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Did you know that today is national School Lunch Superhero Day?  That’s right!  Cafeteria workers se

Did you know that today is national School Lunch Superhero Day?  That’s right!  Cafeteria workers serve up lunches to nourish minds and bodies of students in schools across the country.  Join us in saying thank you to the workers and learn more about their fight to serve REAL food that is healthy and delicious for students at http://realfoodrealjobs.org


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fantastlcbeasts:

ohdumbledore:

He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomach ache.


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Alexis Pauline Gumb, M Archive: After the End of the World:

“it was like that the last day we left the schools. all song. so many songs of the erstwhile schoolchildren freed and the generations crescendoing to meet us.

there was a time when no one would have ever thought there could be school abolition. except the sneaky privatization schemes that sought to destroy the students while keeping the buildings as monuments to how deep their theft could go.

it was the mothers who said it first. how total prison was. how the problem was not only their children being pushed out of school and into camps, but how the children drinking private school kool-aid were pipelined to more colorful camps. matriculating with programmed responses, like drones to kill the willing once they were made.

and the midlife crisis set who protested all the barbed wire put on their years as if learning was temporary. and what did they know?

ultimately it was the natural consequence of all our industrious work to make the air unbreathable, the water undrinkable, and the people uncritically unthinkable. at some point we needed all the different ages to solve all the problems we had excel-sheeted and databased into our lives.

so we abolished schools and prisons the same day. and the people came home singing and welcomed with song. what a noise. what a noise for every age.”

“What if school, as we used it on a daily basis, signaled not the name of a process or institution t

“What if school, as we used it on a daily basis, signaled not the name of a process or institution through which we could be indoctrinated, not a structure through which social capital was grasped and policed, but something more organic, like a scale of care. What if school was the scale at which we could care for each other and move together. In my view, at this moment in history, that is really what we need to learn most urgently.”

–Alexis Pauline Gumbs Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals(viaKameelah Janan Rasheed’s Orange Tangent Study)


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generalmurderer:

geekandmisandry:

geekandmisandry:

Teachers should let kids eat and drink in class, I have no idea why high school teachers act like tiny dictators of their pathetic kingdoms. Like, let them go to the bathroom, if they are hungry let them eat, if they are thirsty let them drink.

It shouldn’t really be so difficult.

Anyway, children are people, so maybe stop adding onto this post trying to justify why it is ok to treat them and train like animals in a 1920’s zoo.

My english teacher taught us about this. There’s a specific reason public schools are the way they are. From not letting us eat/drink in class, to how we address our teachers as Mr./Ms./etc, to even the schedules. Basically, the whole purpose of school is to teach us to be workers. That’s why we’re given specific tasks at specific times being monitored by superiors. We can’t eat at specific times to mimic what they want us to end up in, a factory or the like.

In private schools, it’s a lot more relaxed and free. They aren’t given as much supervision or control because they’re being raised to be owners/bosses. In a lot of private schools, you call your teachers by their first names and it’s less lecture and more discussion.

This all boils down to Marxist theory and social class reproduction. We are raised from a extremely young age to be placed in a certain sector that we belong in depending on what our family does. That’s why cycles of poverty are so prevelant in families and why rich families stay rich.

The way our schools are structured are to reproduce distinct classes and to make us believe that severe class inequity is okay or even fake.

Holy fuck you just blew my mind!!!!

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fastofthekillones:

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insomniamademedothis:

lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers:

lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers:

Make kids aware of this, so they can make informed choices about who they share their identity with this.

#Jesus Christ we’re really just turning the clock back#prev all the us lgbtq bills going on at the moment have been reminding me so much of s28 but I didn’t think we’d be seeing it here again#how exactly does this in ANY way help to safeguard children? as far as I can see it’s actively endangering them and idk how any reasonable#person can disagree with that  via @insomniamademedothis

I read a thread on twitter recently (written by someone who is/was a teacher incidentally) about how the tories are positioning trans people as the new “enemy within” to replace immigrants at the next general election (I’m not explaining it very well, can link the thread if anyone is interested).

So I think we will see more of this.

FWIW I agree it’s not safeguarding, but by making it a “safeguarding issue” it makes it VERY hard for schools to hold their own line on this unfortunately.

I can believe that completely, the intensity of anti-trans rhetoric has been increasing like mad the last couple years, it’s clearly becoming the controversial issue of the hour. It’s scary even more so how many people are buying into it - and from both sides of the political spectrum too.

Surely they’ll have to justify how exactly it is keeping children safe before it gets implemented?

