I remember the 'fill in a form' unit standard and literally all they had to do was write block capitals with one letter per box and some still managed to screw it up

A lot of people Do Not Understand, so it's probably a reasonable survival mechanism until you know the other person a bit (in my experience of weirding people out)

You'd be much more of a bore if you started talking about Crossfit or Ayn Rand

I think this is more acceptable with other parents.
But I don't think it's off limits

In other news: why aren't people working themselves to death for the benefit of their employers??

'apolitical'
'Shown without context of Nazi atrocities'
😒

Party like it's 2005

It's not really scary but it is very weird

In a world where facts are immediately available do we want people who can only parrot a bunch of names and dates, or do we want people who can make meaning, synthesise, evaluate?

The Social Studies curriculum was conceptual not only because it let teachers select contexts that were relevant to their students, but also because getting kids to understand concepts is hard! They have to think hard!