There is a huge disparity between what most people think this society is and what it actually is. Worlds of difference between the reality and the fantasy that most people choose to live in. I’ve seen this in microcosm. I used to teach in public schools. And I kept running into this issue where parents had this one version of how school worked in their heads that was completely divorced from the reality their children experienced.

As a certified professional teacher with decades of experience, I’m tired of these myths about homeschooling, short 🧵

1. Teacher training is a lot of bullshit. A lot of bad teachers go through teachers collage fine and end up teaching in spite of being horrible teachers.

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I spent a lot of time during my teacher training coming up with stupid metaphors about my teaching journey, doing a ton of busy work and sitting through classes taught by self important assholes who loved to hear themselves speak. It cost a lot of money, and was a waste of time

Given that the pandemic is in the great denial phase and Covid has been rampant these last few years, and also that this cannot continue as it is, we then need to think about the possible futures that we face. So here are 3 listed from the most optimistic to the most pessimistic 1. The Hard Reckoning
People come around almost all at once and hold the people responsible for infecting everyone to account while working collectively together to bolster our healthcare systems and research into antivirals and treatments and soon develop a sterilizing vaccine.

10 signs you’re one of the confused ants merely following the pheromone trail laid down by the masses in this great Covid Ant Mill we find ourselves in. If you hold to any of the following, you might just be locked in a death spiral: 1. You think that the people taking the time to warn you of imminent and serious danger are fear mongers while the people cowering with their heads in the sand unable to face that same danger are fearless

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Suicide My fear and ominous prediction for the near future is a rash of suicides. I think the reality of COVID’s destruction is gonna catch up to a lot of people. That Covid has been wrecking their bodies and the bodies of their loved ones this whole time.

Wearing a mask now is not a demonstration of a resistance to peer pressure so much as it is a testament to the ability to resist submitting to blind authority. The Covid cautious reject authority for our principles, the sheep surrendered theirs when authority told them too. It seems like the peer pressure is coming from all around, because what is observable is the ubiquitous dropping of protections by everyone. But the pressure is ultimately coming from a single direction. It’s coming from the top.