Yup. My kids also have “active shooter” drills. They have since the Sandy Hook tragedy. Heartbreaking. They were both in elementary school when they started having them. Kids have designated spots they go to--under the teachers desk, in a closet, etc. they crouch and hide on silence for a few minutes until the…

This has been happening at my children’s schools for at least the past 4 years. I’m glad they do it.

Little kids should not have to do that. This is ridiculous.

Most schools do this. And they are scary as shit for the kids AND teachers.

My stomach just dropped. Just the other day I was speaking to a girlfriend and she told me that in her daughter’s elementary school they practice drills for active shooters.

I remember a day my school was on lockdown because of the rumor there might be a gun on its way to school. I remember the teachers bringing my seven or eight year old sister to me, because they could not get her to calm down. I remember sitting in the floor of the bathroom with her, and trying to convince her to slow…

Vote.

oh you’ve got to be fucking kidding me.

Actually, I think this is one of the absolute best ways to reach undecided voters.

Usually I go in guns blazing...because for whatever reason, Gawker often attracts some hateful people in these threads. But reading through, I’m like “well, this person isn’t hateful, they just seem to desperately want to understand”.

I just read through all of this, and I have to say, I love your curiosity to learn about this subject. Not many people are willing to learn! Usually people just blow it off as “those fucking crazies” or something.

Is a child who likes sports and climbing trees a boy and a child who likes playing with dolls and baking a girl? Because that would have made my childhood identity transgender girl,

So my youngest kid has a friend (a 2nd grader) who is in counseling right now because she has said from when she could talk that she was a boy. Her twin sister has always referred to her as her brother. At first the parents thought the girls were flipping pronouns and getting confused like kids do. But as the girls…

LGBTQ acceptance comes with a backlash, those against it support Trump because his official position is Marriage is between a man and a woman (and a number of mistresses).

It really blows my mind where we can have a successful tv show with openly gay characters and now a transgender character and yet we have Trump neck in neck with Hillary. It seems very incongruous.

^^^ This. Most police models are designed to idle for hours without overheating precisely because they do this regularly.

This one pegs the bullshit meter to the max. I used to live in Texas and had an Impala. Sitting in traffic in 105 degree heat with dew points near 90 degrees had zero effect on how hot the engine ran. Police cars have upgraded cooling systems to help them deal with being used harder than civilian cars. They’re…

I’m just glad she learned this lesson for a disease like rotavirus instead of something more dangerous or more likely to have long term effects!

It’s not only that, it’s that people don’t know how to critically evaluate the sources that they find. They think everything on the internet is true and if someone wrote something, it must be correct. Look at the damn source and THINK about it.

Well it’s a shame it took her whole family getting sick but it’s refreshing to hear an anti-vaxxer say “I was wrong, I was batshit, I’ve since researched and have changed my mind”.