How getting richer made teenagers less free
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-getting-richer-made-teenagers
#HackerNews #HowGettingRicherMadeTeenagersLessFree #Teenagers #Freedom #Wealth #SocialIssues #EconomicImpact
I wonder why kind of J-Pop I hate the most. Is it obnoxiously (not) "cute" girls bands, or obnoxiously (not) "cool" boys bands. The music of both kinds is inane, and I wonder if I was as obnoxious as my daughter when I was her age and I used to listen to the hits of the day in my living room in front of my annoyed parents.
She'll grow out of it any day now, right? Right?
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Are you looking for a handy way to tell the young people in your life about how mass surveillance and online tracking threatens their privacy? Check out this article from October's issue of Libre!, Mission:Libre's magazine on free software for teens:
https://missionlibre.org/whos-spying-on-you
Keep an eye out for November's issue, coming out later this month! #freesoftware #opensource #privacy #youth #teenagers #education
Are you looking for a handy way to tell the young people in your life about how mass surveillance and online tracking threatens their privacy? Check out this article from October's issue of Libre!, Mission:Libre's magazine on free software for teens:
https://missionlibre.org/whos-spying-on-you
Keep an eye out for November's issue, coming out later this month! #freesoftware #opensource #privacy #youth #teenagers #education
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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.
Jess Mahler
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I'm interested in reading studies about how #covid infections affect young #children & #teenagers with #autism.
Especially on how multiple infections can affect #autistic #neurology.
I'm interested in reading studies about how #covid infections affect young #children & #teenagers with #autism.
Especially on how multiple infections can affect #autistic #neurology.