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Well there are good days and bad days. When she started here she wasn't able to get into her room to set it up until the 11th hour, so she started the year on her backfoot. She takes good care of her self, much better than me tbh, so I think that helps. She's very tough and competent, and she has a sort of gentle frankness that I think help smooth out rough interpersonal issues that drive so much burn out, just because she like can't stand to let things fester between people. Also our relationship is very strong and open and honest, and we share everything including housework. We take vacations, and alto she likes to plan vacations so it can be a nice mental getaway for her. Luckily I have a decent job too so we can do that. My kids are older and we only have them part time so she doesn't have to full time mom, even though she's a great step mom and very involved.

Okay I'm not defending the teacher here except for the child's right to be recognized and have their needs tended to. This also isn't about "good" and "bad" teachers, but the education system. This is anecdotal, so take it for what it's worth.

My wife, S, is an intervention specialist which is a teacher in a special ed classroom. I think she is a very good teacher, and after years in a underfunded inner city school, she now works in a very large well funded elementary school in a nice area with very involved and stable parents, by and large.

She has a student, L who is non verbal, most of her kids are and she has the most difficult special-ed classroom in her school. She works on a team with two other intervention specialists, one of which, B, was L's teacher for two years previous. L has a muscular disability.

It's S's first year at this school so she is just starting to know the kids. What she is discovering is that these "very low" non verbal children, have basically received no prior schooling on subjects. Their learning plans have each of them marked very low, with the most basic goals. And granted, behavior is usually an issue with these kids who can't communicate. They can lash out suddenly and scratch or bite a teacher or aide, drawing blood more often than not. So behavior will eat up a ton of bandwidth for any teacher. It took my wife months to get her kids to sit with her and do any work whatsoever. But once they started to do work for her so she could test their ability, she discovers that they are all quite advanced in various areas, despite basically never being taught. Kids with educational goals of being able to count to 5 can do multiplication and division for 2 and 3 digit numbers, ahead of their grade; kids who seem to have no concept of reading or conceptual language can spell and construct sentences or answer questions about a story, if it is shown to them in a way that they will interact with.

Back to L, he is another case just like this. Very difficult to work with at first, refused to be taught, lashes out violently when he gets frustrated, but now that he is used to her he will sit and work and also demonstrates advanced ability in multiple subjects.

However the last to years his previous teacher and the head of their team, B, by all accounts from teacher and aides did nothing with him for 2 years. He was basically laid on a mat in a closet, and ignored, everyday for 2 years. My wife says that for the most part he gets around in her class pretty darn well, so even the assumption that he's mostly immobile was wrong.

Special ed teachers spend most of their time some weeks filling out complicated ed plans that are a state requirement, but frankly no one ever checks or even seems to know how to fill these things out. Everyone is just winging it. Bureaucracy is a stand in for education and the needs of the child. Imo my wife is an exceptional teacher who has time and time again achieved breakthroughs with some of her most difficult students. The lead on her team, with over a decade of experience in this job couldn't even see past their own assumptions about the child, and never stopped to question them, and so the poor kid was neglected, uninjured thank God, for 2 years.

So if a pretty good teacher at a good school can fuck up that badly, how dangerous would it be for a inexperienced or disengaged teacher? To me this isn't a problem that comes down to individual teachers but of the American education system as a whole, and it's priorities. Spoiler alert, politics matter more than children.

Coherent and good!

Well the economy is what rips you off to make companies money, so its actually one of the more honest usages I've seen

Don't mention post-WW2 America First rhetoric

I didn't make it I just have cool friends

That's why its the system that needs to be killed, not billionaires. It doesn't matter if you are good or bad, capitalism is in part a system of forced competition. A CEO who doesn't make the hard calls for the benefit of stockholders will be replaced if he is caught choosing his moral compunctions over profits. A competitor will exploit what he might refuse to, and thus the harm is done and the "good CEO" is drummed out of the system. The only way for a CEO to remain good and a CEO is to never be tested by the markets mad search for profits. This is possible in a small way, like maybe a CEO of a small regional firm which will eventually be bought out or forced out of business. Hell, most of the strictly "moral" repercussions of an executive are hidden from them, and appear only as columns in a profit/loss report. Capitalism alienates us all from the world we inhabit, our humanity and our selves; worker and owner alike.

But regardless of this, the class interests of ceos and employees are in direct conflict. This doesn't mean we need to kill, but we will have to fight to crush their way of life which exists as a result of the mass exploitation and immiseration of millions.

George Soros is not a good billionaire. The right wing delusion of him is such a convenient smokescreen for all of the actually horrible global conditions he's helped give birth to and gotten rich from, that I wonder if he doesn't perpetuate it himself. He's basically the final boss of neocolonialism, but because noone will teach you what neocolonialism is and how capitalism violently extracts cheap hyper-exploited labor and natural resources from the third world which amount to super profits for the billionaire class, most people don't see how bad he is.

Indeed

Chlorophyll doesn't immediately put you to sleep! Also it burns to inhale, from what I have read.

Just get Nick Cage to be in your movie, that seems to be the secret ingredient

DSA, Working Families Party, Our Revolution, maybe other more radical groups like CPUSA or PSL.

I agree, but if one day we abolished all cops, people in NYC especially would freak out. Hell some cops would probably do a bunch of crime to prove a point. Its not a demand that people like very much, . I think the police as a force that absolutely only exists to protect private property of the owning class, and I don't know if you wanna hear my "nuanced" opinions and I don't know if they're worth very much. But I think that the police as a reactive force needs to be handled tactically in order to protect people who are protesting and force through demands. By and large I agree with Farrell Dobbs analysis in teamster rebellion was, during a political rebellion such as the 1934 Minneapolis teamster strike, the state of a police department changes daily and must be evaluated daily based on primarily their numbers. It would be great for left wing mass movements to make demands on the ruling class if that number was zero, but that's unrealistic and most people know it.

Oh shit, a crime the cops actually have to solve, haha, can't just frame some poor sap this time gotta do some actual detective work. I hope they never catch him and the PD gets defunded. I know its NYC and they need cops but I think they could use a haircut at least

Can he be extradited to North Korea for the lulz?

Thank you! I can't dance is cheeks, and they have so many good records

Well, I'm no expert but ive heard convincing arguments. Step one is wrestling control of healthcare out of the hands of for-profit companies. By the time we do that we will have worked out a better way to do it, democratically and for the benefit of all people, not just the profit of the few

The thing is, insurance is generally a good thing, it is basically the easiest way to make sure a group of people can afford healthcare in a free market. I would personally prefer if we had a single payer system, medicare for all, or some other way for everyone to receive high quality healthcare on demand that isn't driven purely by the profit motive.

So its not the industry per se, it is the profit motive that drives those industries, and the political corruption that extends from big monied interests that wield our legislatures and gut any regulatory backstop to prevent these disgusting schemes to swindle every penny out of regular people who are just trying to survive and thrive in an unfair, unjust system.

Large hospital corporations are arguably worse than insurance, or at least as bad. The two work together to create the circumstances where they get rich and we get ripped off.

Granted, I'm not crazy about political assassinations, I'm not saying ceos should be killed by random adventurists. In a country so desensitized to mindless violence, where our kids grew up with active shooter drills, I find the murder of the CEO very funny, but it isn't a solution or a fix to insurance or healthcare. The problem is capitalism, and it will take more than a dead CEO to change anything about our pathetic, disgusting healthcare system.

Great! Now, instead of downvoting state your disagreement and don't downvote. Maybe you'll learn something, maybe someone else will.

EDIT: haha good one