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I don't care about FF7 but fuck Epic

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"But ANTIFA"


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Fox is bad and all, but I think we should also start worrying about the other, even more radical, right wing media outlets like OAN and Newsmax. They're spewing mask-off fascist shit on the daily. Fox has the self awareness to cover up most of their bigotry and fascism.

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Lil_Bit83 posted...

It only eases it for math savvy people. It's ridiculous and frustrating otherwise. If something takes twice as long to teach/learn, and leads people in 5 directions just to say that the answer is 25, then it's NOT simple or a shortcut. It's unnecessarily convoluted.

It's like telling someone who is a new resident, to take a shortcut by driving all over town, cutting through a neighborhood, and heading down the freeway to get to your destination, when all you had to do was go two streets down and one over on the left.

You're wrong

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Master_Materia posted...

Asking people to support black owned buisinesses is okay I think but asking people to boycott so called "white businesses" isnt.

I disagree. white businesses don't care about black lives unless they can market off of it. Plus you're not damaging property, so why get mad? This is literally what the right claims to want.

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holy shit 5 posts in and we've got the mask-off racism just right there.

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kinetika_ posted...

Macrophilia... one of the most interesting fetishes to me lol.

It's pretty great

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I don't think that's fair to people with disabilities to be compared to Tucker Carlson.

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source?

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Questionmarktarius posted...

The hell you think this is, Norway?

The US budget is such a bloated spaghetti clusterfuck chasing whatever "crisis" we've created this week, that there's no funding cushion available when something actually bad happens. The last couple years or so proved that.

To be fair I prefaced this with "If I had sole authority over education, I would have prioritized the following:"

So already I'm talking about a fantasy where someone with actual professional experience teaching was in charge of anything related to education

*cough*fuckDeVos*cough*

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Anyway that's all I have to say since I only wanted to address those tweets. If you have a specific question, comment, or concern directed to me then I'll try my best to respond to it.

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Advocates say changing math class not the subject itself is the way to catch them up.

Yes. I agree. Nobody (of merit in the realm of math education) thinks that "2 + 2 is racist" or that we need to stop white kids from taking calculus so that black kids can feel better about themselves. That's horse shit.

But we need to seriously consider the ways in which we approach the content and the means by which kids learn it.

Hell, I've considered the notion that we need 5 years of high school to meet the needs of the modern high school student. Students with jobs, students in sports, students in band or theatre, students who have families to take care of at home, students who are ambitious and want to achieve more than that time allows. All the while meeting the incredibly numerous minimum demands of content and practice that modern math, language arts, science, social studies, and foreign language standards require

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The pandemic has exacerbated inequities in math, with students in predominantly Black schools losing about two more months of math learning in 2020-21 compared with students attending white-majority schools.

This has been an underlying concern of mine. I teach in a rural Wisconsin town, but we were in a relatively better position pre-pandemic and I'm still finding deficits in both student performance and even behavior for their age, especially the freshmen. I can't imagine how hard urban districts like Milwaukee and Madison have been trying to make up for months and months of ineffective or nonexistent education.

The response to the pandemic was horrible all around. Virtual learning will never replace effective classroom instruction, but even still it could have been more effective. If I had sole authority over education, I would have prioritized the following:

> Emergency funding for food and child care for families while virtual.
> 1-1 access to technology and subsidized high-speed internet for all public and private school students.
> Emergency licensing approval for teachers plus technology training with the goal of a 1:10 student-teacher ratio.
> Emergency licensing and hiring of counselors and other social workers to provide wellness checks and guidance for students.
> Prioritized healthcare access for teachers as essential workers.
> Plan for elementary students to safely continue to engage in vital social development and physical activities.

Maybe with these measures in place we wouldn't have seen an exodus of teachers from the profession and we would have been able to reach more households and help keep education from capsizing.

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But traditionalists who shun the new approach say it effectively dumbs down math education. They say pure math inquiry should be neutral of politics.

I don't really have an argument against this because this statement is ridiculous and heavily misrepresents the previous positions I've given. But it's hilarious that these "traditionalists" likely heavily intersect the same groups of people that don't want Civil Rights or slavery taught in schools because of politics.

And students gifted in math should be allowed to advance faster than their peers.

Literally nobody is arguing that they shouldn't be. So again, a boogeyman invented by certain groups to scare parents and school communities.

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Some new approaches to math learning include customizing lessons to students' cultural interests and collapsing math "tracks," often the gateway to Calculus for gifted students.

Below is a quote from NCTM on the important of detracking mathematics in schools:

The tracking of students for instruction in mathematics is a long-standing practice of schooling that segregates students of different backgrounds into separate experiences on pathways leading to different outcomes. The fact that the effects of tracking are consistent and predictable reflect the reality that this practice is built in to the structure of mathematics education. Students segregated into low-track mathematics are routinely exposed to instruction focused primarily on rote skills and procedures that do not stretch their higher order thinking and that give limited attention to developing their conceptual understanding. Students segregated into high-track mathematics typically experience mathematics that cultivates their mathematics identities, conceptual understanding, and critical problem-solving and thinking skills (NCTM, 2018). Tracking is a structural barrier with a large impact on the experiences of students and teachers in mathematics.

