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  1. 4 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    I don’t think anybody’s really keeping track of excused versus unexcused absences. At least not at our high school. I just write a note that says Please excuse ______ from school for an appointment yesterday.”  I don’t tell anybody what the appointment was for and nobody asks, and we’ve never had an issue with it.  Sometimes it’s a legit doctors appointment. Sometimes it’s an appointment to beat traffic to get out of town easier. 

    The flip side is that we don’t budge an inch on his keeping up with the work and getting assignments turned in on time. He screws that up every now and then, and there are consequences for it.  He knows that “I missed that day,” is not a valid excuse for late work. But mostly he gets it all done and turned in on time absent or not.  There’s a good life lesson in that as well.  

    Most of our parents for on level kids don't seem to hardly care how their kids are doing in school. I rarely get an email from them.

  2. 17 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    If you’re old enough to be a parent, school is very different now than it was when you attended.

    It’s not just kids missing school.  Our teachers are so overextended and/or leaving for other careers that my kid at a high school in Austin has a sub in one class or another at least twice a week.  Sometimes it’s a teacher that just had other duties that day, field trip for some club, an event they were coaching, etc.. and the absence was planned ahead with notification. But often it’s a teacher that just got sick of all the shit and up and quit with little or no advance notice and the kids are stuck with rotating subs long term. 

    You’d be shocked at the number of times I asked my kid what they did in a certain class that day and the response is something like, ”We had a sub again  and they told us to read some stuff that we had already read last week. So everyone just fucked around on our phones the whole time instead.”   This happens at least once a week usually more across all classes.  

    My kid gets good grades, he catches up quickly most of the time when he misses a day, so yeah, given the current environment of underfunded public school and overextended underpaid teachers, I am not sweating pulling him out of school, so we can take a family trip or see the eclipse or whatever. just about every lesson and all the work included for it I s online these days. Usually he can accomplish it the day of the absence on his chrome book without even asking a teacher what he missed.
     
    The idea that some teacher is going to back up and re-teach something for absences is just not how it works.  

    At the school I teach our two AP Lang teachers both quit in the first semester last year leaving students with long terms subs for a major AP class all year lol. In Social Studies we don't have much of a problem with this but in math and science especially they have teachers randomly quitting all the time. I also have kids who miss literally the entire semester. I have no idea where they are skipping to but they never show up except for maybe the very end of the 9 weeks. The biggest crazy thing I see now is kids constantly skipping test day and expecting to just auto make it up without notifying me even in my AP history classes. It's like kids have zero sense of respect or how to interact with authority anymore since Covid. And the parents don't either. Millennial parents are either completely apathetic or they are overbearing. There is no in between with them. And I honestly don't give a fuck. They pay us shit in Austin area compared to the cost of living and I have basically three different jobs. 

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  3. 10 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    anything by ken burns. i’ve been planning on doing a rewatch of his country music doc, and this is reminding me that i need to do that.

    also anything narrated by david attenborough, especially if you like to smoke weed.

    I've watched Vietnam with my classes and I honestly think it's his most well done.

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  4. Shoah by Lanzmann is basically the gold standard for documentaries, 9 hours long but really worth the watch if you love history and want to learn a lot more about witnessing genocide from all sides. Some of the interviews are chilling and devastating.

    They Shall not Grow Old by Peter Jackson is an excellent colorized documentary about Britain and the First World War

     

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  5. 7 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    Granted all this shit was way after I had dipped from Nickelodeon, but in the late 80's and early 90's, Nickelodeon was basically MTV for kids. They had the style and tone down completely lock. They were just about the coolest fucking channel around when stuff like Ren & Stimpy or Clarrissa Explains it all or Welcome Freshman or You Can't Do that on Television were on. Dumb and for kids, obviously, but it felt like they were telling a joke and you, the kid, were in on the joke, and the joke was at adults expense. I love the gross out humor and slime and all that shit back in the day. I grew out of all this basically right around the time All That started airing, so I missed out on Kenan being a thing, but when I was little, Nickelodeon was fucking cool. I remember desperately wanting to go on Nickelodeon Guts and win a glowing piece of the radical rock. I miss when Marc Summers was like a little kid rock star.

    Yea this. I basically didn't watch after the mid-90s so have no recollection of the shows and stars after that except for the few glances when my nephews were watching in the 2000s.

  6. 6 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Well, that was quite gimmicky. No one gives a shit what you can make with Corn Nuts.

    Cave was pretty cool though. 

    On to the next. 

    They always do some stupid shit like this. Elevated bar snacks is super lame.

  7. Season 2 has grown on my over the years as one of my favorite seasons of television ever. Gonna rewatch yet again after finishing The Americans.

  8. 1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

    Top 10 list of crises causing this, in order:

    1. Resilience: this skews worse as you analyze younger generations.  This goes hand in hand with #2, and paired together is what I think is driving the woefully misguided anti-woke crowd.  A culture of victimhood has allowed people to justify wallowing in failure or defeat.  We need to teach young people that anything can be overcome, because it’s true, and even if it’s not true, believing that lie generally leads to a happier life than not.

