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In one of the comments he literally says that she would be flattered if she saw his post. Absolutely foul.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C7XxcFXzq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Wondering if anyone here has any insights or experience to share for a PST.

Reading this article and noticing the following quote:

"Under the VTLM 2.0, all Victorian government schools must fully embed the policy in their teaching by 2028 and in some instances will “include retiring approaches and practices that do not align with the VTLM 2.0”."

The policy mandates explicit instruction. While there are obvious benefits to explicit instruction (I work at a school where OCHRE is implemented across the board, and while it seems to work well for some students, I feel it is disastrous for others, but I freely admit that is my anecdotal experience), I have a few concerns.

My issue is not over the efficacy of EI (although I have my concerns, but I admit they may be naively unfounded), but that teachers will be relegated to mere facilitators, basically being handed a PowerPoint, a group of students, and being told to read out the PowerPoint and go through the slides, and then hand out a worksheet at the end and then call it a day. TBH, this is what I see in large part on a daily basis in my school.

While I understand every lesson (or any lesson) isn't a scene from Dead Poets Society, being forced to standardise our approach and be stripped of any professional judgment on pedagogical practice seems to be antithetical to good teaching practice, and, quite frankly, really boring and unrewarding as a profession.

Am I misunderstanding anything here? Is this already happening? Happy to be put in my place, any insights welcome.

In 1970, the Spaniard José Eduardo González Arenas, alias "Eddie," created Edelweiss as a supposed hiking group inspired by the Boy Scouts. What many parents envisioned as a place where their children would learn discipline, values, and a love for nature, turned out to be a secret organization with extraterrestrial beliefs based on the Ummo phenomenon.

Eddie convinced the children that he was an alien named "Prince Alain" and that only those who remained loyal to the sect would survive the end of the world. Under this deception, he subjected them to absolute control, imposed silence through threats, trained them with weapons, instilled concepts of racial purity, and introduced them to bizarre notions related to intimacy. Alongside his right-hand man, Carlos de los Ríos, and the monitors of the Iron Guard, he sexually exploited numerous minors, transforming Edelweiss into a brutal network of nefarious activities backed by influential people in Spain.

Although Eddie was arrested in Madrid and later in Alicante, the sentences were very lenient, and he ended up creating new Edelweiss groups throughout Spain. Gran Canaria became one of the organization's main centers of operations, from where it consolidated a child trafficking network.

Finally, an investigation launched in 1984 led numerous minors to break their silence and recount everything that had happened within Edelweiss. Eddie fled to Portugal but was extradited to Spain and sentenced to 168 years in prison, although he ended up serving only 6. After regaining his freedom, he tried to approach minors again in Ibiza, until he was murdered in 1998 during a confrontation with a young man who had previously reported him.

Video about the brutal history of the Edelweiss cult. The infamous apocalyptic alien cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CpchYkxob4

I just picked up Dune from my local library.

This has to be the worst Dune cover, right?

Edit: To clarify, the author's name is translated, so 'Frenk' is not a spelling error. It's just the way it's pronounced in Serbian. Not that it helps the cover much lol

you get stuff like this which I have a couple questions about:

1. Was the devil pissed about the “stems and leaves” because he was robbing marijuana crops?
2. Did this lady seriously flash her MENSTRUAL CYCLE SNATCH to a devil and run him

away

1. because why else would he be convinced that it’s a WOUND???

Hey, does anyone have the un-paywalled version, and what are your thoughts around this?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-style-of-teaching-gets-results-say-governments-but-resistance-to-it-is-growing-20260528-p601ey.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the_age&utm_content=feed&utm_term=metros_social_eds

For me, it’s Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. The scene where Jesus and Satan meet in the desert is my favourite scene of the whole film.