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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education#Texas#School#Law#Ethics#Students#Teaching
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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education#Texas#School#Law#Ethics#Students#Teaching
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@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
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The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Texas #Uvalde#SchoolShooting#School #Education#Safety#Students#Lawsuit
Labdoo.org (Germany)
@Labdoo_D@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

14 gespendete #Laptops haben die #Butimba#Primary#School in #Mwanza, #Tansania erreicht.
Aber es fehlen noch #Schulmöbel, um die Laptops darauf zu stellen. Aktuell lernen die Kinder noch auf dem Boden.
So hat sich Flugpate Gundolf spontan bereit erklärt, Tische und Stühle zu sponsern und vor Ort anfertigen zu lassen. So wird das lokale Handwerk gleich mit gefördert.
https://platform.labdoo.org/de/edoovillage?e=227878
#labdoo #tisch #stuhl #schule #teilhabe #digital#würzburg #handwerk

Collage mehrere Fotos, die alle aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln den gleichen Schulraum zeigen. Auf einem Foto halten die Kinder die noch in Luftpolsterfolie aus 100% recyceltem Plastik jubelnd hoch. Auf einem anderen Foto stehen die Laptops ausgepackt und aufgeklappt auf dem Boden, die Kinder knien davor. Auf einem weiteren Foto sieht man das Lehrerpult mit einer Schiefertafel dahinter. Am Pult sitzt der Lehrer mit einem Laptop vor ihm und Kinder stehen hinter ihm. Auf anderen Fotos geht der Lehrer von Gruppe zu Gruppe und erklärt etwas.
Collage mehrere Fotos, die alle aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln den gleichen Schulraum zeigen. Auf einem Foto halten die Kinder die noch in Luftpolsterfolie aus 100% recyceltem Plastik jubelnd hoch. Auf einem anderen Foto stehen die Laptops ausgepackt und aufgeklappt auf dem Boden, die Kinder knien davor. Auf einem weiteren Foto sieht man das Lehrerpult mit einer Schiefertafel dahinter. Am Pult sitzt der Lehrer mit einem Laptop vor ihm und Kinder stehen hinter ihm. Auf anderen Fotos geht der Lehrer von Gruppe zu Gruppe und erklärt etwas.
Collage mehrere Fotos, die alle aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln den gleichen Schulraum zeigen. Auf einem Foto halten die Kinder die noch in Luftpolsterfolie aus 100% recyceltem Plastik jubelnd hoch. Auf einem anderen Foto stehen die Laptops ausgepackt und aufgeklappt auf dem Boden, die Kinder knien davor. Auf einem weiteren Foto sieht man das Lehrerpult mit einer Schiefertafel dahinter. Am Pult sitzt der Lehrer mit einem Laptop vor ihm und Kinder stehen hinter ihm. Auf anderen Fotos geht der Lehrer von Gruppe zu Gruppe und erklärt etwas.
Labdoo.org (Germany)
@Labdoo_D@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

14 gespendete #Laptops haben die #Butimba#Primary#School in #Mwanza, #Tansania erreicht.
Aber es fehlen noch #Schulmöbel, um die Laptops darauf zu stellen. Aktuell lernen die Kinder noch auf dem Boden.
So hat sich Flugpate Gundolf spontan bereit erklärt, Tische und Stühle zu sponsern und vor Ort anfertigen zu lassen. So wird das lokale Handwerk gleich mit gefördert.
https://platform.labdoo.org/de/edoovillage?e=227878
#labdoo #tisch #stuhl #schule #teilhabe #digital#würzburg #handwerk

