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Aral Balkan
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maco
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My daughter is starting high school (USA). She's brought home 4 things I am "required" (?) to sign. 3 they are just normal lists classroom rules. The 4th is for gym... Ugh. It is every bad gym teacher stereotype spewed across four pages of text, with lots of all-caps, plenty of phrases like "you WILL...", "NO EXCEPTIONS", "you will be ABSOLUTELY SILENT", etc.
Most of the rules and "expectations" are pretty reasonable but the angry, accusatory tone is unhelpful, and the missed-class rules are openly punitive rather than educational.
So I wrote a note to that effect above my signature, and clarified that my signature meant I had read the document.
Kid was concerned about my annotation. I offered to tell the gym teacher I lost the document and request a new one, but kid decided to just let it ride.
Many thoughts, including
- This is how you make most students hate PE
- This is how you keep negative #stereotypes alive (I'm actually aware that Not All Gym Teachers, but this doesn't help)
- This is how you tell the kids there are two tiers of students: the athlete ingroup, who are used to this kind of communication and know this gym teacher (who is also a coach) will be sympathetic to them despite the strident tone, and everyone else, the outgroup.
This school is generally pretty good, but there are always issues, usually of exactly this kind: a subset of teachers or administrators treating all kids like criminals regardless of their behavior.
My daughter is starting high school (USA). She's brought home 4 things I am "required" (?) to sign. 3 they are just normal lists classroom rules. The 4th is for gym... Ugh. It is every bad gym teacher stereotype spewed across four pages of text, with lots of all-caps, plenty of phrases like "you WILL...", "NO EXCEPTIONS", "you will be ABSOLUTELY SILENT", etc.
Most of the rules and "expectations" are pretty reasonable but the angry, accusatory tone is unhelpful, and the missed-class rules are openly punitive rather than educational.
So I wrote a note to that effect above my signature, and clarified that my signature meant I had read the document.
Kid was concerned about my annotation. I offered to tell the gym teacher I lost the document and request a new one, but kid decided to just let it ride.
Many thoughts, including
- This is how you make most students hate PE
- This is how you keep negative #stereotypes alive (I'm actually aware that Not All Gym Teachers, but this doesn't help)
- This is how you tell the kids there are two tiers of students: the athlete ingroup, who are used to this kind of communication and know this gym teacher (who is also a coach) will be sympathetic to them despite the strident tone, and everyone else, the outgroup.
This school is generally pretty good, but there are always issues, usually of exactly this kind: a subset of teachers or administrators treating all kids like criminals regardless of their behavior.
If you're a #parent - lead by fucking better example! Your kids follow what you do. You're also putting your own kids at higher risks of deaths & disabilities & more illness by not practicing preventative health. That includes & isn't limited to longterm brain damage & weaker organ functions.
Jess Mahler
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I've been meaning to write about the state of #accessibility support in #tech for a while now but figured it was a good time to do it now since The Register published this article.
As a #parent of a child with #disabilities, as well as being a #disability #advocate and #technology professional, I appreciate The Register's coverage of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and Apple's pursuit in improving accessibility in their OSes. Accessibility support is simultaneously necessary and perpetually a challenge. Often it seems like a clumsy afterthought or just prohibitively expensive.
As much as I am an #opensource advocate, the reality is out of all the mainstream OSes, #Microsoft#Windows has, unquestionably, the best support. #Apple has some catching up to do. The open source world trails behind with projects in various states of quality.
One of the areas needing serious improvement is eye gaze technology. Users who have serious motor impairments (spinal cord injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, ALS) rely on this technology to communicate. Windows 10 supports this functionality natively yet #Linux still treats it as a #DIY project, at best. There is little coordination between desktop environments like #KDE#GNOME and #XFCE nor is there any kind of unified API.
It's 2025, we have reached the first quarter of the 21st century and accessibility support is still an afterthought. We can and must do better.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/apple_accessibility_features_2025/