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So I've complained about Albany Unified School District's response to the coronavirus before, but here's a brief summary:
(1) Our superintendent seriously said, "We're not going to close any schools until someone tests positive at that school."
I expect our superintendent to have at least a high-school level of understanding of biology. Apparently ours doesn't.
(2) We were promised that each teacher would provide two online 45-minute "classes" per week, just to give the kids some structure and the ability to keep in touch with their teachers. Only 2 of Impus Minor's 7 teachers are hitting even this low bar. 3 more are holding optional "office hours", but 2 of them have just vanished and are holding neither classes nor office hours.
(3) The teachers have embraced an, "All days run together for me," approach, so assignments are due on weekends, during breaks, or whenever the teacher feels like it. On Sunday we had to cut our Shattered Star game short because Impus Minor had homework due that day.
(4) His chemistry teacher is completely MIA. He sent out one email at the start: "You already have all your assignments for the semester. Just do them."
He's been gone since then.
Am not impressed.
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To rival Vanykrye:
Today someone called about their laptop, and it was a windows 7 machine which handt done any updates since 2016..........................
is that...bad? I'm sorry, I am talking with some fine fellows in another area of the internet with older OS to play a very specific game that the more skilled there are attempting to update.
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So I've complained about Albany Unified School District's response to the coronavirus before, but here's a brief summary:
(1) Our superintendent seriously said, "We're not going to close any schools until someone tests positive at that school."
I expect our superintendent to have at least a high-school level of understanding of biology. Apparently ours doesn't.(2) We were promised that each teacher would provide two online 45-minute "classes" per week, just to give the kids some structure and the ability to keep in touch with their teachers. Only 2 of Impus Minor's 7 teachers are hitting even this low bar. 3 more are holding optional "office hours", but 2 of them have just vanished and are holding neither classes nor office hours.
(3) The teachers have embraced an, "All days run together for me," approach, so assignments are due on weekends, during breaks, or whenever the teacher feels like it. On Sunday we had to cut our Shattered Star game short because Impus Minor had homework due that day.
(4) His chemistry teacher is completely MIA. He sent out one email at the start: "You already have all your assignments for the semester. Just do them."
He's been gone since then.Am not impressed.
the days are starting to blend for me as well.It's frustrating, but my day job does NOT mesh well with working from home. The second job does, very well, but naturally my aspect of the job is not up and running right now.
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Heaven
Looks more like FaeReie, or maybe Arborea or upper Ysgard. Not enough mountains for Heaven.
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the days are starting to blend for me as well.It's frustrating, but my day job does NOT mesh well with working from home. The second job does, very well, but naturally my aspect of the job is not up and running right now.So I've complained about Albany Unified School District's response to the coronavirus before, but here's a brief summary:
(1) Our superintendent seriously said, "We're not going to close any schools until someone tests positive at that school."
I expect our superintendent to have at least a high-school level of understanding of biology. Apparently ours doesn't.(2) We were promised that each teacher would provide two online 45-minute "classes" per week, just to give the kids some structure and the ability to keep in touch with their teachers. Only 2 of Impus Minor's 7 teachers are hitting even this low bar. 3 more are holding optional "office hours", but 2 of them have just vanished and are holding neither classes nor office hours.
(3) The teachers have embraced an, "All days run together for me," approach, so assignments are due on weekends, during breaks, or whenever the teacher feels like it. On Sunday we had to cut our Shattered Star game short because Impus Minor had homework due that day.
(4) His chemistry teacher is completely MIA. He sent out one email at the start: "You already have all your assignments for the semester. Just do them."
He's been gone since then.Am not impressed.
That's kind of my point -- for the kids, they're in this really weird pseudospace where it's like summer vacation, except somehow work appears that they're supposed to find out about and do without getting any notice that it's there.
I expect the teachers to be providing some structure to the kids' lives. "It's Monday. You have history, English, and choir. The teachers meet with the class for 15-20 minutes and say, "OK, here's what I expect you to work on this week. Here's where you can get the assignments. Here's when it's due."
I just don't think that's an excessive ask from me.
No, pie.Also, we do not wear clothes on this particular side of the force.But do you have cookies?Tempting.
What kind of pie?
All kinds.
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I expect the teachers to be providing some structure to the kids' lives. "It's Monday. You have history, English, and choir. The teachers meet with the class for 15-20 minutes and say, "OK, here's what I expect you to work on this week. Here's where you can get the assignments. Here's when it's due."
