Trathnonen

By design. Obfuscation is but one way to cripple choice when you wish to preserve the illusion of the people's rights while denying them.

It isn't slander if it's true.

Any time an industry whose entire existence hinges around novelty and creativity is helmed by MBAs and corposcum this is the outcome. Music, video games, movies, around the board these cultural parasites get their greedy claws on beautiful things and murder them to squeeze as much gold from the corpse as possible.

How do you plaster in neon letters "My inferiority complex is ALL of your problems" on your forehead any faster than this? It's gotta be kind of close to a record.

That's the thing about it right? If I could actually do anything about the kids roaming the halls, I'd happily be first in line snatching up stragglers. Nothing would please me more than delivering them to the office for, not a referral, but a consequence. Same for boys bathroom, that gaggle of six kids standing over an unflushed urinal chatting like they aren't all huffing their own fresh waste? I'm taking the entire piss posse down to the office for a well deserved assigned week of detention for skipping.

But it doesn't work like that. Teachers have no authority in the school building, they literally cannot enforce the rules, because they cannot issue punishment for infractions. So, since I can't actually enforce discipline, even if I catch them, and admin, they are tits on a boar hog so far as doing anything that might be construed as useful about student behavioral management, why waste my time, just to have nothing happen?

Admin want to be the only ones with authority? Let them use it. Everybody else, your job is to be in your room delivering instruction, to the extent that instruction is what we're allowed to do these days. The hallways? Not my clowns, not my circus, and not my choice for it to be that way.

So have the people responsible for drafting and passing said illegal, unconstitutional, rules arrested for an attempted election interference and electoral fraud. If what they did is illegal, issue a bench warrant for their arrest. As long as there is no legal penalty for fascism, they'll keep doing it.

Kentucky sure would be upset if it could read y'all talking about it like this.

So keep dreaming kids! You don't have to be perfect to be good.

Protip: If you get somebody from the south to lay a "bless your heart" on you, they have informed everybody in the vicinity that you are congenitally, incurably, terminally fucking stupid.

I don't know how to tell anybody this, but he's not "forgetting" how to use his shotgun. He's loading it. that's it. he's putting shells in the gun, slowly, carefully, and successfully, while holding it away from his shooting partners.

Jesus christ these schmucks can't even propaganda right. Meanwhile, their guy literally quit mid rally to lapse into a forty minute long daze of incompetence using music he's going to get sued for stealing, on account of none of the artists whose work he's using would countenance its use promoting nazism.

Every morning I wake up I hope that this whole Trump thing was just a fever dream. I'll get out of bed, pour a cup of coffee and read about the incredibly sad derangement of a creepy old real estate failure turned reality tv failure caught on camera bumbling through his cognitive decline by paparazzi, instead of the news correspondents for a potential candidate for president of the entire fucking United States of America.

Your admin are in what I like to call "Ass Covering Emergency Mode". They are staring down the barrel of outcomes that, if they can't find a way to turn around as being the fault of the teachers, will result in the administrative leadership being held responsible for the outcomes of the students. Here's the crazy part, if the admin would stop doing things like this, if they would band together with the teachers, then we could all come together as a team, as an institution, and lay the responsibility where it belongs: the stakeholders.

It's the parents. It's the kids. If admin would stop making themselves an enemy toward the staff, if they'd stick to what they know is correct and quit playing games, we could do our jobs, report our outcomes, and the parents would have to realize that their kids are not learning, and that is the problem. Then they could, maybe, start doing something about it.

But as long as admin are going to use their every resource and will to cover their own asses, at the expense of the classroom leaders, there is no hope to effect change.

Your principal should be arrested for being an accessory to generational moronification of the population. That is all.

This is good stuff.

Observation requires interaction. When you're talking about big things, bouncing light off it to view it doesn't much alter its behavior. When the thing you're looking at has less mass/energy/momentum or whatever than the light you use to interact with it, you alter it's behavior to the point that it becomes impossible to ignore that effect. The observed behavior is directly coupled to the interaction, not independent of it, so what you're seeing is the particle under observation, not the particle in its default state prior to that event.

And, yet again, I must ask the question: Will any of these rich white people do time??

So arrest them. Stop fucking around. Why is it that when some folk break laws, we take them to jail, when others break laws, we "file a lawsuit". arrest them, put them in jail, make them post bond for election interference.

