What do network executives consistently get wrong in comedy? (x)
Preach.
I love you, KS
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Coolest teen ever.
High schooler protests “slut-shaming” abstinence assembly despite threats from her principal.
good for you!
Why Every Educator Should Applaud That Viral Video of a Teen Going Off on His Teacher
If you haven’t seen this by now, high school sophomore Jeff Bliss goes off on his world history teacher, set off by standardized testing times. Why should we care?
Bliss is demanding change—more power to him and all the other students who are fed up with a system that’s broken. Every teacher worth her salt should applaud what he’s clamoring for. And then we need Ms. Phung and all the other fed-up teachers out there to rise up, speak up, and demand change, too.
An even better opinion from a Principal:
I was questioned, both publicly and privately for even sharing this video in the first place and was asked, “If this was one of our teachers, would I share the video?”, and that made me think a lot about this messy world that we live in. Personally, I wouldn’t but I believe in my heart that it would be addressed to some extent with the teacher.
The other thing that I thought about was how easily I would have shared something like this regarding other professions. This voice by the “consumer” is happening in every profession, not just teaching. In no way am I saying that pepper-spraying someone in the face unlawfully compares to having students do packets in the classroom, but our profession is and should be held accountable on how we do our work.
What I encourage others to do is to focus on what the student said, and share their stories about how you do much more than “teach with a packet’.
THIS THIS THIS THIS
Five presidents gather for George W. Bush’s dedication of his presidential library.
Get ready for media whitewashing his legacy. Here are 13 reasons not to let them.
Young teachers from across the United States have told me they no longer have the ability to properly manage classrooms, not because of lack of training, not because of lack of ability, not because of lack of desire, but because of upper administration decisions to reduce statistics on classroom referrals and in-school and out-of-school suspensions. As any classroom teacher can tell you, when the students know there will be no repercussions for their actions, there will be no change in their behavior. When there is no change in their behavior, other students will have a more difficult time learning.
Randy Turner, A Warning to Young People: Don’t Become a Teacher (via edukaition)
YUP
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That, uh awkward moment you realize you’re not following your boyfriend on Tumblr.
But…but pretzels.
Lazy/Beautiful: Tattoos White Girls Like
White girls really, really like small, insignificant black tattoos.
They like feather tattoos:
They like feather tattoos turning into silhouetted birds:
And they also like feather tattoos with silhouetted birds that describe their desire to break free of the oppressive chains of White…
hahaaa truth
Classroom give-and-take launches into Twittersphere
Justice and Equality in Multicultural America explores societal issues while watching episodes of “The Wire.” During class, a window showing #Wire275 tweets rolls out students’ reactions to the episode they are watching. “It’s like a movie with director’s commentary, except it’s your classmates,” says Asaf Segal, a junior in the class.
Some very clever uses of Twitter over at UW-Madison.
