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@Cyborgneticz yeah I mean Montessori also generally starts at pre-k so you’re not necessarily aware its unusual until you get out?

& generally yeah but the fact that its not considered rude in context is supposed to be the point — you’re addressing them the way you would a peer

fwiw I have way less educational trauma than like…almost everyone I know so clearly some of it worked haha

@Cyborgneticz montessori schools do the ‘call teachers by their first names’ thing but its part of a larger set of expectations intended to reduce the power differential

@pamela honestly my physical textbooks haven’t been too bad — it helps that history has always tended towards assigning papers over needing a single textbook & those always have institutional access

That said I’d like to issue a callout for Vista Higher Learning — their online homework software is very popular with the Spanish dept which means that I got stuck paying $102.50 for a e-textbook I’ll loose access to at the end of the semester

@Cyborgneticz !!!!

@rabbithearth i’m glad you’re okay! That sounds terrifying

@KittyUnpretty yeah I’d figured there was at least a chance of having 2 digits before the comma

Glad it wasnt completely nightmarish to sort out

@KittyUnpretty yeah the fact that it would have been so easy to avoid definitely compounds the effect

How do you even fix something like that?

@KittyUnpretty thats uh, a choice

@rabbithearth welcome back!