Collage mehrere Fotos, die alle aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln den gleichen Schulraum zeigen. Auf einem Foto halten die Kinder die noch in Luftpolsterfolie aus 100% recyceltem Plastik jubelnd hoch. Auf einem anderen Foto stehen die Laptops ausgepackt und aufgeklappt auf dem Boden, die Kinder knien davor. Auf einem weiteren Foto sieht man das Lehrerpult mit einer Schiefertafel dahinter. Am Pult sitzt der Lehrer mit einem Laptop vor ihm und Kinder stehen hinter ihm. Auf anderen Fotos geht der Lehrer von Gruppe zu Gruppe und erklärt etwas.
Collage mehrere Fotos, die alle aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln den gleichen Schulraum zeigen. Auf einem Foto halten die Kinder die noch in Luftpolsterfolie aus 100% recyceltem Plastik jubelnd hoch. Auf einem anderen Foto stehen die Laptops ausgepackt und aufgeklappt auf dem Boden, die Kinder knien davor. Auf einem weiteren Foto sieht man das Lehrerpult mit einer Schiefertafel dahinter. Am Pult sitzt der Lehrer mit einem Laptop vor ihm und Kinder stehen hinter ihm. Auf anderen Fotos geht der Lehrer von Gruppe zu Gruppe und erklärt etwas.
Collage mehrere Fotos, die alle aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln den gleichen Schulraum zeigen. Auf einem Foto halten die Kinder die noch in Luftpolsterfolie aus 100% recyceltem Plastik jubelnd hoch. Auf einem anderen Foto stehen die Laptops ausgepackt und aufgeklappt auf dem Boden, die Kinder knien davor. Auf einem weiteren Foto sieht man das Lehrerpult mit einer Schiefertafel dahinter. Am Pult sitzt der Lehrer mit einem Laptop vor ihm und Kinder stehen hinter ihm. Auf anderen Fotos geht der Lehrer von Gruppe zu Gruppe und erklärt etwas.
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-thirds of that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-rural-schools-funding-legislation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Alaska#School #Education#Student#Budget
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
Survivor O I believe we had summer vacation that year. August 6, 1945, was Monday. We used to sing an old song that said, “Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday.” And that was just how it was: it was even true for elementary school students. In the name of “student mobilization” we had to constantly work alongside and assist adults. Those in 3rd to 6th grades were helping with demolition. That meant we were helping to remove or disassemble wood from a building. The 2nd grade was helping the younger students go below during an air raid; the wooden buildings would be burned quickly. So everyone was in a group, and the 2nd grade was helping the others to go down to the building’s basement. (After the bombing) When I came up from the basement and out into the playground, the air was full of an odd smell and there should have been a blue sky, but there wasn’t. I saw the rising black smoke and soot from the blast hanging in the air, but I think quite a bit of time passed. The buildings on the west side of the school were completely gone. I couldn’t see anyone clearly, though there were shadows moving. Everyone seemed to be crawling, or leaping up. Toward the rear gate near the wooden school building were the bodies of what I think were [telecom company] service guards. I waved them off without flames. (The fire from the explosion) then picked up my untouched wet shoes. The people in the playground might have been burned up instantly. I don’t know.
Survivor O I believe we had summer vacation that year. August 6, 1945, was Monday. We used to sing an old song that said, “Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday.” And that was just how it was: it was even true for elementary school students. In the name of “student mobilization” we had to constantly work alongside and assist adults. Those in 3rd to 6th grades were helping with demolition. That meant we were helping to remove or disassemble wood from a building. The 2nd grade was helping the younger students go below during an air raid; the wooden buildings would be burned quickly. So everyone was in a group, and the 2nd grade was helping the others to go down to the building’s basement. (After the bombing) When I came up from the basement and out into the playground, the air was full of an odd smell and there should have been a blue sky, but there wasn’t. I saw the rising black smoke and soot from the blast hanging in the air, but I think quite a bit of time passed. The buildings on the west side of the school were completely gone. I couldn’t see anyone clearly, though there were shadows moving. Everyone seemed to be crawling, or leaping up. Toward the rear gate near the wooden school building were the bodies of what I think were [telecom company] service guards. I waved them off without flames. (The fire from the explosion) then picked up my untouched wet shoes. The people in the playground might have been burned up instantly. I don’t know.
Survivor O I believe we had summer vacation that year. August 6, 1945, was Monday. We used to sing an old song that said, “Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday.” And that was just how it was: it was even true for elementary school students. In the name of “student mobilization” we had to constantly work alongside and assist adults. Those in 3rd to 6th grades were helping with demolition. That meant we were helping to remove or disassemble wood from a building. The 2nd grade was helping the younger students go below during an air raid; the wooden buildings would be burned quickly. So everyone was in a group, and the 2nd grade was helping the others to go down to the building’s basement. (After the bombing) When I came up from the basement and out into the playground, the air was full of an odd smell and there should have been a blue sky, but there wasn’t. I saw the rising black smoke and soot from the blast hanging in the air, but I think quite a bit of time passed. The buildings on the west side of the school were completely gone. I couldn’t see anyone clearly, though there were shadows moving. Everyone seemed to be crawling, or leaping up. Toward the rear gate near the wooden school building were the bodies of what I think were [telecom company] service guards. I waved them off without flames. (The fire from the explosion) then picked up my untouched wet shoes. The people in the playground might have been burned up instantly. I don’t know.
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@tsturm

