I’ve always gotten the impression that she’s just not very bright.

Sonali was South Asian and she was not the Girl if the Year. She was the Girl of the Year’s friend.

Location, location, location! When I was a kid my troop made a killing setting up in a T station at rush hour.

There’s never been an African American Girl of the Year. The Asian doll is half Irish. It looks like this year there’s a blond American who goes on a family trip to Brazil.

Some kids are also just naturally prone to it. I teach elementary and I have definitely had parents who were very actively concerned about their child’s lack of natural empathy.

I’ve had multiple friends tell me they knew they had find “the one” when they didn’t mind that person being there all the time.

Not being “friends” with your spouse on FB is definitely weirder than having a shared account.

Never mind, the TERRIBLE Travolta impression killed it.

I am uncomfortable with how attracted I am to Aaron Tveit dressed as a high schooler.

My school was in a major city but funding has dropped considerably since then.

My friend grew up in Ionia and Grand Rapids (graduated in 2004) and she says they always had school nurses.

I have a kid and I work in education and I thought school nurses were the default except in extreme cases. I’ve never been in a school that didn’t have at least one full-time nurse. However, a quick google found a CNN story from 2011 that said 45% of public schools have a full-time nurse. I bet that number has gone…

I always thought I’d send my kiddo to Montessori preschool but it turns out that the ones near me are all full of people who don’t vaccinate.

From what I can tell, it’s gotten much, much worse in the 5 years I’ve lived in Western Mass.

I think you might be oblivious? That’s not a bad thing, really. It’s nice not be affected by it. I think it historically has been more of an issue in Franklin County. But heroin is very, very pervasive up and down the valley. According to the teacher’s room gossip, the kids say it’s cheaper than pot and easier to get…

I was just pointing out that kids can’t take each other’s lunch money anymore.

Literally throwing away good food in a way that intentionally shames children is completely unreasonable.

It’s worth noting that in this story, unlike some of the other ones that have made the news, the district did have a system in place for feeding the kids were didn’t have lunch money.

I’m not sure how I feel about this. Obviously, firing her was overkill but it was theft. The district thad a policy in place to feed hungry kids. It’s not like they were starving them. At my last school, the kids got the sunbutter and jelly option if their parents hadn’t paid for it. We also had families who owed the…

Yup. My mom lives 100 miles away. But my son’s daycare was closed today and I still had to work. She drove out last night and watched him while I was at work. She also cleaned my kitchen while he was napping. She would like to move closer to us but she spends a lot of time and energy caring my grandfather who lives in…