• bender223@lemmy.today
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    pls, giving student loan debt relief instead of $10 billion to Israeli gov’t is considered anti-Semitic 😔

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          At some point, we should simply allow children to be children. I’m not adverse to pre-k but I’m very adverse to conditioning them to work at ever*-earlier ages.

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            The children yearn for the mines, give them what they really want. Let’s turn this into a 10 billion dollar profit.

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              Pre-mines. They spend a year in the mines as a learning experience ( unpaid internship) and then we send them off to school

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                Soviet school curriculum actually had a little bit of that. Well, how to tell ranks, what to do in case of war (also fire alarm or any other emergency), first aid, disassembly and assembly of the AK rifle, orientation on terrain and basic survival skills, not sure about actually firing at targets - I wasn’t alive back then.

                In our school (I was born in 1996) there was literally one time where our class was taken to a shooting range, but it was more like a tour. The got to shoot a few rounds at targets, yes. The first aid, ranks and AK disassembly\assembly parts I do remember.

                There were war-themed games (“Zarnitsa” etc) teaching coordination, subordination, orientation, and of course using radio (to communicate and to intercept the other team’s communications). EDIT: That I only heard about.

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            i don’t know what your pre-K was like, but i don’t remember mine requiring the kids to punch a timeclock, earn wages, or to perform any actual labor. IIRC, we played with toys, played games, sang songs, engaged in educational activities for toddlers, ate snacks, and took naps.

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            If we had more funding for great teachers, it would be anything but pre-work. Ultimately, lower income families really benefit from free childcare schools provide, and a good pre-K classroom is all about play and exploring.

            Teaching at that level should be fun for kids and teachers (though also exhausting). It’s when underfunding forces teachers into a solid 8h of classroom time a day with a way too large class size that it turns work-like.

            I freelanced music ed and worked with 4-8 year olds in several different schools. Some were amazing, supportive teaching assistants and reasonable schedules with a few breaks in my day, kids loved it and so did I. Others, I felt like a warden just trying to stop a riot for 9 hours straight with a 20min lunch. 25+ 4 year olds with no support doesn’t work.

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              What am amazing reply! I’m fully on board with fully funded, fully fun pre-k-12. I’d like to see it Montessori style, as well. Bring back recess, and for goodness’ sake, a full lunch hour.

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        Free school lunch!? Well there, Karl, I bet they will give you a free lunch in the gulags.

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        Given that Isreal is calling everyone and their mother (extra ironic in Judaism) anti semitic for not agreeing enthusiastically enough to ethnic cleansing/genocide, I am pretty confident they’re the ones who made the term meaningless. They litterally called the UN a bunch of Nazi sympathizers who would have supported the holocaust while at a UN meeting. Like my dude, why don’t you go sheckle heckle some actual nazi sympathizers and see if you walk out of the room.

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          Thank you. I couldn’t have said it any better. I mean, sometimes we joke about horrible stuff like this because we feel powerless to do anything about it, so at least we can poke fun at some of the silly aspects of the situation.

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          IIRC Eichmann kinda liked the state of Israel. He considered it a thing of the past that Nazis “had” to exterminate Jews, in the spirit of “well, it’s ancient history, everybody has done that, we all have our own racial interests in mind”.

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          It’s a post about the US government’s spending. Equivocating them proves my point that they’re just looking for an opportunity to normalize a dangerous sentiment. That antisemitism doesn’t exist. A disinformation campaign that has existed for centuries.