Not excusing her, but you can’t walk out. You can call an admin, but it really challenging schools no one will come, and they don’t want you sending kids to the office. Really defiant kids won’t go even if you do send them.

It’s getting harder and harder (note: nothing justifies what this teacher did) because parents are getting worse and worse. You have a lot of kids who clearly aren’t getting structure at home, and the new wave of helicopter parents basically disallowing any disciplinary action of their perfect angels means that kids…

One of our semi-permanent substitute middle school teachers quit after the harassment the 7th grade boys gave her. She was in her 20s and pretty and made the absolute mistake of saying she used to work as a bartender. That was apparently scandalous and transformed to a story about her being a prostitute/stripper. She…

A lot of young idealistic people head into the inner cities with the idea that they can use reason, persuasion, and a demonstration of their own love of learning to get kids to take an interest in school. Unfortunately, it usually doesn’t work. Most teachers get spit out after several years or, like this one, wind up…

And your prediction came true. Plenty of people here play the victim too, and they just believe that’s their right. It’s a deliberate echo-chamber.

Not that you care, but white men are now CONSTANTLY told that we didn’t earn anything we have. That we need to shut up. That we are ‘mansplaining’ and appropriating and white-washing and not only do we hear these things constantly, but it’s all OK to say (and I’m sure you are thinking right now that I should shut up…

i’m really curious as to how you envision this would possibly work. Obama just says “Garland is a justice now, tough shit”? that’s not how this works. that’s not how any of this works.

Ivana is really committed to that hairdo.

Good. We should deport these people. And by the way, Obama has been deporting criminal illegals all 8 years. If by your own statistics 6 out of 11 million do have criminal records, then they should be deported, and race has nothing to do with this.

In my experience with this site, when you say “troll” you mean anyone who has a opinion on this that is different from your own. Even if they are being civil, respectful and calm. People lie from time to time, for various reasons. Men can lie, women can lie, Christians can lie and Muslims can lie too. There are many…

Hillary was a weak candidate. Completely competent but weak. Why? She failed to come out with a strong economic message. The white dudes in Middle America are not going to rally behind “women and children” and her neoliberal brand of multiculturalism (i.e. the American Dream is big enough for all of us). The hard…

Oh fuck off. You chose to have a private e-mail server, and then you chose not to address it early on, which gave opponents something to bludgeon your campaign with all year. And then you totally ignored a huge swath of the electorate that was crying out for attention...attention that Bernie would have given them.

I voted for her, but maybe if there was a better candidate than her the Dems would have won, but yeah, I am a special snowflake, thanks.

Only Jezebel could take a story about a retired politician painting surprisingly competent portraits of veterans and turn it into another indiscreet whinge-fest about the election.

I’m not a Taylor stan either, but I find the attitude to her a bit disheartening. Katy Perry (who out-earned Taylor last year) gives $10k to PP and is a hero. Taylor gave $1million to flood relief, but she’s probably a bitch, right? :/ also, innocent until proven guilty. There’s zero evidence she supports Trump.

How she voted is none of your damn business.

‘We ARE addressing the concerns of white working class voters. It’s just that the concerns Trump voters were having weren’t actually “economic anxiety” but more “I want to feel superior to others.”’

It’s not racism-lite. I don’t know why so many Dems believe this. It’s so dumb.

Goodl Lord! Racism, racism, racism. Do you realize voters think about other things besides race or whatever other ism in vogue for the moment.

As I mentioned in another comment, take a look at the section of that NYT exit poll where they broke down the vote by “Family Financial Situation” For those whose family financial situation is “Better Today” Clinton won 72-24. For those who said it was “about the same” it was tied 46-46. For those who said it was…