There was one student whose clothes were completely burned off and who had no eyebrows. The wooden kimono clogs and shin of O (who was going barefoot before he reached the basement) and S (who had taken off his shoes) melted and he was barefoot again. The one that was standing by the shoe shelf had gone up ahead of me and looked back down the stairs. I was barefoot, a little slower, still climbing the stairs. That’s why I was saved. – Excerpted from a letter that Survivor O wrote to the students of Yoshijima Elementary School
There was one student whose clothes were completely burned off and who had no eyebrows. The wooden kimono clogs and shin of O (who was going barefoot before he reached the basement) and S (who had taken off his shoes) melted and he was barefoot again. The one that was standing by the shoe shelf had gone up ahead of me and looked back down the stairs. I was barefoot, a little slower, still climbing the stairs. That’s why I was saved. – Excerpted from a letter that Survivor O wrote to the students of Yoshijima Elementary School
There was one student whose clothes were completely burned off and who had no eyebrows. The wooden kimono clogs and shin of O (who was going barefoot before he reached the basement) and S (who had taken off his shoes) melted and he was barefoot again. The one that was standing by the shoe shelf had gone up ahead of me and looked back down the stairs. I was barefoot, a little slower, still climbing the stairs. That’s why I was saved. – Excerpted from a letter that Survivor O wrote to the students of Yoshijima Elementary School
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
Survivor A Survivor A commuted to Fukuro-machi Elementary School from his home in Togiya-cho (now Kamiya-cho) about 150 meters away. He was in fourth grade. “That day” he arrived at school and went down to the basement room (about three meters underground) to take off his street shoes and change into his gym shoes. Suddenly, everything around him went black, and he was sprayed with fine sandlike tiles. The air was cut out quickly, and he shouted with his friends and classmates. They started to go up, but it was dark and night-like except for flames leaping up here and there. It was like a dream. But a breeze, flames, legs rising in heat and the playground barefoot, he wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes. He had a splitting headache, and while he was putting out the glass fragments stuck in him, his friend T disappeared. – Excerpt from Chugoku Shimbun, April 14, 1970
Survivor A Survivor A commuted to Fukuro-machi Elementary School from his home in Togiya-cho (now Kamiya-cho) about 150 meters away. He was in fourth grade. “That day” he arrived at school and went down to the basement room (about three meters underground) to take off his street shoes and change into his gym shoes. Suddenly, everything around him went black, and he was sprayed with fine sandlike tiles. The air was cut out quickly, and he shouted with his friends and classmates. They started to go up, but it was dark and night-like except for flames leaping up here and there. It was like a dream. But a breeze, flames, legs rising in heat and the playground barefoot, he wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes. He had a splitting headache, and while he was putting out the glass fragments stuck in him, his friend T disappeared. – Excerpt from Chugoku Shimbun, April 14, 1970
Survivor A Survivor A commuted to Fukuro-machi Elementary School from his home in Togiya-cho (now Kamiya-cho) about 150 meters away. He was in fourth grade. “That day” he arrived at school and went down to the basement room (about three meters underground) to take off his street shoes and change into his gym shoes. Suddenly, everything around him went black, and he was sprayed with fine sandlike tiles. The air was cut out quickly, and he shouted with his friends and classmates. They started to go up, but it was dark and night-like except for flames leaping up here and there. It was like a dream. But a breeze, flames, legs rising in heat and the playground barefoot, he wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes. He had a splitting headache, and while he was putting out the glass fragments stuck in him, his friend T disappeared. – Excerpt from Chugoku Shimbun, April 14, 1970
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@tsturm

