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2111. Ms. No - 5/19/2023 8:44:45 PM Same --- but I was brilliant in Geometry.
I think algebra and onward require a certain type of abstraction that I just don't grok. I can understand it for a day while we're doing it, but the day I don't repeat what I've been learning, I forget all of it.
I think that's true of a lot of things, though. If you don't use them on a regular basis, you lose the skill.
It's also possible that most of the "hard" math that we do, we do automatically. I'm not aware of calculating speed and distance and the weight of a car versus how fast I'm able to jet across a street against the light carrying 34lbs of school books, but the fact that I haven't yet been hit by a car shows that I'm doing the math right on some level. :-) 2112. vonKreedon - 5/20/2023 2:20:46 AM HaHa...and keep on not being hit, dear. 2113. Ms. No - 5/23/2023 10:52:30 PM Ditto!
It's been an oddly violent year for our district -- lockdowns, assaults, arrests. A former principal of mine got cold-cocked by a 14yo hopped up on PCP and had to go to the hospital. A nearby parking lot purse-snatching sent cops to arrest two kids at a high school one district over and one of the kids was carrying a handgun with a sanded off serial number and a high capacity magazine. There have been three different instances on three different campuses of adults sneaking onto campus and jumping students because of family beef, and this isn't even counting all the on-site fights etc.
My students show me these TikToks and they're all like "What is wrong with all those kids? I'm glad I'm not there."
And all I can think is that those kids aren't any worse than ours for the most part, they just don't have the same supports ours do because of population size. We've got one adult on campus for every 15 kids and you can walk from one end of our campus to the other in under 30 seconds just moseying. I love our students and I think they're good kids, but I know that many of them would be in trouble if they were on different campuses.
It's really sad, but it does make me grateful to be where I'm at. And I wish every campus had a similar adult to student ratio. 2114. vonKreedon - 5/24/2023 2:39:21 AM Amen. 2115. Ms. No - 5/31/2023 8:50:43 PM Disappointing but also sort of relieving word from the EdD program -- everyone has accepted the admissions offers, so unless someone drops out before August, I'll have to wait for next year and apply again.
This timing works better for me, truthfully, but I can admit that it's a little bruising to the ego. Ah, well, gives me another year to become a better candidate. :-) 2116. thoughtful - 6/6/2023 4:51:37 AM Is anyone still here? I thought I checked back a year or so ago and the site was gone.
Hello! Hope all are well and thriving. 2117. vonKreedon - 6/8/2023 9:54:26 PM Hey thoughtful, some of us are still here some of the time. What's up with you?
2118. thoughtful - 6/9/2023 3:12:56 AM Not much, still retired, still enjoying life. How's with you? Is it just you and Ms No left? 2119. vonKreedon - 6/9/2023 12:17:11 PM Pretty much, though others show up occasionally. 2120. thoughtful - 6/10/2023 12:24:41 PM I do miss the old gang...the quality of the discussions we had here were amazing. I learned so much. The other forums I'm on now are fine and fun, but nowhere near as demanding intellectually. 2121. Ms. No - 6/13/2023 6:24:56 AM Hello, thoughtful - good to see you!
Yes, there was a server issue and some communication breakdown so the site was down for a few months.
I was just reading something at Slate the other day and considered leaving a comment -- don't know how long ago they ditched the ridiculous BBS format that they switched to when they dumped us, but it seems much more similar to when we were there. I still didn't feel like registering in order to post, though. (Mainly this is because I didn't want to get all riled up and rant. ;-) 2122. thoughtful - 6/17/2023 2:34:44 PM Hey Ms. No! Glad you are doing well. Still fondly remember our meet up in the Bronx! 2123. Ms. No - 6/20/2023 4:47:00 AM Me too -- and your lovely husband. I'm in Hoboken right now. Every time I come out here I think of the great FrayUnion. What a good time! 2124. thoughtful - 6/28/2023 6:50:41 PM I'm looking for a new political forum. I'm involved with one that's reasonable, but only because they've essentially kicked out all the RW trolls. But I'd really like one where I can interact with the gop so I can have a better understanding of what their thinking is. I was on another, but the admin is getting tired of it all and thinking about pulling the plug on all political posts, as has happened on another one.
Any suggestions? 2125. Ms. No - 6/30/2023 2:20:45 AM Honestly, I stopped even listening to NPR back in 2016. I don't like to feel angry and powerless, and that's pretty much all the mainstream news was doing for me.
I keep local and inform myself in order to vote and decide how I spend my money. I'll dip into some of the big magazines -- the Atlantic, WSJ, NYT, Guardian, Economist, Mother Jones -- but I had to just quit all the gossipy crap I kept seeing on CNN/FOX/MSNBC etc.
My current news feed gives me daily doses of horror movies to check out, yard and garden ideas, performing artists, and cat videos. I'm quite possibly dumber for it, but I'm less angry. :-) 2126. thoughtful - 6/30/2023 3:34:05 AM I understand how you feel.
But I have so much pent-up energy around what is happening that I need to express it...and I'm ever hopeful that there will be some way some how to reach these people...or if I could at least understand what they were thinking, it would help.
But basically I keep finding out that when I respond with facts, they respond that I'm a moron or I'm evil. 2127. Ms. No - 6/30/2023 9:44:54 AM Or you're a socialist Groomer who hates America and Jesus.
It's such a strange phenomenon to witness so many thousands of people who just will not accept factual evidence. It's clearly an emotional thing, but I have so little sympathy anymore for the average white person who thinks they're being persecuted and ignored because people who don't look or think like them also want the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 2128. thoughtful - 7/2/2023 3:05:27 PM "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." -- Carl Sagan 2129. thoughtful - 7/2/2023 3:06:53 PM And it's one thing when whites are bamboozled by white racists, but another when it's blacks or hispanics who are bamboozled by them! That I really don't get! 2130. vonKreedon - 7/3/2023 2:37:00 AM All of my on-line conservative contacts have disconnected from me, I no longer have anyone who will argue political/social points with me. I apparently ask too many questions.
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