It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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You can start by making out with Kimberly Guilfoyle, if you don't mind the taste of Don Jr. on her.
That's my biggest issue. Our high school has over 1,800 students. They've discussed splitting into pods and each student only on campus two days a week.duff wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:53 am My 14 year old made a good point. If they had them stop going to school when there were no cases in the county (only confirmed cases at the time were in Marion (Indy) and some surrounding counties. Now they want to open schools when there are more confirmed cases and with the stupidity of most people it keeps spreading (faster than it previously had).
My wife is a teacher and she is none too happy with the idea of having everything done in the classroom. No breaks what so ever from the students. It is unfathomable. And as far as the older kids, I have no idea how they are going to do with passing periods. Let alone schools with over 800 students. There is just no way that students will be able to keep social distancing.
Every day it gets easier to get the pronouns right. Let me know if I can offer you any support.A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:06 amThat's my biggest issue. Our high school has over 1,800 students. They've discussed splitting into pods and each student only on campus two days a week.duff wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:53 am My 14 year old made a good point. If they had them stop going to school when there were no cases in the county (only confirmed cases at the time were in Marion (Indy) and some surrounding counties. Now they want to open schools when there are more confirmed cases and with the stupidity of most people it keeps spreading (faster than it previously had).
My wife is a teacher and she is none too happy with the idea of having everything done in the classroom. No breaks what so ever from the students. It is unfathomable. And as far as the older kids, I have no idea how they are going to do with passing periods. Let alone schools with over 800 students. There is just no way that students will be able to keep social distancing.
But here's another thing that is unusual for us. My youngest actually prefers to go back to in class. Hasn't seen his friends in months because he is so vigilant about distancing but is now just craving human interaction I think. Plus he didn't love virtual learning. It was very difficult at times, although he did end up with strong grades this semester.
(And yes, this is a pronoun change for those that know the family situation in the AB household. I'm not always good about it, but I'm trying.)
I didn't realize the change until you pointed it out. Way to go man. Same here if we can help with anything at all.tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:43 amEvery day it gets easier to get the pronouns right. Let me know if I can offer you any support.A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:06 amThat's my biggest issue. Our high school has over 1,800 students. They've discussed splitting into pods and each student only on campus two days a week.duff wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:53 am My 14 year old made a good point. If they had them stop going to school when there were no cases in the county (only confirmed cases at the time were in Marion (Indy) and some surrounding counties. Now they want to open schools when there are more confirmed cases and with the stupidity of most people it keeps spreading (faster than it previously had).
My wife is a teacher and she is none too happy with the idea of having everything done in the classroom. No breaks what so ever from the students. It is unfathomable. And as far as the older kids, I have no idea how they are going to do with passing periods. Let alone schools with over 800 students. There is just no way that students will be able to keep social distancing.
But here's another thing that is unusual for us. My youngest actually prefers to go back to in class. Hasn't seen his friends in months because he is so vigilant about distancing but is now just craving human interaction I think. Plus he didn't love virtual learning. It was very difficult at times, although he did end up with strong grades this semester.
(And yes, this is a pronoun change for those that know the family situation in the AB household. I'm not always good about it, but I'm trying.)
This is terrifying to me to be honest. I really don't know the way forward here for education. You're exactly right. How do you social distance on a bus/in a classroom? Even if the young aren't especially susceptible, they'll carry it home to those who are. And the staff...teachers/custodians/maintenance/admin...duff wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:53 am My 14 year old made a good point. If they had them stop going to school when there were no cases in the county (only confirmed cases at the time were in Marion (Indy) and some surrounding counties. Now they want to open schools when there are more confirmed cases and with the stupidity of most people it keeps spreading (faster than it previously had).
My wife is a teacher and she is none too happy with the idea of having everything done in the classroom. No breaks what so ever from the students. It is unfathomable. And as far as the older kids, I have no idea how they are going to do with passing periods. Let alone schools with over 800 students. There is just no way that students will be able to keep social distancing.
Ha (/Sha)tennbengal wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:43 amEvery day it gets easier to get the pronouns right. Let me know if I can offer you any support.A_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:06 amThat's my biggest issue. Our high school has over 1,800 students. They've discussed splitting into pods and each student only on campus two days a week.duff wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:53 am My 14 year old made a good point. If they had them stop going to school when there were no cases in the county (only confirmed cases at the time were in Marion (Indy) and some surrounding counties. Now they want to open schools when there are more confirmed cases and with the stupidity of most people it keeps spreading (faster than it previously had).
My wife is a teacher and she is none too happy with the idea of having everything done in the classroom. No breaks what so ever from the students. It is unfathomable. And as far as the older kids, I have no idea how they are going to do with passing periods. Let alone schools with over 800 students. There is just no way that students will be able to keep social distancing.
But here's another thing that is unusual for us. My youngest actually prefers to go back to in class. Hasn't seen his friends in months because he is so vigilant about distancing but is now just craving human interaction I think. Plus he didn't love virtual learning. It was very difficult at times, although he did end up with strong grades this semester.
(And yes, this is a pronoun change for those that know the family situation in the AB household. I'm not always good about it, but I'm trying.)
