2023-2024 NFL Season Thread • Page 223

Also some random baseball card game called Showdown was huge in my school for a time.

 

Elementary school for me was Pokemon, middle school was Final Fantasy, high school was also Final Fantasy and playing shows

 

I'd also occasionally bring my PS2 and Guitar Hero to school and we'd all play during band class

 

Wanna chime in and say I agree teaching old books & authors is not a great way to get kids engaged with reading. But I’m sure they do it for reading comprehension more so than exposure to art, which makes sense you’d have high school students try to translate outdated English and overwrought turns of phrase

 

I think the main problem is we still have the archaic system of preparing for SATs and state tests, and that entire curriculum sucks the fun out of learning for kids who might otherwise be somewhat interested in school

I don’t know a single teacher that doesn’t think SAT and other standardized test prep is damaging to students’ self esteem and willingness to engage with the content, and takes away from more meaningful stuff they could be learning. Standardized tests make sense for math because it’s fully objective and there is one answer, but I think it’s important to let kids come up with their own answers for arts and humanities

 

Yeah elementary school was n64 and pokemon, middle school was halo and high school was ps2 and not being a popular kid

 

Never had to take the SATs. Did anyway because my guidance counselor was an idiot

 

Elementary school was a ton of Pokemon and video games for me. Got into yugioh and beyblades and anime in middle school, started playing Halo 2 with friends. High school was anime and Halo 3 and card games and music. I was a dork. Still am

 

Elementary school was parents getting divorced & making fun of pedophiles in chat rooms on AIM with my neighbor
Middle school was making fake screennames/using Peter Answers and telling people in my town I was coming to get them
High school was catfishing kids on the football team

 

MLB Showdown was great

 

I think I only ever actually completed one book during my school years - The Outsiders

 

My English teacher had us watch Children Of Men for an assignment once

She was the best

 

Elementary school - star wars toys
Middle school - Pokemon
High school - installing unreal tournament on computer lab computers and playing during study halls

 

foo fighters good

 

he's right

 

on my company's internal employee website portal thing an employee commented "Jesus is the only way!!! He loves you, and cares for you deeply. Repent and turn from your sins! God is Gracious and loving!! God bless!" under a post about Pride resources throughout the country. Very cool and smart thing to do

no idea why there's comment sections on there anyway

 

Was never angrier than what the college I was applying to told me they weren't even going to look at my ACT and SAT scores. So. Angry.

 

Today is perfect Ethel Cain weather

 

Don't know what that means, all I know is it's too hot in the northeast

 

Also from my hometown!

 

Already can't wait for autumn and winter.

 

So weird that Jacksonville has a much bigger music scene than Tallahassee yet much better acts come from Tallahassee lol

Pool Kids and Ethel Cain are two of my favorite recent acts

 

That's so cool - Preacher's Daughter is such an experience. American Teenager was easily and unquestioned my favorite song from last year, but the much different rest of the album is still fantastic. Not something I'd ever recommend to literally any of my friends, but those who want it ... they get it.

 

I didn't listen to it until February of this year so it wasn't on my AOTY list but it's EASILY my favorite of last year.