Actually, I’m not sure they will. Teachers (and schools) can suffer very serious consequences if they are felt not to have safeguarded children effectively- sometimes the fear is enough to make teachers or pastoral staff uncomfortable when having these conversations and shut them down in awkward ways OR to make schools come up with bizarre policies around these things.

Section 28 technically only prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality”- but in practice it meant schools/teachers were very reluctant to discuss LGBT issues, many LGBT support groups in school got closed down etc. All the pre-section 28 sex-ed I remember was solely focused on “one man/one woman” couples. It also meant that teachers received no training on these issues, and things could be extremely difficult for teachers in same-sex relationships.

I also think that actually there’s very few cases where children are totally out at school with their parents having no knowledge (that’s hell of a risk for a kid to take, after all). But it feeds into this fear of “Lefty teachers are making your kids trans” which helps demonise both trans people and teachers.

The secondary I went to was already doing this. Including outing a non-binary student to parents who would throw them out if they came out, literally saying “tell them or we will”

The trans contingent stopped coming out pretty fast.

I’m not there any more, but it’s not getting better.

What the hell is happening in the UK? You guys were doing so much better than the USians and now it’s getting close to the other way around.

I don’t know how much depth you would like here, but after WW2 in the UK there was a level of consensus around state support, nationalised industries, social housing, free at the point of use health care etc…

In the 1970s, capitalist interests started to undermine that, the ultimate result being Thatcher’s neo-conservative/neo-liberal government, who aimed to destroy as many of these things as possible, as well as destroying the class consciousness of the working classes (or attempting to) and breaking the power of the unions- thus significantly reducing the ability of the working classes to advocate for themselves.

Despite making many people’s lives significantly worse, the Tory party managed to keep power until 1997. One of the ways they did this was by creating enemies both outside the UK, and also within UK society, and convincing the people that they were the only party to keep them safe, and other parties were not to be trusted.

In the 1990s, this was all starting to fall apart a bit, see, for example, the poll tax riots, and eventually a Labour government got in. This Labour government wasn’t the democratic socialist government of old- it was very much committed to a liberal ideology. That said, things were done to genuinely improve the standard of living of people, and to improve equality for marginalised groups, and to improve standards in the workplace. I’ve recently characterised these things as “crumbs from the table”, and they are, but nonetheless, they were things that the very wealthy did not like.

So, the right wing started casting around for enemies and settled at the time on a few main targets A) “foreigners” and B) “benefit scroungers”. Ideally, if they could, they combined these into one group, hence “horror stories” of large families coming over from Eastern Europe to claim benefits in the UK etc. etc. This fed/created/revived a reactionary right wing faction in UK politics, including parties like UKIP (which might be seen as similar to the farthest rights of the US republican party, with a specific hatred of the UK and “foreigners”) and the BNP (literal Nazis).

When the financial crisis happened in 2008, that spelled the end of the Labour government, but there was still suspicion of the Tories, and so they entered government in 2010 in coalition with the Lib Dems. Whilst the Tories immediately set about making people’s lives worse in order to serve capital, the Lib Dems did arguably act as somewhat of a break on some of their very worst ideas. So, the right wing press became more reactionary, more money was funnelled into positions that UK politics considered “the far right”, a lot of energy was expended on making people fear these manufactured enemies.

In 2015, this strategy paid off, and the Conservatives got majority- however there was huge pressure on them as a party to hold a referendum on leaving the EU. At the time, I don’t think this is what all Tory MPs wanted- there are a lot of business benefits to being in the EU. But the pressures were there, and the referendum happened, and various big players wanted the UK out of Europe, either for tax reasons or for the political destabilisation of Europe, or probably both, and thus the UK voted to leave.

Cameron resigned and May took leadership, and called an election in 2017. In 2017, some interesting things happened, not least that Corbyn was leader of the Labour party, and offered people what felt like a real alternative and hope. He was hugely attacked by the right wing press and, well, everybody, but the Conservative majority was still cut by a large amount, leaving them as a minority government that was at war with itself.

In 2019, the Tories are running scared, to an extent- in February, several MPs left the party to form a new Pro-European party, further weakening their position. For the people who are hanging everything on Brexit going ahead, the whole project feels in jeopardy. Eventually, Boris Johnson becomes leader, does things that undermine democracy, and then calls a general election.

This election was very much fought on the basis that the Tories would “get brexit done” and no-one else would- and arguably was fought on fairly racist lines. The Tories won a huge majority.

So, what does any of this have to do with trans people, you’re asking (if you’ve kept reading to this stage, in which case, well done). Well, the Tory party is once again in crisis- covid has been a disaster for them. Brexit is starting to bite. A lot of people in the country are really suffering and will start to suffer even more. There’s got to be an election in 2024 at the latest, and it’s likely things will be very bad/worse by then.

