Brokkr

Sounds like you only want to support some of them, but that’s not your job. Your job is to support all of them. Right now, you are making things worse for the kids who need the most help, and that’s hurting all of your students.

You aren’t in a place mentally where you can help right now and that’s OK, we all end up in that place sometimes. You need support for yourself as well. Go talk to someone who knows how to help, not only friends and family, not only coworkers. A professional licensed therapist will be able to help you. Get help for yourself and the success of your students.

I did talk to them about the safety plan for my child. And I spoke to my child. One thing that was really helpful was having a supportive team of people at the school who understood my child’s circumstances and needs. They were incredibly supportive and helped us find the support we needed outside of school. Kid is doing great now.

While you may not like it, supporting all students is the expectation of a teacher. I’m sorry the parents are shitty to you, but a lot of that comes from having to deal with shitty teachers over and over again. You get to choose if you want to make things better or worse for your students.

I hope you get the help that you need (all care givers of kids like this need therapy, it really helps) and can think about if you want to keep helping. Otherwise, you’re the problem here, not the kids who need help.

The school is also required to have a safety plan in place for when this happens to protect the other students. The IEP protects both sets of students.

It sounds like you’re frustrated because you or a family member may have been impacted by an incident like the one you describe. It is also OK for you to request the help that you or your family needs.

All children are entitled to an equal education, and some need more supports than others. This system may not be perfect, but it’s much better than the harm and neglect that these children used to receive decades ago. Removing them from their peers at all times is harmful, but that does not mean that they are allowed to be violent and harmful at any time.

Depending on the depth of the snow, you may want to consider gaters.

As for the boots, you might be able to use a good pair of leather boots with lots of insulation (buy a size or 2 above what you need and wrap your feet up well). The advantage of full leather boots is that they can be maintained and repaired, whereas rubber will wear out eventually. Wearing the insulation will be better than having it built into the boot. Worn out socks are easier to replace than built-in insulation.

Regardless, look for Merrell out soles or plan to use crimp-ons for icy conditions.

Maybe a Sorel or LL Bean boot. They are only water proof up to a certain depth, but they both do pretty well in the winter.

It would help to know when you plan to wear them, what activities are you with them?

At least the games are still for sale, as best I can tell. That means that the messages in the games could still be reaching an audience and the producers are still able to get revenue from them for that market (hopefully to keep making more games).

The alternative is that Steam gets banned in China making it much harder to access this content at all.

You summed it up pretty well. Consoles are basically dead at this point. Sony is hurting too.

Both companies badly mismanaged this last generation and there’s a significant sentiment that the value of the consoles wasn’t justified. Why would consumers want to buy another one?

Sony should have done the subscription model in the last generation. They would have buried Xbox.

Xbox has a chance now if they become a competitor to the steam machine, but the price will have to be much better than that system. If it isn’t free, then it will need to offer steam as a marketplace.

The only way either system could survive any other way is if they went handheld like steam deck or switch, but that might be even harder.

This CEO sounds worse than the last. With a declining brand, making games exclusive is only going to make the brand tank harder.

Their next system needs to be free, or nearly free (~$100), but with a required subscription. Game pass needs to switch to a model that has a lowest tier at $10 or $15 per month that allows 3 games per month (from the whole catalog, you pick the game and it uses 1 credit, resets at end of every month) up to a premium tier at $35 per month that has unlimited play. Free console with 3 year subscription to the premium tier.

Console specs should be 4k at 60 Hz. $900 without subscription. Announce this the day after Sony announces the PS6. Sony would be screwed, especially because they are already releasing most of their games to all consoles simultaneously (per the most recent summer games fest).

In 3 years, raise the price of the lowest tier to $20 with 5 credits per month. Offer a 6 month discount on a 1 year contract for any accounts which have completed their 3 year subscription.

I get that this was primarily created to benefit laptops, but would it provide any advantage for desktops?