In other words, students who are placed into "low" tracks often get less experienced teachers and instruction that fails to encompass more than just rote memorization. These students know when they're in the "dumb math class" and it impacts their self esteem, leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy where they are stuck in the "dumb math" classes until they graduate with a less-than-adequate math education. Not to mention that there is a strong correlation between students in the "low" tracks and characteristics such as race, ethnicity, language, and socioeconomic status.

This is not an argument against accelerated math programs. Students can and should be able to take higher level courses such as AP Calculus or AP statistics that challenge them and continue to expand their education. NCTM does not argue this at all and they agree with that previous statement. They want high quality education and teachers for every student regardless of current ability.

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You can read the NCTM's full position about access and equity here: https://www.nctm.org/Standards-and-Positions/Position-Statements/Access-and-Equity-in-Mathematics-Education/

This small blurb from that page gives a good idea of how that position can be achieved:

Achieving access and equity requires that all stakeholders

• ensure that all students have access to a challenging mathematics curriculum, taught by skilled and effective teachers who differentiate instruction as needed;
• monitor student progress and make needed accommodations; and
• offer remediation or additional challenges when appropriate.

"all stakeholders" encompasses classroom teachers, supporting teachers such as special education, engligh language teachers, and gifted education teachers. It also includes administration (principals, supers, and curriculum coordinators), parents, guardians, and other family members, the student themselves, and anyone else who has a "stake" in the success of that child's education.

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In an effort to promote equity and access for kids of color, girls and low-income students, many math teachers are shifting toward inclusive instruction.

First off, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) is the world's largest mathematics teaching organizations and has been around for a century now. They are one of the biggest authorities on effective mathematics instructions. Since at least 2016, they have been promoting access and equity in the mathematics classroom across all grade levels. Many, many, many teachers have some plug with NCTM's resources and many agree with their ideas. So this discussion is not new to 2021. The reason these kinds of articles often take the spotlight is because certain media outlets have to manufacture outrage within their viewership to maintain ratings and influence political spheres.

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BilalPowell posted...

The trick to reducing the education gap is to make everyone dumber!

Boy that's a fucking awful takeaway if that's how you really feel.

Anyway, as an actual HS math teacher, I've got a few opinions but I'm not able to share them at the moment so I'll be a bit before I can respond fully to the article.

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Sphyx posted...

Probably putting my neck out with this, but I don't understand the retroactive change of name.

We do it pretty often in other situations. Surnames vs. Married names for example. You'll often have to retroactively change your name for important legal and personal accounts.

Or, less formally, if someone is known by a nickname so often that that's the name they start to go by, it can be more familiar to use that nickname in conversation.

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Ysmir posted...

This is from back in August but is a partial list of concepts Wisconsin wants to ban, including SEL

https://twitter.com/mollybackes/status/1467949887035781121?s=21

Luckily in Wisconsin we have a Democrat governor who will veto this every time it shows up on his desk.

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Turns out many of their viewers don't like being compared to Dr. Fauci.

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I wish we as a society were less tolerant of racism.

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Squall28 posted...

Think TC is one of those guys who think businesses shouldn't exist if they're not rich enough to pay their employees well

So what's the alternative? Forcing people to work for lower pay? The fuck are you even saying here?? Are you fucking insane?

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So Donald Trump is just being a whiny pissbaby? Who would've thought.

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Gen 4 starters were all equally good yet also all equally mediocre.

Chimchar is fast and the only decent fire type in the main game, but has a boring design
Piplup is usually the most popular and Empoleon has a unique typing, but its stats are subpar and there are better water types.
Turtwig has a great design, typing, and movepool when evolved, but he's very slow

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So are any rightwing CEMen gonna defend this shit?

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Scotty_Rogers posted...

No, good people who live heroic lives go to heaven. Regular joes just turn into spirits.

Heroes get to keep their bodies. Regular people turn into spirits.

Both go to heaven.

This is stated directly.


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Scotty_Rogers posted...

he's fuckin garbage a mass murdering piece of shit gets forgiven for everyone he's ever killed just because he started a family with a dumb bitch whose boyfriend he killed

I mean he lives in a universe where death is next to meaningless and even if it does matter somewhat there's a confirmed afterlife where all but the worst offenders go to heaven.

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._.

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Makeveli_lives posted...

Pokmon DS games are included, bringing them back to retail price for the first time in forever through this deal if you buy 4 of them.

Unfortunately most are out of stock.

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https://www.gamestop.com/search/?pmid=27688

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Will he?

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They know what they're doing.

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Its easier to morally condemn the multimillion dollar corporations that exploit hundreds of thousands of labor hours to produce an overpriced good.

You can also just say it's the free market at work. "I think your product isn't worth anything more than the effort to take it for myself, so I am morally right in taking it."

*fingerguns out the door*

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