Yeah but academic instruction for 10 hours a day would be wildly unreasonable. If there was a lot more free time built in, sure. Usually there is aftercare here, they have homework time then just play.

The hours are kind of crazy to accommodate the busing. Elementary and high school start really early, middle school does run 9-4.

I don’t like changing the clocks around and do (since I can’t change my work schedule or when yoga class is) like DST better. Like most office jobs, where I work nobody notices if you come in early but if you stay later they think you are doing more than you actually are.

But if we have to change them, it is at least this year on the best day it could possibly be, we get one more hour of Halloween.

And school should start at 9am either way. That whole argument about kids waiting in the dark, because of DST, is because school starts at like 0730, what the fuck? Let the kids sleep until 7 at least.

Oh come on. Is there a word for this like Uncle Tom? Aunt what?

Stand up for your sisters or be stomped.

And for the record - I am a mom & got to stay home with some of my kids for a couple of years, love some D/s in the bedroom. I don’t disagree with the lifestyle. I very strongly disagree with forcing everyone to get on board. Fuck right off with that. You do you and give everyone else the same consideration. Leave my kids alone.

Agreed, sure. Especially in school sports, the point is not even supposed to be winning. It’s teamwork and working together with people not like you.

My trans son doesn’t think sports are a big deal - doping is already disallowed so he couldn’t compete on either the boys or girls teams in soccer at high school, wanted to play but it’s not anything he thought a big issue - more like if he wanted to play that bad, would have waited to do T and “tomboy” his way onto the girls team, and did end up having to wait until 18 anyway, the laws changed.

And almost no people are good enough at sports to be pro. And not a large proportion of the population is trans, the intersection of those two has to be vanishingly small.

Is it legal for a very short athletic woman to have her kids with a short athletic guy to advantage them in gymnastics? Is it legal for me to have my kids with a very tall athletic guy because it will advantage them in volleyball? There is just SO much intra-sex variation I don’t understand why it matters but mostly just wanted to say the actual trans people I personally know don’t give a fuck about being able to be on a gendered sports team.

There are dozens of us!

Yeah only one of my kids learned to drive the manual but I love it. Lately I take an electric bike everywhere so hopefully the car lasts. The only one I’d trade it for is the Civic SI but those are $$$ and as long as my car will go I will keep it - they can last, especially the stick shift ones.

I had the original Pixel, and now the 5, not sure if I will get one next time but this one is still good.

It’s kind of like my car - I have a 6 speed 2014 Honda, it does everything I want & nothing I don’t want. Newer ones are better in some ways, but not in ways I want.

I don’t want a fancier phone or car, I want a more reliable one that does the things I want it to do. Not stuffed with “features”.