Hi all! This is my strident-teaching-related post of the day, so skip at will:
Okay, so Education Week is reporting on a study that shows that the more days a teacher is absent, the poorer the students do (well, at least on test). Okay, that makes sense. I hate that it's used to make teachers feel guilty about needed days off (I may have mentioned that we have one guy who's responsible for calling substitutes and we're constantly getting "this day is closed for subs because we already have too many teachers absent" emails), but it makes sense. This is my favorite part.
That study also linked "schools with high proportions of poor children" to a greater number of teacher absences. "In addition, the Harvard study found that teachers in schools with larger enrollments tended to take more sick and personal days than those in smaller schools."
Uh-huh. I can't come up with a more erudite reaction than DUH. Who could imagine that a) higher-stress jobs result in less healthy employees or b) larger populations result in more illnesses? By this point last year, I'd taken at least one sick day a month (sometimes because I was about to break down at work and possibly jump out the window). This year, I've taken two sick days all year.
pork is the OTHER white meat.
That's what I thought.
What is red meat, then? Besides cow, I mean. Dark meat on a chicken or other fowl? I suppose buffalo would be red meat. Goat? Or is it just the cow-ish animals?
(Just curious - I don't suppose I'll be considering goat in the next three days.)
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Just played half a game of Scrabble against my mom. Then we both got bored with it. Now we're sitting in the den trying to think of something else to do on a rainy day in New Jersey. (I can think of a bunch of things to do, but they all require going into the city, which my mom doesn't want to do.)
bison and ostrich are both red meat.
Huh. I would have lumped ostrich with other fowl.
How about deer? Squirrel?
It's for a medical test. Eat fish. Or get clarification from the doctor's office.
I'd say yes, yes, and yes. I'm a little skeptical of that "other white meat" thing, I have to say. Pretty sure it originated with the Pork Board.
It's for a medical test. Eat fish. Or get clarification from the doctor's office.
Oh, that's what I'm planning on doing. I'm just suddenly curious as to what the criteria is for evaluating meat for this "red" quality....
Yep - "other white meat" is pure marketing. I suspect that they mean something like "don't eat 14 hamburgers for lunch", but if what they're concerned about is, say, a difference in how mammal vs. bird proteins are metabolized, better to clarify.
