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  • RainmanR Offline
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    Rainman
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    #3

    LuFins Dad,

    Does this involve you, or was this something you found on Facebook? Do you know this person, is it your school district?

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    • LuFins DadL Offline
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      LuFins Dad
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      #4

      One of Luke’s classmates parent.

      The Brad

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      • F Offline
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        Friday
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        #5

        There must be other families in the school that this is happening to. I would band together and bombard the principal with requests for letters of recommendation. The kids shouldn't have to suffer just because the teachers are unhappy.

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        • JollyJ Offline
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          You want to be considered a professional, act like a professional.

          I've written many recommendation letters over the years. I suspect many of you have written more than I have. All I ever received for doing so, was "Thank you".

          It's all I ever expected.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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          • jon-nycJ Online
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            #7

            Fucked up indeed.

            Only non-witches get due process.

            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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            • AxtremusA Away
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              I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

              That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

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              • AxtremusA Axtremus

                I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

                That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

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                Loki
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                @Axtremus said in This is fvcked up:

                I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

                That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

                You have no idea what you are talking about in this case. Truly. In a highly selective school the letter of recommendation is life or death.

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                • MikM Away
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                  Mik
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                  What a petulant piece of garbage. The teacher, that is.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    @Axtremus said in This is fvcked up:

                    I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

                    That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

                    You have no idea what you are talking about in this case. Truly. In a highly selective school the letter of recommendation is life or death.

                    AxtremusA Away
                    AxtremusA Away
                    Axtremus
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                    @Loki said in This is fvcked up:

                    @Axtremus said in This is fvcked up:

                    I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

                    That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

                    You have no idea what you are talking about in this case. Truly. In a highly selective school the letter of recommendation is life or death.

                    Sure, there are always the edge cases, in the above I just wrote about the vast majority, say, the middle two sigmas, of the cases.

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                    • AxtremusA Axtremus

                      @Loki said in This is fvcked up:

                      @Axtremus said in This is fvcked up:

                      I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

                      That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

                      You have no idea what you are talking about in this case. Truly. In a highly selective school the letter of recommendation is life or death.

                      Sure, there are always the edge cases, in the above I just wrote about the vast majority, say, the middle two sigmas, of the cases.

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                      @Axtremus said in This is fvcked up:

                      @Loki said in This is fvcked up:

                      @Axtremus said in This is fvcked up:

                      I find the ritual for “letter of recommendation” for college admissions rather superfluous. Between the high school transcripts, standardized test scores, and the applications including essays, there is more than enough information to make admission decisions. The “letter of recommendation” ritual is rigged such that you typically get only the good, one-sided story anyway. It’s more an administrative hassle and more excuses to make subjective decisions than anything else.

                      That said, if it’s a widely accepted ritual, then the show must go on. Bring out the boilerplate templates and AI generated letters and just crank them out.

                      You have no idea what you are talking about in this case. Truly. In a highly selective school the letter of recommendation is life or death.

                      Sure, there are always the edge cases, in the above I just wrote about the vast majority, say, the middle two sigmas, of the cases.

                      In the case of a state school with rolling admissions they only look at GPA and SAT anyway and don’t have time to read but of course many kids always include a reach school in their 15 or so applications.

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                        Doctor Phibes
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                        The teacher's not doing herself any favours acting like this. If they want to protest the decision, they need to protest the decision by refusing to do things that are related to the Covid situation, not refusing to do completely unrelated things. This is a great way to lose the support of the public.

                        I was only joking

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                          Aqua Letifer
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                          Agree with pretty much everybody. Screw those assholes.

                          Please love yourself.

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                          • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                            Agree with pretty much everybody. Screw those assholes.

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                            jon-nyc
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                            @Aqua-Letifer said in This is fvcked up:

                            Agree with pretty much everybody. Screw those assholes.

                            So that's an F?

                            Only non-witches get due process.

                            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                              @Aqua-Letifer said in This is fvcked up:

                              Agree with pretty much everybody. Screw those assholes.

                              So that's an F?

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                              Aqua Letifer
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                              @jon-nyc said in This is fvcked up:

                              @Aqua-Letifer said in This is fvcked up:

                              Agree with pretty much everybody. Screw those assholes.

                              So that's an F?

                              FK

                              Please love yourself.

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