@moira @futurebird @geoffduncan Refusing to admit Boston as part of New England does seem pretty extreme!
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A middle school student just tried to tell me “guns and roses” was “country music” -
A middle school student just tried to tell me “guns and roses” was “country music”@moira @futurebird @geoffduncan Lake George, maybe?
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I've been looking at polls and become very interested in a particular combination of views:@futurebird As Peter the other day and Sarah Taber were saying, some of these seem to be people with a conservative background, brought up around many guns and with this very straight-and-narrow, brittle worldview in which any deviation from the path means you've fallen into ruin; but then they develop one nominally "left-wing" or "liberal" opinion that causes that whole worldview to crack. And they can only lash out violently.
The right's response to this, of course, is, well, see, having even one liberal opinion makes you a crazed murderer! Better crack down even harder on dissent, make that worldview even more rigid and brittle. And get more guns just in case.
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I've been teaching for a long time and I'm pretty good at it, not to brag or anything.@futurebird
'What I have not seen in nearly two decades is any change at all in "how the children are"''Is this concerning autism/learning disability specifically, or more general?
Decades of experience with writing about the crisis of today's youth have made me automatically skeptical of "something is horribly wrong with the children!" articles, but it sure seems like I've seen a lot of them in the past several years, especially concerning the consequences of the COVID pandemic and all the responses to it. Sometimes, they're wildly dissonant with my experience of my college-age daughter, who lived through it all, but of course all that can be (and is) dismissed as anecdotal.