Survivor O I believe we had summer vacation that year. August 6, 1945, was Monday. We used to sing an old song that said, “Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday.” And that was just how it was: it was even true for elementary school students. In the name of “student mobilization” we had to constantly work alongside and assist adults. Those in 3rd to 6th grades were helping with demolition. That meant we were helping to remove or disassemble wood from a building. The 2nd grade was helping the younger students go below during an air raid; the wooden buildings would be burned quickly. So everyone was in a group, and the 2nd grade was helping the others to go down to the building’s basement. (After the bombing) When I came up from the basement and out into the playground, the air was full of an odd smell and there should have been a blue sky, but there wasn’t. I saw the rising black smoke and soot from the blast hanging in the air, but I think quite a bit of time passed. The buildings on the west side of the school were completely gone. I couldn’t see anyone clearly, though there were shadows moving. Everyone seemed to be crawling, or leaping up. Toward the rear gate near the wooden school building were the bodies of what I think were [telecom company] service guards. I waved them off without flames. (The fire from the explosion) then picked up my untouched wet shoes. The people in the playground might have been burned up instantly. I don’t know.
Survivor O I believe we had summer vacation that year. August 6, 1945, was Monday. We used to sing an old song that said, “Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday.” And that was just how it was: it was even true for elementary school students. In the name of “student mobilization” we had to constantly work alongside and assist adults. Those in 3rd to 6th grades were helping with demolition. That meant we were helping to remove or disassemble wood from a building. The 2nd grade was helping the younger students go below during an air raid; the wooden buildings would be burned quickly. So everyone was in a group, and the 2nd grade was helping the others to go down to the building’s basement. (After the bombing) When I came up from the basement and out into the playground, the air was full of an odd smell and there should have been a blue sky, but there wasn’t. I saw the rising black smoke and soot from the blast hanging in the air, but I think quite a bit of time passed. The buildings on the west side of the school were completely gone. I couldn’t see anyone clearly, though there were shadows moving. Everyone seemed to be crawling, or leaping up. Toward the rear gate near the wooden school building were the bodies of what I think were [telecom company] service guards. I waved them off without flames. (The fire from the explosion) then picked up my untouched wet shoes. The people in the playground might have been burned up instantly. I don’t know.
Survivor O I believe we had summer vacation that year. August 6, 1945, was Monday. We used to sing an old song that said, “Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Friday.” And that was just how it was: it was even true for elementary school students. In the name of “student mobilization” we had to constantly work alongside and assist adults. Those in 3rd to 6th grades were helping with demolition. That meant we were helping to remove or disassemble wood from a building. The 2nd grade was helping the younger students go below during an air raid; the wooden buildings would be burned quickly. So everyone was in a group, and the 2nd grade was helping the others to go down to the building’s basement. (After the bombing) When I came up from the basement and out into the playground, the air was full of an odd smell and there should have been a blue sky, but there wasn’t. I saw the rising black smoke and soot from the blast hanging in the air, but I think quite a bit of time passed. The buildings on the west side of the school were completely gone. I couldn’t see anyone clearly, though there were shadows moving. Everyone seemed to be crawling, or leaping up. Toward the rear gate near the wooden school building were the bodies of what I think were [telecom company] service guards. I waved them off without flames. (The fire from the explosion) then picked up my untouched wet shoes. The people in the playground might have been burned up instantly. I don’t know.
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
Miracle Underground It was originally assumed that all were lost instantly by the atomic bombing. However, the Comprehensive A-bomb Disaster Survey begun in 1967 by the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University discovered that there were a few survivors. Three pupils happened to be in an underground room in the West Building. This was a sturdy, ferro-concrete building, and these students were 3 meters underground in a room with a ceiling 20 to 30 centimeters thick. Thus, they miraculously escaped. When the A-bomb exploded: One student (A) had just arrived at school and had gone into that basement room where shoes were kept. Another had been in the playground barefoot, had then wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes.
Miracle Underground It was originally assumed that all were lost instantly by the atomic bombing. However, the Comprehensive A-bomb Disaster Survey begun in 1967 by the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University discovered that there were a few survivors. Three pupils happened to be in an underground room in the West Building. This was a sturdy, ferro-concrete building, and these students were 3 meters underground in a room with a ceiling 20 to 30 centimeters thick. Thus, they miraculously escaped. When the A-bomb exploded: One student (A) had just arrived at school and had gone into that basement room where shoes were kept. Another had been in the playground barefoot, had then wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes.
Miracle Underground It was originally assumed that all were lost instantly by the atomic bombing. However, the Comprehensive A-bomb Disaster Survey begun in 1967 by the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University discovered that there were a few survivors. Three pupils happened to be in an underground room in the West Building. This was a sturdy, ferro-concrete building, and these students were 3 meters underground in a room with a ceiling 20 to 30 centimeters thick. Thus, they miraculously escaped. When the A-bomb exploded: One student (A) had just arrived at school and had gone into that basement room where shoes were kept. Another had been in the playground barefoot, had then wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes.
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@tsturm

