, get in here. I need to vent and I'm curious if my experiences mirror any other teachers.

I work as a middle/high school English teacher at an alternative school in the largest school district in the state. I took the position because I have a strong passion for helping students, especially more troubled students who need some additional guidance and support. Before I took the position, I spoke with fellow teachers at other alternative schools and even spoke with my brother-in-law, who attended an alternative school twice when he was in high school. I knew the students could be disrespectful, but I was a reporter for 15 years, so nothing someone says to me is going to phase me. That does not mean I want to hear it, however.

In my previous eight years of teaching, the worst thing a student ever said to me was, "fuck you, you oval-headed fat ass." He apologized after his suspension and I was his favorite teacher by the time he graduated. He and I would laugh about it from time to time.

Here, however, it's impossible to teach. On a daily basis, the students are defiant, to say the least. I'm cussed out at least once a day, usually multiple times by multiple students in multiple classes. My life has been threatened on multiple occasions. My wife's life has been threatened a couple of times. Twice this semester, two separate kids have tried to physically intimidate me and one even tried to throw a punch. I don't engage, don't back talk, or anything like that. I don't escalate. I'm just trying to teach English in as fun of a manner as possible. But most won't even do a simple assignment like answer comprehension questions for a short story in the textbook. I've tried pivoting. We have a unit on the Hero's Journey and they hated reading, so I tried to use movie clips, only to be told by one kid, "Do you expect me to watch this crusty ass movie because you're fucking stupid if you think I'm going to do that. Fuck you for making me do this stupid fucking shit, n-word." They couldn't watch a three-minute clip of The Hobbit without losing their shit.

Usually, problems like this are due to poor administration. Any educator can probably share stories about horrible principals. Administration's hands are tied. I've spoken at length with my principal and assistant principal about what's happening. Because almost every single one of our students has an IEP -- an individualized education plan -- the law states we cannot suspend them for more than 10 days a year. These students are guaranteed a "free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment." So if they fuck up at their regular comprehensive school, they're sent to my school. But when they fuck up at my school, we can't suspend them or even put them in in-school suspension because that violates the "least restrictive environment" clause of their IEP. What does that lead to? Chaos.

Just this week, we had a student overdose on drugs that he bought off another student on the bus. It took two doses of Narcan to revive him and he's still in the hospital. The student who gave him the drugs just came back after a month of being gone after he had a mental breakdown and threatened our principal, telling him he was going to "put him in the ground, along with his n-word family." During that incident, he stormed out of the building, then came back holding something in his jacket like a gun, threatening to kill any "n-word" who comes near him. It turned out to be a brick, but still. He wasn't suspended during that month, he could have come back any day. We were told we couldn't put 0s in the gradebook for any work he missed during that time. They claimed it was a "manifestation of his autism and ADHD." We had multiple hearings scheduled to go through the arduous process of trying to expel him, but that stopped when his mom threatened to sue the school and district for not following a behavior improvement plan she and the district made for him. He was laughing about it the day he came back. How long is he suspended for selling drugs that nearly killed another student? None. He can come back whenever he wants.
Another student kicked our security guard in the groin so hard that he had to go to the hospital because he was passing blood. He exhausted his sick pay during that time and the district told him he had to come back, or he'd lose his job. The student who assaulted him? She's still here, and brags she'll do it again.

Just this morning -- and what prompted this thread -- a new student started who is EXTREMELY intellectually challenged. He's an 11th grader who truly belongs in a self contained classroom setting. One of our problematic students started bullying and harassing him as soon as he walked in. It escalated into a physical confrontation where the student smashed this new kid's head into the glass window of the school's front door that it almost shattered. You can see the indention where his head impacted and the blood still on the glass. The student then ran down the hall, threatening anyone who came near him, and started banging on my door, screaming that I was next. He apparently broke his hand either punching this kid or punching my door. It scared the kids in the room so much, one started crying and another was shaking uncontrollably. That student was only "suspended" for the day, and will be allowed back at school Monday.

The district knows about these problems. We had the head of all secondary schools at our building Wednesday to introduce our new principal for next year, and the entire staff openly vented their frustrations with the situation. But I've been told it always falls on deaf ears. We've had teachers fired from this building for not following IEP accommodations and parents complained, but students can literally assault adults and nothing can be done. I don't feel like I'm a teacher. I feel like a security guard and babysitter most days. We're done with stating testing, and that was the only thing that I was able to use to hold some of them in line. Most of my students literally completed the state test in 10 minutes and bragged they just rushed through the answers. We've had some students flat refuse to take it and we just let them. We'll just withhold their behavior reward -- a reward they've never received since they've been here because they always act up. A student doesn't want to go to class? They can wander the halls because we can't physically make them go somewhere. If a student is removed from your class for threatening you, trying to throw a punch, talking shit, or whatever, they're brought back about 5-10 minutes later -- usually with a snack or a can of pop. Otherwise, they'll be laying on one of our benches, sleeping or goofing off.

