This Online Group Is “Showcasing The Idea That We Live In A Dystopia That Is Boring” One Post At A Time (50 Posts)

Worse is when they are not even asked to pay!

That's just SAD... and super cruel.

The sad truth...

SO TRUE!! We no longer have free lunches at our school, and it’s not cheap! (Although the lunches at our school are good)

wtf is this actually happening over in America...

I think this depends on the celeb.

Dial that back JUST a bit. What we LEARNED?? No, we experienced it, and we are whitewashing the whole affair so we don't need to learn anything. Just because you can demonstrate and prove something, has no connection to us necessarily learning it.

🤔...🤨

bUt MeH rIgHts! Gods I hate people sometimes.

This is just a simple fact.

A rent payment is not a credit transaction. Try to understand the difference. The real kicker is that you might think paying off a debt would improve a persons credit worthiness ie. I borrowed money and then paid it back before I said I would. Nope, closing a credit line by paying it off lowers your credit rating. Now that is bass ackwards.

Let's all thank the Supreme Court and Citizens United. I'll believe "corporations are people, too" [Mitt Romney] when a corporation gets sentenced to death in Texas.

Someone posted a photo of their itemised maternity bill from a US hospital on another forum a while back-it included a $50 charge for "skin to skin care." Skin to skin is literally putting the naked baby onto the mother or father's bare chest. It's meant to help with temperature regulation, and is alleged to help soothe the baby immediately after birth, but its not a medical procedure. Mum picks up the baby, puts it on her chest, and the hospital charges $50 for a midwife to watch? It's utterly ludicrous. The American healthcare system is beyond a joke.

So let's do it.

But they give "thoughts and prayers" every time something happens! Isn't that enough!?!

I get my diabetes medication free. After reading all this stuff, I'm so glad I was born in the UK. It's certainly not perfect, but 1000x better than living in the 'Land of the free'.

They'll get right on that.

Because clapping and banging pots and pans is the new rental currency, obviously/s

I live in the Middle East and I could argue with you guys :)

Unfortunately, it's very American nowadays. At least our government thinks so... and the people who try to stop it are shut down or too scared to be able to make a difference.

My taxi driver today was asking about healthcare in the US and I told him about people not having money for insulin just dying. He is a dialysis patient and wondered if the cost was covered. i honestly don't know but I am not super hopeful. But imagine the poor kid and thinking you could have killed your parent via a simple mistake cause health insurance sucks

:'( The wrong people are in charge because we believe that an object has incredible value.e

Yep.

I genuinely believe homework should be banned or extremely limited

This sounds so plausible that it's scary. Especially when you have a teacher that thinks an hour of homework isn't too much, but doesn't realize the students have 4 or 5 other teachers who think the same thing.

It shouldn't be. The point of homework is A: making sure kids actually understood what they learned in class enough to do it on their own and B: to teach them self control to stop doing something fun and do something boring. The issue is that schools give too much homework and assign homework kids need help with. Effective homework should be completable in less than 30 minutes without the help of a parent.

I remember at school my teacher telling me I need to do my homework because it’ll be expected of me when I’m older… I thought she meant when I go to uni :/

Ok, this is just my opinion, but I think that homework is good, just no more than 7-8 hours a week-it does help academically and as a year 7 student, I don’t mind it

I would ALWAYS do my homework at school so my private time was unsullied. My grades were good.

Sounds a lot like jobs that teachers have. Even in college.

I got heavily downvoted for posting this sentiment the other day, I guess I should have posted it as a screenshotted tweet instead /s /jk

Speaking as an (ex) teacher, I can assure you that homework is better for learning. It helps the students' memory to revise each day's lessons. And also remember that we teachers also have 'homework'. Marking, planning lessons -- we don't just fly by the sweat of out pants. We actually try to help kids. learm.

I realized it was all b******t when two teachers in high school claimed that for every 50 min class we should have 2 hrs of homework. One was a MATH teacher. When I taught undergrad I didn't give busy work.

I hadn't thought about it like that. I guess that's what happened to me

For the past two years I've been doing homeschooling because of covid (this year is my first year back) and for a whole semester, I had almost 10 hours of work per day because of a mistake the school district made and when confronted they said basically to just deal. That is the main reason why I'm back in school.

Ohhh, not a bad theory, really. I don't understand how people put up with it, really.

Homework used to be a punishment... this doesn't seem like we are progressing does it...

Wow,this one really git me thinking....

Kids are in school for 7 hours a day, all work should be completed there. After school and weekends are for family and recreation.

After 8 hours in class, children should be able to unwind and regain their peace. Not carry on the stress.

Oh yes, total grooming!

That is why we have Scholls without homework 😊 (amongst schools that have homework, because kids are different)

I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re wrong!

No, if we lost the cold war the cockroaches would be in charge. Maybe it's time to give them a shot...

I may be wrong here, but women choose to be nuns. If you don't want to wear a nun's habit, don't become a nun. It's the woman's decision, based not only on her faith but on her life choice (as in "work uniform"). Simple. There are countries where a woman merely going outside without hijab is punished and occasionally killed. I don't see the two as being comparable. Unless the bigotry is against women, rather than religion. Plenty of places where that's the case.

It's still a terrible story regardless of race: girl sees boy, girl falls in love with boy based on appearance, girl gives up EVERYTHING to be with boy... Catchy songs but I absolutely hate the premise.