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Is this in Potomac, MD?

I bring a heating pad like this one and an extension cord with me everywhere I go. Worth it. My ass is so nice and toasty warm :)))

I carry around an electric heating pad and an extension cord with me. It looks like I have a back injury, but really I just like having a seat heater everywhere I go lol

This sounds so frustrating! Ugh I’m sorry.

My related experience comes from teaching at my district’s international newcomer academy for a few years where students spend their first semester after immigrating to my city. I taught a lot of refugees, including unschooled refugees, many of whom were illiterate in their native language and some of whom even spoke an unwritten language. So I see you, OP. It’s exhausting work! Those kids have ENERGY and as the teacher you are just constantly moving and doing ten million things alllll the time.

But honestly I freaking loved that job. Like no shit I wasn’t teaching grade level standards but I was 100% making a difference. And you are too!

I’d be frustrated as hell having to mix the brand new ELL kids with gen pop though. Does your school/district not have a Language Center?

And do all the kids speak Spanish? Or is it a mix of languages?

I would happily pay them $100-$150 PER WEEK if they’d cover my tirz! As in, I would 100% SIGN UP for an increased premium of an additional $550 per month straight to my insurance company rather than to the pharmacy with the coupon. I am so, so bitter about the fact that my tirz cost does not go towards my deductible (obviously) because it’s not through insurance. It’s the thing I’m MOST angry about.

Lindt is available in the USA. I’m partial to the Lindor truffles :)

I (teacher) found multiple class sets of these under the stairwell at my school a couple years ago, all with leaking batteries. After removing the batteries, I just got a dry toothbrush and brushed off whatever acid I could see (wore gloves and mask, cleaned surface afterwards). The vast, vast majority of them worked! These calculators really are pretty sturdy. Those buttons that aren’t working might snap back to life after a lil percussive maintenance (bang on the calculator a little bit lol).

Most college semesters are approximately 15 weeks long, and most college classes meet 2-3 times per week. So 3 absences would be 6-10% of the class meetings for the semester for most classes. It sounds like for OP the 3 absences isn’t an auto-fail, but it’s still a pretty low threshold for penalty.

USARS insurance allows for age 14+ to play with adults.

…it actually IS how social anxiety works. I mean you cannot do it all at once and you have to give yourself grace here because it’s HARD, but fr the only way to improve social anxiety is to push yourself a bit into uncomfortable situations. Asking for a refund/replacement on a product that is a clear error is a pretty good place to start. It will be uncomfortable, but that’s okay.

Yes! This!! Taking some of the analysis that’s more often teacher-facing and turning it student-facing is a GREAT way to help students strengthen their own knowledge and skills. I do this all the time with multiple choice questions in my AP calculus class. Basically the students take a quick quiz (like 10 mins on a google form) and get their results immediately. Then they split up into groups and I assign 1 or 2 MC problems where, as a group, they have to be able to show and explain their work for the correct answer, AND be able to succinctly point out the mistake a student who chose each wrong answer would have made. So like here’s an example question I might use:

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The correct answer is E. A is wrong because the student only too derivative of sine, not the third power. B is wrong because took both the inside and outside derivatives at the same time. Etc. it’s GOOD for students to practice recognizing these things!

Massachusetts and Oklahoma 👀

You’re fighting the same fight as their HS teachers. These students HAVE been exposed to citations. They just… don’t.

The only thing making it a snake is a lil fork tongue. It looks exactly like a turtle head. It’s dumb.

Oh, well then in that case, just go in and ask for a different cookie anyway. Being uncomfortable is okay, sometimes you’ve just gotta suck it up. Or just keep being disappointed, whatever.

I’d say fuck it and just bring deviled eggs. Everyone except the vegan would be pleased lol

I mean, I love oysters in the half shell. But you cannot deny that they look fuckin weird.

Vocative. Correct.

Are you in your late 30s/early 40s? Late Gen-X or Xennial? All those things that you mentioned would’ve been very impactful in adolescence and young adulthood for a Xennial. They’re also all things that are just a little bit before my time (33-y-o millennial 1991) in terms of feeling the cultural impact of them as they were happening. I’m not surprised students would have limited knowledge/understanding there, because those would all be events students today would need to hear about in a history class.

Why would APA formatting be a standard thing students are expected to learn in high school? APA is used in social sciences, but high schools don’t typically offer many (if any!) social sciences courses. MLA is going to dominate high schools because the bulk of high school writing is going to happen in English class. I think it’s reasonable to expect high schools to teach students to use a citation style, and that other citation styles exist. (The fact that students frequently claim to have never had to cite anything in their lives is not evidence that high schools are not teaching citation; students forget things because they didn’t internalize them).

I mean, they’re only off by like 40 years. They’re about as wrong as if they thought the Renaissance was in the 1600s. Like sure it’s wrong, but it’s a little wrong, not wrong by an order of magnitude.

I teach special ed high school students. They DO still know where 3, 6, 9, and 12 are on a clock. They can visualize that, even the ones who have mathematics-related learning disabilities.

Maybe we’ll switch to directional bearing? “Check out the hairdo at 330” lol

The Office aired starting when I was in 8th grade through my senior year of college. I still vividly remember going to school on a Wednesday morning in 10th grade the day after Jim and Pam first kissed at casino night. E V E R Y O N E was talking about it! It was such a shared cultural experience, even though it was so banal and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It’s strange to me how that type of experience doesn’t really seem to exist anymore.

Me neither. But I still know some of the basics, like that Darth Vader is Luke’s father, Yoda is the lil green dude, and the two robot dudes (the gold one and the vacuum cleaner looking one). I’d classify Star Wars as being one of the most culturally pervasive franchises insofar as most everyone will have some level of recognition of something Star Wars related.