Redcat

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[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if BRICS renames itself 'United Earth' there will be a one million UFOlogist Long March and American Civil War by next monday

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

put that man on the FED and he'll soft land this economy in no time

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you've used the word taught, which implies reasoning. which is by definition not intuitive. reading was never innate to you or anyone else.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (36 children)

A lot of people are commenting about how, so what, lots of people can read and are also stupid. Except this isn't about being stupid. Or dumb. Reading and writing is a skill you gotta be tutored into. You won't learn it through intuition. You won't learn it through osmosis, guesswork or because the Holy Ghost descended from the heavens to enlighten your soul. You have to be taught, step by step, how to decode writing in order to then develop it into other skills, like different levels of reading, making annotations, making summaries, prose writing, and so on. All of these things should ideally become second nature to you through a long process of 'scholarization', one that is formulated with full understanding of what kids of different ages tend to need, and what kids in particular may require of their teachers.

Think about it. This isn't like zoomers being unable to use Windows because they have phones. It's like not having a school system in the first place. Good god, the districts that keep this scam pedagogy in place are gonna create a lost generation.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

'the moon landing /may/ have been fake'

lol, weak

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

putin wouldn't deprive a bald man of his strangely ethnic wigs

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

isn't it funnier if we don't

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if there is one thing that is universal about teachers is that we aren't well paid. at least in some places we are actually respected and such, but still not well paid. the one thing that keeps teachers going is that its a social profession with lots of meaning behind it. what sort of teacher looks at reading and thinks its not glamorous enough to teach it step by step as a learned skill.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

why would you teach guesswork as though language is something inherent to the soul and oh fuck thats it isn't it

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

i can't really believe what i'm reading. i'm a teacher in the global south. i don't even teach formative years, but this feels like the Three Dimensional Chess fantasy applied to pedagogy.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wouldn't be shocked. Museum inventories are huge. And nobody is gonna miss one of the seventeen trillion Roman Dildos Europe spent billions uncovering for the past 200 years.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

you put the host at the center and then you refrain from sitting china and india with one another thats how you get CBSRI

 

Since I was like 12 I was blessed with the genetics of an 80 yo. Having muscle spasms, hernias, and all sorts of bizarre crap. The two times in my life I got into a workout regime things would get progressively better until months down the line, when I'd have to do surgery of some kind, likely because I 'worked out too much'. Doctors tell me to start lifting weights, but they don't seem to believe me and simply tell me I'm a male and young and shouldn't be as frail as I am. No tests in 20+ years have shown anything out of the ordinary, except for whatever problem I developed all of a sudden, so it's no wonder. I'm afraid that trainers in a gym wouldn't be any better. Got no idea where to start. Pool workouts with the elderly maybe?

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