A group chat that teachers allegedly used to share illicit images of elementary school girls has reignited the question: Is Japan facing a systemic failure to protect children from predatory educators? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/crime-legal/teachers-students-sexual-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #schools #students #children #sexcrimes #mext #teachers #sexualharassment #childporn
Alex Akselrod
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STEM teachers, did you know that we have film-based lesson plans for STEM classes, too? Many of these lessons can work with showing just scenes of the film or without showing the film at all.
Check out:
Calculating Orbits for Space Travel - Hidden Figures
Chinese Number Rods - Please Vote For Me
Echolocation Class Activity - Whale Rider
Generating Electricity - The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
Goldilocks Planets - One Strange Rock
Rainforest Ecology - River of Gold
(These are just examples, there are many more!)
Like all of our resources, these lesson plans are available free from our library. If you have questions about our materials our would like help finding something for your classroom, we're happy to help.
https://journeysinfilm.org/library/
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“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for #students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school & summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20% of all students in after-school programs nationally.
The move is likely to be challenged in #court & has already been criticized [correctly characterized] as #illegal by #Democrats & #teachers’ #unions, who emphasized that the money had been appropriated by #Congress & was approved by #Trump in March as part of a broader #funding bill.
“This is lawless,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Amid heightened concerns over child safety in Japan, the government is expanding the scope of its planned background check system designed to protect children from sexual offenders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/crime-legal/japan-version-dbs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sexcrimes #teachers #schools #children #childabuse
2/. It just feels wrong for parents to receive a 400 word eulogy about their kid’s artistic talents, when it’s been pooped out by a LLm, based on 6-8 keyword prompts.
As parent I’d feel a bit cheated. TBH rather just have the 8 word prompt.
I know how super busy she is , and reports can be repetitious. But it saddens me to think we’ll end up exchanging ‘puffed out’ responses like this when art is so personal .
It doesn’t feel right.
What you you think, Mastodon?
#teachers