pelicanpride

Attendance has and always will be gimme points. No issues with getting rid of that. My son’s middle school counts homework as 50% of their math grade. WTH is that? So I can give him the answers on his homework or he can use AI to get the answers, and that counts as HALF? I honestly don’t have any issue with them getting rid of the homework grades. With AI, the only way to really test knowledge moving forward is going to be with paper and pencil exams. I don’t have any issue with what OP wrote except changing the grading scale. I also think they should be testing the kids at least every 2 to 3 weeks, so they can know if they’re falling behind. Otherwise there’s no incentive to keep up. No idea why they made it about equity. The kids aren’t learning the way they used to because cheating is ubiquitous.. The only way to see what they know is to put them in a room and hand them a test.

A lot of entry level white color work is easily replaceable today with AI. My first job was in consulting, and probably 15-20% of my job was reading and summarizing depositions for my boss. I used to think of it as “mindless work,” but someone had to do it, and as a fresh grad, I was the obvious choice. AI could do that work today. If you think that all entry level white collar positions have 15-20% “mindless work,” then new hires in that space will shrink 15-20%. With that said, I do think new roles will be created that we can even anticipate right now.

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Wish I had known when I was in school that so many hot teachers have a fetish for teenagers.

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I had no idea either. I’m a woman, and I can confidently say that there isn’t a 16 year old boy on planet earth who I would find attractive. It’s just not how most women are wired. I think it has to be more about the woman’s need for validation rather than actual attraction to these kids.

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Just play on the grass.

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We have pretty thick St Augustine. It would take a while to wear down, especially with a 5 and 10 year old on it. I always loved dribbling. Not sure I ever would have gotten into basketball if I’d been forced to play on grass.

I want to create a place for my 10
and 5 year old to shoot basketball at home. Our driveway is too steep. We have space in the back yard, but I really don’t want to pour cement since I don’t know how much they will use it. My 5 year old dribbles inside all the time. Is there something other than concrete that could be more easily put down and taken back up later? I don’t care if the grass dies.

I tell my sons not to get in fights, but if they do, go fight in the grass away from any large tree roots. Probably not your typical mom advice, but I’ve lived long enough to see that it ain’t the fight that kills you or sends you to jail. It’s the pavement.

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Also, who TF brings a knife to a track meet.

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Someone who knows he’s not quite ready for a gun fight.

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Still, statistically almost a 0% percent chance a male can get it from a female

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This is true from a single sexual encounter. If you are having lots of unprotected sex with a revolving door of women, it’s absolutely possible. Still, very different from what we were taught in the 90s. I used to think if you had unprotected sex a single time with someone who had HIV, you would 100% get HIV. That’s not at all the case. It’s a very fragile virus.

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I had similar experiences going through my parents divorce.

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I can say from my experience coaching a ton of kids that it’s not super unusual. For one kid, it did get considerably better as the years passed, and he no longer misses games or practices. Hopefully stuff improved for you with time.

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You're kind of making my point for me here. If you didn't find him attractive, you probably wouldn’t have went.

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My point is that he ASKED, so I had an opportunity to say yes. If he had waited on me to make a first pass at him, we wouldn’t be married with 3 kids.