The Syndicate

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:07 pm I have a student who habitually copies and pastes things from the Internet and turns it in. No, I never give her credit for any of it. She just Googles whatever questions I pose and goes from there. No matter how many times I've addressed her, she insists on doing it.

Today I caught her searching, "How does this piece make you as the reader feel?"

The district says it's my job to get her to pass a state standardized test next month.

What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?

This is both hilarious and painfully real.

I was in 9th grade health class when it happened. I didn't find out about it until I went to my next class, band, where no one even bothered to take their instruments out, and we watched the news on TV in eerie silence. We were kept in that class for longer than usual, then sent home early that day because I suppose they knew nothing would get done, and we were in a county where parents are very involved (to a fault at times) and were freaking out. Not surprisingly, my mom was home from work when I got back. She was concerned about some of her cousins living in NYC, but thankfully, no one that we know of was hurt or killed. My parents were divorced at the time, but my dad came to our house later, and the TV stayed on for the rest of the day, playing and replaying the horror.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:I had no pie on Pi day.

That is tragic

Epignosis wrote:I got to spend my morning in a middle school gymnasium with about a thousand bodies is what.

It was riveting. Simply riveting.

A Person wrote:I don't want to watch the show until I've tried reading the books, but I'm not sure when that'll be.

Ooh, another forum to talk! I'm liking this place.

I am doing exactly that (reading the books before the show), although it does work out nicely that Season 1 is book 1, etc., so you don't have to read all of them to see at least part of the series. I did, however, *accidentally* give a spoiler to someone about book 3, not knowing that season 3 is only half of book 3. Oops?