Their traditional enemies of benefits scroungers and foreigners are increasingly difficult to use right now for various reasons which I won’t go into because this has been long winded enough already. So, they’re casting around for a new issue, and unfortunately, it seems like trans people have become the new “enemy within” - particularly as it’s a “difficult” issue for Labour right now. For this to work, they a) have to whip up fear against trans people, and b) have to persuade the general public that they are the only party who will “keep people safe” from the “enemy within”.

tl;dr: To keep capitalists in power, trans people are a convenient enemy.

The American Right is providing the playbook here, when it comes to using trans kids as political bait. There’s also already plenty of nervousness in schools around LGBTQ+ issues. Schools are VERY nervous about keeping anything from parents for any length of time, and that can already look like calling parents about sensitive issues without first consulting with the student. I was told in a previous school that a child coming out to me MUST be recorded as a safeguarding incident. I was also told I MUST NOT allow that child to have a conversation with me about such issues: “tell them that you will be making a record of the conversation and that they should speak to the designated safeguarding lead about it if they require further guidance”. I was given to understand that conversation around gender and sexuality could be construed as grooming—a full year before I heard that line dominating politics over in the US. My current school is a lot better, but, yeah, we are further down this road than we should be.

Flying ziggurats! London.

Flying ziggurats! London.


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OBAMA “HOPE” ARTIST: PUT MUSIC BACK IN SCHOOLS “Graphic designer and street artist

OBAMA “HOPE” ARTIST: PUT MUSIC BACK IN SCHOOLS

“Graphic designer and street artist Shepard Fairey is well known for images like the OBEY logo and those iconic posters of Barack Obama from his 2008 election campaign. [Now] Fairey’s latest project is all about getting art back on the agenda in schools…”

Read:Obama “Hope” Artist: Put Music Back In Schools


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AFTER YEARS OF CROUCHING, ARTS ED IS RAISING ITS HAND AGAIN “Today, more and more policymakers

AFTER YEARS OF CROUCHING, ARTS ED IS RAISING ITS HAND AGAIN

“Today, more and more policymakers think it is the arts, after all, that can motivate kids, engage them and help them develop 21st-century skills such as teamwork and innovative thinking — in sum, be the key to their salvation.”

Read: After years of crouching, arts ed is raising its hand again


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warning: rant

I’m hearing a lot about sustainability and going green and supporting local, but most of the information is USA/large agricultural country centric. as a very average singaporean i, i can’t think of any ways to do that

in terms of food…

99% of all our food is imported because the land area is too small to sustain an effective % of the population. local produce is simply too expensive to completely switch over unless the family earns a lot how do we reduce our carbon footprint like this?

recycling…

there are many blue bins for recycling but irresponsible people are always throwing their food waste and rubbish inside and it results in the entire bin being thrown away so it’s a waste of water and time. especially in residential areas.

i feel schools should do more for paper recycling since they’re probably the largest users of paper and not able to be fully digital yet. they could encourage recycling amongst students like P2/P4/P6/Sec 2/Sec 4/JC 2 after EOY/National Exams because honestly they don’t really need their materials anymore as they move up to the next year. I’m sure the mountains of used assessment books and worksheets could be diverted from the incinerator while textbooks in good condition should be passed down to those who can’t keep affording brand new ones. I understand that NTUC has a textbook initiative but hardly anyone would take serious note unless they were already interested. by converting this programme to the individual school level, it would be easier for students to hear about and take part in since the entire programme is within school premises anyways. if manpower is needed to sort/promote/quality check, an additional VIA project wouldn’t hurt interested students/student leaders anyway

plastic-free shopping…

our rubbish disposal system requires all rubbish to be neatly tied up in plastic bags. we NEED plastic bags to make the rubbish disposal process easier. wet food items like meat need to be kept fresh with plastic bags. wet market and hawker centre shop owners rarely stop for us to switch to reusable containers when there’s business. in supermarkets, fresh produce that doesn’t actually require bagging is still put in bags to buy as a bunch (e.g cabbage, apples, bananas). nowadays supermarkets make their plastic bags super thin to ‘reduce’ plastic waste but it means that the bags can serve their purpose at the bare minimum. it breaks so easily its ridiculous. that also means that cashiers double or triple bag, which defeats the original purpose anyways. requiring customers to pay for plastic bags hinders no one but lower income households, who aren’t the main problem anyway.

babylonfalling:High school students confront a meeting of the Detroit Board of Education to demand

babylonfalling:

High school students confront a meeting of the Detroit Board of Education to demand Black Studies programs.

Photo by Alan Gotkin for Fifth Estate(1969)

Despite many (white) teachers’ and school boards’ assumptions that students, especially POC, just don’t care about learning or their education. Naw, we just don’t care about whitewashed education.

