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[my-wild-heart]

School Spirits | 3.05 "Raiders of the Lost Scar"

[perpetuallyeepy]

Stranger Things characters as things my friends have said:

Robin: “I want to wrap my legs around a Woman

Lucas: *at Mike* “you can not compare racism to putting ketchup on Mac and cheese”

Robin (again): “snapping is just pizzicato clapping”

Will: “ I don’t need a girl friend cuz god fucks me daily”

Dustin: “That’s one thicc ass duck, that’s a goose”

Nancy: “Jonathan, you would tell me if you’re a little spoon right?

Steve: “Have fun in Canada where the beavers run free I just realized that made it seem like America has put all beavers in prison”

Eleven: “everything has been moved my life is in disarray”

Billy: “I hate myself but not enough to take initiative”

Hopper: “don’t worry I’ve already lowered expectations for the rest of my life”

Will (again): “I’m only gonna talk about rainbows wait that’s too gay”

Joyce: you know what we should get

Hopper: wine

Joyce: Mac and Cheese

Mike: “that’s what good pussy sounds like”

Max: “how would you know”

Mike (again) : “I felt something on my shirt and I assumed it was food so I bit it and it was actually a stick”

Johnathan: “I wish for true happiness in the next 5 months” *flips coins and completely misses the fountain*

Murray: “I don’t want to do this I would rather eat my own shoe than do this”

Max: “it’s Wednesday I’m feeling shit today and when I feel this way it makes me wanna say AAAAAAAAH”

Billy (again) : “oh us? I’m bitch Man”

Robin and Steve while drugged: “ooooh science juice”

Erica: “fun prank idea scalp em”

The Mind Flayer: “I’m activating my child”

Lucas: “blood is thicker than water but wood is thicker than blood know what I’m saying”

Will and El (again): “I’m not sleeping I’m curling into the fetal position and wishing it were over”

Dustin: “what if instead of cats we had bricks”

Steve when Will is missing: “: you gonna crack open a cold one with the search party?”

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Honestly this still applies

[maybemacdc]

the house is spinning

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Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

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Screaming into the void about how much I hate Bela from the sex lives of college girls.

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Premium stickers on my Redbubble

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With Christmas fast approaching 👀👀

[tytonidyke]

These are so fun to make

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@thedisablednaturalist @fagtabulous

Ask and you shall receive!

[inthefallofasparrow]

[tytonidyke]

Love your additions! Birds got that drip

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Oh yeah should probably add this one too-

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I've never done this before

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Sorry this is the best post I've seen in a while

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I'll leave this post alone now

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

This is way too much fun

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I'm not done yet I suppose

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[lesb0]

This explains so much about why 20 somethings are just unable to read to any level of complexity beyond a tweet. The miserable failure of US pedagogy

[lesb0]

They didn’t teach children phonics for TWENTY YEARS because they just hoped this “balanced literacy” bs would magically work out???

[lesb0]

this still kills me. 20 years. that’s nearly every public school gen z kid in the US

[iirulancorrino]

There’s a really good five-part podcast series about this that recently came out from American Public Media called Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went so Wrong. It does a great job of explaining this issue and goes into the political situation and profit motives that kept balanced literacy going for so long even when there was, this can’t be emphasized enough, *zero research* to back it up.

One of my personal big takeways from listening to this was the danger of turning facets of education policy into politicized issues along left/right lines–according to this podcast one of the reasons for why phonics didn’t catch on earlier is because it was being promoted by the second Bush administration, which led to teachers unions and other left-of-center people to be suspicious of it. I think that’s really unfortunate and sadly we saw that same dynamic play out during the pandemic, when in so many school districts how to handle public education became a culture war battle more than anything else.

Obviously everything is political in some way and it’s always worth analyzing who is promoting which ideas–but I think when aspects of public health/science/medicine/education become polarized we all lose out because the issue becomes so much harder to analyze on their merits. And it’s especially awful when the people most impacted are children who are still developing the basic skills needed to think critically for themselves.

