.. yearly licenses. Add in a district leadership that is collaborating with the charter School lobby and is only truly concerned about their 'next steps' after moving on from their current position and bam, here we are.

It's a money thing, sadly. Basically, there's no money for Pearson and the other Ed Tech grifters in having us read from the class sets the district already owns- so they've gotta find a way to get us to buy..

My district has told us to stop teaching novels as well. It sucks and the kids do not like it. The principal stops in randomly twice a month to make sure that we're 'sticking to the curriculum'

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

.. Prof who cares and tries hard in their community college classes next year. I am mad that they're being taken there because I'm pretty sure it's being done for union busting reasons- not educational ones.

My AP Lit class in 2007 was probably the most demanding+rewarding class I ever took- even compared to English major undergrad and master's stuff for being a teacher. I think it's good teachers and professors that make for quality courses, not the level or location. I hope the kids get a good..

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I hope the students have a positive experience with it. I think it makes great sense for classes we don't offer- but our currently existing AP Lit class is taught by an award winning teacher of the year lady who goes to ELA conferences- and now she's just teaching Gen ed- not even honors.

My school is trying to 'outsource' by not having AP Lit and instead having the kids take a bus to a local community college where they can take English 100(and look at their phone the whole time in a lecture hall and fail because they are 17 and not prepared for that). This allows for more layoffs.

Savvas is so bad because many of the materials were obviously made using AI. There are typos, errors in questions, questions are either way too complex or way too simple, and above all it just feels like a copy of a copy of an actual textbook. Everything is distorted and 'off' & the kids hate it

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Have you played it? It looks really cool. Are there people reacting negatively in the way you describe online? It seems like it's getting a really positive reception on Steam.

In early 2025 I had the 'Trump panic' that a lot of people did- I discovered RedNote and had the 'oh I was wrong about China, I'm not immune to propaganda, what else was I wrong about' and decided to then 'do the reading' and then found S4A's channel and started listening to theory on my way to work

In hindsight I didn't truly cease to be a lib until I finished "Fascism and the Social Revolution" & "Blackshirts and Reds." They are what made me realize that A:fascism is really happening & will probably all go down within the next ten years or so and B: there is only one thing that can defeat it

What do you see as the most important lessons to learn from his failure?

Hope they can hang in there a while longer. Hope that their intelligence will help them to gain consciousness and understand the bigger picture and the fight that lies ahead of us- maybe they can help others to escape the cage as well. It won't be this way forever.

don't worry about the economy, man. country'll always need Mimarobes.

To place Russian Communism on the same moral level with Nazi fascism, because both are totalitarian, is, at best, superficial, in the worse case it is fascism. He who insists on this equality may be a democrat; in truth and in his heart, he is already a fascist, and will surely fight fascism with insincerity and appearance, but with complete hatred only communism. (Thomas Mann, 1945)

This is also immensely helpful- thank you. I always prefer to direct people to relevant theory and give them the chance to figure it out on their own.

I live in the USA and the children I teach are from families who are all very much already experiencing the kind of material conditions that historically lead to people asking the correct questions- but there's still such a lack of consciousness and the usual actors misdirect and distract them.

Yes that was excellent- thank you! I can see why some people might be initially interested in that if they lack the deeper understanding of what deviations to look for etc. Their focus on aesthetics instead of actual Marxism is a cause for concern because it's giving people incorrect ideas.

Anyone have a concise way of explaining what's wrong with the ACP? I have friends who are posting stuff from them and I want to make them aware of the serious issues with that organization and 'patriotic socialism' in general, but I want to come correct.

The cover of "National Lampoon's Doon," the parody of "Dune" There is a guy riding a pretzel as though it were a Sand worm

If you ever want a good laugh, read the parody, "Doon." It makes fun of the lengthy internal monologues a lot. There's also a part where The Baron Hardchargin opens a sentence with, 'Ahhhhhhhhhhhh' for like half a page.

..are intending to get their hooks in the students while they are young and harvest data on them. The inability of the students to access anything open source is giving them a false impression of the web and of the world of technology in general. This is at odds with our mission as educators.

Banning phones in our district improved education, safety, and the emotional well being of students. Grades are up, fights are way down, attendance is up, students say they are happier in the surveys. Changing the laptop policy is the next step. The capitalists who gave our kids Chromebooks..

I teach high school English and computer science. Students should only access computers during instructional time while inside the computer labs and under the direct supervision of teachers. There should also be time for free experimentation with technology, but that should not be during a lesson.

When I was in AP US history my classmates and I would amuse ourselves by writing accounts of how 'trust buster' presidents would attack the wealthy oligarchs super hero style as they met in smoke filled rooms. William Howard Taft's ability was expanding in size and crushing people with his fat.

Also lol the USA is literally blockading Cuba right now. 'Freedom of Navigation,' are you kidding me lol

Going to work today knowing I'll be one of the few people in the building aware that we basically had a Cuban missile crisis yesterday and no one noticed, cared, or tried to do anything about it

Lol they knew it was airborne pretty much from the beginning but they still had people wiping down their groceries.