Would it be wrong to hold his presents hostage until he gets a Covid test?
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Shir - Nov 18, 2020 11:11:58 am PST #29903 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Atropa - Nov 18, 2020 11:26:25 am PST #29904 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I tried guilt and he was impervious! Or I'm not very good at laying on a guilt trip.
Tell him you know someone who has NO moral qualms about hexing him with uncomfortable things, and if he wants to avoid that, go get damn tested.
(I am. here, as always, to be the threatening witchy figure for the Buffistas. Does it work? Who knows? But the offer is always open.)
Dana - Nov 18, 2020 11:28:05 am PST #29905 of 30019
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
If withholding the presents seems like it would work, you should totally do that.
Someone is doing some kind of roadwork outside that sounds like a giant rattling sander, and it's been running for hours. I expect it will continue all day. Definitely not slowly driving me round the bend.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2020 11:40:15 am PST #29906 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tell him you know someone who has NO moral qualms about hexing him with uncomfortable things, and if he wants to avoid that, go get damn tested.
I will TOTALLY do this!
Tom Scola - Nov 18, 2020 11:58:42 am PST #29907 of 30019
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NYC is closing all their schools, after having reopened them.
DavidS - Nov 18, 2020 12:06:35 pm PST #29908 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
NYC is closing all their schools, after having reopened them.
I'm just looking at the SFUSD Dashboard for reopening and they haven't finished ANY of the shit that they could do for a reopening.
Have small cohorts/group of students been identified for reopening? - Not finished
Are general safety measures in place, including a staff testing plan? - Nope. Why the fuck not?
Have all staff been trained? - nope. Again, why haven't they?
Are instructional learning plans in place? - etc.
I get that there's a new surge going on and even SF backed up on its safety tier. However, the district clearly isn't going to do the shit that it could do. And they said they would do everything based on the numbers, but when the transmission numbers came down they didn't open anything.
They're not transparent and they're not doing the work they could do, and they aren't following their own timeline. It's frustrating as fuck.
Especially since Matilda was just sobbing over her Algebra class in the other room because she couldn't figure out how to do a problem in a breakout room over a chat box. Which, frankly, is not how I would have done well learning math.
Not being in school is its own kind of damage.
lisah - Nov 18, 2020 12:08:52 pm PST #29909 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
I did a lot of crying over math in a totally analog, in-person school situation. At least online you can turn off video and mute yourself and cry in private.
JenP - Nov 18, 2020 12:13:10 pm PST #29910 of 30019
(I am. here, as always, to be the threatening witchy figure for the Buffistas. Does it work? Who knows? But the offer is always open.)
I kind of love this. Actually, no "kind of" about it.
I'm so sorry for all of you parents and your kids having to navigate this. I can't even imagine.
Pix - Nov 18, 2020 12:15:53 pm PST #29911 of 30019
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I can’t really get into a debate about the situation teachers are in about why reopening is just not a good option in California right now without getting super emotional, so I’m just going to say that I hear your frustration and it’s also a lot more complicated than it may seem.
Volans - Nov 18, 2020 12:19:41 pm PST #29912 of 30019
move out and draw fire
I did a lot of crying over math in a totally analog, in-person school situation.
The math online tool of choice here is Mathspace. While it has a 4-star rating from teachers, it has .5 of a star from parents and kids. One teen's review says "MathSpace is the leading cause of teen suicide."
It's an adaptive program, so if you get problems right, you don't have to do as many. If you get problems wrong, you have to do more. (this in itself is an issue, b/c with 5-6 hours of homework a night, time mgmt is key).
But. The coding is massively fucked up. If it marks an answer wrong, you have to figure out whether the answer was, in fact, right, and you are not getting credit for it (about 15% of the time), the answer was right, but you entered it in the wrong format (for instance, the prompt is "x = _____" and you enter "9" and MathSpace marks it wrong until you enter "x = 9" so that the whole line reads "x = x = 9."), or your answer is the equivalent of the answer MathSpace is expecting, but it still marks you wrong (for instance, if you enter "square root of -3" but it wanted "negative square root of 3") or if you just literally got it wrong.
So you can understand the math completely, get the right answer to every problem, and still get a C and spend an hour or more.
There are far more tears with this then I remember from my own struggles with math.