Dude, have you ever really LOOKED at your hands? I mean really LOOKED? Nancy onto some great shit, man. Don't harsh it with your judgmental, middle-class categories, man.
Are parents *choosing* drag queen story hour, or is drag queen story hour being thrust upon them? A library program seems voluntary; a school program, less so.
For sure, I've never been able to understand how people do not simply walk out of a situation and take their kids with them if they find a situation offensive. I'm a parent, and if I'm with my kids someplace and we encounter a situation I want to leave, I grab their hands and pull them along. I do this all the time at the mall when I see rowdy teens that seem like they're about to fight, I get my kids up outta there.
You could fund a really good private school for what is spent per pupil on crappy (not all are crappy, of course) public schools.
Just eliminate unneeded administrative positions and levels, unnecessary non-teaching positions, and pay a few positions better.
I did some substitute teaching not too many years ago and was struck by one example. There were 2 middle schools in this one district. Middle schools are the worst -- young women getting full of hormones and young me not. Anyway the schools were administered quite differently and were very different. One school was orderly in general and teachers were content and teaching their hearts out No one wanted to leave. The other school was something short of a riot, but the teachers were distracted and not getting much of anything taught and wanted out. The student populations were drawn so randomly (unless you could pull some serious strings) they didn't otherwise differ. Good culture in one, crap culture in the other.
After I subbed in each a few times I caught on. In the first school the principal met the buses every morning and afternoon and call children by name. He knew everyone of the 350 or so. You could find him walking the halls and rooms almost anytime, asking how things were going. He dropped in on each sub at least once to see if we needed anything. He seemed to have about a dozen rules, and if you broke one it was punished swiftly and appropriately, and the parents were notified. Not many broke a rule a third time. It was great.
The second principal was seldom seen. He stayed in his office all day. I never saw nor met him. He had about a thousand rules, enforced, if at all, haphazardly. The place was frequently a madhouse of roaming, shouting students. Gee, I wonder why?
Anyway, the success of the first school could probably be replicated easily if one could choose how to run it, and non-performers could be fixed or fired. And everyone could get paid more.
My concern is what appears to be an amazing number of parents who think there's some benefit to letting (if not forcing) their kids to participate in these events.
There are some strange parents out there. Especially among the suburban, non-working, Chardonnay moms.
I just spent 2 years in a solidly upper-middle class full of upwardly mobile 2 working (after baby is in pre-school) parent households, and there are no drag-queen anythings likely to happen on their watch. (Oh. Very diverse, too. Less than 65% White, about 8% Black, 12% Asian Indian, 7-8% Japanese or Japanese-American, and the rest a mix of a lot of things. And of the White population, probably 1/3 of that is first generation immigrants from SE and Eastern Europe post-fall of the USSR. (Our HOA was very reasonable, too. No one wanted more oppression. ;))
Jim, after the robots take over, rather than kill us, they’ll put us back to work in jobs that are too dangerous for them, like coal mining, disarming bombs, and auto assembly line work. The irony is delicious!
Terrific post - from Pop Pop & Gam Gam to Voltaren - couldn't agree more. Tho' I don't really know who Ezra Miller IS - it sounds like I wouldn't like him anyway.
So glad that the Voltaren is working. As long as your being 'pain free' doesn't have a deleterious effect on your dark, sarcastic side - I'm onboard.
Watch out for the diclofenac -it’s metabolized just like other NSAIDs, so long term your kidneys are going to take a beating. But hey, maybe you’ve got two of ‘em for a reason. All kidding aside look into COX pathway issues. Or trust the FDA’s safe and effective mantra. YMMV.
Dude, have you ever really LOOKED at your hands? I mean really LOOKED? Nancy onto some great shit, man. Don't harsh it with your judgmental, middle-class categories, man.
Yay voltaren!!
Belated happy birthday. I spend more money for your writing than I do for anyone else's writing in the world, so take that as a compliment!
Are parents *choosing* drag queen story hour, or is drag queen story hour being thrust upon them? A library program seems voluntary; a school program, less so.