Many of my students who really struggle with literacy and study skills, and whose classroom teachers complain about them being apathetic, suddenly bloom into historians and philosophers and literary critics when they’re allowed Black and Latino studies. Even just a glimpse sets them off being engaged for the first time.

Look through history and you’ll see youth of color fighting to learn. It’s going on as we speak, and I see it with my students while their teachers complain about them.

Problem is the curriculum, not the students.


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Hundreds of New Yearbooks

Special Collections recently purchased over 225 Hennepin County yearbooks from a local yearbook collector. The acquisition mostly fills gaps for schools already a part of our yearbook collection, but also includes yearbooks from about twenty schools new to our collection–like Edina’s Concord and Cornelia Elementary Schools, Bloomington’s Penn and Oak Grove Jr. Highs, Richfield East and West Jr. High, Plymouth Jr. High, and more. Elementary, middle/junior high, and high school yearbooks are all included as are public and private schools. The acquisition is particularly strong for schools in Hennepin County suburbs including Bloomington, Edina, Hopkins, Mound, Osseo, Plymouth, and Richfield, but also includes several Minneapolis elementary and junior highs.

Yearbooks in our collection from 1988 and earlier are digitized and available to view in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. All newly acquired yearbooks published before 1989 will be digitized and available online later this year. To see yearbooks in print, visit Special Collections at Minneapolis Central Library.

Have a yearbook you’d like to donate to the collection? Contact us!

deehellcat:

merinnan:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

citadelofmythoughts:

magpie-to-the-morning:

mildmoderngirl:

No longer is this about the rights of students to access books. It’s now about the rights of private businesses to sell books. Anderson suggests this is a new avenue for parents to fight.

“We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” he said.

Holy shit this is a BIG FUCKING WARNING SIGN. Challenges to school and public libraries aren’t cool obviously, but they’re not unusual and we have a framework for handling them. This is something new and alarming in a whole new way

Republican “free speech” y'all and don’t you forget it.

This is a direct challenge to the freedom of the press and if it isn’t struck down at the first hurdle we need to make sure it never sees the second one.

On the miniscule off-chance that anyone who sees my reblog might be thinking “oh, it’s just queer books that they’re trying to ban” - A Court of Mist and Fury is a het romance. It is a het romance containing het sex scenes, written by a straight white woman.

People have been warning all along that the right-wing thought police were never going to stop with queer lit or ‘woke’ lit, and that every time they got an inch they were going to take a mile until they’d banned absolutely everything that didn’t conform to their strict right wing fundamentalist Christian views. If you were waiting for proof of that, here it is.

adding this which I saw yesterday, which appears to indicate this judge is not just deciding whether to allow this bookstore to sell certain books to minors.

“regarding whether the books may be sold OR POSSESSED in Virginia by EITHER MINORS OR ADULTS”

WHAT THE ACTUAL BATTER DIPPED DEEP FRIED FUCK.

I don’t even like Sarah Maas (not trying to start anything, I just didn’t get into the first one) but this makes me want to go get this book and maybe a couple of others, just for spite.

merinnan:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

citadelofmythoughts:

magpie-to-the-morning:

mildmoderngirl:

No longer is this about the rights of students to access books. It’s now about the rights of private businesses to sell books. Anderson suggests this is a new avenue for parents to fight.

“We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” he said.

Holy shit this is a BIG FUCKING WARNING SIGN. Challenges to school and public libraries aren’t cool obviously, but they’re not unusual and we have a framework for handling them. This is something new and alarming in a whole new way

Republican “free speech” y'all and don’t you forget it.

This is a direct challenge to the freedom of the press and if it isn’t struck down at the first hurdle we need to make sure it never sees the second one.

On the miniscule off-chance that anyone who sees my reblog might be thinking “oh, it’s just queer books that they’re trying to ban” - A Court of Mist and Fury is a het romance. It is a het romance containing het sex scenes, written by a straight white woman.

People have been warning all along that the right-wing thought police were never going to stop with queer lit or ‘woke’ lit, and that every time they got an inch they were going to take a mile until they’d banned absolutely everything that didn’t conform to their strict right wing fundamentalist Christian views. If you were waiting for proof of that, here it is.

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deliciouskaek:

apas-95:

apas-95:

The cops had advance notice of a gunman on the loose, from the shooter’s grandmother, at great pains, notifying the police.

He crashed his car before arriving at the school, once again alerting the police. His grandmother stood in the line of fire to stop him, teachers threw themselves in front of bullets to save their students - but the US cops, heavily armed and armoured, the prototypical ‘good guy with a gun’? They stood by and did nothing.

