coastalorca43 said:Šimetinka just mentioned that kids aren't actually required to wear masks at school, but they choose to wear them just to fit in with the group. And she's supposed to be a scientist?
"All school staff are responsible for mask-wearing," she noted, adding that the principal ultimately holds responsibility for the institution.
But what about the students who refuse to wear masks because their parents back them up? When asked how to handle students who won't wear masks with full parental support, Pavić Šimetin stated that masks must be worn—if not for themselves, then to protect their own health—and emphasized that we must always consider the seriously ill children attending school. She added that it's hardest on a child if they are the only one in class not wearing a mask while all their peers are.
"It isn't good for the child; kids don't want to stand out from their peers, they just want to feel part of the team", she said.
So I guess fine, if there’s a kid with special needs in class, we just force every other kid to have that same struggle too? God forbid things actually work differently for once.
Robert Hernandez11 said:Aha. Besides, live sessions are actually worth listening to. You don’t have anyone just staring blankly at a wall or out a window while it's happening. And this whole idea of "imparting knowledge" is something I can't even wrap my head around. If someone wants to sit through a lecture, they’re going to pay attention whether they're sitting in a hall or watching online. Someone please enlighten me on how a lecture delivered in person somehow "gives" you better knowledge than an online one—because I honestly don't see it.
I’m being very deliberate about using the word lecture here. We aren't talking about a hands-on workshop or practical exercises...☕
My old man actually tried to stage an intervention on me. He’s an atheist himself, never even bothered with a baptism. Richard Perez3, just look at how crazy things have gotten lately and think about it.
Tyler Ruiz502 said:Honestly, you guys are reaching total extremes here. Even a casual believer would still go through with the baptism for their kids...
It’s basically just a "just in case" thing. I’m siding with the extremists on this one—zero baptisms for us.
My kid isn't doing the religious ed classes. He wasn't even the only one, either—it started with five kids, then eight, and now more than half the class is skipping out. I remember back when my friend's daughter was in the class next door, she was the only one left doing it. After that year, though, the floodgates opened. Don't let them push you around, and don't let them intimidate you. You've gotta lead by example for your kids—show them how to actually live, how to hold their ground, and how to refuse to be backed into a corner.
Alright, enough with the bickering already. Can we get some actual info here?
I’ve got one kid in third grade, and they'll be heading into fourth this fall. What kind of changes are we looking at? Is this happening to everyone, or is it still just that mess with the AFL experimental program they started this year?
Both suffixes actually exist in the language. Yours is just much less common, but there’s really no need to go around correcting people—especially not in a situation like this. Both versions show up in the linguistic corpus, though her way of doing it is far more frequent in everyday usage.
Honestly, there’s just no point in reading assigned school books to kids who are still actually trying to master the basics of reading. If they need help, read it along with them—it makes no difference if you have to lend a hand. At the end of the day, that book is their responsibility, and it's supposed to be the benchmark for their teacher to see how much progress they're making. Just don't overcomplicate things or step in too much!
Chill, I'm just messing with her. It reminded me of how our teachers back in school were always nitpicking us, saying it's our "native language" but our "motherly feelings." Honestly, I have no clue if that even makes sense.
Alright, we’re basically just running in circles here. It feels like no matter how much we try, we just can't get on the same page when it comes to reading. Maybe we're all just more about the writing side of things anyway.
I don’t need some fancy PISA study to remind me about those kids in my classes back in the day who struggled so hard to read that everyone else just sat there laughing at them.🙂 They were literally getting mocked.
There were way fewer of them compared to the fluent readers, and honestly, we’d all just die of boredom while one or two kids per class spent an eternity struggling through just two sentences from a textbook.
rowdypanther12 said:Everyone seems to be giving it a 4 or 5 🤷
So, what's the issue? Honestly, as the mother of a GOOD reader, I think those 200 pages are going to be a real struggle for most kids, especially with all the footnotes and archaic vocabulary. I don't see any reason to throw books like this at kids during their early reading years while they're still just trying to master fluency. We shouldn't be making them view reading as some kind of chore. They'll have plenty of time for the heavy hitters like *The Great Gatsby* or *To Kill a Mockingbird* once they get to high school. 😂
Personally, I don't think it's an impossible mountain to climb. It can be done. And it will be done. Your average kid can handle it. I wouldn't call it "torture" or say the pictures make it feel like a massive burden. Yeah, it'll be tough, yeah, they might struggle a bit, but they'll get through it. And then something else comes along—something even harder, with even more foreign terms, even more text, even more complex structures... it's all just Pinocchio. 😁
Pinocchio isn't even one of those "first required reads." Back in my day, you had like six of them in sixth grade, and maybe three or four in seventh before those summer breaks when they finally hand you Pinocchio. Yeah, well, I had to deal with it too back then. So, did they actually get through it? Your daughter and my son? Yeah, they did. Sure, maybe there was a bit more whining or a little extra struggling, but they finished it. At the end of the day, you’ve got just as many kids who breezed through the same book with zero drama and actually enjoyed it—or maybe they didn't, if the story sucked—but look, kids the exact same age, in the exact same grade, all finished the damn thing.
Wait, hold up, I just realized your kid hasn't even read Pinocchio. So what's the actual problem here? 😁 😁