vraylle

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[–] vraylle@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I would say it is largely impacted by available resources, but not necessarily limited to government. Some locations have great non-profit organizations dedicated to exactly this sort of thing. I'd say a lot of places have those sorts of resources, but often are hard to find.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Let me present my counter-tale to all the anti-home school comments.

My kid is autistic and the schools are some of the most poorly funded in the country. Despite this the school did an excellent job and had very good staff that did a very good job. But as my child went up in grades the resources available decreased. It was quickly heading for a point where the 1-on-1 time they would need wouldn't be available. Then the pandemic hit. We were forced into online school when the school closed for a bit. The amount of specialist time available dropped to near-zero.

The school wasn't prepared for online school and the sites/curriculum they used were all over the place. We supplemented with our own field trips and additional resources. But they otherwise took to it really well and were still learning.

The next school year our school still didn't have its act together. We found a different online school that actually had good curriculum. They've been going to that ever since and it's gone really well.

BIG CAVEATS: I used to be a public school teacher. My degrees are in that, and I was certified. I work in a different field now, but I still have that background to know adolescent psychology, how to evaluate curriculum, knowledge of what is grade-level appropriate, etc. My partner specialized in language and writing, while I was science, math, and tech. We take great pains to socialize our child with outside activities, and make sure they read and participate in art/creative activities. My partner is stay-at-home with the primary job of seeing to our child's education. I help but assist in my areas of expertise.

TLDR; Home school IS used as a way for a lot of parents to enable hyper-religious or abusive behavior, but that's not universal. In some cases it can be the best solution for the child.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate that the list starts at zero.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A spiritual sequel is War for the Overworld. This thread reminded me to install that again.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

60k on mine so far, paid $13k, getting about 38mpg. Pretty happy overall.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Did you just assume my energy level?

Joking aside, this needs to be said more.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can vouch that it does work and is cool.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Don't know about rules or policy, but personally the occasional cross-post doesn't bother me. But if I get a streak of the same post in multiple communities (and/or across servers) I block the user. Had two today where I saw thirteen of the same post in a row, but the same person, across two instances. Blocked.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Probably not, since I'm on the user's page and if I reload after the error they're still not blocked.

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Are these trolls literally living in their parents' basements? Like not going outside to notice it is, indeed, hot?

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Will it be retroactive? Without birthright citizenship can we just kick people like him out? One can dream....

[–] vraylle@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Assuming Android? Had a similar issue with different apps. Turned out to be something called "Mobile Services" doing this. Some ads also used it to sideload apps. Found an article about this class of software and it's apparently common on phones. Key was to look at the package names (I used the Package Names app). In my case, com.dti.tracfone. disabled THAT app and no more problem.

Reference: http://telstramobileloop.com/what-is-mobile-services-manager/

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