|
||
Intermarkets' Privacy Policy Support
Donate to Ace of Spades HQ! Recent Entries
Overly Elaborate Backyard Cafe
FDA's Top Official Will Acknowledge They Did Not Even Begin Discussing For the Impending Baby Formula Crisis Until Mid-February-- and Did Nothing About It Until the Last Several Weeks Democrats Ponder: What Are We Going to Do About Biden? Schumer Won't Schedule Gun Control Votes FBI: We Totally Stopped Another Terror Attack, You Guys The Man That NeverTrump and the GOPe Promised Us Would Unite Americans Delivers Sick, Partisan Screed Standing on the Bodies of Children Parkland School Shooting Survivor "X Gonazalez" -- Formerly Emma Gonzalez -- Makes Public Death Threat Against Governor of Texas Kellyanne Conway Writes About Her Husband Throwing Away Their Marriage For Some Twitter Validation and Payback Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix] Mid-Morning Art Thread Absent Friends
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022 redc1c4 2021 Tami 2021 Chavez the Hugo 2020 Ibguy 2020 Rickl 2019 Joffen 2014 Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups
PNWMoMe:06/04/2022
Yakima, WA Contact Mark Andrew Edwards NoVaMoMe: 6/11/2022 Arlington, Virginia Registration closes May 31st. email for info All requests get a prompt response, so check your spam folder! 1st Annual Alaska MoMe: 7/15-7/17/2022, Willow, Alaska email for info Texas MoMe 2022: 10/21/2022-10/22/2022 Corsicana,TX Contact Ben Had |
« The Man Whose Child Was Taken Away From Him To Be "Transitioned" Into a Girl Runs for Texas House to Outlaw Gender Reassignments |
Main
| #CountryOverParty: Evan McMullin Used His "Non-Profits" To Pay Himself $3 Million In 2017 and 2018 »
March 04, 2022
The Atlantic: Schools' Masking Policy Has Imposed a Serious, Possibly Permanent, Devolopmental Delay On Many StudentsThe Atlantic published an article admitting the obvious: The masking mandates that the corrupt US and state and local governments forced on children, under pressure from the corrupt teachers unions have imposed developmental disorders on children that they may never recover from. The early years of development are critical ones. You don't get those back. These are critical years of development in which children's brains are wired to rewire themselves like crazy. Their brains will reconfigure themselves during these years like in no other point in their lives, ever. There is no "Do Over" switch on a child's formative years.
The article notes the usual problems with "teletherapy" -- kids are already bored by instruction, and they just disengage completely when the person they're "talking" to is on a screen. And in person: Always with the masks. Masks that prevented kids from seeing their therapists' mouths. Which they needed to see, to see how to shape their own mouths to form sounds. I mean, DUH! ... My own little speech therapy story, as an adult: I struggled with how to pronounce the French r and then the Italian trilled r. In both cases, you have to physically see how the tongue is deployed in making the respective r's to know now to make the sound. You can't intuit it. You have to see where the tongue should be placed to make the sound. Now, it's hard to see the tongue in someone's mouth, so, mask or not, you really couldn't see into someone's mouth to get this, unless they're opening their mouth very wide just to show you this. And even then, this is really something they would probably show you by drawing a sketch or showing you a picture. But, the point is: You need to see the visual of what the tongue, lips, and teeth are doing to know how to make a sound. It's indispensable. And I'm an adult. I still needed the visual. Describing to me that the "tongue rises towards the mid-palate in a soft hump" did not really do it for me. ![]() ![]() Above: tongue position for the French r, arched softly towards the mid/rear of the palate; below: the "retroflex" position for the English r. By the way, pretty much no one else in the world pronounces an r this way. If you can't see someone's mouth move as they talk, you are missing millions of minutes of free unconscious, automatic instruction in seeing how words are made, which is obviously the best kind of instruction, and the cheapest, and the easiest. Former AOS commenter Jeff B. just went through this hell with his own son. You might be tempted to dunk, but, you know, this is his kid. Have pity (just this once.) After reading the article, he's furious. Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD I stole the "Re-do" point from him. Just to emphasize how obvious it is that you need to SEE the lips, tongue, and teeth to know how to make sounds: Learning language, as an adult, being taught by adults, they are constantly showing off their mouths when they are making sounds they think might be out of the students' customary range of phonemes. If mere language teachers know the basics of speech therapy, how can actual speech therapists not know the basics of speech therapy?! Of course they know. A teacher says "Of course we know, but our union makes us do these evils." MojaveRattler @MojaveMamma Now let's see some progressives respond compassionately:
I think this might be a teacher, owing his job entirely to the union, because she completely failed reading comprehension. The main problem isn't that Jeff's son was wearing a mask -- it's that his speech therapist was wearing a mask, and that Jeff's son couldn't see his speech therapist's mouth. Yes, maybe there's some ADA law that lets Jeff's son take his mask down if he has a medical need, but is there a law that allows him to take down his Therapist's mask? No, because that wouldn't be a medical need, it would "merely" be an educational/developmental need. They really do all fancy themselves brilliant, though. I've developed a little test for people arguing on Twitter who think they're brilliant: 1. Do you think you're brilliant? 2. Are you arguing on Twitter? If You answered Yes to 2, then your answer to 1 must be "NO." I mean, you can troll on twitter. You can offer Schlicter-like put-downs like "Fetch my latte." But if you're arguing on Twitter...? You might not be as smart as you think. ezl @slapjdrankis I'll just refrain from commenting at all on this one. It's for the best. By the way: The Atlantic is no hero on the mask issue. They have entertained a range of views. Yes, they have pointed out that there is no science -- zero -- showing that masks reduce transmission in schools. And they just published this one, showing the huge harms masking causes as far as speech delays.