I just don't think that's an excessive ask from me.
It's not. We had a 2-week lull wherein we were scrambling to get that together for our district/contacting kids for internet access needs, but my district quickly established "English/social studies post an assignment Monday and Wednesday; math/science post on Tuesday and Thursday; electives post an assignment once each week. Grab a block of time on these days to be available for office hours on Hangouts or by email if the kids have questions."
If my rural district with fewer resources can figure it out and still get our tech-averse faculty to check in for bi-weekly meetings with our homerooms to make sure the kids are okay, I have no idea what Albany's deal is. I can make some allowances for the fact that we definitely had fewer kids to wrangle, but still.
I question a lot of my district's choices on a lot of things, but I think we're doing pretty okay compared to some on this mess.
I expect the teachers to be providing some structure to the kids' lives. "It's Monday. You have history, English, and choir. The teachers meet with the class for 15-20 minutes and say, "OK, here's what I expect you to work on this week. Here's where you can get the assignments. Here's when it's due."
I just don't think that's an excessive ask from me.
It's not. We had a 2-week lull wherein we were scrambling to get that together for our district/contacting kids for internet access needs, but my district quickly established "English/social studies post an assignment Monday and Wednesday; math/science post on Tuesday and Thursday; electives post an assignment once each week. Grab a block of time on these days to be available for office hours on Hangouts or by email if the kids have questions."
If my rural district with fewer resources can figure it out and still get our tech-averse faculty to check in for bi-weekly meetings with our homerooms to make sure the kids are okay, I have no idea what Albany's deal is. I can make some allowances for the fact that we definitely had fewer kids to wrangle, but still.
I question a lot of my district's choices on a lot of things, but I think we're doing pretty okay compared to some on this mess.
Madison also gave itself two weeks. We're doing just fine.
Today we will answer the age old question; What's faster, a one ton truck hauling a trailer, or me, walking casually, cutting across a corn field.
Yeah, we're 5 weeks in, our entire school district is "only" 2200 kids, and yet Albany can't handle it.
Bloomington HS and JH schools were working with remote classrooms for the last two years to deal with weather closures. That way they didn't have to extend the school year schedule to make up for those lost days.
For them, transitioning for this was effectively just flipping a switch.
is that...bad? I'm sorry, I am talking with some fine fellows in another area of the internet with older OS to play a very specific game that the more skilled there are attempting to update.To rival Vanykrye:
Today someone called about their laptop, and it was a windows 7 machine which handt done any updates since 2016..........................
Yeah. That's bad. It's actually Bad. Like it shouldn't be put on your corporate network because it's actually that big of a security risk level of Bad.
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Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
I honestly thought we were going to reopen around the same time, ourselves. It seems May will be bypassed with an eye towards June?
If i didn't have insurance date limits keeping me from getting refills of important medications before late May, I'd be evacuating early most likely. As it is though I'm going to have to stick it out here thru May to my original first-weekend-of-June planned departure date.
I had this experience reading a two-book series, don't remember the titles but they were about mirror-magic and romance, anyway I slogged thru both books thinking that at least the conclusion must vindicate the story and this gift of my cousin's. But it was awful thru and thru, and that was the last time I read more than a chapter of any book that didn't impress me by the end of its first chapter.I read the first four books (they were a gift) and hated them. I kept going, thinking they had to eventually get good. They didn't. I then watched the first season of GoT, thinking that they must have found a way to make it good. They didn't.
Then again, I've also picked the "ASoIaF is mediocre at best" hill to die on. I know I'm out of step with what is, apparently, considered "good."
~looks up and to my right at my book case~ Stephen R. Donaldson's The Mirror of her dreams and A man rides through? Yeah, his books are not for everyone.
OTOH I did enjoy it, despite the books being only average. Of course I might also have rather low standards too, so that might help.
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Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
~rolls my eyes~ oh yes. That will go so well. /s
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~rolls my eyes~ oh yes. That will go so well. /sTennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
Stay home, Sharoth. I want you safe so I can steal your books when you are not looking.
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So.
My office has had to bring in bottles of hand soap because we're going thru it far faster than we usually do and need to keep up with demand until the next scheduled maintenance and refill for the built in dispensers in the office restrooms.
