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B.A.C.A.H. says

Like people of faith, optimistic in the knowledge that our fleeting time here is but a test, can face challenges with an overall optimistic outlook.

Success is not a destination you arrive at, it is an altitude you fly at.

Or put another way, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.

Forgot to share an idiocracy moment from my kid's school: because of "covid" they are not allowed to have their lunch inside, but couple of weeks ago they also were not allowed to be outside because of poor air quality caused by Caldor fire. The solution our brilliant Vice Principal came up with? Kids should have their lunch inside (because covid!), but seat on the floor instead of at the tables (because air quality!). Or was that the other way around....

B.A.C.A.H. says

WookieMan says

I live by a rule to expect the worst. I have a knack for spotting situations going south and by being pessimistic, I'm able to prevent drama and am prepared for a negative outcome. Over optimism is toxic

Here is a different way of approaching a challenge through a lens that's not pessimistic. It's a challenge, how to confront/deal with the situation, solve the problem, make the best of a bad situation, figure out and navigate through the less bad of bad options. A test of one's intellect, problem solving, or values. Approach it with a positive outlook, you'll win even if you lose.

Being overly pessimistic is not healthy.

Like people of faith, optimistic in the knowledge that our fleeting time here is but a test, can face challenges with an overall optimistic outlook. Such are folks whom Hipsters and Snarksters like the Bay Area is chock-full of, would refer to as Simpletons.

Each life is different. For mine I HAVE to expect the worst and be prepared. Just dealt with family Sunday with a MIL who is an alcoholic and showed up plastered to my sons birthday get together. If I thought she'd be sober, I would have been blindsided with a drunk that knocked over glasses, drank our booze and ended up staying the night. Then she made the kids cry in the morning.

Stuff like that is volatile. It wears on you when it happens at every event. You have to be prepared for it so you don't overreact. So maybe pessimism wasn't the best word. 3 out of 10 times she's fine, but I'd rather be ready to deal with the 7 or 10 times she's fucked up. I got lucky with the good one (wife) out of 5 total girls in the family. But my wife's family is extremely fucked up as are most as I've noticed getting older.

My MIL couldn't even move out of her house the day of closing last fall. I had to rush in and save the day with the trailer. I knew it would be that way, so I thought negative and I was right and not overwhelmed. Preparing for negative is not negative in and of itself. It's just realizing what might happen.

For things I do personally for myself, I for sure go in thinking and believing the outcome will be good. For others around me I generally think what bad could happen. Honestly, I'm right most of the time. I have a knack for predicting bad outcomes, so I'm prepared for them so it doesn't devolve into a shit storm or physical altercation.

I think only once I missed the signs things were going south. This will get some laughs. An argument over Guns N' Roses being better than Poison. What resulted was the dumbest thing I've maybe witnessed in my life. It included my wife and I getting punched. Brass knuckles and broken beer bottles with people trying to stab others. Was quite the melee. That event changed my outlook moving forward on people. I've stopped more fights about to happen than I can count. We're talking randoms in say Nashville or some other place on vacation.

https://notthebee.com/article/chicago-is-getting-ready-to-scrap-its-school-mask-mandate-and-let-me-tell-you-the-teachers-are-not-having-it?source=patrick.net

Teachers union big proponents of gender distortion. Looney lefties there

It’s been a year and a half since I made this post and it’s even more true now than it was then.
Fuck Teachers Unions!

Shaman says

Fuck Teachers Unions!

SIDEWAYS!

Make sure you sign the petition today: https://www.californiaschoolchoice.org/

Because the purpose of public schools is to serve the teachers, not the students, nor the community.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Because the purpose of public schools is to serve the teachers, not the students, nor the community.

Covid laid this bare even to these who didn't want to see it.

Jane Elliott BS was done to kids in San Antonio Texas Middle School the other day.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10613145/Parents-slam-San-Antonio-teachers-fair-haired-kids-clean-dark-teach-segregation.html?source=patrick.net

I just had to scramble to figure out what to do with my kids as teachers here took a mental health day.

BayArea says

I just had to scramble to figure out what to do with my kids as teachers here in took a mental health day.

What? You serious?

WookieMan says

BayArea says

I just had to scramble to figure out what to do with my kids as teachers here in took a mental health day.

What? You serious?

I’m 100% serious. This is the second or third one this school year.

No surprise with a field dominated by liberal women.

BayArea says

I’m 100% serious. This is the second or third one this school year.

Jesus fuck. Sorry for the swearing. That is messed up. Let's say 80-100 teachers get to dictate what 3-4k people have to do that day because they don't want to work??? Must be nice. Not mad at you, but this legit gets me pretty angered.

