I have a learning disability called dyscalculia. I wouldn't be surprised if you've never heard of it. Most people have heard of dyslexia which refers to people that can't keep words and letters straight. Dyscalculia is similar except instead of having trouble with letters it makes people have trouble with numbers and math. Dyscalculia makes it difficult to deal with simple numbers and it makes it extremely hard to do any complicated math. According to scientists, they may have discovered the area of the brain that's links to dyscalculia. Researchers have explained that the area of the brain known as the intraparietal sulcus (or IPS) is crucial for properly processing numerical information. This part of the brain is located toward the top and back of the brain and goes across both lobes. The IPS helps determine how many items are perceived, as opposed to how much. To explain how these two different modes of thinking are related, researchers say to think about what it's like when a…
If you can read this, you're not living in a dystopia! You know how teenagers end up so negative, depressed, and pessimistic? Maybe it's because we shove gloom and doom down their throats as part of their required reading. In the United States, George Orwell's mid-20th-century dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is heavily picked by teachers as required reading for students, and the blues don't end there. Here is a list of required reading titles for American high schools, let's see how negative these works are…
The Catcher in the Rye - Young boy rants about "phony" society, rages at the world.
Lord of the Flies - Group of stranded boys descends into homicidal savagery.
Animal Farm - Political revolution on a farm turns into dystopia for the animals.
Fahrenheit 451 - Dystopian society burns books because they're for smart people.
1984 - World has taken over by totalitarian regime just for the evil LULZ.
Brave New World - See the previous novel, filtered through Elon…
This may well be the year when the American people learn to appreciate street smarts over book smarts. Because kids right now can learn important lessons about how badly the adult world has lost it right now. We have Betsy
DeVos in charge of the Department of Education, which is like putting a fox in charge of the henhouse. We have the
"demon seed" lady replacing Dr. Fauci as our national pandemic expert. The US is heading into the
worst peaks of COVID-19 infection while the rest of the world is recovering. We've had a whole eight months now to come up with a plan for back-to-school this year… and we
just don't have one! It might be too late for most of you already, but parents, please understand that the US public school system is not the police. They can't enforce doodly squat. You are the parent, and in the absence of any safety measures to protect your child, you are well within your right to demand the schools enact those measures or just pull your kid out and home-school. …
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