Teaching kindergarten is like being an ambassador to beings from another planet and teaching them how to assimilate to our culture.
“No, we do not LICK water fountains. Perhaps that is acceptable on your planet, but here on earth we prefer to DRINK from water fountains.”
“Physics might be a little different on your planet, but here when you throw things they typically fall and break.”
“Grabbing people and shaking them violently is not considered a proper greeting on this planet.”
This is real.
it’s not just kindergarten. i used to be a ccd teacher’s assistant and i’ve spent classes pretending to be a military officer because i had one student (for 2 years) who would have moments where he believed he was in a war zone and would pretend to be using weapons and so i’d use stuff i remembered from my dad playing video games in order to discipline him (verbally, of course) and lemme tell you that worked better than just telling him to stop. i figured “if i go along with it and use it to keep him behaved, it might work better than lecturing him.”
needless to say, he was well behaved and a really smart kid with insightful commentary. i think if people took this approach in parenting and teaching- we’d have better retention rates and less problems. trying to understand the kids makes a difference.
When my dad was a teenager, he accidentally started working for a restaurant that was a front for the local mafia. He flipped burgers for a semester and then, when he wanted to leave, one of the members pulled a gun on him and said he couldn’t.
“Oh, fuck off,” said the guy’s superior. “Really, man? He just flips burgers, and he’s not even good at it. Let him go, dumbass.”
and that was my dad’s brush with organized crime
My dad was in a lot of different bands in the 70s. They used to be a regular act at this one restaurant, who would let them rehearse on the weekends in the space above the store. On one of these days my dad went downstairs to find a bathroom and saw a table outside a closed room with just a shit load of guns on it.
And that’s when he realized they let them rehearse on the weekends so the music would drown out whatever mafia meetings the FBI listening devices were trying to pick up.
A.C. Strip has long understood the significance of the diary his older brother kept as they fled the Holocaust with their parents. He turned it into a self-published book that he gave to his brother as a 90th birthday gift.
But Strip never considered the diary to be an important historical document. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is making him rethink that.
Strip’s brother’s journal is one of more than 200 diaries written by Holocaust victims and survivors the museum hopes to digitize and make available to the public with the help of its first crowd-funding campaign. The museum is seeking $250,000 for the project and will begin soliciting donations through Kickstarter on Monday, the birthday of the most famous Holocaust diarist, Anne Frank.
If their goal is reached, their entire diary collection will be catalogued, translated, and published online for EVERYONE. They hope to stem holocaust denial by the power of so many readily-available firsthand accounts.
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