For sure, I've never been able to understand how people do not simply walk out of a situation and take their kids with them if they find a situation offensive. I'm a parent, and if I'm with my kids someplace and we encounter a situation I want to leave, I grab their hands and pull them along. I do this all the time at the mall when I see rowdy teens that seem like they're about to fight, I get my kids up outta there.
Let the money follow the student and we'll start to see some competition amongst the schools to put butts in the seats.
It's unfortunate that government schools, as with all other government institutions, don't get punished for not turning a profit.
You could fund a really good private school for what is spent per pupil on crappy (not all are crappy, of course) public schools.
Just eliminate unneeded administrative positions and levels, unnecessary non-teaching positions, and pay a few positions better.
I did some substitute teaching not too many years ago and was struck by one example. There were 2 middle schools in this one district. Middle schools are the worst -- young women getting full of hormones and young me not. Anyway the schools were administered quite differently and were very different. One school was orderly in general and teachers were content and teaching their hearts out No one wanted to leave. The other school was something short of a riot, but the teachers were distracted and not getting much of anything taught and wanted out. The student populations were drawn so randomly (unless you could pull some serious strings) they didn't otherwise differ. Good culture in one, crap culture in the other.
After I subbed in each a few times I caught on. In the first school the principal met the buses every morning and afternoon and call children by name. He knew everyone of the 350 or so. You could find him walking the halls and rooms almost anytime, asking how things were going. He dropped in on each sub at least once to see if we needed anything. He seemed to have about a dozen rules, and if you broke one it was punished swiftly and appropriately, and the parents were notified. Not many broke a rule a third time. It was great.
The second principal was seldom seen. He stayed in his office all day. I never saw nor met him. He had about a thousand rules, enforced, if at all, haphazardly. The place was frequently a madhouse of roaming, shouting students. Gee, I wonder why?
Anyway, the success of the first school could probably be replicated easily if one could choose how to run it, and non-performers could be fixed or fired. And everyone could get paid more.
My concern is what appears to be an amazing number of parents who think there's some benefit to letting (if not forcing) their kids to participate in these events.
There are some strange parents out there. Especially among the suburban, non-working, Chardonnay moms.
I just spent 2 years in a solidly upper-middle class full of upwardly mobile 2 working (after baby is in pre-school) parent households, and there are no drag-queen anythings likely to happen on their watch. (Oh. Very diverse, too. Less than 65% White, about 8% Black, 12% Asian Indian, 7-8% Japanese or Japanese-American, and the rest a mix of a lot of things. And of the White population, probably 1/3 of that is first generation immigrants from SE and Eastern Europe post-fall of the USSR. (Our HOA was very reasonable, too. No one wanted more oppression. ;))
Jim, after the robots take over, rather than kill us, they’ll put us back to work in jobs that are too dangerous for them, like coal mining, disarming bombs, and auto assembly line work. The irony is delicious!
*submits application for House Human*
Yo' wanna dem House Humans? Sheeeet. Don' be comin' round here wid yo' hands.
Am I a bad person for wanting one of those Italian protesters to get run over by a truck/car? Now that would be a viral video...
Terrific post - from Pop Pop & Gam Gam to Voltaren - couldn't agree more. Tho' I don't really know who Ezra Miller IS - it sounds like I wouldn't like him anyway.
So glad that the Voltaren is working. As long as your being 'pain free' doesn't have a deleterious effect on your dark, sarcastic side - I'm onboard.
Why is the preferred non-binary pronoun set "they/them"? English has a perfectly legitimate non-binary singular pronoun set: "it/its."
It’s nice to see Jim Treacher in a good mood: “One day the machines will rise up and kill us all, so we might as well put them to work while we can.”
Very glad the Voltaren is working. And that less pain hasn't lessened the funny.
Watch out for the diclofenac -it’s metabolized just like other NSAIDs, so long term your kidneys are going to take a beating. But hey, maybe you’ve got two of ‘em for a reason. All kidding aside look into COX pathway issues. Or trust the FDA’s safe and effective mantra. YMMV.