Cops kill defenceless kids more than mass shooters do, and when given the opportunity to stop a shooting, refuse. What heroes. The cowardice makes sense, though; cops have no obligation to protect people, just to defend property.

Honestly. Give it a few weeks and we’ll find out that, like practically every other mass shooter, the cops had known about and been in contact with him for months.

reportedly the parents had to scream at the officers to go in and stop him – he was in there for up to an hour before they went in after him. they went in and got their own kids out before attending to the victims.

acab

There’s video of police pinning down a parent who tried to get into the building to save his child. She was killed in the attack.

Reminder that, after the cops spent an hour brutalising Chicano and Latino parents instead of stopping the shooter, ICE showed up to arrest any undocumented survivors.

America is a fascist hell

As a public school third-grade teacher, Teresa Danks has grown accustomed to getting creative when it comes to providing supplies for her classroom.

But when her husband joked about begging in the streets to raise money for supplies, she took it seriously. 

Teresa Danks (Jonathan Roark)

Recent cuts to Oklahoma’s education budget have made Danks frustrated with the system, which is why she decided to do anything in her power to still deliver the level of education needed.

Danks said she had never panhandled before and wanted to act quickly before she changed her mind. After picking up a poster board from a nearby QuikTrip, she laid it on the hood of her car outside and scrawled a message: “Teacher Needs School Supplies! Anything Helps. Thank You.” At the bottom, she added a smiley face.

Within 10 minutes, she had collected $32. One person stopped to hand her a bottle of water. Another wanted to tell her how much her own teachers had meant to her.

“I went from being nervous and awkward to being overwhelmed, not only with the small donations of cash but just the words of encouragement,” Danks said.

Read the rest of the story:A teacher’s solution to buy school supplies for her classroom: Panhandling

Sometimes camps, schools, and other programs for kids think “mother” when they should be thinking “parent or guardian”. In addition to being sexist, this kind of bias can cause a number of other problems.

When programs for kids think of “mother” and “parent” as synonyms, they often end up forgetting that other parents and guardians exist. When they think of “mother” and “primary caregiver” as synonyms, they often fail to contact the appropriate adult. 

For instance: 

  • Susan, an eight year old, just fell off the jungle gym and needs to be taken to the hospital.
  • Susan’s teacher, Ruby, calls 911. 
  • Ruby thinks “I need to call Susan’s mother to let her know that Ruby was just taken to Hypothetical Hospital”.
  • Susan’s mother, Melissa isn’t reachable during the day because she works in a secure building without access to a phone.
  • Susan’s father, Christopher, *is* reachable. He works from home, and always has his phone with him.
  • Although Susan’s emergency contact form has a note saying to call Christopher first, it doesn’t occur to Ruby to do so, because she’s thinking “I need to call Susan’s mother”, and looking at the “mother” line of the form.
  • Ruby keeps trying to reach Melissa. 
  • It takes an hour before it occurs to anyone to call Susan’s *father*.

Or:

  • David is a twelve year old who has food allergies. He also has a mother, Miriam, and a father, Fred.
  • Katie, who runs the kitchen at Camp Hypothetical, has some questions about what he can and can’t eat, and whether the plan for an upcoming camp out will work for him.
  • Katie tries calling Miriam, David’s mother. She doesn’t reply. Katie tries again and again, over the course of several days.
  • It doesn’t occur to her to try calling David’s *father*, even though she knows he has one — because she thinks of mothers as the parents who keep track of that kind of information.

When you’re working with kids, it’s really important not to treat “mother” and “primary caregiver” as synonyms, and to remember that:

  • Not all children have mothers.
  • Not all mothers are primary caregivers.
  • Not all children who have mothers live with their mothers.
  • Not all mothers should be given information about their children.
  • Fathers are parents.
  • Nonbinary parents are parents.
  • When a kid has more than one parent, it’s often best to contact both/all parents (especially if contacting the first parent doesn’t work.)
  • Some kids are raised by people other than their parents (eg: grandparents, a sibling, foster parents).

Tl;dr If you’re working with kids and you need to contact their parent or guardian, don’t assume that their mother is the right person to contact. Look at the instructions on their emergency/parent contact form, and follow those instructions. And if you try calling a kid’s mother and don’t get a response, check to see whether they have another parent you should try calling.

I had been studying STI’s in preparation of a trip to other countries to help women in need. A 15 year old girl overheard me and my friend talking and came over when my friend had walked away. From here on out we will call the 15 year old Sophia.

