Well, there are two sides to the charter school coin. Sometimes they can provide a service that public schools cannot - bilingual schools, for example. They also are usually smaller and more flexible, so they can presumably deal with students on a more individual level, making them less of a statistic.

Yeah that seems like the best solution. If someone's not paying, the issue is between the school and the parent, not the kid.

My high school had that solution, and while at least you didn't go hungry, it was still shaming. Everyone knew you were getting that cheese sandwhich because you were poor. A lot of kids would rather not eat at lunch than get a shining beacon of poorness to everyone.

Alright, this seems like a well-intentioned comment so I'm going to give this a shot. Here's what's problematic here:

Oh alright I got you. It started to come off as "yeah.... BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE UNCLEAN" but I got I understand your intent now. Good on you for being able to hear what others are saying to you.

You really can't let go of that hygiene thing can you? In the article it states that her father is a barber - what do you think the odds are his kids have unwashed unclean hair?

Except that in your original post you pretty clearly asserted that this was just a dumb rule so whatever I'm out.

But the point wasn't about whether or not you can get dreadlocks and also wash your hair. The larger point here is that all of these styles that have been banned are associated with black people and are the few ways black people can naturally wear their hair in many cases. Further, the banning of these hairstyles and…

People of color can still be racist, particularly when racism is institutionalized. Fucking duh.

The point. You've missed it.

Honestly, this was why swimming was so great for me. I wasn't very good at it, but female swimmers come in all shapes and sizes, and different body types are good for different strokes, but all of those girls had cellulite, and they worked hard. And they all wore their tiny competition suits confidently without a…

Attractiveness isn't an authority dynamic. In these cases authority dynamics such as age, employer-employee, teacher-student are considered. These impact the ability of the victim to give consent, because the complicate the implications of saying no. Age further complicates these dynamics because at what age can you…

Thank you! I feel like the giant elephant in the room of conversation about libraries being obsolete and the entire world being online is the inherent classism in the assumption that everyone can afford internet access, nevermind a computer/tablet/kindle etc.

That's a pretty unfair assumption. Most working people are expected to be accessible on email during all work hours.

I honestly don't think those claims are necessarily that far off. Lamar probably is struggling with addiction, or something right now. But that doesn't mean that Kris hasn't been capitalizing on that.

Oh, no I don't think that was Dunham's point at all. I think her point was that Adele is beautiful but also plus-sized, and high fashion magazines cut her body out of photographs, creating a boring photograph rather than show a fat body. The blame there is on the high fashion mags, not Adele.

Cosmo isn't a "fashion" magazine. It has clothes in it, but no one looks to Cosmo for the hot new trends.

I know! And I feel like I've disliked her for a really long time but I can't remember why!

Thanks :)

Well, I don't necessarily agree with Le1f for a lot of reasons. The songs were recorded around the same time by two relative unknowns (Macklemore was not big at the time), one in Seattle and one in NYC. Btw, Le1f is not just complaining about the success of the song he has also claimed that Same Love is suspiciously…