On the other hand, our school has been very clear about safety protocols and the science behind said protocols and they’re flouting the rules every chance they get. It’s okay to call out teens for bad behavior. While I agree that adults, not teens, are squarely to blame for how poorly we’ve handled the pandemic, young…

No, it’s true, the adults are fucking this up really badly, too. I don’t go anywhere unnecessary, but I see them on patios etc. when I’m driving. With Gen Z teens, though (and their older cohort of Gen Z 20 y/os) they’re losing the collective moral high ground for the first time and it’s going to be a hard and ugly…

Normally, I’m really proud of Gen Z, but they’re also dick teenagers like every other generation was...

I don’t know how people’s kids are acting when they’re home but I assure you in school the kids DGAF about a pandemic. They’re showing each other shit on the phones inches from one another’s faces, they shut the windows in our classrooms because they’re cold, they’re not taking precautions when they eat or drink, they’…

Personally, we avoid contractors and schedule the trades ourselves. Obviously, this is time consuming, and you’ll need to get multiple quotes on the trades because they can really vary. Also, you don’t have a working relationship with these various businesses like a GC does, so if you’re under a time crunch you can’t…

Just anecdotally, there is a LOT of language on job boards right now that says “people from underrepresented backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply,” and there are a lot of job postings in subjects covering nonwhite areas. But being a POC in academia is NOT a walk in the park and landing a job is still…

Explanations like this don’t really do it for me, a fussy etymology person. Here’s why ~I~ allow both:

Yes! It’s all a part of the larger capitalism/care sham. I’m sure just about every industry is trying to pull this guilt trip shit to get things “back to [ECONOMIC] normal.” Even grocery store workers, who ARE essential, could be made much more safe if stores had certain hours that were only curbside pickup. Then,…

oh my god bury bury bury bury bury

Yeah, SUNYs are really expensive. Back when I was applying, they were about 15k/year for in-state tuition. I know that sounds like a steal these days, but 60k of debt is still significant! It was nothing compared to the out-of-state fees, though. I totally understand wanting to save the cash by having them go where…

They are incredibly expensive...but my college was just as bad. Less than in-state tuition with scholarships, though. I didn’t end up going to them, but one LAC offered even more assistance than the school I chose. It’s a good point that you’re making in general, though. There were also SUNYs that I was considering…

Good for you and your son! We also gave our students the option to distance learn, but only a handful took us up on it. It’s very frustrating.

In our back to school meetings at the high school I teach for, we were called “the essential workers of our industry” and told to buckle up because we would all be pitching in and working harder than ever to bring the sweet little angels back on campus. High school teachers are not essential workers when a high school…

90% of on-campus parties were in frat houses because only those spaces made sense. I swear our dorms were designed by genius architect party deterrers. Mind you, I got a lot of free beer from frat houses, but I can’t say that I enjoyed any of it.

You made better time than us! That’s not too surprising. My high school was not strong, academically (it has like a C- grade so it’s not abysmal but it’s not good), but standardized testing in NY is very robust, so we were always doing these stupid practice tests and learning modules for the Regents Exams. I don’t…

Yeah, I agree, this absolutely sucks and she’s allowed to mourn. But resist guilt! Think about all the people who have been infected—including someone’s grandfather!!!—by weddings in the age of Covid. If there’s one thing I’ve learned on the internet, it’s that weddings aren’t for everyone and the people who don’t…

I agree, Blake Shelton makes me shudder.

I think the reason that the holocaust was covered so successfully in middle school (except for the hopeless students who couldn’t be made to pay attention) is that in Catholic school our teachers did not shy away from showing us horrendous images of the concentration camps, mass graves, etc. Even though we were…

It’s not that Greek Life affected me one way or another, it’s just that schools without on-campus Greek life—like Amherst, Bowdoin, Smith—would have been infinitely better fits. I had a good social life in college, but I don’t keep up with my college friends and have no school pride. I don’t entirely regret it,…

I always wondered about that!