9s are round, 4s are not. If people or machines can't tell the difference between curves and slashes, it ain't my problem.
The way my brain works, I'm going to attempt to find a deeper meaning in your words.
Yep. What's sad is sometimes I can't even read my own scribble. Especially when writing down passwords in a short moment. Once again, they finally saved my ass with the later updates to the Windows world. Imagine a password manager.
Learning advanced math also changes they way people think and approach problems. The idea that we don't need to learn basics because everything is on Google is incredibly short sighted.
I believe research shows hand writing notes leads to better retention and understanding than typing them. It definitely leads to less distractions while listening to a lecture.
The value back in the day was it was significantly faster to write than print, which is much faster than block letters.
In college I used to hand write all my class notes instead of typing them. I almost never went back and read my notes but I agree it helped me retain information and pay attention better.
Maybe it's just me, but when I type something up it makes me want to edit it to be more readable whether that's writing in a more natural language as if I was writing a book or cleaning up my derivations to explain difficult steps in more detail while suppressing extraneous detail and intermediate results for easier parts. Studying math (and physics) is still one of my favorite hobbies and I really don't like writing calculations down on paper. About the only time I really like using pen and paper is drawing diagrams, like if say I'm doing a contour integral and it's way easier to draw the contour I'm integrating over than creating the contour in tikz for LaTeX. Eg like the contour below that I wrote up a quick paper in LaTeX for to work on learning how to do graphics in tikz. But much easier to draw by hand than doing it algorithmically.
Teachers are so disrespected in America and didn't deserve to be hero'ed when they're a group that was at extreme risk for COVID due to poverty and all the health risks that brings from shitty health insurance to shitty diet to through the roof stress, on top of the through the roof stress of their job. And then being cooped up with 30 people in a small room, then 30 different people in another small room, over and over the whole day so they could maximize their exposure to the most deadly virus we had seen in a century that was running through our population. Teachers do not owe their lives to our sociopathic nation. Pay me you want me to take that kind of risk.
Just teaching them the frustration they'll need to feel as an adult doing the same goddamned thing for work/misc administrative make-work.
I don't agree. First, COVID is not very deadly to those who are not elderly or immune compromised. I know in NYC we had accommodations for those who were at substantial risk of severe COVID and they did not have to return to in-person instruction. (some still have not) Effective education matters - a lot - and the kids who didn't have any in-person instruction for two years or more in some cases will bear the effects of that for life.
I would have refused to do in person in 2020 if I was a teacher and continued until a month after my second COVID shot in 2021. COVID is pretty deadly in diabetics for example. My cousin in law was killed by COVID in summer 2020, and my closest friend of 35 years was killed by COVID in spring 2021, both of them likely thanks to be being type 2 diabetic. You work a shit job with long hours for trash pay and Standard American Diet for the poors puts you on a great path to Type 2 diabetes with how much sugar is in practically everything at the grocery store. There's no balance in hero'ing teachers before they can get immunized against the most deadly virus we had seen in a century.
In NYC if you have diabetes you simply apply for a reasonable accommodation and you would not have been required to report for in-person teaching so how is that relevant?
NYC has over 200k teachers. Assuming they all got infected (likely), NYC lost upwards of 70 teaching professionals. That shouldn't be diminished.In NYC if you have diabetes you simply apply for a reasonable accommodation and you would not have been required to report for in-person teaching so how is that relevant?
The average age of an active NYC teacher is 42. For the 40-50 age pre-vax group IFR for COVID is somewhere around 0.035%, and that includes those with heightened vulnerability to severe COVID, meaning the IFR for those without risk factors would be even lower than that. Is the argument really that we need to inflict significant learning loss on a generation of kids for years in order to protect teachers from a disease with a sub 0.035% fatality rate? I suspect there are plenty of other activities teachers undertake with similar risks.
Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in the non-elderly informed from pre-vaccination national seroprevalence studies
The infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 among non-elderly people in the absence of vaccination or prior infection is important to estimate accurately, since 94% of the global population is younger than 70 years and 86% is younger than 60 years. In systematic searches in SeroTracker and...www.medrxiv.org
NYC has approximately 75,000 teachers. (At least those that work for the DOE, and charters and private schools could make their own rules)
Because the nation isn't all NYC
Yet another shit sandwich to slop on teachers' plates. Here go get this novel virus that killed a million Americans in 2020 and can ruin you for life with long COVID if the worst case doesn't happen when we have no way to combat the virus because you're essential workers needed to babysit. And we'll still pay you like shit.
Apologies, i misread a stat for NYS rather than NYC. That's still like 30 teachers, you shouldn't be killing off so many professionals in a year.
Sure, but wouldn’t that be an argument for adopting reasonable accommodations and not closing schools?
So to be clear you believe we should close schools whenever there is a risk factor to staff of somewhat less than 0.035%? I don’t see how that’s tenable.
Really though, that stat includes everyone with high risk factors like diabetes, immune compromise, etc., all of whom would not be required to return to in-person instruction.
You act like we understood COVID in 2020. Like numbers were reliable in 2020 when the COVID death tolls were hugely underreported, which was crystal clear when you'd go look up how much pneumonia death tolls shot up in the confederate states during the first few months of the pandemic. The schools should have been closed until teachers had sufficient opportunity for vaccination against a novel virus not well understood, which didn't happen April/May 2021.
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