Survivor A Survivor A commuted to Fukuro-machi Elementary School from his home in Togiya-cho (now Kamiya-cho) about 150 meters away. He was in fourth grade. “That day” he arrived at school and went down to the basement room (about three meters underground) to take off his street shoes and change into his gym shoes. Suddenly, everything around him went black, and he was sprayed with fine sandlike tiles. The air was cut out quickly, and he shouted with his friends and classmates. They started to go up, but it was dark and night-like except for flames leaping up here and there. It was like a dream. But a breeze, flames, legs rising in heat and the playground barefoot, he wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes. He had a splitting headache, and while he was putting out the glass fragments stuck in him, his friend T disappeared. – Excerpt from Chugoku Shimbun, April 14, 1970
Survivor A Survivor A commuted to Fukuro-machi Elementary School from his home in Togiya-cho (now Kamiya-cho) about 150 meters away. He was in fourth grade. “That day” he arrived at school and went down to the basement room (about three meters underground) to take off his street shoes and change into his gym shoes. Suddenly, everything around him went black, and he was sprayed with fine sandlike tiles. The air was cut out quickly, and he shouted with his friends and classmates. They started to go up, but it was dark and night-like except for flames leaping up here and there. It was like a dream. But a breeze, flames, legs rising in heat and the playground barefoot, he wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes. He had a splitting headache, and while he was putting out the glass fragments stuck in him, his friend T disappeared. – Excerpt from Chugoku Shimbun, April 14, 1970
Survivor A Survivor A commuted to Fukuro-machi Elementary School from his home in Togiya-cho (now Kamiya-cho) about 150 meters away. He was in fourth grade. “That day” he arrived at school and went down to the basement room (about three meters underground) to take off his street shoes and change into his gym shoes. Suddenly, everything around him went black, and he was sprayed with fine sandlike tiles. The air was cut out quickly, and he shouted with his friends and classmates. They started to go up, but it was dark and night-like except for flames leaping up here and there. It was like a dream. But a breeze, flames, legs rising in heat and the playground barefoot, he wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes. He had a splitting headache, and while he was putting out the glass fragments stuck in him, his friend T disappeared. – Excerpt from Chugoku Shimbun, April 14, 1970
Thomas Sturm
@tsturm@famichiki.jp  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

While walking through Hiroshima we discovered an annex of the Peace Museum - the Fukuromachi School Building.