    2. Accountability: this is a major problem for all generations.  I am not sure the cause, but our society does an epically poor job of holding people accountable for their behavior.  I think a lot of people’s unhappiness is bred from an external locus of control mindset and a lack of accountability for their own happiness.  We need to teach young people that they are in control of and responsible for their own happiness.  To be accountable is to be empowered.

    3. Empathy: I trace a lot of this back to the Internet and social media, but there seems to be a tremendous lack of empathy in our current society.  People seem to be more able than ever to block out how their actions affect others.  This spans all generations.

    4. Dignity of work: Working has gotten a really bad rap.  Our society glorifies people who inherited wealth more than people who work hard and aren’t wealthy.  Workers are viewed as suckers.  That has to change.  This problems spans all current generations including the Boomers.

    5. Disinformation: Media bias is a gigantic fucking problem.  Society went from less than a handful of sources of information, all of whom presented basically the same information, to infinite, contradictory sources.  Being unable to trust new information breeds a lot of problems that flow into this happiness metric.

    6. Healthcare:  our healthcare system is utterly fucked and almost no one has quality, affordable, convenient healthcare.  This is a tough nut to crack.

    7. Education: our education system is utterly fucked and middle and lower class young people are getting the major shaft.  Unlike healthcare, I believe money can easily address this problem.  A much lower student/teacher ratio and a much higher salary for teachers would go a LONG way to fixing this problem.

    8. Climate: it’s hot as fuck all the time and that makes people unhappy.  Also, thinking about societal collapse in the next 100 years because their grandparents and parents weren’t willing to make even moderate sacrifices has gotta be depressing as fuck for young people.

    9. Inequality: I think there’s a big gap and this issue is far less impactful than the ones above it on the list, but wealth consolidation is a major problem.  Access to capital is probably the biggest determinate in someone’s ability to achieve in our society.  It far outweighs other factors like talent and fortitude.  That has always been a problem in our crony capitalist society over the last 200 years, but it’s worse now than ever.

    10. Demographic: I think demographic trends are already causing problems, but this is more a forward-looking issue than something that is causing current unhappiness, and there’s actually a chance this could end up being a good thing if technology and migration are properly managed.  But there’s a worldwide shortage of young people relative to old people, and that’s a problem.

    Mass shootings didn’t make this list, even though I believe they cause young people a lot of unhappiness.  And even though I believe guns should be much harder to obtain and that our national priorities are totally out of whack on that issue, I do think if you solved #2, #3, and #7 on my list, you’d see a dramatic reduction in problems related to guns.

    Phones

  9. I never bet on games and I even stopped playing fantasy football like 10 years ago. The focus on betting and gambling is horrendous and I'm sick of hearing about it. After my Chiefs won the super bowl a kid on the baseball team at my school asked if I bet on the game. So like drugs kids are being advertised to and it is normalized for them to be betting on games now. Like wtf? I'm sure there are just so many gambling addicts now compared to what there were just a few years ago with it being everywhere now.

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  10. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    There's one thing I do give a fuck about, and I've made it clear: I don't want my son coming back here and being pressed into military service in the event of a civil war.  I don't care for what side.  Enough of us have chosen shittiness that this place just isn't worth him fighting and dying for.

    Maybe this country WAS worth fighting and dying for at one point.  I grew up thinking it was.  But today?  Nope.  If we are intent on taking ourselves to hell, we can do it without me and my family on board that train.  Good luck.

    i'm 46 and am quite glad I never had kids. I only have to worry about us for the most part.

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  11. My wife and I have nothing tying us down here. After she gets through her principal cert we are moving to Colorado or Chicago area. Maybe Washington State so we can flee if need be lol. I remember asking my Modern French history professor at KU whether or not the Nazis could happen here and he unequivocally said no chance. This was like 2005 or so. There was a real cult of European liberalism and democracy back then. As a scholar of modern Germany as well as a teacher of AP US History and AP Euro I have seen and worried about the parallels for a long time. Any scholar of African American studies or the South/West knows that America hasn't been the liberal democratic paradise the white middle and upper middle class left have led us to believe. And it's gonna be too late for them once it actually happens. They're not ready for it and will have no clue what to do. The rich will do what they always do which is to flee somewhere else. But tons of people are gonna be stuck in the middle of it. Some you thought were super liberal will begin siding with the oppressors. It's depressing to even think about but I kind of just dgaf anymore.

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  12. 22 hours ago, Rip76 said:

    I haven't watched SNL in years.

    Unfortunately I picked last night to start.  Just bad, not funny.

    Take this thing out and shoot it.

    The writing is beyond bad and there aren't even funny young stars on there except for maybe Bowen Yang. I've watched maybe two episodes this season.

  13. 3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Is Fent cheaper? Is there a reason they are lacing everything with it? Or to get them hooked on opiates? 
     

    It's way cheaper, more addictive and now everyone is used to it. Addicts want the most insane high and fent gives them that. The reason its in things like coke is that drug dealers in small operations don't clean the machines they use to mix fent into their opioids so it contaminates the coke. Almost all heroin is laced with fent now. It's all about maximizing profits and taking advantage of so many people in deep despair.

  14. 23 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

    HBO gone straight to shit. They have renewed TD for season 5, with Issa Lopez at the helm again. They also gave her a long term deal. The world is insane.

    Can't get any more seasons of Mindhunter on Netflix or another platform but let's churn out more season of this dead franchise.

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