cliff arroyo on The Word Not Ate His HomeworkMay 22, 2026
"dumb mistakes by missing key words like “not” I learned long ago through bitter experience to never use negative forms…
Anonymous on The Word Not Ate His HomeworkMay 21, 2026
Some of the most staggering reading-aloud blunders in church happen when somebody leaves out the word "not". The other one…
random reader on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 21, 2026
I have spent some time over the past couple of months talking to people who sell different homework platforms for…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 21, 2026
LOL ;-D
Anonymous on The Word Not Ate His HomeworkMay 21, 2026
my son is pretty smart but sometimes makes dumb mistakes by missing key words like “not” or “best” etc. it’s…
Anonymous on The Word Not Ate His HomeworkMay 21, 2026
So, is ‘not’ … racist?
bluebird of bitterness on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 21, 2026
I was a straight-A student in elementary school and one of the smartest kids in my class, but I was…
Clarissa on The Word Not Ate His HomeworkMay 21, 2026
Opposition to standardized tests reeks of "very special cookie" preoccupations.
Anonymous on The Word Not Ate His HomeworkMay 21, 2026
Vision issues matter and indeed are common.
Mitch4 on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
My high school has a nondescript name ("Southwest") and, truth to tell, no particular reason to be famous -- no…
Clarissa on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
I'll be shocked if she doesn't have some Pedro who beats her squirreled in the background.
Clarissa on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
You can have completely white hair and come off as young. It isn't the hair. Everything about him is old-man…
Clarissa on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 21, 2026
I'm in languages, so we don't notice AI at all. There's no place for it because any attempt to cheat…
Anonymous on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
His new wife is draining him. lol
cliff arroyo on Sudden AgingMay 21, 2026
"He didn’t shave" Definitely part of it. But also the baggy shirt and the slumped forward posture, very different from…
cliff arroyo on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 21, 2026
"Do you expect the number of Universities will shrink significantly as well? " Capital no longer wants an educated public. This…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
"It’s ok to be excluded. It’s ok to be aware that intellectual limitations exist. It’s ok to know that some…
Anonymous on Sudden AgingMay 20, 2026
He didn't shave. Could've gone gray years ago and you'd never have known it with the cue-ball look. ethyl
Demotrash on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
Even if you don't sort kids, they will still know how good or bad at reading they are relative to…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
Was in the same era, we had no formal grouping, students were assisted as needed. But we were sometimes allowed…
Mitch4 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
In my primary years (1950s) one year we had flower names for the groups. The top was orchids, I still…
oldcowboy3 on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
Some of this may be IQ, part of this may be genetics. Some may be environmental, both nutrition and presence…
cliff arroyo on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
"When a child is put in the lowest reading group, they usually know it" I remember when, in the third…
Anonymous on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
I still remember my reading group in the 2nd grade. "The Condors" I was proud to be in the top…
random reader on How Academics Will Write Themselves into a FutureMay 20, 2026
Do you expect the number of Universities will shrink significantly as well? I think this is already happening, but the…
Anonymous on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
And what? We should sort them covertly instead? We should force everybody to read Dick and Jane forever because Andy…
Avi on Hierarchies Are GoodMay 20, 2026
"All must have prizes!". And yet the evidence is under everybody's yes, if people want to see. Who cares how…
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
The apartheid state was basically a welfare state without rights. That's why Mandela acknowledged even Afrikaners were prisoners of the…
Clarissa on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
The welfare state without rights is the definition of a jail. These two things only work together.
PaulS on Book Notes: Los mitos del franquismo by Pío MoaMay 19, 2026
I guess the problem is people are more likely to associate the welfare state with Stalin.