still cant get over how perfectly this describes vance. from harpers, 1941 "who goes nazi?"
I'd assumed this was just normal generational slander, but eldest confirmed they don't usually get assigned a whole book, just excerpts. Not that she hasn't been assigned whole books, but that it's not common. And less so in high school than middle school, weirdly.
Recently, I tweeted about how in 90s/00s it was common to be assigned a book to read in 1 or 2 weeks. Many younger people replied they'd NEVER been assigned that much reading even while getting graduate degrees. Others said they hadn't been assigned entire books AT ALL in h.s....only excerpts.
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
Hope for the best! Prepare for white supremacy’s ability to protect itself!
copier delivery fellow must have thought we were DERANGED because a flock of faculty swarmed into the hallway to observe the copier arrive - and cheer for it. (old copier has been consistently eating paper and being a demon for MONTHS, so we are kind of justified in this excitement)
in the best october surprise ever, a man arrived unexpectedly this afternoon to deliver our department's new copier. "i thought we weren't getting that until october!" i said - and then realized "TODAY IS OCTOBER!" and then we had a new copier. (this makes up for it being october now)
I genuinely don't know what the purpose of these article is supposed to be! If there are widespread misconceptions held among voters, maybe publish articles correcting them! Unedited transcripts of random-ass people offers neither information nor insight. bsky.app/profile/skym...
High school teachers are under systemic pressures that prevent them from assigning entire books, while our whole media ecosystem encourages short-form streaming aliteracy, and I don't know how to get students to read long-form texts under these conditions. Feels bad man
Oh yeah I did 6 weeks of west coast swing lessons to prep for junior prom.