It is only 400 meters from the hypocenter of the explosion, but the reinforced concrete wing of the building withstood the shockwave, although everything burnable was carbonized instantly.

It was thought that nobody had survived there, but three students had been late changing shoes in a basement room.

They survived while nearly everyone they knew was killed that day 80 years ago.

The stairs to the ground floor from the basement. While much of the stairs seem to have survived the blast in the relatively protected basement stairwell, the banister was destroyed. Above the metal gate, only the bare concrete survived but all wood had been carbonized.
The stairs to the ground floor from the basement. While much of the stairs seem to have survived the blast in the relatively protected basement stairwell, the banister was destroyed. Above the metal gate, only the bare concrete survived but all wood had been carbonized.
The stairs to the ground floor from the basement. While much of the stairs seem to have survived the blast in the relatively protected basement stairwell, the banister was destroyed. Above the metal gate, only the bare concrete survived but all wood had been carbonized.
vruz
@vruz@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@tsturm

Miracle Underground It was originally assumed that all were lost instantly by the atomic bombing. However, the Comprehensive A-bomb Disaster Survey begun in 1967 by the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University discovered that there were a few survivors. Three pupils happened to be in an underground room in the West Building. This was a sturdy, ferro-concrete building, and these students were 3 meters underground in a room with a ceiling 20 to 30 centimeters thick. Thus, they miraculously escaped. When the A-bomb exploded: One student (A) had just arrived at school and had gone into that basement room where shoes were kept. Another had been in the playground barefoot, had then wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes.
Miracle Underground It was originally assumed that all were lost instantly by the atomic bombing. However, the Comprehensive A-bomb Disaster Survey begun in 1967 by the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University discovered that there were a few survivors. Three pupils happened to be in an underground room in the West Building. This was a sturdy, ferro-concrete building, and these students were 3 meters underground in a room with a ceiling 20 to 30 centimeters thick. Thus, they miraculously escaped. When the A-bomb exploded: One student (A) had just arrived at school and had gone into that basement room where shoes were kept. Another had been in the playground barefoot, had then wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes.
Miracle Underground It was originally assumed that all were lost instantly by the atomic bombing. However, the Comprehensive A-bomb Disaster Survey begun in 1967 by the Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology of Hiroshima University discovered that there were a few survivors. Three pupils happened to be in an underground room in the West Building. This was a sturdy, ferro-concrete building, and these students were 3 meters underground in a room with a ceiling 20 to 30 centimeters thick. Thus, they miraculously escaped. When the A-bomb exploded: One student (A) had just arrived at school and had gone into that basement room where shoes were kept. Another had been in the playground barefoot, had then wandered to the basement to get his shoes, then was just going back up. The other was standing by the shoe shelves changing from his geta (wooden sandals) to gym shoes.
ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.
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Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities argue harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown won’t make schools safer.
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-media-arrests-school-threats-law-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#SocialMedia#Children #Education#School#Crime #Police#Tennessee
16BitYeti:HH::steamdeck2:
@16bityeti@mstdn.games  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Saw my high school technology teacher at the charity shop today. I’ve changed a bunch over the years but he recognized me after I told him my name!

I let him know all the impact his class had on me and all the people I’ve helped and reached out to over the years as a result of his class.

I really hope that made his day!

#teaching #school #technology
16BitYeti:HH::steamdeck2:
@16bityeti@mstdn.games  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Saw my high school technology teacher at the charity shop today. I’ve changed a bunch over the years but he recognized me after I told him my name!

I let him know all the impact his class had on me and all the people I’ve helped and reached out to over the years as a result of his class.

I really hope that made his day!

#teaching #school #technology

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b-rain
@b_rain@troet.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine" #school#AI#KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

@stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
@stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
@stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
@stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
@stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
@stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt