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RL Peeves
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@junipersky My mil just switched jobs because her principal was absolutely terrible to her. The previous school year she was aaaaalllll about how awesome mil was and this year she would call her at 7-8 at night to dress her down for every tiny thing. The final straw came when the principal told her she couldn’t have a Christmas party in her room for the kids.
Jokes on the principal tho, mil got an easier job paying almost double what the county school board was paying her.
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@SpaceKhomeini said in RL Peeves:
Is this just how it’s gonna go?
Pretty much, until the working class rises up.
my worry is that everyone is going to just keep saying this until we all die. but I am so ready sign me up let’s gooooooooo
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@Wizz same on all fronts.
I guess no one will do it unless I do. I should learn how to organize communities. No doubt my exquisite social skills will make me the best leader ever, heh.
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I mulled over saying this at all at the risk of sounding like the keyboard Marxist I am but at this point we have to be willing to engage in behavior that could be deemed risky, potentially illegal, and destructive (at least to economic output on a large scale).
Even worse, we have to be willing to face these things for each other, and the ruling class has done a hell of a job flooding the zone with an endless torrent of culture war bullshit reasonable people in positions of nominal power all have to prioritize cleaning up the damage from first (and mind you, a lot of that is heinous).
We’re just not there. Not by a longshot. I’m definitely including myself here.
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PERIOD STARTING THE NIGHT BEFORE JURY TRIAL STARTS
THIS IS MISOGYNY
let it be a challenge to you
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@sao Really clotting up the legal system, there.
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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@Pavel got an acquittal tho. It’s probably blood magic.
let it be a challenge to you
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I have had my hair professionally dyed for years (rainbow was my fav). I’ve decided to attempt to dye my own hair. I’m just sitting here looking at all the dye and the things. I’m more than a little nervous to do it.
My peeve is … it’s just hair. I can get it covered if it turns out bad. I use to do this before I could afford to get it professionally dyed. It’s. Just. Hair.
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@RightMeow You can do it!
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I did it. It’s all a bright auburn now. It covered all the blue and purple (yay color theory)
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Rather than hire subs for the day our district has opted for one sub per building that is there 100% of the time. It is supposed to foster relationships and cut down on behaviors because the kids know they will see her again and also that their teacher will communicate with her.
She’s insufferable though. She has an early childhood education degree (prek-3), but hadn’t passed her assessments nor finished her English as a second language or reading requirements for licensure. She hasn’t student taught. (Some COVID nonsense allowed her to graduate without it.)
But she ~insists~ she is a ~real teacher~ and it drives me BONKERS. She has zero classroom management skills, and when she is “teaching” often gets small but significant facts wrong that will lead to serious misconceptions later. All new teachers do this, but the mark of a good new teacher is that they listen to feedback and do better. She shrugs off all corrections and keeps insisting she knows best. It has gotten to the point I refuse to have her touch my reading groups because I know she will teach them an error it will take me forever to undo. She never follows the plans the teachers leave and has favorites among the kids. She has even requested one out special needs 6th graders be pulled out of class and sent elsewhere whenever she covers that level. (Um, feels illegal to me, but I have no idea.)
Then last night she was going on and on about ADHD and how she has it and so she knows what parents should/shouldn’t do about it and I wanted to go “IT DOES NOT MATTER. YOU ARE NOT A TEACHER LET ALONE A PSYCHOLOGIST.”
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@junipersky Oh god. She sounds like a nightmare. I love the idea of having a building sub or two who can be consistent for teachers and students but man, when you get stuck with a BAD one…ugh.
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@junipersky Zero classroom management skills, teaching leads to small but significant mistakes, plays favourites (like, we all have students we like more than others, we just don’t let that impact the lesson/class structure)…
Sounds like someone headed right into administration to me.
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@junipersky said in RL Peeves:
She has even requested one out special needs 6th graders be pulled out of class and sent elsewhere whenever she covers that level. (Um, feels illegal to me, but I have no idea.)
Details matter, of course, but on the surface - yep, sounds like a likely violation of IDEA laws.
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I am becoming more emotionally immature.
I just got into an internet argument I’m gonna vague post about. They came to me out of nowhere, never having spoken to me before, to get homophobic at me while claiming their own vector of oppression justifies their homophobia. There’s no discussion to be had there, no reconciliation possible: the only thing for me to do is let the little weirdo have the last word and not let them trick me into making their problems my problems.
I know that. I do. And there’s a time when I would have already let this go.
But god do I want to go back and let them have it. Worse, this isn’t a one-off: I can remember a dozen times in the recent past I not only gave in to those childish temptations, I didn’t even have enough self-awareness to notice I was doing it.
Working on yourself never ends.
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Like I was telling someone earlier, sometimes we just make bad decisions that feel good. You don’t always have to justify
eating an entire pint of Phish Food because you skipped breakfast and lunchgetting into an argument online with an internet troll. Sometimes, it’s just the thing that makes you feel better. Embrace it, even if it’s not logical. -
People who treat the shoulder of the road like a right turn lane. You’re not getting out of anyone’s way! Your vehicle’s ass end still swings out into my lane when you make the turn because of how sharp you gotta cut the wheel on account of that NOT being a turn lane! Just–ugh, stop it!
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Fucking old townie racists that insist on bringing up the old (replaced) racist mascot again and again, start threatening people who point out that it’s racist and they need to stop, and then threaten and deadname the high schoolers who chime in to tell them to knock it off.