The entire staff and administration is frustrated, but the district doesn't want to listen. I've been able to let it all run off my back for the longest time. But as we get more students in, the intensity of the disrespect and harassment has increased. There's only so many times you can listen to an eighth grader call your wife a "fat, toothless, crack whore" or to "suck my dick" when you ask them to close a computer. And the threats of physical violence are escalating. None of my personal information is easily accessible, so I'm not worried about someone finding where I live, but having to hear at least once a week that someone is going to find my house and murder my dogs on my front porch because I asked them to listen to a chapter of The Great Gatsby is uncalled for.

Calling parents and reporting what they've said to them doesn't do any good. Most parents shrug their shoulders and say they've tried everything. A few might say they'll talk to their kid, but it never changes. My personal favorites are those who immediately try to turn it back around on me. My son threatened your life? He was triggered by something and you didn't do enough to calm him down. One told me if I wanted her daughter to behave, I need to entertain her better or bring her snacks.

My wife has been a teacher for 13 years and is now a school librarian. One of her fifth grade students climbed to the top of a bookshelf and refused to come down and started throwing stuff at my wife and support personnel who came to help and broke the nose of one of the support paras. Nothing happened to the kid and he was allowed to go back to class when he "regulated." Nothing was done about the poor para's broken nose. I fully believe in giving troubled students the support they need and giving help and grace when possible. But our current education system has stripped all accountability from students, making excuses for everything they do -- bad home lives, Covid, ADHD, etc. -- and even greater accountability on teachers. How can I forge a relationship with a student who has openly threatened the lives of my wife, pets, and myself on more than one occasion? How can I be responsible for test scores of students who click through answers in 10 minutes and brag about it because they don't care and there's no consequences? We say every student deserves an education -- and I don't disagree -- but what about the other 10-15 students in the room who can't learn because another is openly defiant and cussing everyone or threatening someone? How can a student continue to receive an education and learn when the same student who put his head through a window is still in the room with him two days later? We're not setting students up for success in the real world by excusing every horrible action they take and passing them along, even if they fail. Yet so many parents see any discipline as an assault on their child and that's just not right.

[Boredfrom]

The Mario movies' complete lack of narrative ambition is a direct consequence of years of people bending over backwards to excuse, and in some cases outright celebrate, Nintendo's incompetence when it comes to storytelling in their games. After being rewarded for that creative apathy for decades, the company approached the films with the same feather‑light carelessness and the same inability to say anything meaningful or leave any lasting impression beyond some hours of shallow toy-like entertainment.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-did-none-of-you-throw-the-same-fit-about-the-story-in-mario-odyssey.1488139/page-3#post-153632284

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

 

[HaughtyFrank]

I once saw a movie about this 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/thr-‘metal-gear-solid’-movie-in-the-works-from-‘final-destination’-duo-as-they-ink-sony-first-look.1487164/

ERA trying to cancel someone that already canceled himself from filmmaking since Kong:Skull Island.

Can you imagine the MGS movie? The 5-hour runtime with 90% of that taken up with Snake just monologuing into a codec about the nature of war and how war has changed and some other pseudo intellectual bullshit that will make the nerds cream in their popcorn?

Sounds amazing

I'm convinced Kojima fans are just a Russian psyop to create conflict in video game fans in order to unleash gamergate 3.0

[filler]

I use ai and enjoy it as a useful tool, but I also enjoy this




guy just looks like a huge douche 

[Alpacx]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

Fellow educators, get in here. I need to vent and I'm curious if my experiences mirror any other teachers.

I work as a middle/high school English teacher at an alternative school in the largest school district in the state. I took the position because I have a strong passion for helping students, especially more troubled students who need some additional guidance and support. .

First of all, good for this dude for actually trying to do good at a difficult job. It's not Nepenthe Organizing but it's something.

Second of all, I'm sure all those students will be upstanding citizens when they turn 18 after how they've learned to behave at school with no consequences whatsoever.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Might as well lock them up now and save people getting killed.

[HaughtyFrank]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

Fellow educators, get in here. I need to vent and I'm curious if my experiences mirror any other teachers.

I work as a middle/high school English teacher at an alternative school in the largest school district in the state. I took the position because I have a strong passion for helping students, especially more troubled students who need some additional guidance and support. .

