There’s also an obsession with the Battle of Tours. “Catholic” to them is more the idea of white heritage.

There’s an evolving strain of US Catholicism, exemplified by weirdos like JD Vance, who like the aesthetic of Catholicism (especially the Deus Vult thing) without really caring about any of the actual Catholic beliefs. It’s more like they have a childish misunderstanding of Catholicism as just being a more serious Christian. Which is not uncommon a misunderstanding in the south/Midwest, oddly enough - the desire for fundies to create a coalition to fight abortion in the 70’s/80’s really ended a lot of the more typical anti-Catholicism of the south.

Similar to the “American Orthodox,” which is the same idea with more of a Russian flavor.

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That’s why Oklahoma does emergency certifieds! Any bachelor degree gets you in a classroom. You can fail your tests for up to three years, and then usually they’ll extend that deadline anyway! So you get people who can’t get hired to do anything else, and realize that they can just get away with sitting at a desk/ignoring everything they’re supposed to do.

Actual teachers walked out half a decade ago because it’s 60+ hr/week of being a social worker/punching bags. (Fun fact: teachers are exempt from overtime!)

Yep! Parents can pay to have their child kidnapped and tortured. Fuckers like Dr Phil even broadcast kids getting shipped off to rape camp to audience applause.

The US refused to sign the UN convention on the rights of the child. There’s really an understanding that parents own their children. You can deny schooling (my brother was “homeschooled” for years - he played video games and jerked off while my mom nodded on benzos -and my attempts to get intervention were laughed off), you can deny medical care (how many dead JW kids from the blood transfusion bullshit?), do anything short of causing obvious bodily harm.

Child liberation is a necessary civil rights movement.

They will crash and burn when they get dumped into a totally different learning environment with kids whose parents can’t afford $55,00 per year for elementary school tuition.

I’ve seen this happen a billion times with private school kids. Private schools suck at teaching math. It just doesn’t happen. Those kids drown in Algebra 1.

Recent fun one was helping a kid design a poll about favorite SCP’s and having a discussion about population versus samples.

There does seem to be a stagnation in culture in that most of my middle school cultural touchstones are still there. I can hold my own in a conversation about Naruto because I’ve been around people obsessed about it for two decades. My Chemical Romance and Fallout Boy are still popular.

I’ve helped picked up the pieces after similar “educations” and it’s bad. Teaching adults how to carry in addition or the concept of a variable. High school students that don’t have their times tables.

Education is a fundamental human right. The Right has been working to strip it in the US since Brown v Board of Ed.

Another big one is making it personally relevant.

It’s amazing how much knowing about Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, or stupid TikTok memes can win over a kid. I love doing unit conversion with Vbux or whatever.

And 6-7 has been a godsend to teaching math.

Which is obvious to anyone who has read theory about how we learn.

The right amount of struggle is critical to learning. When I tutor or teach, I don’t just give them the fucking answer, which is what AI does. With AI, there’s no tolerance for confusion or having to process things - it’s just type in the question and copy/paste the answer.

There’s just a fundamental ignorance of learning here with the push for AI - as if knowledge is just a list of facts.

If the student is willing to learn, and knows to take breaks when they lose focus

Maybe 5% of students are capable of this. But that same 5% will thrive regardless of setting.

What is warped is that struggling students who do not have the ability to succeed in online classes are the ones that are pushed to take online classes. I have worked with many students who failed their in person high school classes, were placed in online classes and did absolutely nothing until they crammed everything at the end of the year.

That’s not how learning works, and it’s fucked that the students who show clear lack of executive functioning are placed in classes that require more executive functioning. Like fuck, I’m a grown adult and I can’t do online.

Immediately, the word was spread that computers would replace teachers. They didn’t.

From my context: Oklahoma’s biggest school district is Epic Charter Schools, an online charter. Teachers have class rosters that can range from pre-K to adult high schoolers, without the expectation that they be certified in any of the subjects they are teaching.

It is entirely “grading” online course work (eg, putting in 100s for AI generated essay garbage) and trying to make sure the kids actually log in at least once a week (many families know that they just not do anything for two weeks, then log in to do a 3 question “bellwork” for attendance to not be kicked out/still get access to the fun money “learning fund” from the government)

Oklahoma also has “emergency certification” where any bachelors degree is enough. There was recently a bill trying to ensure that adjunct teachers have high school diplomas at bare minimum.

So while you can’t replace teachers with computers, they’re trying!

There’s sometimes complaints about “I thought you were dead” when the channel has been uploading regularly the entire time.

Every once in a while, if you have the “notifications” on for a creator it’ll just randomly turn it off. I have a creator that I pay $1/mth subscription to, which you would think YouTube would take as a suggestion that I like that channel and show me when they upload something new. Nope! Instead the algorithm thinks I want to watch a fucking Neo Nazi musician.

Hmm, wonder if there were words before the section you decided to quote.

Rapping takes more skill than just saying a bunch of words fast over the right beat. A lot of middle/upper class white kids do not realize this and are not in the kind of environment to get real feedback on their rap.

Made the mistake of buying a HP “gaming laptop.” The goddamn thing chugs if you have five browser tabs open.

Heritage Foundation is working on making HRT illegal.

Most of the translations are pretty similar with that last clause.

You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Deuteronomy 32:18. This is the lot that would insist that men cannot give birth, right?

The story isn’t strictly on rails - you do get some choices (especially how your character reacts in the end.) When you reach the part where you are told that you have to kill one of two guys, you can actually refuse to kill either and take on a massive firefight.