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Postby Kannap » Fri May 24, 2019 2:46 pm

Barely survived this week.
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Infected Mushroom
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Fri May 24, 2019 8:09 pm

Asherahan wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:What did the original teacher DO with these students????

So magically well behaved.

For once in my cover teaching I didn’t have to play my harder cards. I am very touched.

It’s a nice change from the typical, borderline revolutionary classrooms

... what did the original instructor do????

Whipped it out and silenced them into submission with a show of dominance?


Who knows

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Postby Trollgaard » Fri May 24, 2019 9:39 pm

I was covered in ticks and mosquito bites today. Gross. Just found one on my side and one on my leg. Must have missed them when I shook the 5 others off at work. Bleh.

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Asherahan
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Postby Asherahan » Fri May 24, 2019 11:41 pm

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Asherahan wrote:Whipped it out and silenced them into submission with a show of dominance?


Who knows

And so we shall never know.
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Postby Idzequitch » Sat May 25, 2019 12:50 am

Kannap wrote:Barely survived this week.

I feel exactly the same. Except my week isn't even over yet, so my survival is still in question.
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Postby Heloin » Sat May 25, 2019 1:29 am

I really should stop falling asleep watching youtube. I wake up and open my eyes to the blinding light of Heroes & Halfwits. But I still have like four hours till work starts.

Idzequitch wrote:
Kannap wrote:Barely survived this week.

I feel exactly the same. Except my week isn't even over yet, so my survival is still in question.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

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Postby Asherahan » Sat May 25, 2019 1:40 am

Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?
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Postby Idzequitch » Sat May 25, 2019 2:04 am

Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

I like squid and octopus. I'm not sure I've had thst exact combination.
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Postby Asherahan » Sat May 25, 2019 2:17 am

Idzequitch wrote:
Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

I like squid and octopus. I'm not sure I've had thst exact combination.

I am not saying you should eat them both at the same time.

Also that is how we cook our squid and octopus most of the time.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat May 25, 2019 3:13 am

Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf
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Postby Asherahan » Sat May 25, 2019 3:15 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.
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Dumb Ideologies
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Mother Knows Best State

Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 25, 2019 3:24 am

Asherahan wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.


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Infected Mushroom
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat May 25, 2019 3:34 am

Asherahan wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.


I don't want to incur any liability

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sat May 25, 2019 3:41 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Asherahan wrote:Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.


I don't want to incur any liability


Then make sure that none survive to tell the tale.

:unsure:
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 25, 2019 3:51 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
I don't want to incur any liability


Then make sure that none survive to tell the tale.

:unsure:


and then dynamite the mountain to bury yourself so you can't blab.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat May 25, 2019 3:52 am

The blAAtschApen wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
I don't want to incur any liability


Then make sure that none survive to tell the tale.

:unsure:


its against the rules to take the students out of the centre during the 1.5-2 hour lessons

Furthermore, the security is very extensive (there are CCTVs "for everyone's protection" everywhere) and a number of guards are at the only exits on high alert

If an entire class were to disappear under the watch of any single teacher, it would probably cost the job

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat May 25, 2019 3:57 am

Most of the teaching centres run by my organization are very brightly coloured, Happy Land looking places inside malls

however, the one center I visited today (where they uniquely used the crayons) was strikingly different. It was surrounded by walls and there was a security gate with a code required. From the outside it looked like an actual prison.

The administrative staff was also located several flights of stairs above the teaching rooms (which is odd because kids would have to climb all those stairs too with their parents on a fairly regular basis)

The most notable incident is that while I was teaching one kid started a revolution by drawing all over the exercise books. I was trying to be friendly and encourage him to do his work (it was still relatively under control because he's the only rebelling and everyone else is still working). I was not sure I needed to escalate to the Threats phase so I stuck with calmly talking.

But then the Head Teacher just walked in from absolutely nowhere (did he look at CCTVs... WHAT????). He gave the kid a very firm scolding and then dragged him out of the classroom. The kid did not re-appear until 15 minute to the end of lesson and he was crying (that's a LONG LONG time).

I was really confused (I checked with the staff and apparently he was seated with the head teacher and the administrative staff for over an hour, they have WAY TOO MUCH TIME).

During the whole lesson little girls would ask: "Where's Howard?"

I would say: "I... I really don't know"

When the kid came back he was behind on the colouring activities. The rest of the class, all the little kids, surrounded him and helped him with his colouring so he could catch up (all on their own). They didn't want poor Howard to be left behind.

I told them there was no need to finish the exercise for this class because there would be more time to do crafts when the real teacher came back.
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Postby Chan Island » Sat May 25, 2019 4:22 am

Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?


Octopus is about the one only creature I can't get myself to eat. They are obviously very smart and I kind of feel bad eating them.
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=513597&p=39401766#p39401766
Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sat May 25, 2019 4:25 am

Chan Island wrote:
Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?


Octopus is about the one only creature I can't get myself to eat. They are obviously very smart and I kind of feel bad eating them.


when I went to Osaka I tried the fried octopus balls

Takoyaki (たこ焼き or 蛸焼) is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special molded pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus (tako), tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, and green onion.


It was absolutely DELICIOUS

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Postby Chan Island » Sat May 25, 2019 4:35 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Chan Island wrote:
Octopus is about the one only creature I can't get myself to eat. They are obviously very smart and I kind of feel bad eating them.


when I went to Osaka I tried the fried octopus balls

Takoyaki (たこ焼き or 蛸焼) is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special molded pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus (tako), tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, and green onion.


It was absolutely DELICIOUS


I know octopus is delicious, and I'm otherwise not a vegetarian by any means but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaGhg-o678
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Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.

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Postby Esternial » Sat May 25, 2019 5:39 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:If an entire class were to disappear under the watch of any single teacher, it would probably cost the job

You're not wrong but if an entire class vanishes you'll have other stuff to worry about than your job.
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Sat May 25, 2019 5:46 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
Asherahan wrote:Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.


I don't want to incur any liability

Blame it on aliens. Or the government.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 25, 2019 5:50 am

Esternial wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:If an entire class were to disappear under the watch of any single teacher, it would probably cost the job

You're not wrong but if an entire class vanishes you'll have other stuff to worry about than your job.


Hide in the playground tube maze until your wanted level goes back to zero. Easy peasy.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat May 25, 2019 5:51 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:
I don't want to incur any liability

Blame it on aliens. Or the government.


Gay alien government froggies.
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Postby Internationalist Bastard » Sat May 25, 2019 5:54 am

I’m going to start posting funny headlines I find every now and then
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