I used to work for the VA on a Spinal Column Injury ward. You’d be appalled at how many people end up paralyzed from the neck down because they dove into shallow water head first. Never do that.
Students in my sixth grade class would race each other to the whiteboard to solve my fraction problems using the process I taught. I want people to understand why math is the way it is not just how to mechanically do it. You haven’t lived until you’ve hear 32 twelve year olds, in chorus, shout out, “Factor bar!” and “Prime numbers”. They understood!
Let the blasted leaves sheet compost on the lawn. That way they provide habitat for bugs and other tiny critters. Nobody cares what yer wretched front yard looks like in the winter anyway.
A couple of decades of teaching taught me that homework is nothing more than child abuse. They should be outside playing. Only if the sprat is consumed with their social media should they be sentenced to homework.
The Navy can’t reach Philadelphia, they have to come by sea.