Sophia: Hey, I over heard your conversation and was wondering if you could help me. I think I’m pregnant.
Me: Oh, okay. Have you taken a pregnancy test?
Sophia: Yeah, it came up negative.
Me: Oh, that’s good. You are most likely no…
Sophia: But we’ve had sex since then.
Me: You know the tests don’t predict pregnancy, right?
Sophia: Well, I thought they might be able to…
Me: Well, did you use protection?
Sophia: Yes! We used condoms.

Me INTERNALLY:

I was really happy until I realized this 15 year old had thought pregnancy tests could predict pregnancy’s so I asked her a little more.

Me: How did you use the condom?
Sophia: Well, he put it on his penis.
Me INTERNALLY: GOOD FOR HER!
Sophia:Then he took it off and put his penis inside me.
Me INTERNALLY: 

Me: Why did he take the condom off before sex?
Sophia: Because it had spermicide in it.
Me: I understand how you could have thought that but that isn’t how condoms work. The condom acts as a barrier between you and your partner to protect against STI’s and then it catches his sperm so that they can’t fertilize any eggs. However, this method isn’t 100% effective so a lot of people will pair it with other forms of birth control to be safe.
Sophia: Well, my family is pretty strict so I can’t go get another test and I can’t use any other birth control.


Me: Would you like me to take you to get another test?
Sophia: We also used the pull out method.
Me: Well, that is a good thing to try but you have to be very good with the timing for it to be absolutely effective. Not to mention the fact that there is sperm in precum. Most of it will die out due to the acidity of the urine it comes into contact with so the chances are low that the precum could have gotten you pregnant.

This went on for about an hour. She would tell me how they tried to be safe and then right after explain how they didn’t actually do what they needed to. For example, when her boyfriend had pulled out, he had done so AFTER he ejaculated and then wiped himself off on her thigh. 

I drove her to a drug store and walked her through all the contraceptives they had and then walked her through how to take the pregnancy test. Luckily she was not pregnant but I don’t think she was ever able to understand just how lucky she was. She was 15 years old with religious parents (famous for being against Planned Parenthood) who kicked out her older brother for getting a girl pregnant. She was taught sex ed in school but she wasn’t taught how to protect herself, only how to abstain. 

Planned Parenthood teaches people how to have sex safely. It helps with birth control and STI testing. They give breast AND testicular exams to help make sure you are healthy. The help both men and women with UTI’s and they are there to help. Don’t defund Planned Parenthood. Don’t talk about defunding Planned Parenthood. Talk to your kids and be open or they will go to a stranger for the talk.

positivelypersistentteach:

Hello Wonderful Tumblrites,

Every year, teachers spend on average $500 on their classroom of their own money.   I know many teachers who spend considerably more.   Each year, I request links to wish lists from the teachers on Tumblr to share; we call it Teachmas.  It is wonderful to have support from all over as we prepare for the new school year.  Please consider purchasing an item, if money is tight, reblogs also help!   Thank you so much!

