You've more than demonstrated your laughable ignorance up thread.
You're clearly not qualified for this discussion. Take your ignorant nonsense back to whatever right-wing echo chamber you came from.
It really isn't FFS.
Where do you live that you think this?
Reality.
It's not common at all...
Only in your imagination.
that families pimp out their children/nieces/nephews to have sex for money?
Close to half of all child trafficking involves members of the child's family.
The real problem is this absurd implicit assumption that every childless moron and politician makes that every kid has a 1950s-style middle class nuclear family with educated and involved parents.
"Parents should be the ones who..." Well, lots of kids don't have parents. Lots of kids just have one. Lots of kids have parents who don't have the means (money, intelligence, education, support, etc) to raise them in your mythical ideal way. Lots of kids have parents who abuse them, traffic them, ignore them... Lots of kids are stuck in a system that is all but completely indifferent to them. Others are stuck in a system that is designed to funnel them into private prisons.
...and that's all the defending of Republicans that I can stomach for this week
Yeah, I figured that's where you got that bullshit.
I figure they ignore the pedo problem because the company also preys on kids, just in different ways.
parental oversight can pretty easily eliminate that threat
Unlikely. Kids can access that cesspit in countless ways from countless places. It's not like they can only access Roblox from the family PC in the living room... Also, not all kids have families or guardians that are interested or capable of effectively monitoring their internet use. Hell, some kids have families that explicitly traffic their children, a horror that is a lot more common than you'd expect.
For all the potential good, it comes with a lot of real harms.
Roblox is not a net good. Far from it. I'd go as far as to call it actively harmful. The company exploits its developers, mostly children, quite badly. A not insignificant portion of their users also exploit children, in the worst ways you can image. Roblox is a fractal of evil.
Relax, we've been having this exact same discussion since 1994. This slope isn't nearly as slippery as you think.
They'll probably just continue to use whatever they're using now. Kids have been lying about their age on social media to avoid account restrictions longer than any kid today has been alive.
Remember that social media companies are just like any other corporation and couldn't care less about anything other than this quarter's profit. They are going to do the absolute minimum to tick the "doing enough" box without a second's thought toward social responsibility. This is absolutely not going to escalate into a technological arms race against tweens.
You're either blind, completely delusional, or you don't know what cursive writing looks like. It's all over the place. You probably have a few examples of cursive writing in view right now, you're just too dull to have noticed.
Drink Coca-Cola at Wendy's? Eat at Chick-fil-a? Drive a Ford or a Cadillac? Eat Kellogg's brand cereal? Have a reaction to Chanel perfume and need a Kleenex? Play pretend with your Barbie doll while eating the Campbell's soup you bought at Walgreen's from a Ball jar while posting pictures on Instagram of the Dodger's tossing around a Wilson brand ball? Hurt yourself drinking a Budweiser knocking around a Titleist and need a first-aid kit from Johnson & Johnson? I'll get you a Hallmark card that says 'get well soon'
Do you still want to pretend that you haven't seen cursive writing outside of a museum your entire life?
Read leaflet
Get leaflet
Open mailbox
Your unbelievable lack of ordinary life experience does not change the fact that cursive writing is still incredibly common.
The hype around AI in education at least makes sense. If you're impressed with a chatbot and try to use it to learn about something you don't know much about, it can seem like an impossibly patient and wise tutor with limitless knowledge. The illusion is incredibly convincing... until you try having it teach you about a subject you know very well.
The terminally delusional, sadly, still assume that the current state-of-the-art must be good enough for primary school children as the material isn't terribly complicated. The reality, as you know, is that it doesn't matter. AI doesn't operate on facts and concepts, but on statistical relationships between tokens. It will still generate nonsense and even defend the nonsense it generated. It's hard to image a resource that's worse for a struggling student.
Just for fun, this is what 4o produced when asked a simple question about fractions:
> is this correct? ab/c = a/c b
No, the equation \( \frac{ab}{c} = \frac{a}{c} b \) is not correct as written. However, if you interpret it as follows:
\[
\frac{ab}{c} = a \cdot \frac{b}{c}
\]
that would be correct. You can factor \( a \) out of the fraction on the left side, which gives you:
\[
\frac{ab}{c} = a \cdot \left( \frac{b}{c} \right)
\]
So, the correct representation should maintain the order and context of multiplication and division.
When I asked simple follow-up questions, it generated even more nonsense. I can't even being to image the kind of confusion a response like this would cause a struggling student.
... I had hoped that including Rocky IV in my list would make it obvious that I was making a joke.
Corruption is ultimately what destroyed the Soviet Union. The US has a serious problem with corruption at the moment, but it's nothing compared to USSR where you paid bribes not to get around the rules, but so that the authorities would follow them.
I haven't seen cursive anywhere but on documents in a museum at any point in my life
You can't possibly be serious. I can see several things written in cursive from my desk right now, not including handwritten notes. Cursive writing is incredibly common on commercial products. Decorative signs, package design, logos, t-shirts
Now, you can read cursive writing automatically, which is probably why you haven't noticed it just about everywhere you look. The same is not true for kids who did not learn cursive in school. A personal anecdote: I had a kid a few months back run up to me and say "you'll never guess where so-and-so went on vacation!" She was surprised when I said "Myrtle Beach". "How did you know?!". "It's written on your shirt". "Is that really what it says?". The text, of course, was written in cursive.
So, yes, we should teach a style of writing that is still in common use. That you haven't seen it (noticed it, more likely) is downright astonishing.
* UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories.
