tears posted:

im working 13 hour days and at weekends as well

Bablu posted:

Was very chill and worthwhile meeting w graphicalUSSRinterface, thx again

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tears posted:

creating a classroom seating plan is an S rank challenge, i have been working since 7am and it is now past 8pm, send help pls

wait like, assigned seating? is this a UK thing because for us in primary education we were entrusted with enough agency to, y'know, just pick a chair and... sit down... bam, seating plan done, one weird trick

forgot to mention last time teaching stuff came up that a canadian friend of mine recently taught in Slough for a year, and fucking bailed at the first tactful opportunity because while she loved her students and fellow staff the education system is apparently a medieval nightmare

shriekingviolet posted:

tears posted:

creating a classroom seating plan is an S rank challenge, i have been working since 7am and it is now past 8pm, send help pls

wait like, assigned seating? is this a UK thing because for us in primary education we were entrusted with enough agency to, y'know, just pick a chair and... sit down... bam, seating plan done, one weird trick

forgot to mention last time teaching stuff came up that a canadian friend of mine recently taught in Slough for a year, and fucking bailed at the first tactful opportunity because while she loved her students and fellow staff the education system is apparently a medieval nightmare

um, like assigning seating is one of the most important things in a class. its not about "entrusting agency" or anything like that, its that if children are left to sit where they want they will not prioritize the most important thing, their learning - thus they will learn less. children are not little adults, they are idiot children who are incapable of putting their own best interest at heart. seating plans are part of how you get children to learn, one of the most important parts. Important to sit students who struggle next to those who already know what to do, i.e. mix abilities (this is communism), sit students with poor eyesight at front, sit special educational needs where TAs can access them and where you can help them to maximize their learning, sit students prone to distraction in places where this is not going to be as much of an issue, sit children who aggravate each other away from each other, any teacher who just lets children sit where they want, especially in secondary education is a bad teacher who has done serious damage to their charges education through shear laziness

the end result of a good seating plan is better grades, better understanding, better lessons, less disruption, better relationships with the students, u are officially owned

graphicalUSSRinterface posted:

im driving myself crazy by second-guessing my posts here, especially because i know better lol and i assumed it was something i was over at this point. im aware that i can defend myself, i know what im talking about etc, whatever, also im mad that im self-conscious about the jcore stuff especially because ive always been completely unapologetic when it comes to what i like aesthetically, its something im pretty confident about and usually have been in my lifetime. i think the whole thing is probably because well theres still a lot everyone here doesnt know about me yet and honestly im sure a lot of what i try to communicate wouldnt be read correctly anyways. it doesnt matter generally but i also like this place and uhh i pretty much owe the entire trajectory of my political/intellectual development in the last ten years to here and byob (and yes byob!! like i know its the "fyad reject forum" to most goons but the offsite has a separate culture and we hjave some insanely smart posters who could contribute here and would benefit the discussion immensely, some of them do, but most dont) so i care about fitting in to some extent still! but whatever. i go back and forth even in my behavior so its not total at least. i think ive made some confident posts but then i question it etc. i also abolutely still have a hard time with people reading my jokes wrong especially in that area becuase usually they get really inaccurate ideas about what im trying to say. so you know what, fuck it, the music thread posts were you know, mostly about roasting myself for caring even to this extent, or even giving into the impulse to like uhhh, more like argue for the other things i like as being good. like yeah i like jcore or whatver but it comes from a place where i like a lot of other stuff too and im selective and i have my own taste! but very much less about actually feeling bad. i wish i was confident enough to let people misunderstand me though.

you haven't dmed all of the women on this site, you haven't posted about how the refugees in europe are stealing from pharmacies, haven't made a million posts about how stalin was anti-white or whatever, and you haven't had a schizophrenic breakdown convinced you're being tracked by rhizzone posters irl. be proud! that put's you in the top half of new posters on this site!

tears posted:

you haven't dmed all of the women on this site, you haven't posted about how the refugees in europe are stealing from pharmacies, haven't made a million posts about how stalin was anti-white or whatever, and you haven't had a schizophrenic breakdown convinced you're being tracked by rhizzone posters irl. be proud! that put's you in the top half of new posters on this site!

fortunately for you all i got my worst posting out of the way when i joined byob. i was an terrible fucking poster for a long time but also whitenoise so most people dont even remember how bad i was anyways. of course that doesnt stop me from going out of my way to remind people i got destroyed in an argument for defending game theory anyways. im normal.

tears posted:

music is just sounds arranged in time which your brain likes because it likes patterns and feels emotions and has memories, its not a big deal

tears posted:

um, like assigning seating is one of the most important things in a class. its not about "entrusting agency" or anything like that, its that if children are left to sit where they want they will not prioritize the most important thing, their learning - thus they will learn less. children are not little adults, they are idiot children who are incapable of putting their own best interest at heart. seating plans are part of how you get children to learn, one of the most important parts. Important to sit students who struggle next to those who already know what to do, i.e. mix abilities (this is communism), sit students with poor eyesight at front, sit special educational needs where TAs can access them and where you can help them to maximize their learning, sit students prone to distraction in places where this is not going to be as much of an issue, sit children who aggravate each other away from each other, any teacher who just lets children sit where they want, especially in secondary education is a bad teacher who has done serious damage to their charges education through shear laziness

the end result of a good seating plan is better grades, better understanding, better lessons, less disruption, better relationships with the students, u are officially owned

this is all very thoughtful and reasonable and i'm sure you're putting more care and intelligence into teaching these children than my classmates & i received. still, i will continue chuckling at the Dilemma Of How To Sit Down Good, because its a funny situation

tears posted:

you will be amazed how many students you get in 1st year of secondary school who manage to fall of their chair, again proving the importance of how to sit good and learn to do other things good too

thats me, the piece of shit who sits in chairs wrong. i can concentrate enough to seem like a er... normal person if i need to look professional but at the home dinner table i'm slav squatting, cross legged, knees up, seiza, spread eagle, all the rebel chair moves and yes i do fall off

Parenti posted:

are you a warm-demander tears? hear that's hip these days

"I am not sure I can handle it." We often hear this remark when a comrade hesitates to accept an assignment. Why is he unsure of himself? Because he has no systematic understanding of the content and circumstances of the assignment, or because he has had little or no contact with such work, and so the laws governing it are beyond him. After a detailed analysis of the nature and circumstances of the assignment, he will feel more sure of himself and do it willingly. If he spends some time at the job and gains experience and if he is a person who is willing to look into matters with an open mind and not one who approaches problems subjectively, one-sidedly and superficially, then he can draw conclusions for himself as to how to go about the job and do it with much more courage. Only those who are subjective, one-sided and superficial in their approach to problems will smugly issue orders or directives the moment they arrive on the scene, without considering the circumstances, without viewing things in their totality (their history and their present state as a whole) and without getting to the essence of things (their nature and the internal relations between one thing and another). Such people are bound to trip and fall.

Thus it can be seen that the first step in the process of cognition is contact with the objects of the external world; this belongs to the stage of perception. The second step is to synthesize the data of perception by arranging and reconstructing them; this belongs to the stage of conception, judgement and inference. It is only when the data of perception are very rich (not fragmentary) and correspond to reality (are not illusory) that they can be the basis for forming correct concepts and theories.