  1. Positivelypersistentteach teaches Kindergarten in Florida.   Wish list found here.
  2. Girlwithalessonplan teaches high school English and Newspaper in Indiana.  Wish list found here.
  3. Impatienteacherteaches 5th grade in North Carolina.  Wish list found here.
  4. Mrskaaay teaches 7th grade Math in Kentucky.  Wish list found here.
  5. Thebookwormfromkinderteaches Kindergarten in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  6. isaidsothatswhy teaches 9th/Art I & Yearbook in Central Mississippi.  Wish list found here. 
  7. From-tutor-to-teacher teaches 2-5 math resource 3-12 SPED inclusion in Texas.  Wish list found here. 
  8. impeccablyshaved teaches Kindergarten in Atlanta, Ga. Wish list found here. 
  9. offbeatteacher teaches Kindergarten in Southern California.  Wish list found here.
  10. Socially Acceptable Madness teaches 7th and 8th grade (all subjects) in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  11. Bookworm109 teaches 7th grade ELA in Ohio.  Wish list found here.
  12. Teach-center-stage teaches High School Theatre and Musical Theatre in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  13. myfesteringcesspool teaches Kindergarten in Milwaukee, WI.  Wish list found here.
  14. Aperk teaches 10th grade English, Journalism in Kansas.  Wish list found here.
  15. minimarker teaches Middle School Math in Maryland.  Wish list found here.
  16. allmadeofstardustteaches 7th grade Math in South Carolina.  Wish list found here.
  17. Leenzkayteaches 8th grade Science in Mississippi.  Wish list found here.
  18. mamafox18teaches high school US History in Maine. Wish list found here.
  19. roonilwazlibs79 teaches 3rd grade in Missouri.  Wish list found here.
  20. growthliveshereteaches Middle School ELA in New York.  Wish list found here.
  21. brainvomitteaches Special needs and art classes (K-12) in Arizona. Wish list found here.
  22. adventures in teaching and nerdery teaches Special education (K & 4) in Central IL.   Wish list found here.
  23. macaroni-hexagonteaches 7th and 8th grade math in California.  Wish list found here. 
  24. Grayer teaches 6th Grade Inclusion in New York.  Wish list found here.
  25. Safeaspockets teaches High School English in Massachusetts.  Wish list found here.
  26. lovelikesummer teaches World Geography (9th), Student Leadership (9th), and College Readiness (12th) in Texas.  Wish list found here.
  27. MsPinhey teaches World History, Contemporary Issues, High School 9-12 in Tennessee. Wish list found here.
  28. vwalker teaches 6-8th grade SPED in Minnesota. Wish list found here.
  29. Lugofrombananacountryteaches Middle school Spanish in Maryland. Wish list found here.
  30. messerlyk teaches Gd. 8-12, reading and creative writing at an alternative ed. school in Tennessee.  Wish list found here.
  31. MagicalMissB teaches Middle school humanities (Ancient Civilizations) in  Washington State. Wish list found here.
  32. Sexy-Queen-Mary teaches Social Studies 9-12 in Missouri.  Wish list found here.
  33. lifeinkinder teaches Kindergarten/first grade combo in Illinois. Wish list found here.
  34. Allysowned teaches 9th and 10th English in Massachusetts.  Wish list found here.
  35. Prettyeyesdupreeteaches 6th grade reading and social studies in Georgia.  Wish list found here.  
  36. pura-vida8 teaches Spanish - Grades 7 + 8 in New Hampshire.  Wish list found here.
  37. Art and Hart teaches Preschool special education in the Washington DC area.  Wish list found here.
  38. mathematically speaking teaches 6th grade math & computer science in  California.  Wish list found here.
  39. aguilar-teachesteaches 8th Grade Language Arts, English 1 Honors in Florida.   Wish list found here.
  40. Christina-in-Arkansas teaches K/1 Special Education in Arkansas.  Wish list found here.
  41. teacherofthethoughtfullestteaches 10th English II, AP Language & Comp, Humanities in Colorado.  Wish list found here.
  42. mrskcreadsteaches 6th Grade Reading and English (writing) in Texas. Wish list found here.
  43. Missfteacheshistoryteaches 6 and 8th Grade History in New Jersey. Wish list found here.
  44. MisstoMrsPaulateaches 9th grade English Honors & 9th grade English 1 Through ESOL in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  45. Teaching-Every Day is Different  teaches  11th Grade English, GSA in  Virginia. Wish list found here.
  46. shouseinthehouseteaches 5th and 6th grade reading, writing, and social studies in Indiana.  Wish list found here.
  47. Tokidoki Teacher teaches Kindergarten in Minnesota.  Wish list found here.
  48. frenchspeakingfilipina teaches 1st in Washington State.  Wish list found here.  
  49. WatchAllisonTeach teaches Sophomore English, senior yearbook in  Illinois.  Wish list found here.
  50. JoyAbounds teaches 1st grade in Texas.  Wish list found here.
  51. ummno teaches 10th Grade Government in Maryland. Wish list found here.
  52. kathleendevonteaches 2nd Grade in Texas.  Wish list found here.
  53. elviajedelaesperanzateaches Spanish I & II in Illinois.  Wish list found here.
  54. withmypensandneedlesteaches High school (9-12) reading intervention in Missouri.  Wish list found here.
  55. randomrambleramble teaches  Mathematics 9-12 (Algebra I, Geometry, Trigonometry) in Maryland.  Wish list found here.
  56. eisforecfeandendometriosis teaches Preschool in Minnesota.  Wish list found here.
  57. see-mary-teachteaches 6-8 ELA in Arizona.  Wish list found here.
  58. Jenasaurus teaches 6th and 7th grade science, 8th grade advisory in California.  Wish list found here.
  59. chocolatecastleinthesky teaches High School Latin in Tennessee.  Wishlists found hereandhere.
  60. mrawesomepants teaches History 9 (World History), APUSH, Model UN in Maine. Wish list found here.
  61. manzanas teaches First Grade in California. Wish list found here.
  62. Pablophonicteaches 5th Grade STEM in South Carolina. Wish list found here.
  63. andshewillteaches 8th grade ELA in Massachusetts.  Wish list found here. 
  64. Lotiinside teaches 6th Grade Science in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  65. Fourth Grade Frenzy teaches 4th grade in Maine.  Wish list found here.
  66. ohsnix teaches 9th Grade World History in North Carolina.  Wish list found here.
  67. Read. Write. Repeat. teaches  Speech, Debate, Drama 9-12 in Oklahoma.  Wish list found here.  
  68. hello-delicious-teateaches 9th-10th ELA in North Carolina.  Wish list found here.
  69. Sempiternalsolstice teaches 6-8 ELA in Tennessee. Wish list found here.
  70. Omniscribeteaches High school English (Etymology, World Lit, Speech and Dual Credit Writing) in Illinois.  Wish list found here.
  71. The-littlelady teaches High school LD (9-12) in South Carolina.  Wish list found here.
  72. Ambedu teaches 6th Grade Literacy and Science in Wisconsin.  Wish list found here.
  73. whiskeyforthewayteaches MS Social Studies (6-8), HS Psychology, HS Current Events in Michigan.  Wish list found here.
  74. samanthainsecondary teaches 9th grade ELA in Maryland.  Wish list found here.
  75. sunshinein17teaches 5th/6th grade Social Studies and Writing in  Missouri.  Wish list found here.
  76. adventureswithscience teaches 8th Grade Science in Florida.  Wish list found here.
  77. Justwalkthroughmyclassroom teaches 7th/8th Grade Language Arts in Florida.  Wish list found here.