This tells me a LOT of my co-workers have APPARENTLY NOT BEEN WASHING THEIR FHTAGNING HANDS AFTER NORMAL BATHROOM USE UNTIL A GL'BYOLYB PANDEMIC PROMPTED THEM TO CHANGE HABITS.
Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
It isn't San Francisco this time, though...
It isn't? Is it, NobodysHome?
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Yeah. That's bad. It's actually Bad. Like it shouldn't be put on your corporate network because it's actually that big of a security risk level of Bad.is that...bad? I'm sorry, I am talking with some fine fellows in another area of the internet with older OS to play a very specific game that the more skilled there are attempting to update.To rival Vanykrye:
Today someone called about their laptop, and it was a windows 7 machine which handt done any updates since 2016..........................
Yes. I refused to do anything with it untill it had run its updates.
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So.
My office has had to bring in bottles of hand soap because we're going thru it far faster than we usually do and need to keep up with demand until the next scheduled maintenance and refill for the built in dispensers in the office restrooms.
This tells me a LOT of my co-workers have APPARENTLY NOT BEEN WASHING THEIR FHTAGNING HANDS AFTER NORMAL BATHROOM USE UNTIL A GL'BYOLYB PANDEMIC PROMPTED THEM TO CHANGE HABITS.
Given how you've described your boss, I can take a guess why
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Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
It isn't San Francisco this time, though...
It isn't? Is it, NobodysHome?
So, I made a post, and then I deleted it as political, but then you asked.
Our legislators, from our county supervisors up through our governor and including our (California's) congress, have been utterly fricking amazing throughout this pandemic.
I spoke vociferously against Gavin Newsom. I voted against him.
I'll be voting FOR him in 2022 solely because of his handling of this crisis.
I, for one, am amazed at what my representatives have done in California.
(And yes, Newsom already announced that even if everyone else is re-opening, California isn't ready to do so yet, protesters be d**ned.)
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So.
My office has had to bring in bottles of hand soap because we're going thru it far faster than we usually do and need to keep up with demand until the next scheduled maintenance and refill for the built in dispensers in the office restrooms.
This tells me a LOT of my co-workers have APPARENTLY NOT BEEN WASHING THEIR FHTAGNING HANDS AFTER NORMAL BATHROOM USE UNTIL A GL'BYOLYB PANDEMIC PROMPTED THEM TO CHANGE HABITS.
Don't even get me started.
I go to high-end restaurants.
I see men in business suits, perfect coifs, and whatnot, go into the restroom, do a #2, and return to the fricking dining table without washing their hands.
There's a reason I don't shake people's hands any more... and that was before the pandemic.
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So, I made a post, and then I deleted it as political, but then you asked.
At this point I've given up trying not to. It's impossible to avoid talking politics right now. Everything about existing in this point in time comes with a political edge attached either inherently or quickly applied by one party or another. It's unavoidable.
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I'll be voting FOR him in 2022 solely because of his handling of this crisis.
I, for one, am amazed at what my representatives have done in California.
(And yes, Newsom already announced that even if everyone else is re-opening, California isn't ready to do so yet, protesters be d**ned.)
Have you considered sending an e-mail about that to his bureau?
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Have you considered sending an e-mail about that to his bureau?I'll be voting FOR him in 2022 solely because of his handling of this crisis.
I, for one, am amazed at what my representatives have done in California.
(And yes, Newsom already announced that even if everyone else is re-opening, California isn't ready to do so yet, protesters be d**ned.)
Once things play out, I may.
The problem is the repercussions.
I contacted my state representative about an issue and how I felt it should be approached and resolved. Instead of any reasonable response from a human being, I was simply added to her mailing list and got a daily spam mail telling me how great she was.
It took me 3 "unsubscribes" to get off her immediate email list, but she's still sending me spam snail mail.
I don't want to be part of your cheerleading squad. I just want to let you know ways I think you can improve our state.
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Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
*Insert political rant about us being sacrificed to the idol of feral capitalism*
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*Insert political rant about us being sacrificed to the idol of feral capitalism*Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
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I’m waiting for the inevitable here in AZ.
Yeah Gov Douchey is gonna throw us to the virus, and then act as surprised as any of them when the economy crashes again when we start dying again.
EDIT: Typo, but I'mma leave it.
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*Insert political rant about us being sacrificed to the idol of feral capitalism*Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
Must sacrifice to The Bull.
