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Check Ins, Reassurances, and Concerns, 9/23 Posted by Heebie-Geebieon 09.23.20 (This is intended to be our system for checking in on imaginary friends, so that we know whether or not to be concerned if you go offline for a while.)Clearly I cannot keep this simple thing together. Maybe I'll just aim to keep one on the front page at all times.Episode 47. Fretting a LOT Posted by Heebie-Geebieon 09.22.20 You guys, I am torn up about this decision, and anyone who wants to do a deep dive is invited to do so. The school district goes F2F in October, and we have to decide whether to send the Giblets in or keep them home. A bunch of considerations in no particular order: read more »1. The poor teachers are being asked to jointly teach remote students and their live students. How tf this is supposed to work is beyond me, and I am so sorry for them. Nevertheless, this means the Giblets will be the kids sadly watching all their friends on a screen. That seems awful.2. This current month of remote school is really hard. We have a caretaker who is absolutely a godsend for three hours a day, but it's still pretty hard.3. We could probably increase her hours. But at a certain point the kids would be overly familiar with her and could really unleash behavior issues on her.4. Jammies will be at the high school from 7:30-5 pm, instead of his current 7:30-12, and then working at home thereafter. So even with more hours of a caretaker/tutor, it's a lot on me while I'm trying to get my blogging own job done.5. Hawaii is taking dance at middle school. So she'd have a class where they're exercising indoors. Everyone would have PE, but somehow I'm hopeful that PE would be outside. Maybe. But there are also teachers who aren't taking this very seriously, so it's entirely possible a gym teacher would say that they should just run around indoors on a rainy day. 6. If we just pulled them out altogether and tried to find a public online school or homeschool, they'd lose the Spanish dual language aspect.All options are just terrible. I am going in circles here.The only mitigating factor is that the next chance to change our minds is in November, at the end of the first 9 weeks. So this first decision is only binding for a month.I hoped writing all this out would make it clear to me, but nope. « hide more This goddamned issue again. Posted by Heebie-Geebieon 09.22.20 Before RBG died, Kevin Drum has posted this thing on the salience of abortion as an issue in the election, and it had really gotten under my skin. I had a post semi-pre-written about it, but now of course it's totally moot, because it's not a sleeper issue anymore - it's now prime stage.When it was a sidelined issue, my post went something like this: That article describes wealthy, white suburban Trump voters who use abortion to justify their vote. For them to vote for Trump based on abortion is just the laziest, thinnest of pretexts. The half that believe themselves when they say it are no better than the half that knows it's bullshit.Anyway, now no one is trotting it out of their own accord - it's now going to be discussed left, right, and center. In the middle of massive unemployment, the complete and utter failure of the government to respond with a desperately-needed stimulus package, a fucking pandemic, mass protests against police brutality and threats of martial law, and on and on, the fucking path to re-election for Mr. Drool-Feces is abortion. I'm just sputtering with anger.It's just such a fake issue. If I have a good faith conversation with someone who is anti-abortion, we can find lots of common ground in how to reduce teen pregnancies, give people access to birth control, and so on. But those are all off the table for the national conversation about abortion, because it's about the tiny jellybean on the billboard with the heartbeat, and punishing those dirty-but-titillating-women for their deliciously slutty ways. It's just a fucking game to the men pushing this agenda. Cheaters. Posted by Heebie-Geebieon 09.21.20 Bah. As a society, we've set up a structure where grades are super important and cheating is super easy. Some kinds of cheating are easy to catch, others are impossible to catch, and then we are incredibly offended and horrified when it happens (sort of). Then along comes remote teaching, and preventing cheating is a fool's game. My basic strategy is to make the class so interactive that just by being polite, you are forced into getting a certain amount of the material, and then hopefully from there, you are willing to stretch yourself to complete the homeworks and tests with some degree of honesty. (Also I write a lot of my own worksheets, quizzes, and tests to be un-google-able where possible.)The point is that I have zero interest in policing them against cheating, and I am not planning on descending down the rabbit-hole of making them turn on their cameras during tests, using anti-cheating software, or any of the rest of the panopticon. (And yet, I'm super irritated that a bunch of my students clearly cheated on a quiz question last week that was totally within their reach. There has never been a Calculus 1 student in the history of time who has had to simplify (6-x)2-16 and has thought "ah! This is a clever opportunity for difference of squares!" and came up with ((6-x)-4)((6-x)+4) as the obvious next step, let alone multiple such students in my class this semester.)Motivation is a real problem when you are forcing someone to take a class that they're not very enthusiastic about. Right now, high-stakes grades are supposed to drive motivation, but clearly there are plenty of perverse consequences of the "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" kind. One possibility is that we never force students to take classes that they're not enthusiastic about. But I am not in favor of that. I do not have a good scale-able solution for the lack of motivation and the cheating seductiveness that we've set up for completing coursework. Kudoboard for the family Posted by Heebie-Geebieon 09.20.20 Sarah, a old friend of Jesus's, (but not Jesus's Grace) asked if I could share this link with you all, a Kudoboard for sharing memories and photos of Jesus McQueen. This is more of an immediate source of comfort, as opposed to the book, which is a longer and more involved labor of love. Sarah writes, "I know the girls would love to learn about his reach and hear reflections from his friends. And. He loved y'all so."

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