It's a big part of it, yes. And thanks, guys, didn't mean to threadjack at all, but it was actually related.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 3:47 pmThis bolded part is like 95 percent of the game, no?
Kids today are a hell of a lot more understanding than in our day. I had a talk with my son to gauge the tolerance at his middle school. I asked him if anyone he knows has come out as gay. He said nobody that he knows personally, but he knows of two boys that came out. I asked how people treated them or reacted, and he looked at me like I was crazy and said, "why would anyone care?" I started to explain what it was like when the one kid in my HS came out, and my son was shocked. He was also shocked that gay marriage was illegal in his lifetime. He said he assumed gay marriage was legal for at least 30 years. Acceptance has really turned the corner, so I hope your son doesn't face too much hardship at school. I would think having your support is the biggest hurdle, so he is super lucky there.
This popped across my news feed this weekThe Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 8:31 amKids today are a hell of a lot more understanding than in our day. I had a talk with my son to gauge the tolerance at his middle school. I asked him if anyone he knows has come out as gay. He said nobody that he knows personally, but he knows of two boys that came out. I asked how people treated them or reacted, and he looked at me like I was crazy and said, "why would anyone care?" I started to explain what it was like when the one kid in my HS came out, and my son was shocked. He was also shocked that gay marriage was illegal in his lifetime. He said he assumed gay marriage was legal for at least 30 years. Acceptance has really turned the corner, so I hope your son doesn't face too much hardship at school. I would think having your support is the biggest hurdle, so he is super lucky there.
I don't know how it came up, but I had an interesting conversation with my mother a few days ago about how she didn't even realize homosexuality was a thing until she was in college. I think we were talking about the Stonewall Riots. Anyways, she grew up in Brooklyn and her mother was the ultimate super-Progressive 50 years ahead of her time, so she was by no means sheltered. She said her neighbor was a walking gay stereotype and lived with a male companion, but she never had a clue until she was an adult and suddenly realized. She said she had a female friend who was infatuated with their female gym teacher and obsessed over her. She learned her friend was gay when they were adults, and it suddenly made sense. Coming from a time when people didn't even know being gay was a real thing, I can understand confusion, fear and a failure to understand. I feel like we are in a similar place with gender transitioning, but our generation made the shift towards accepting homosexuality, so I'm hopeful we can accept and embrace gender transitioning much faster and better than society accepted homosexuality. I don't mean to equate the two, as I get they are different, but I think the societal shift towards normalizing and accepting homosexuality will make the process of normalizing and accepting gender transitions a much faster process.
*By accepting, I mean the majority of people, there will always be closed minded assholes and Bible Thumpers refusing to accept what they don't understand (or what they are and can't accept in themselves).
Followed by International students cannot stay in the US if classes are all online. Harvard might have to reconsider.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:11 am Harvard is going all online for 2020-2021.
I'm not linking to a clown's tweet announcing it.
They have enough of an endowment that they should be telling ICE to fuck off and leave the students alone. There's enough in legislature on both sides that would be on Harvard's side.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:21 pm Harvard has a massive endowment. They are able to weather a semester or two of lost tuition to do whatever the fuck they want.
Vast majority of other schools don't have that luxury.
Great article. My biggest takeaway is that the kid can write! I can't imagine what he went through with his mother completely ignoring his coming out, it's just heartbreaking.wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:09 am
This popped across my news feed this week
https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/fuel/us-l ... sse-player
And...a lawsuit filed by Harvard and MIT to fight ICE's plans.A_B wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:25 pmThey have enough of an endowment that they should be telling ICE to fuck off and leave the students alone. There's enough in legislature on both sides that would be on Harvard's side.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:21 pm Harvard has a massive endowment. They are able to weather a semester or two of lost tuition to do whatever the fuck they want.
Vast majority of other schools don't have that luxury.
(Aside: Oldest is sitting on Harvard's campus as we speak first day of that internship)
Yeah the district here did that. My responses were all on the “keep them home” end of the choices.DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:11 am My wife and I got to fill out a fairly long poll about our feelings about the kids returning to school next year. Questions ranged from what to do with extracurricular activities, in-school vs virtual lessons, going to school on certain days or times with reduced numbers in class (half-days sounds like an absolute disaster), riding the bus with masks or social distancing with reduced number of passengers (lots of parents took their kids to/from school prior to the pandemic), and so on.
and...If your working hours are reduced in any way, including if you hold several jobs and you’re laid off from one, you may qualify for partial unemployment, says Michele Evermore, senior policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project.
Eligibility will vary by state, and your benefit amount will be based on the amount of work you lose as well as the earnings you’re still bringing in each week. Workers earning partial unemployment are also eligible to receive the weekly $600 federal benefit laid out in the coronavirus relief bill.
A quick re-scan of your fact pattern says he is likely fine - sounds like he is only collecting a percentage of unemployment for alleged loss of the ride share gig which still unlocks the weekly benefit. (MAYBE NOT - SEE MY NEXT POST ON NEXT PAGE) As to whether the loss of the ride share gig is legit, or how much you have to have been relying on the rideshare gig to qualify for unemployment in the first place, I do not know.Failure to report income is classified as unemployment insurance fraud. Consequences vary by state and can include having to pay back benefits plus interest, penalty fees, ineligibility for future benefits and criminal prosecution.