Must sacrifice to The Line.
So.
My office has had to bring in bottles of hand soap because we're going thru it far faster than we usually do and need to keep up with demand until the next scheduled maintenance and refill for the built in dispensers in the office restrooms.
This tells me a LOT of my co-workers have APPARENTLY NOT BEEN WASHING THEIR FHTAGNING HANDS AFTER NORMAL BATHROOM USE UNTIL A GL'BYOLYB PANDEMIC PROMPTED THEM TO CHANGE HABITS.
Wish I could claim shock, but it took me many years to get regular with handwashing.
My company's solution to hand sanitizer shortages: Vodka in spray bottles
I had this experience reading a two-book series, don't remember the titles but they were about mirror-magic and romance, anyway I slogged thru both books thinking that at least the conclusion must vindicate the story and this gift of my cousin's. But it was awful thru and thru, and that was the last time I read more than a chapter of any book that didn't impress me by the end of its first chapter.I read the first four books (they were a gift) and hated them. I kept going, thinking they had to eventually get good. They didn't. I then watched the first season of GoT, thinking that they must have found a way to make it good. They didn't.
Then again, I've also picked the "ASoIaF is mediocre at best" hill to die on. I know I'm out of step with what is, apparently, considered "good."~looks up and to my right at my book case~ Stephen R. Donaldson's The Mirror of her dreams and A man rides through? Yeah, his books are not for everyone.
OTOH I did enjoy it, despite the books being only average. Of course I might also have rather low standards too, so that might help.
Yeah that's the one, sorry for bashing your jam man!
I don't want to be part of your cheerleading squad. I just want to let you know ways I think you can improve our state.
I call mine, it's more timely and they never ask for email or snail addresses. Although I always give them my zip and threaten their jobs next election, because otherwise they don't care.
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*Insert political rant about us being sacrificed to the idol of feral capitalism*Tennessee and Georgia have announced they are reopening everything (except schools) by the 1st of May, with some businesses being allowed to open as soon as 4/27.
<insert distant echoes of Scint shouting about learning nothing from 1918 here>
Gods I've gotta make more time to watch the Daily Show!
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I get form responses back. "Of course I care about the issue you mentioned! [a few paragraphs describing the issue, showing they probably didn't read my email wherein I demonstrate I already know what I'm talking about, completely glossing over my specific concern]"
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Also its my birthday today. I turned 33 years young!
Congratulations for breaking your own personal record for the number of consecutive years you've stayed alive!
*internet hugs*
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At this point I've given up trying not to. It's impossible to avoid talking politics right now. Everything about existing in this point in time comes with a political edge attached either inherently or quickly applied by one party or another. It's unavoidable.So, I made a post, and then I deleted it as political, but then you asked.
If I've learned anything about how we think and reason, there is no "just the facts" -- every fact that anyone has any interest in talking about has some emotional and moral context, and that's just a fact. ;)
We can and should be civil, and there are always degrees, but I don't see the point in ignoring Human nature.
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Also its my birthday today. I turned 33 years young!
OMG! You're only one day off GothBard's former birthday!
(She divorced it thanks to Hitler, Columbine, and stoners, and chose a Gothier birthday.)
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At this point I've given up trying not to. It's impossible to avoid talking politics right now. Everything about existing in this point in time comes with a political edge attached either inherently or quickly applied by one party or another. It's unavoidable.So, I made a post, and then I deleted it as political, but then you asked.
If I've learned anything about how we think and reason, there is no "just the facts" -- every fact that anyone has any interest in talking about has some emotional and moral context, and that's just a fact. ;)
We can and should be civil, and there are always degrees, but I don't see the point in ignoring Human nature.
Well, there's even how we express ourselves.
You took offense when I used metaphor to describe 4e ("It's a video game turned into a tabletop game" or something similar). So, *I* accepted that people reading my post would accept my statement as metaphor. *You* read my post as an attempt to state fact.
So even simple things like writing down an idea can have different meanings based on who's reading them. I was expressing *MY* distaste for the game and didn't intend for my statement to extend beyond my opinion. Your read was that I was disparaging anyone who liked 4e.
VERY different intent and reading.
EDIT: I mean, I doubt anyone who describes a video game as "garbage" actually proceeds to throw out the game...
On a lighter note, Octopus dreams.