Hamilton, I’m a teacher, a proud member of my union and in the week since the election I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching. I work with at risk and vulnerable populations, I assumed I could just do my job and that would be my contribution to the world. I don’t think this is true any more.

Part of that soul…

But don’t blame whiskey. Because frankly I will being seeing the world without sobriety for the near future.

I taught in a classroom for kids with severe mental and emotional disturbances. We used two person restraints and only did one person restraints when absolutely needed. I’ve had kids come at me with pencils, chairs, garbage cans.(once with a knife but I just kept my distance) The systems work well if you’re trained…

I mentioned this earlier, but I believe all teachers should be trained in restraint training. (nonviolent restraint)

There are times when safety issues arise and you need to go hands on a student. Sometimes it has nothing to do with a fight but a student being dangerous towards themselves. I once had a student have a…

Part of the reason suspensions are given out in cases like this is so that all parties have a chance to come together and talk over what happened and basically do the best to squash the beef. It also allows some time for parties to cool off.

I taught in a behavior classroom for a few years before my current gig in an alternative program.

This is why teachers need to be trained in proper restraint. It really can prevent injuries if you know what you’re doing. Of course you also need to be strong enough and physically fit.

Your son is super lucky. My wife ended up not getting a diagnoses till like 22. She literally though people just always felt terrible after eating

Is celiacmore prevalent with women? It seems a large number of posters are talking about their wife. I’ve personally never met a dude with celiac.

I’ve had my wife get glutened more than once after being assured the meal she was about to eat was gluten free.

Just last night, we went out and the street tacos at a local pub had flour instead of corn tortillas. We corrected them 3 times and said “No those are flour, this will give her some baaaaaaaad issues.” They…

Well if I go into a job review and they say, well I need you to have sex with me for the promotion then you have an actionable case.

I fail to see how “Have sex with me or you don’t get this job.” is any different.

Don’t worry America. We already have a great health care system in place and if you can’t afford it our tech overlords have given us GOFUNDME so that out friends and family can give us 20 dollars or so to help us get our cancer treatment.

People like to fall over themselves in order to show “they are with it” and “outraged” and thus “better than you”.

Where exactly does the law lay in photographers trying to protect work of people dressing up as tradmarked and copywrited characters?

Nice racism.

I teach special education and have only worked in alternative or placements for students with extreme behavioral/emotional needs so parts of this essay resonated me with me. My students nearly all have uniformly bad/unsafe home lives. Talking to DHS or child protective services is pretty common. As is doing my best to…

Also it’s more like 23 years later.

I was gonna go with Nall

Easy enough to just create a witcher game where you create your own witcher ALA Shepard in Mass Effect. I’d play that

This is why non-unionized teaching gigs are garbage. Say what you will about unions but at least I’m entitled to due process if they want to let me go.

I have enough kick all ready thank you.