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840 frames of eddie diaz
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do you have any ideas about why so many students are struggling with literacy now? I know that illiteracy and reading comprehension have been issues for years and most americans read at like a 5th grade reading level but I’m curious why it seems to be worse now (pandemic? no child left behind?)
It is everything. There’s not one answer. I could talk about this forever so instead I set a five minute timer on my phone and wrote a list of as many of the many things that are causing this on a systemic level that I could think of:
- It’s parents not reading with their kids (a privilege, but some parents have that privilege to be able to do this and don’t.)
- It’s youtube from birth and never being bored.
- It’s phasing out phonics for sight words (memorizing without understanding sounds or meaning) in elementary schools in the early aughts.
- It’s defunding public libraries that do all the community and youth outreach.
- It’s NCLB and mandating standardized tests which center reading short passages as opposed to longform texts so students don’t build up the endurance or comprehension skills.
- It’s NCLB preventing schools from holding students back if they lack the literacy skills to move onto the next grade because they can’t be left behind so they’re passed on.
- It’s the chronic underfunding of ESL and Special Ed programs for students who need extra literacy support.
- It’s the cultural devaluing of the humanities in favor of stem and business because those make more money which leads to a lot of students to completely disregard reading and writing.
- It’s the learning loss from covid.
- It’s covid trauma manifesting in a lot of students as learned helplessness, or an inability to “figure things out” or push through adversity to complete challenging tasks independently, especially reading difficult texts.
- It’s covid normalizing cheating and copying.
- It’s increasing phone use.
- It’s damage to attention span exacerbated by increased phone use that leaves you without an ability to sit and be bored ever without 2-3 forms of constant stimulation.
- It’s shortform video becoming the predominant form of social media content as opposed to anything text-based.
- It’s starting to also be generative AI.
- It’s the book bans.
what did I miss.
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#the 3 very grown adults of the 118
9-1-1 Hen Wilson, Eddie Diaz and Evan 'Buck' Buckley -> 8x07 Hotshots
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if i see a mutual shouldering 0 notes i put an end to it
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Uncle Buck and Jee 🥹❤️
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Most people are 26 years old
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i wonder what it's like to be emotionally stable. anyways [thinks about fictional characters to survive] i am fine
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Eddie Diaz & Evan Buckley | 9-1-1 Season 8 Episode 7 'Hotshots'
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He is ready to work for TMZ
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buck buckley baked. instead of calling his ex-boyfriend who was Not Good For Him. HE BAKED. like, can we please be proud of buck buckley. for that. because no, buck wanting to call tommy is not a sign that they were Meant To Be. it is a classic buck buckley move. a direct comparison to abby. who he DID cling onto, to his own detriment. for MONTHS. like, this is pattern. his family recognises that this is a pattern. because buck clings. buck clings because he's afraid to be alone and he's afraid he's not good enough. and his family knows this. MADDIE knows this, perhaps most of all. which is why she said what she said. bobby knows this too, has seen it. has seen the way buck throws himself into relationships (there was a whole conversation about it in the truck that one time) and clings to them even when (especially when) they are not good for him. he compared it to recovery, in fact. to being able to recognise when you are clinging on to something for all the wrong reasons. because you have let it shape so much of you that you don't know who you are without it. and eddie. eddie knows it too. knows that buck will shrink himself down, create a new version of himself to be whatever it is he thinks someone else needs. when, actually. he doesn't need to be anything for anyone. buck buckley BAKED. he baked. and when baking wasn't enough to combat the fear of being alone. his family rallied around him and refused to let him call his ex-boyfriend and shrink himself down again in order to be good enough. and i think that's beautiful.
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9-1-1 | HOTSHOTS (8.07)
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tristan and max need to fuck it out for the sake of the trio STAT
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this photo is cracking me up idk why
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Maddie is pushing Buck towards Eddie one step at a time.
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i'm sure polyamory and throuples are all very fun irl but can you please stop it in fiction. please. bring back cheating and threesomes where no one can look at each other the next day