it is neither healthy nor humane to put kids through an already screwed up and draining education system five days a week and then turn around and put even more stress on them by making them do extra work out of school and punishing them if they don’t do it, despite the fact that it’s often inaccessible for some kids. like how do you make kids’ lives hell and then wonder why so many of them have anxiety and depression
There’s something perversely fascinating about educational policies that are clearly at odds with the available data. Huge schools are still being built even though we know that students tend to fare better in smaller places that lend themselves to the creation of democratic caring communities. Many children who are failed by the academic status quo are forced to repeat a grade even though research shows that this is just about the worst course of action for them. Homework continues to be assigned – in ever greater quantities – despite the absence of evidence that it’s necessary or even helpful in most cases… Supporters of homework rarely look at things from the student’s point of view, though; instead, kids are regarded as inert objects to be acted on: Make them practice and they’ll get better… Children cannot be made to acquire skills. They aren’t vending machines such that we put in more homework and get out more learning.
- Alfie Kohn, 2006, The Truth About Homework(Kohn is a researcher and educator focused on the ways we teach; in 2006 he released a controversial book called The Homework Myth compiling research for the argument that homework as it stands should be abolished.)
there needs to be an easier way to convey the idea of “it’s absolutely fine that you don’t like this thing I like, and I don’t even necessarily disagree with your reasons for disliking it, but I am sick to death of hearing your negative opinions about it.”
that one linkin park scene is midnight sun makes me want to scream because it’s literally such a corny dream teenage girl scenario. you listened to an album on repeat and your crush happens to love that album too and asks you what is your favourite song from it so you get the chance to say the song with the most intense lyrics as a way to express your intense feelings towards them without having to tell them anything intense and they have to wonder did you say this song on purpose? do you really think to yourself that “even when you’re not with me, i’m with you”? AAAAA
sunday is just i have to set my computer on fire i have to do laundry i have to find god i have to make tea i have to quit my job and start a new life in a different state i have to be more honest with the people around me i have to clean my room i have to cut my hair i have to be more deliberate with my hobbies and downtime i have to make a doctors appointment i have to go back to therapy i have to start dating i have to make more friends i have to go on a long drive i have to spend 4 hours disassociating in a target i have to paint my nails i have to tell my mother i love her. but instead i will simply sit.
the unparalleled comedy of bella waking up in the middle of the night, getting a glass of water, coming back to bed and not noticing edward crouched in the corner of her room trying not to be seen
all I want is to have a room that looks like I’m old biology professor whose been away from human civilization for half a century in the forest who spends my evenings reading old books researching about cryptids with my cat surrounded by my many treasures and trinkets I’ve collected over the years and my many, many growing plants that nearly take over all of my house.
