A lot of scholars believe that Louisa May Alcott was a closeted trans man and he should be referred to as Lou or just L.M.
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TIL that you should not try to make a protein hot cocoa by just mixing chocolate whey protein powder with hot water. Unsurprisingly, boiling hot water denatures the whey and gives you strange chocolate protein ricotta lumps in lightly brown water.
You can guess how I discovered this fact.
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My mom mixes protein powder into her coffee and just drinks it like so, lumps and all. Yuck! I can remember as a kid sneaking sips of her coffee and being met with protein lumps hahaha
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You SHOULD make protein iced coffee, though. Delicious and nutritious 
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Yeah no that sounds delicious.
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Deleted post, sorry!
I haven’t done this in a while but it was one of my favorites when I lifted regularly. Half cold brew concentrate, half almond milk, scoop of chocolate protein powder. Yummy and a great pick me up after the gym.
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I’ve been following this issue and saw this, so thought I’d share.
As with all the other articles I’ve read, they kind of tiptoe/avoid pointing out the root of the problem which is that, even among teachers, people don’t want to work with this population- then they slip it in like it’s a given, lol. And they don’t look at it critically at all or think about how people might push back against the social aspect rather than just raising the pay, lol. I mean raising the pay is fine with me, but teacher’s unions largely oppose it because it’s “unfair”…but this isn’t just a money problem. Here’s a quote (italics are mine):
“A lot of times, teaching special ed can be thought of as the least desirable job in a school. We know it’s hard. We know it’s staffed by a lot of underqualified people. People don’t think of it as a job that requires specialized expertise.”
I mean, imagine an outlet like Slate sharing a quote like that about kids in any other minority group (the quote is from an educator, lol), as if it’s a non-controversial fact of life that we can all innately understand because it’s so obvious. Gross, lol, and this exact attitude is literally why this problem exists to begin with, like…HELLO? Is anyone home? No? Ok, then. LOL.
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Wheeeeeewww idk how to respond without being extremely angry or just saying something unhelpful but a huge elephant in the room is that a staggering majority of adults, even highly trained professionals (I think the higher degree achievement the worse it gets in most cases) are not emotionally mature enough to work with children with disabilities or even non diagnosible support needs like a “regular” but remedial reading or math class. It’s also really weird how common it is for teachers to not like kids or ascribe adult motivations and projections onto literal elementary schoolers.
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I totally agree. <3 It is so rage inducing. And I extra agree with this:
I think about this with mental healthcare too. I don’t think we actually have enough people who are emotionally mature enough to help people with big problems. I think we will at some point, but not yet.
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I’m posting without reading the article, but I did a volunteer day in my kids preK ESE class back in the before times.
More than you ever wanted to know
The classroom has the teacher, a teacher’s aide, and 10-18 kids between ages three and five-ish (depending on if they missed the kindergarten cut off for the year), the kids age in the day they turn three years old so the class is always largest at the end of the school year.
The teacher could not sit down or else she got swarmed with kids. Sweet, well intentioned kids, but swarmed nonetheless.
She did not get a lunch break because the kids ate their lunches in the classroom, the cafeteria was too noisy and unsupervised for the preK kids. There was a rest period but only maybe half the kids slept, the rest watched an educational video while they laid on their mats. The rest period is when the aide took her mandated lunch break, it’s the only time she felt it was okay to leave the main teacher solo with all the kids.
The teacher is not allowed to touch the kids. Meaning, if one of the kids climbs up on top of the desks and threatens to jump, she cannot physically get them down. She just had to use her words. She also can’t hug the kids but can hug them back if they initiate.
One kid would punch her in the stomach, at which point she had to call the front office on the intercom and they’d send the school resource officer or an admin person (the kid in question was not bothered by this, he saw it as getting special one on one time with an adult). Oh and the day I was there the intercom wasn’t working so she wasn’t sure if anyone heard her, this was when the aide was gone so I went to the office but if I hadn’t been there she just would have been solo with a bunch of other kids to keep safe and one kid that kept physically assaulting her. Again, this kid was five years old tops. Just, WTF.
Oh and I heard her chatting with the aide at one point about her eval. The principal marked her off for not getting one of the kids to participate in an activity. The kid is from India, I’m not sure he spoke much English, and very much had the “little prince” culture at home - he wouldn’t wipe his own butt or pull up his pants after using the bathroom because his mom insisted on doing it for him even after the teacher and aide told his parents he needed to learn skills like using the bathroom independently, so I’m sure he got to do whatever the f he wanted at home so of course he’s likely to sit out a school activity. Also? He was like four years old, c’mon, even regular four year olds just have days that they don’t wanna.
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I’ve heard a lot of similar horror stories from people in that line of work. It sounds very difficult!
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Today I learned what “breeching” was.
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This was a great read- I recommend it if you’re not sure exactly what’s causing supply chain stuff; it explained a lot for me!
https://www.cfindustries.com/newsroom/2022/union-pacific-shipping-restrictions
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A woodlouse is the same thing as a pill bug/rolly-Polly/potato bug
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And we call them slaters.
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They’ve also closed schooling for girls beyond 6th grade.
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Ugh I can’t heart this. We all knew it was coming, but… 
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