First of all, good for this dude for actually trying to do good at a difficult job. It's not Nepenthe Organizing but it's something.

Second of all, I'm sure all those students will be upstanding citizens when they turn 18 after how they've learned to behave at school with no consequences whatsoever.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Might as well lock them up now and save people getting killed.

I feel like every once in a while you hear about a horror schools like this on the news and no one really seems to have an idea how to fix it. It's like a self accelerating nightmare where it keeps getting worse.

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-threw-a-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altman%E2%80%99s-home.1488097/

Cool

yo based

I respect it

based

Inspiring.

Edit:

Awesome, keep it up!

based

neat

See, with the health insurance guy the argument was that the CEO killed people by denying them healthcare so killing him was justified. Now what is the argument with potentially harming Sam Altman? Or could it be that they just like seeing people they hate get killed? 

He's denying them a dignified living drawing cartoon porn avatar commissions of people's fursonas.

It's basically genocide.

[Potato]

The company is pinning a resurgence on games it's been developing with Walt Disney Co., which agreed to invest $1.5 billion in Epic two years ago. Epic is on track to launch the first game in its new Disney partnership in November, according to four current and former employees. It will be a shooting game along the lines of Embark Studios' hit Arc Raiders, but with Disney characters battling enemies until they can reach an extraction point, according to the people. So far, internal reviewers have expressed concerns that the game mechanics are not very original, but some of the employees are optimistic that Epic will get it right by the launch date.

 

Is Disney retarded? 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-epic-games-pins-‘fortnite’-comeback-on-disney-partnership-disney-themed-extraction-shooter.1488196/

If extraction shooters haven't already jumped the shark, then this will be the one.

[Potato]

NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU CAME FROM

Honestly? Egg post.

[Potato]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

Here, however, it's impossible to teach. On a daily basis, the students are defiant, to say the least. I'm cussed out at least once a day, usually multiple times by multiple students in multiple classes. My life has been threatened on multiple occasions. My wife's life has been threatened a couple of times. Twice this semester, two separate kids have tried to physically intimidate me and one even tried to throw a punch. I don't engage, don't back talk, or anything like that. I don't escalate. I'm just trying to teach English in as fun of a manner as possible. But most won't even do a simple assignment like answer comprehension questions for a short story in the textbook. I've tried pivoting. We have a unit on the Hero's Journey and they hated reading, so I tried to use movie clips, only to be told by one kid, "Do you expect me to watch this crusty ass movie because you're fucking stupid if you think I'm going to do that. Fuck you for making me do this stupid fucking shit, n-word." They couldn't watch a three-minute clip of The Hobbit without losing their shit.

Lol, I ain't reading that shit, but I mean, could anybody really?

[Nintex]

The Mario movies' complete lack of narrative ambition is a direct consequence of years of people bending over backwards to excuse, and in some cases outright celebrate, Nintendo's incompetence when it comes to storytelling in their games. After being rewarded for that creative apathy for decades, the company approached the films with the same feather‑light carelessness and the same inability to say anything meaningful or leave any lasting impression beyond some hours of shallow toy-like entertainment.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-did-none-of-you-throw-the-same-fit-about-the-story-in-mario-odyssey.1488139/page-3#post-153632284

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

 

Kingdom Hearts is child shit, the Mario timeline is the real shattering of the space time continuum

[Uncle]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

First of all, good for this dude for actually trying to do good at a difficult job. It's not Nepenthe Organizing but it's something.

Second of all, I'm sure all those students will be upstanding citizens when they turn 18 after how they've learned to behave at school with no consequences whatsoever.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Might as well lock them up now and save people getting killed.

I feel like every once in a while you hear about a horror schools like this on the news and no one really seems to have an idea how to fix it. It's like a self accelerating nightmare where it keeps getting worse.

step one is reshuffle all the classes so problem students are lumped together and students who just keep their heads down and do their best are grouped together

step two is the bad kids are in an isolated room with each other with a bulletproof window the teacher teaches through, whatever they do to each other, let the parents of the kids fight it out amongst themselves

teachers get no support if they get physically attacked or death threats or whatever, and have no recourse...ok, so make it entirely not their problem at all, it's policy that they teach YOUR dangerous kids through a window, for their safety

[Uncle]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

Here, however, it's impossible to teach. On a daily basis, the students are defiant, to say the least. I'm cussed out at least once a day, usually multiple times by multiple students in multiple classes. My life has been threatened on multiple occasions. My wife's life has been threatened a couple of times. Twice this semester, two separate kids have tried to physically intimidate me and one even tried to throw a punch. I don't engage, don't back talk, or anything like that. I don't escalate. I'm just trying to teach English in as fun of a manner as possible. But most won't even do a simple assignment like answer comprehension questions for a short story in the textbook. I've tried pivoting. We have a unit on the Hero's Journey and they hated reading, so I tried to use movie clips, only to be told by one kid, "Do you expect me to watch this crusty ass movie because you're fucking stupid if you think I'm going to do that. Fuck you for making me do this stupid fucking shit, n-word." They couldn't watch a three-minute clip of The Hobbit without losing their shit.