Not sure if you've got the time or it's your jam, but get on the school board dude. That's totally 1,000% unacceptable. Given I believe you're in CA, that's literally millions of dollars in economic output completely fucked for the day by people that have 4 months of the year off. People that get paid above the median FAMILY income as an individual.

BA, you've pissed me off now. The fuck. I legit cannot compute teachers just taking a mental health day out of nowhere and fucking parents over like that. I won't do this, but would want to. I'd find all their addresses and punch them in the fucking face. I'm lol right now. Livid out loud.

Where the fuck is this country going?

For disclosure, we did have some notice but still…

BayArea says

For disclosure, we did have some notice but still…

Yeah, but notice for what? I'm pissed if we have a snow day which is a legit reason to cancel school. This is not legit in my world. Hence why I'm so shocked.

We literally had our hands on the trigger to move out to CA. It's lost/deleted now but I had a detailed spreadsheet of costs of living moving from IL to CA. It didn't make sense, but I've loved CA when I visit. I'm glad we didn't.

IL is flawed with Chicago in certain ways, but I can't imagine teachers just calling off school for mental health. Mental health is important, but what about all the kids and parents?? You're causing stress for so many more people. It boggles my mind and is hypocritical of the teachers to do that. Their mental health is more important than the 25 kids they teach and the 50 parents that now have to deal with it in one classroom? A profession that gets 4 months of the year off? Come on. Sickening.

WookieMan says

BayArea says

I’m 100% serious. This is the second or third one this school year.

Jesus fuck. Sorry for the swearing. That is messed up. Let's say 80-100 teachers get to dictate what 3-4k people have to do that day because they don't want to work??? Must be nice. Not mad at you, but this legit gets me pretty angered.

Not sure if you've got the time or it's your jam, but get on the school board dude. That's totally 1,000% unacceptable. Given I believe you're in CA, that's literally millions of dollars in economic output completely fucked for the day by people that have 4 months of the year off. People that get paid above the median FAMILY income as an individual.

BA, you've pissed me off now. The fuck. I legit cannot compute teachers just taking a mental health day out of nowhere and fucking parents over like that. I won't do this, but would want to. I'd find al...

This country is going the way every country goes that embraces feelings over facts. It’s super easy to manipulate such people into working against their own interests by giving them feelz reasons for doing so. According to a Quinnipiac poll, 70% of Americans are just fine with paying more for gasoline To “help Ukraine.”
FeelZ. Idiots.

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https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/kids-almost-never-transmitted-covid

Children almost never passed Covid infections in school, a study published Friday reveals.

In fall 2021, in four Massachusetts school districts with 18,000 children, researchers found 44 potential cases of in-school transmission.

You read that right.

18,000 students. 34 schools. Four months. And 44 Covid infections - including no infections of teachers or other staff members.

Throughout 2020 and 2021, as parents pressed with increasing urgency to reopen classrooms, teachers unions and Democratic politicians warned in-school Covid transmission would lead to waves of death. “Teachers are so worried about returning to school that they’re preparing wills,” CNN infamously wrote on July 16, 2020.

In reality, schools were among the safest possible places for students and teachers during Covid, this study suggests. ...

Too bad it comes far too late to matter to the kids in blue states who in some cases were denied over a year of in-person education.

NY teacher's union is trying to just give high school diplomas for stuff unrelated to actual learning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/regents-push-to-make-a-ny-high-school-diploma-worthless/ar-AA1jW1EF?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=48263f3efc424493a8115752afe49414&ei=24

Misc says

NY teacher's union is trying to just give high school diplomas for stuff unrelated to actual learning.

The key years are grades 3 to 7. That is when the brain is developed and set to learn more abstract and complex subjects like algebra and physical science in 9th and 10th grades.

So 1st and 2nd grades can be neglected some, but the student needs to be on the right path of learning by 3rd grade.

And by 8th grade, essentially a well developed student is on autopilot as far as learning. They just need to be adequately challenged and instructed in school.

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BayArea says

mental health day

I thought it was some kind of sick joke but over the years "mental health" spread to so many private sectors to a level that now its is promoted to "mental health month". Its really creepy to see these signs around for a month long! This is clearly a scam to do a favor to unemployed grocery store workers (TM@WookieMan ;) acts as "therapists" ;)
At this rate, CA could potentially declare all residents are "mental patents" at some point!
Not sure if this scam spread to other states to loot them as well by labeling "mental health patents". Health scare industry is a full of scams.