{"id":37975,"date":"2017-04-06T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=37975"},"modified":"2017-04-06T19:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:41:17","slug":"life-is-strange-ep2-life-is-save-scumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=37975","title":{"rendered":"Life is Strange EP2: Life is Save Scumming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6ziYTe8v8o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G6ziYTe8v8o'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>To repeat my rant: If you&#8217;re a teacher and you make kids stay in your class when they say they&#8217;re sick, then you&#8217;re an <em>asshole<\/em>. A villain. Kids are human beings. They have pain and discomfort just like us big people. They also have a lot less coping mechanisms for dealing with discomfort. One stupid class session is not more important than their suffering. Making a kid stay when they ask to be excused is a great way to end up with blood, feces, urine, or vomit in your classroom, which isn&#8217;t going to improve anyone&#8217;s educational experience. Also, on top of making a kid suffer you&#8217;ve also given them an intensely humiliating experience that they will carry around for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, if a kid is trying to get out of class then they have already mentally checked out. You can make them stay, but you can&#8217;t <em>make<\/em> them learn. Refusing to let a kid use the bathroom is all downside. You <em>monster<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of my problem was that I was really incompetent socially. There&#8217;s a certain performance of body language that we expect from people who are sick. It&#8217;s reflected in face, posture, and tone of voice. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s something we learn from adults or if it just comes naturally for most people, but I apparently never got the memo and didn&#8217;t know how to &#8220;act&#8221; sick, even when I was sick. I&#8217;d just walk to the front of the room and state my problem, which would get me flagged as a faker. So once in a while I&#8217;d have one of those teachers that decided their dumb bullshit needed to be the center of my life and would send me back to my seat when I asked to be excused.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s been bugging me for 35 years. Glad to finally get that off my chest. I feel like we&#8217;ve made some good progress here today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) To repeat my rant: If you&#8217;re a teacher and you make kids stay in your class when they say they&#8217;re sick, then you&#8217;re an asshole. A villain. Kids are human beings. They have pain and discomfort just like us big people. They also have a lot less coping mechanisms for dealing with discomfort. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}