oh no, parents do not like it when you tell their child something. Once I had my class outside during a fire drill. Kiddo had like, some pocket lint in his pockets, he picked it out and threw it on the ground. I said, "Please pick that up, we don't litter." He picks it up, no complaints, then goes home and tells his…

god I miss freesia. The original one, but sheer was ok.

I miss their original Freesia. SIGH

OMG YES

the men were in teh way of his killing the women, and he planned to kill a whole lot more women than that. read any of his manifesto about the day of retribution or wtf ever he called it? he just got stopped before he could kill more.

I'm almost 40 and my taste for bitterness disappeared about 20 years ago. I just don't like beer. *shrug*

The only time I don't mind a shower for a second baby is when there is a huge gap between first and subsequent kids, so much that all the stuff they had for the first kid is long gone (given to friends/family, sold at yard sale, or even been recalled) because holy crap, doing this all over again for an oops baby is…

ssssh we can't have smaller class sizes because that would mean hiring more teachers who cost MONEY and that is not allowed! [/sarcasm]

The school where I taught had classes sort of like this and it was a) parental/student choice, and b) there was the option of a traditional mixed class.

but you can't just assume that all girls learn one way. I taught in a school that had gendered classes as an option, and some consultant came in to do workshops about it. Half the crap he suggested would have driven me up the wall, if anyone had ever tried to teach me like that.

I taught for a while in a school that had this as an option for some grades. I was a "special area" teacher (what we called the teachers who taught music, PE, art, dance, foreign language") and in 5th grade parents could opt their students into a "single-gender" class (the state's program's terminology) or a…

"One of the yearbook editors said in a news report that they did it because teenage parents don't attend homecoming, dances or most other social activities because of their parental responsibilities, so they wouldn't otherwise be featured in the yearbook's other pages."

pro-life... but not pro-life-of-the-mother. that's really what that boils down to.

If people are so desperate to adopt, why does my community have a huge display set up at the airport and several other places with pictures and stories of kids who are desperate to be adopted in order to raise awareness of these children and their situation? If so many people were desperate to adopt, these already…

I like when a gym has a dress code. I'm in grad school and the gym on campus has one—no crop tops, no ripped tanks. No using your cell phone. I appreciate those rules. Wear a tank top, just make sure it's not ripped down the side and it covers your stomach. It's not that hard. Same goes for guys who wear those shirts…

I don't give a crap whether he can avoid it or not. It's his lunchbox, he shouldn't have to carry a different one if he doesn't want to (and his parents shouldn't have to pay to replace a perfectly good lunchbox), and the kids should shut the hell up about it. It's not hurting anybody.

A company as big as Target or Old Navy can't afford actual Photoshop, or someone skilled at using it?

For some women it IS unhealthy. Some women it's normal, they just have a wide-set pelvis, and for some women, they starve themselves until their muscles atrophy to get the thigh gap.

I don't feel like having a historically black fraternity/sorority is any more racist than having an HBCU or having any other group for a marginalized or discriminated-against group. And while I know that there are instances of white students pledging black Greek groups, I would have zero problem with a black Greek…

I didn't go to the U of A, but another southern school. I was a member of one of the sororities listed and we absolutely had black sisters in our group. And we definitely didn't have an alumnae group telling us what to do!