I have a total milquetoast name, but it gets misspelled all the time.

Aw. I always feel bad for the person in the middle seat. I always try to get the window so I can lean, but lately I've been doing aisle because of leg cramps. Either way I get an armrest without contest and space to lean away. (I also try to make sure I'm actively doing something like drawing or reading, so my arms…

I always find it aggravating that you either get petite, or plus, but no option for both. wtf dude. (I of course am technically a size 16 which would be plus, but none of the plus size cut pants fit! what's up with that?)

I just went to a State University. ;)

Might have been a specific teacher thing. I just wasn't familiar with the term. ;) I do know at my university I can put together my own 'textbook' that they would sell at the bookstore, we just never called them readers.

I'd never seen that article - it certainly describes my experiences with textbooks.

I'm also Gen-X, and had to learn to uptalk because I kept getting labelled as a condescending know it all bitch otherwise.

*stares* Seriously? That's just...ugh. I mean, plagiarism! It's not like it might only be slightly wrong!

YES IT IS. IT IS TOTALLY BLACKBOARD'S FAULT. ;)

I hate blackboard. It's like a majority of the students don't actually pay attention to what I say because they expect all the information to be digitally available later.

American schools have the weirdest boners for tech in all the classrooms, based on this malarkey belief that if only we give all the kids TONS OF TECH, then we'll BEAT THE ASIANS.

I do think tablets could have been used in a creative innovative way, for a new kind of interactive textbook - especially when dealing with concepts and ideas that are more interconnected points than a linear timeline. How cool would that be? However, that's more involved than just putting a texbook on a tablet - it's…

Oh, I don't think a tablet can teach better. I think putting something that doesn't work that great on its own on a tablet is a HORRIBLE idea.

I'm not sure how similar it is since the company that had used the site as a toxic waste dump TRIED TO AVOID SELLING IT AT ALL COSTS to the city. Then tried to tell them NOT TO DIG ANYTHING as they might puncture what was effectively a barrier to keep the toxins out of the groundwater.

Right. So let's not actually address how people learn or why textbook themselves are horrible, and instead just blame facebook.

I'd be a more content single if I didn't have everyone questioning why I don't date, that I'll be alone if I don't get married, that I'll find someone and fall in love, that I won't know what it's like to really be alive unless I'm in love, yadda yadda yadda...

because you know, they have to pay attention when it's an actual book. They won't be daydreaming or doodling in the margins.

Because in complex socioeconomic problems is it very difficult to claim with accuracy that them being male and the gender construct has nothing directly to do with it. Some things men are suffering from have a lot if not everything to do with the fact they're male.

That's awesome to hear. :) I hope we keep learning stuff about child development and divorce so more families can have a more positive outcome.

No, comedy is supposed to be funny.