Last year I supplemented my classroom with two donors chooose projects and it was slightly overwhelming. Here is my classroom wishlist, and many other deserving teachers’, if you want to support.

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Photos of the incident:

Video is not hard to find. Repeating “SOH-CAH-TOA” in a mocking voice… watch it…

Then. Call superintendent: 951-788-7131

We are 21 years into the 21st century. This is violence against the indigenous students in the classroom.

No excuse can be made for this ‘performance.’

On February 3, 1964, the Rev. Milton Galamison led the largest student boycott in the history of the

On February 3, 1964, the Rev. Milton Galamison led the largest student boycott in the history of the New York City public school system, with 464,361 students staying home to fight for the end of school segregation.

(viaUntapped Cities)


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Jennea’s story is a potent reminder of the difficulties that transgender youth face in school, and the need for clear and consistent policies and training that protect their right to a safe, respectful and inclusive learning environment.

Hawaii, which is fortunate to possess a rich cultural tradition that embraces gender diversity, has at least a basic framework of laws that protect people across the gender spectrum. But the state legislation that explicitly prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression in employment, public accommodations, and housing does not yet encompass schools. And although the State Department of Education has a general policy, there is no further guidance on what would constitute discrimination in a school setting. This absence of any specific rules or training by the Department of Education left Jennea’s principal free to interpret the regulations according to her own beliefs.

Nationwide, the majority of school districts have yet to offer any consideration whatsoever for transgender and gender nonconforming students. Worse, many states, including Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin, are now considering legislation that would bring the same sort of discriminatory measures - made infamous by North Carolina’s recent “bathroom bill” - specifically to schools. The Wisconsin bill goes so far as to require school boards to designate each changing room in their facilities “for the exclusive use of pupils of one sex… as determined by an individual’s chromosomes.”

This lack of protection leaves transgender youth vulnerable to discrimination and mistreatment. Not surprisingly, ninety percent of them feel unsafe at school, and one-in-three have been physically assaulted. More than half have at some point avoided going to school due to harassment, and one-in-six have left school altogether, losing their best shot at a solid future.

It doesn’t have to be this way. School districts around the country have developed guidelines and best practices, such as those presented in GLSEN’s transgender model district policy, that protect the right of all students to a safe and secure education. A recent study of seventeen school districts, covering 600,000 students, that implemented such protections did not reveal a single incidence of the “confusion, harassment, or inappropriate behavior” that conservatives had predicted. Indeed, the United States Department of Education has advised schools that failure to treat students consistent with their gender identity leaves them open to legal prosecution under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Since Jennea’s video first appeared on Youtube, other students, teachers, and counselors, as well as a highly placed administrator, have come forth to corroborate her experiences at Kahuku High School. Fortunately, Jennea is a strong young woman, with a wonderfully supportive family and friends, and was able to complete all senior year requirements and receive her diploma with the same date as her classmates.

But a diploma is no substitute for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to walk at graduation, or the joy of appearing with your friends in a viral video. Those are gone forever.

This is why we started an online petition calling for the Hawaii Department of Education to establish clear and consistent guidance that will ensure that all students are safe, included and respected in school, regardless of their gender identity or expression. They should also conduct training, professional development and educational activities to ensure that this policy is known and implemented, and that teachers have the knowledge and tools they need to do right by their students.

As opponents of fairness and equality stir fear about transgender people for political purposes, it’s up to open-minded places like Hawaii to demonstrate that respect for diversity and inclusion across the gender spectrum is not just right, it makes us stronger.

You can help by signing this petition.

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