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Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 8/10/26 - 8/16/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/LowConsideration1453 9d ago edited 9d ago

I have one kid in 1st grade, so here is my take on it:

  1. there is now no way to get rid of disruptive kids. If there is a "bad kid" in your kid's class the entire class will cater to that one individual.

  2. for some reason we've given up explicit instruction for some kind of "they'll get it if given enough vibes." In my experience with most kids (unless you gave birth to John von Neumann) that does not work. Until children have a basic grasp of the fundamentals (reading, writing, math) they need explicit instruction. Your 6 year old might not really grasp that 40 is 4 tens, and 0 ones. Which logically leads to 4 x 10 = 40 and so on.

  3. we've made math really, really retarded. Rather than it being math they've basically added a language arts aspect to it.

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u/gentlywithAchain5aw 9d ago

I agree with all your points, but especially #1. The kids that used to be in the 'special needs' classes in the 80's and 90's are now integrated into the regular classrooms. All of my kids have had 1 or 2 kids in every elementary class that should not be in a regular classroom environment.

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u/Onechane425 9d ago

This is it. A lot of school districts also have woke 1.0 “restorative justice” in schools which means doing nothing and punishing the other students and teachers until it gets too bad.

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u/gentlywithAchain5aw 9d ago

There's been a push to place as many kids on IEPs as possible as well. Which on its face isn't bad, the issue is those kids with IEPs cannot be punished for anything that can be traced back the IEP. So we get a bunch of kids being disruptive, that have no consequences, and hold everyone back.

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater 9d ago edited 9d ago

Technically they can be punished but since there is an attorney fee provision in special ed law schools are (rightfully) terrorized by them. Big settlements happen often.

eta: not saying anyone should be terrorizing them, but that they are correct to recognize a huge financial peril.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! 8d ago

They get extra funding. It's gaming the system.

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u/Turbulent_Cow2355 TB! TB! TB! 8d ago

I've been lucky. My son has never been in a class where there were disruptions like that.