[lesb0]

oh that sounds worth a listen

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I’m fucking gobsmacked. Firstly, here’s the link to the full article for anybody who wants to read the entire thing, or can’t view the image text:

The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy

Is a controversial curriculum, entrenched in New York City’s public schools for two decades, finally coming undone?

Secondly, I’m just… is this not basically the gist of the scam in The Music Man? Y'know, where Harold Hill—who can’t play of note of music—passes himself off as a band leader, telling everyone he has a “revolutionary new method called The Think System where you don’t bother with notes,” and says ““If you want to play the Minuet in G, think the Minuet in G”? Like sure, context is helpful for reading, but having it be the basis is… WILD. I’m so sorry Gen Z 😭

[idk-my-aesthetic]

Guys. Guys is this not how you learned to read. Bc this is how I learned to read.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

NO THIS IS NOT HOW WE LEARNED TO READ WHAT THE FUCK

In the rest of the English-speaking world, children are taught to read phonically. There are multiple systems for this, from “winging it based on usage” to structured, tiered systems like Jolly Phonics. They’re taught the sounds that letters make, then the sounds that dipthongs and unusual combinations (like “magic E vowels”) make, and they are taught how to string the sounds together to sound out the words. Common words with unusual spellings/rules (or just really common words that the kid needs to know before they know the relevant rules, like “the” and “should”) are taught as “sight words” and expected to be memorised rote (although research suggests that children don’t memorise these words, but memorise whatever the tricky part is as an exception and read them normally, by phonically sounding them out in their head). This is so that children can get to reading common sentences and simple stories as quickly as possible, providing them with valuable practice and motivation.

As children get practice reading over many years, the most common words get memorised via repetition, and new words are sounded out and memorised if they come up enough. (This is why it’s common for people who read more than they watch tv/converse to mispronounce words for many years – I was over 20 before I knew the correct pronunciation of ‘misled’ or ‘rendezvous’.)

We certainly weren’t taught to check the first letter and then guess based on vibes. If you read like that then there’s no point in the rest of the word being written down. How would you learn new words and advance your skill that way?

[headspace-hotel]

Well, this explains a lot about how people in my notes process my posts.

[amemait]

NZ doesn’t do Phonics either. Schools which teach it literally hide the teaching materials for it when the education inspector comes around. The literacy rate here is not great. Better than America because it’s whole word recognition and not vibes, but still not great.

My mother, however, taught both my sister and I how to read at home with Phonics because she doesn’t fuck with whole word recognition.

I assure you: Phonics is better. It encourages kids to sound it out if it’s a new word, then realise they might have heard it before. It’s not perfect, English being a shit language, but it’s better than vibes and whole word.

You can pick up Phonics books for at-home learning (not homeschooling) for $14 NZ for 12 of them on Temu. Yes, hecking Temu. Get some for the kids in your life.

[perpetuallyeepy]

Person who grew up in Texas! This is NOT how I learned to read. We learned with phonics, but also we learned root words and sounds to figure out meanings. There was also a component where we would “guess” what a word meant, but that was after we developed our skills with identifying root words and prefixes and suffixes. Im fairly certain this is also how people in grades below me learned how to read as well.

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Premium stickers on my Redbubble

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Premium stickers on my Redbubble

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Literally have no where else to say this but Arizona Robbins sucks so bad. Not only for blaming Callie for her leg, not only for the cheating, but also because she ruined MY favorite sapphic relationship on the show.

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Listen I am obsessed with watching Yellowjacket’s tiktoks and I wanna watch the actual show but I do not like watching things with cannibalism I kinda wish there was like an alternate timeline show that’s just about them if they never got in a plane crash lol.

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New Stuff on my Redbubble

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Collage

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I think it’s funny that I started this blog as a Spring Awakening fan blog in high school and now I’m getting a BFA in scenic design 🧍

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Don’t understand why Shigaraki isn’t dead.