Lol, I ain't reading that shit, but I mean, could anybody really?

[Potato]

The Mario movies' complete lack of narrative ambition is a direct consequence of years of people bending over backwards to excuse, and in some cases outright celebrate, Nintendo's incompetence when it comes to storytelling in their games. After being rewarded for that creative apathy for decades, the company approached the films with the same feather‑light carelessness and the same inability to say anything meaningful or leave any lasting impression beyond some hours of shallow toy-like entertainment.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-did-none-of-you-throw-the-same-fit-about-the-story-in-mario-odyssey.1488139/page-3#post-153632284

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

 

"Nintendo needs to make a realistic Mario using UE5 immediately. Otherwise they're doomed. In fact, make it a GAAS extraction shooter."

- A 39-year-old who has never held a job for longer than 6 weeks.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-there-anything-positive-happening-at-all.1487875/
Asking the impossible at ResetEra

Lately I feel so anxious about the decline in absolutely every facet of existence. I need to hear if there's any positivity, specifically in ways we wouldn't think of. Like, are there new medical breakthroughs? Anything progressing faster or better than expected? Manufacturing improvements? Anything that could conceivably make our lives better in the near future?
I know at the community level there are always people working their assess off to help others. It helps me to think about that at times, but it's not enough when every interaction throughout the day reminds me that things are in a decline.

So does anyone have examples of recent good things?

[Potato]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

First of all, good for this dude for actually trying to do good at a difficult job. It's not Nepenthe Organizing but it's something.

Second of all, I'm sure all those students will be upstanding citizens when they turn 18 after how they've learned to behave at school with no consequences whatsoever.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Might as well lock them up now and save people getting killed.

I feel like every once in a while you hear about a horror schools like this on the news and no one really seems to have an idea how to fix it. It's like a self accelerating nightmare where it keeps getting worse.

I'll tell you how you don't fix it...listening to ideologues from the education academia and doing things the same fucking way we've been doing them for 20+years

[Potato]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

Lol, I ain't reading that shit, but I mean, could anybody really?

Two minutes and 16 seconds.

[Nintex]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

First of all, good for this dude for actually trying to do good at a difficult job. It's not Nepenthe Organizing but it's something.

Second of all, I'm sure all those students will be upstanding citizens when they turn 18 after how they've learned to behave at school with no consequences whatsoever.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Might as well lock them up now and save people getting killed.

I feel like every once in a while you hear about a horror schools like this on the news and no one really seems to have an idea how to fix it. It's like a self accelerating nightmare where it keeps getting worse.

 promises made promises kept

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-2026-ot1-mega-midterm-mania.1452433/page-61#post-153635263

Today at 4:27 PM
#3,010
CA governor race going really well

Former staffer says Rep. Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/eric-swalwell-allegations-22198271.php

Kamala could be sweeping this if she wanted but instead she's going to fight it out and lose in a way more competitive primary.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=378&pid=177593&highlight=Jombie#pid177593

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=378&pid=178608&highlight=Jombie#pid178608

https://thebire.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=378&pid=177709&highlight=Jombie#pid177709

https://www.resetera.com/threads/separated-from-wife.1488400/

My wife and I separated more than a month ago, and we're not going to reconcile. It's been absolutely crushing. I don't have any friends, no one to lean on, I haven't been this alone since high school. I've never been this lonely in my life. I have really severe depression, and there's just no one to talk to. It's horrible.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/separated-from-wife.1488400/#post-153644050

She put me through a lot of emotional abuse, and I'm glad to be away from that, but I think all the time about what the hell happened. I'm definitely done with relationships.

She had worn me down. There came a time where she began to be really critical of me and that turned into blow ups. She would text me non stop when I was at work, I would dread going home and she would usually let me have it when I got there. I started to withdraw from her and she could never really understand why, it was just about what she needed from me and I was going my best. She was really hateful and mean to me. I had always been told by friends that I was a caring, gentle person but she's made me feel like a monster.

It's a very sad situation, for her as well. I've always felt like I've never been good enough and that's been validated, so I'm just going to be by myself. The lack of support is difficult, however.