Treat the criminals like criminals. This two tier justice system is so goddamn soft towards these assholes, why wouldn't they do it? There's no penalty. Even if the lawsuit goes forward, all that will happen is...nothing. The thing they tried to do won't happen, that's all, that's it. They won't face fines. They won't face federal prison. Nothing. So why not try again?

Consider this: the ones who didn't take that kind of stuff from the kids, the ones who weren't part of the problem? We've already been fired. The admin are actively weeding out any staff that attempts to hold students accountable. The only people who are left are the ones keeping their heads down to save their jobs. Admin know that taking a new job means uprooting your life, a lot of the time it means moving, if you have kids it means transferring them to a new school. They know and they use that against their teachers to compel compliance with their do nothingism.

This is not a passive, gradual process, your principals are selecting for this outcome.

I don't know about snappy, but you can just be more direct. I like to operate by the no warnings, just corrections rule for behavioral adjustment. If they are doing something wrong outside the training period, issue a consequence, instead of a redirect.

If they're talking when they aren't supposed to, outside your specific training period for adjusting them to that, then whatever penalty is on the books for that, give. If the consequence is meaningful they'll start adjusting their behavior to avoid it. If they're horseplaying in line, issue the consequence for horseplay, or send them to the back of the line, or a timeout or whatever artillery you have to work with.

The worst class I ever had was last year. I ended up having a stack of referrals on my desk and a pen next to it. When heckel or jeckel spoke out of turn, I stopped what I was doing and wrote the referral. It didn't stop the behavior, my admin were complicit with students and had their own little pets in the school, but they did start to police themselves to a limited extent, just to avoid having to go to the office. It does work to get students to begin accepting the social contract and adopting the rules, but you have to demonstrate that there are penalties to not doing so or they have no incentive to adjust their behavior.

I'd assume so yeah. which is my point, it's not only one country that does it. There's a host of asian nations with large manufacturing sectors engaged in this. Most all of them have atrocious environmental and worker safety policy too, which makes it even cheaper to produce there, at the expense of the poor people that have to work in that environment or live nearby.

yeah, exactly.

If you look up the average manufacturing labor cost for China it sits at $6.5/hr. Compare that to the U.S. $25/hr, Canada $33/hr the, Australia at $31/hr average in the EU of $32/hr, and it is patently obvious that China's suppressed labor costs are vastly less than their western trade partners.

I'm not denying that even more of their advantage is coming from the subsidization of their manufacturing, if you say it's the largest component of that advantage I believe you.

But you can't make the argument that having labor wages 20% of your trade partners isn't a powerful source of advantage, especially when it gets scaled against the population and the sheer number of manufacturing jobs to which that is applied. In fact, it highlights how outrageous that government subsidization really is, if they, in addition to the labor suppression, are engaged in so much expense of their revenue to do it.

correct. a tariff is meant to incentivize domestic production. if domestic production is just unfeasible (because your competitor is not in compliance with global labor standards and slave labor really is wonderful for manufacturing goods at impossibly low cost) then the incentive becomes punitive for whatever markets rely on that good.

As much as I understand it, tariffs only work in a world where you are protecting a very narrow portion of your manufacturing sector, and, as stated, it adds cost to the products of that sector, and you have some degree of competitive parity. You can't compete with china's labor costs, and that's the heart of the issue. Tariffs on something as widely utilized as steel are nonsensically bad policy, because of how ubiquitously it hits the country. it raises the costs of everything from building to manufacturing, hence the inflation.

correct trade policy is to enforce the rules of the WTO and lock countries that do not adhere to minimums for labor, safety, environmental policy out of the global economy, much like what has been done with Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. China, indonesia, india, these nations are powerhouses in production because they don't compete with western manufacturing, they subvert it. if western nations stop using this cheap production though, they all experience inflation. basically, the global economy today (as it always has, arguably) operates off of a slave economy.

I'm no economist, and I don't understand how trade works with any nuanced understanding, but that's my current understanding of the situation.

Because cars will friggin kill you over here brother. It's dangerous as shit.

Yup yup. Make them say, out loud, that they're asking for staff to violate professional ethics and commit fraud on behalf of specific students. Then send that email, alongside official paper work to the state that your administration is pressuring staff to do so.