smellmyhead

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

essentially every core premise of the whole language movement has been tested and rejected by both qualitative and quantitative research, but that won't stop them because they can't fucking read

Yeah I too wish there was an ALL OF THE ABOVE option, and maybe also a 2nd poll question about which of these colonizers were partly responsible for my existence (at least one of them, in my case), even though I also want to keep talking about Land Back