[Uncle]

I don't wish a sad lonely existence on anyone but based on his history I would have to guess that he's decided on his own that he had to cut a lot of people out of his life based on their opinions, which would make loneliness his own fault

[Polident]

I don't wish a sad lonely existence on anyone but based on his history I would have to guess that he's decided on his own that he had to cut a lot of people out of his life based on their opinions, which would make loneliness his own fault

I like the bit where he says that in the past friends called him a gentle soul, right after saying he has no friends. It’s a real mystery what happened there.

[filler]

thebore.com will be your friends, jombie! 

[Orange Juice Box]

Member only:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/as-a-teacher-the-u-s-education-system-needs-serious-changes-vent-thread.1488103/

First of all, good for this dude for actually trying to do good at a difficult job. It's not Nepenthe Organizing but it's something.

Second of all, I'm sure all those students will be upstanding citizens when they turn 18 after how they've learned to behave at school with no consequences whatsoever.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

Might as well lock them up now and save people getting killed.

I feel like every once in a while you hear about a horror schools like this on the news and no one really seems to have an idea how to fix it. It's like a self accelerating nightmare where it keeps getting worse.

I read the /teacher section on reddit and it's all stories like that.  Some group of 20 kids ruins the entire grade but they can't be failed and they are required to graduate.  Someone needs to go Joe Clark on this nation but "tracking," a kid or implying they belong in a special unit is worse than sexually assaulting them. 





Also kids in Kindergarten are unable to feed themselves during snack time.  First and second graders still wear pull-ups.  The amount of kids who can't read by 8th grade is astounding.  Kids are like mentally unable to cope with 3-step instructions.  It sounds like they are just mental institutions for learning disabled juveniles. 



The Thread

I live in a state plagued with charter school nonsense and honestly, what I think has happened, is the baseline student in public school has dropped dramatically because the median to high performers are going to charter schools.  I speak from experience, I reluctantly moved to charter schools because I felt my kids were being held back by the teacher having to cater to the lowest common denominator.  The big difference is these charter schools can kick out poor performers, but public schools cannot.  The distribution is all wrong, thanks charter private schools, we're screwed.

The problems are that:

1) really truly dealing with disabilities is challenging and expensive. Self contained classes with appropriate amounts would eat up tons of budget. Now, mainstreaming has become incredibly standard because of "equity", and coincidentally it is much cheaper for school districts. The "least restrictive environment" is always presumed to be the general education classroom, and if the especially challenging students are an active drain on the rest of the class's education, well, oh well.


2) the legal protections around IEPs create a huge pressure on teachers/staff that the numbers are often fudged. A common accommodation is being able to test in a separate setting. I have heard plenty of stories of staff basically taking the tests for students (or giving way more help than would generally be considered appropriate) because the view from admin (and sadly many parents) is that if a student with an IEP is failing, it's because the teacher isnt doing their job and the IEP isn't being met. Which obviously opens up everyone for litigation.

3) They can make it difficult to enforce standards on the rest of the class. If you don't want to accept late work, but have several kids on IEPs that allow them extra time, it almost looks like playing favorites. Same for all kinds of stuff. Wearing headphones in class. Getting to use chromebooks for XYZ. When there's always exceptions for a kid to point to, it weakens your position as an authority, which makes it yet harder to wrangle the class.

A lot of the ideas we have about grading and restorative justice make sense, and I generally agree with them, but the problem is when you try and apply them regardless of the details of a situation.

Aside from that, the level of defiance, just not doing anything, and the way a 12 year old feels comfortable speaking to adults in the building has worsened by an order of magnitude. And I'm not even talking about when a kid really gets in trouble, just when they're told stuff like "Hey, I need you to get started on your assignment." I honestly feel like its a cultural thing. Between the garbage a lot of them are consuming on social media and Youtube and a country whose leaders (and by extension their parents who support those leaders) approach everything with a "Fuck you! I can do whatever I want" attitude, it doesn't really surprise me.

I've just resigned myself to identifying the kids who I can truly help and focusing every bit of attention on them that I can

Look's like Era agrees and this isn't an issue caused by AI, The Bilderberg Group, and billionaires,  but instead it's from bad parents and shit kids.

[Uncle]

era somehow less unhinged than imgur

https://imgur.com/gallery/im-just-going-to-leave-this-here-nSK0yIt

   

   

https://imgur.com/gallery/all-you-had-to-do-is-pay-us-enough-to-live-ZKR6qaO

   

   

dozens of worse comments than these

anyone pointing out that this won't accomplish anything except harm all the people now out of a job are being downvoted and called corporate bootlicker drones

quite a few calling for this to be done to the owners' homes instead