Parents Are Losing Their Minds Over Masks in Schools Several states have low vaccination rates, rampant COVID-19 spread, and no mask mandates in schools. Parents are worried for their kids. Even after The Atlantic's own reporting proved that there is no evidence -- literally none -- that masks do anything to reduce transmission in schools, The Atlantic just published an article a week ago arguing that it just doesn't matter if masks work or not. The only thing that matters, The Atlantic argued, was that masks... expressed a "shared community goal." And that shared community goal? That everyone wear useless masks! ![]()
After getting mocked for that headline, they changed it. But they did not improve it. In fact, they made it even more obnoxiously dismissive of needing actual reasons to strip people of their freedom: ![]() We cannot live with these people, and the sooner we seriously resolve to that, the less painful this will be. | Recent Comments
Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist:
"Reading about the WEF, I found myself thinking abo ..."
ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims [/b][/i][/s][/u]: " Out: Stagflation. In: Starveflation. ..." davidt: "The next time I fuck up I'm gonna blame, "Mailroom ..." Moki: "193 My husband met a guy that would buy up pecans, ..." Jim[/i][/b][/s][/u]: "Buc-ee's should erect a plaque commemorating Ladyl ..." creeper: "How I would love to see Greg Abbott declare FJB pe ..." Blog Crickets: "*chirp-chirp* *chirp-chirp* ..." Moki: "Prayers up Pug. I hope you and your lovely bride g ..." Kindltot: "[i]Wtf is going on in Pakistan. Is that a thing? ..." Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well: "That one vid of the guy seemingly doing things wit ..." Blog Crickets: "*chirp-chirp* *chirp-chirp* ..." Notsothoreau - move forward: "My husband met a guy that would buy up pecans, roa ..." Recent Entries
Overly Elaborate Backyard Cafe
FDA's Top Official Will Acknowledge They Did Not Even Begin Discussing For the Impending Baby Formula Crisis Until Mid-February-- and Did Nothing About It Until the Last Several Weeks Democrats Ponder: What Are We Going to Do About Biden? Schumer Won't Schedule Gun Control Votes FBI: We Totally Stopped Another Terror Attack, You Guys The Man That NeverTrump and the GOPe Promised Us Would Unite Americans Delivers Sick, Partisan Screed Standing on the Bodies of Children Parkland School Shooting Survivor "X Gonazalez" -- Formerly Emma Gonzalez -- Makes Public Death Threat Against Governor of Texas Kellyanne Conway Writes About Her Husband Throwing Away Their Marriage For Some Twitter Validation and Payback Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix] Mid-Morning Art Thread Search
Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Primary Document: The Audio
Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings) George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer Top Top Tens
Democratic Forays into Erotica New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party" Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Collective Names for Groups of People John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments John Edwards Campaign Excuses John Kerry Pick-Up Lines Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Torments in Dog-Hell Greatest Hitjobs
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny More Margaret Cho Abuse Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed" Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means Wonkette's Stand-Up Act Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report! Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet The House of Love: Paul Krugman A Michael Moore Mystery (TM) The Dowd-O-Matic! Liberal Consistency and Other Myths Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate "Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long) The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) |