Okay, now they’re just taunting us.
Day: July 16, 2018
i just have this persistent feeling of “i’m not doing enough” combined with “i don’t have the energy to do anything” and it just really fucking sucks
Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”
The answer isn’t “culture of poverty” “low morals” or “poor people just don’t care about education”
here we go:
Low-income children are more likely than their higher-income peers to be in factory-like classrooms that allow little interaction and physical movement. As a result, these children spend more time sitting, following directions and listening rather than discussing, debating, solving problems and sharing ideas.
As a teacher I hear so much about how “these parents” don’t care about learning and their children’s education. There is palatable frustration at how we can’t “deal with” the students we work with.
But there is little to be said about how our public school systems are not equipped to provide students with valuable learning experiences. Instead we are continually told we need to do more with less.
Number 1 problem: we build schools in the hood designed to control instead of teach.
Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”
Is our healthcare system better then America? Yes, but is it perfect? No and we should keep trying to make it more affordable for everyone and keep pushing for change because lord knows the people in office will always try to make it worse
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It’s *not* better than America in every way.
In America, I can buy an insurance plan that covers my medications. I couldn’t do that in Ontario, because companies providing private insurance are allowed to deny coverage for preexisting conditions. They’re not allowed to do that here.
More generally speaking, American health plans are legally required to cover a fairly broad range of things, including medication.
And I think that the American infrastructure for disability services also might be better.
And we don’t use QALYs (quality adjusted life years) to measure the value of treatments and determine what to cover.
It’s more complicated than people tend to acknowledge.
Some things are better here. Some things are worse. And we need more cross-border solidarity in both directions.
Americans get used as a stick to make disabled Canadians accept things that ought to be unacceptable.
Just as a note, I’ve never had any of my pre-existing conditions denied. My medication has always been covered by my husband’s insurance (through work).
One thing people are working to get the provinces to do is cover prescription medications.
A lot of things are different from one province to the next because the provinces handle their own health care administration.
Disability services can be decent but it depends on the province, again, since that’s all done provincially. There’s also no federal legislation about disability rights and accessibility.
I don’t know anything about QALYs, so I can’t comment on that. All I know is that I haven’t had to pay for my hospitalizations and other big medical issues.
There are certain things that are better here and others that are better in the States. Probably where is better for whom depends on personal conditions and situations, and which province or state you are in.
“My child is a better person because I slap them on the ass sometimes” is a fucking absurd stance and Im so sick of hearing it.
A little more on the tag commentary here, and learned social anxiety.
(#a history of getting bad reactions #when you’re expressing enthusiasm #really doesn’t help #totally learned social anxiety here #betting it’s not uncommon #for otherwise neurodivergent/disabled people #also not totally irrational the way a lot of people want to act)
I believe it was on Jane Meyerding’s old website where I ran across something that really spoke to me. So, of course that’s been long enough that I can’t find anything like what I was looking for now.
Anyway, to paraphrase from memory? I at least started out as a person who would talk about anything with anyone. Then you see some of the reactions that ends up getting you…and yeah.
That type of experience won’t necessarily encourage a person to be more outgoing, or more confident interacting with people they don’t already know reasonably well.
And it’s unlikely to be a totally imagined set of concerns, when you do have actual experience of social interactions going horribly wrong. Often down to reasons beyond your control, if not also your understanding.
Faking confidence and forcing yourself into uncomfortable interactions is unlikely to make this version of social anxiety better. At all.
(As an oversimplification of actual advice based on the idea that any fears must be overblown, and any problems that exist in that situation can necessarily be fixed by applying CBT.)
I’m also reminded of that “We Can’t Keep Treating Anxiety From Complex Trauma the Same Way We Treat Generalized Anxiety” post from the other day. Some similarities, where we are talking about learned social anxiety based on experience.
Is our healthcare system better then America? Yes, but is it perfect? No and we should keep trying to make it more affordable for everyone and keep pushing for change because lord knows the people in office will always try to make it worse
~~~~
It’s *not* better than America in every way.
In America, I can buy an insurance plan that covers my medications. I couldn’t do that in Ontario, because companies providing private insurance are allowed to deny coverage for preexisting conditions. They’re not allowed to do that here.
More generally speaking, American health plans are legally required to cover a fairly broad range of things, including medication.
And I think that the American infrastructure for disability services also might be better.
And we don’t use QALYs (quality adjusted life years) to measure the value of treatments and determine what to cover.
It’s more complicated than people tend to acknowledge.
Some things are better here. Some things are worse. And we need more cross-border solidarity in both directions.
Americans get used as a stick to make disabled Canadians accept things that ought to be unacceptable.
you’ve been visited by the doggo of occult wisdom.. reblog to gain a 5 point increase in your wisdom stat. 😉
I feel like the worst thing about having adhd and anxiety is that sometimes you’re excited about a thing so you just fucking talk forever about it because your adhd is incapable of shutting up but later the anxiety kicks in and your brain just spends hours walking around in circles banging pans together and screaming because how dare you do an interaction
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