Nooooooooooooooo

That’s all it takes to criminalize a kid. I don’t know what legal action happens if a student is arrested by an SRO but I know it is coupled with out-of-school suspensions where I live (which is enough to increase the odds of a minority student dropping out from 25% to 48%), and some of my students were threatened…

I think you might misunderstand what community policing is meant to be. It’s not about letting the police police themselves, or about having more cops playing basketball with kids. It’s about removing police from the equation as much as possible, and giving oversight of police departments to representative members of…

And notice that both the teacher and the administrator watched this cop assault their student and threaten other kids, and did NOTHING. Those two need to be out of education. It is not that hard to get a student to put their phone away, and it’s not even that crucial. You don’t need to get a principal over that…

Honestly, even arresting a kid at school is too much unless they actually commit a heinous crime. Arrests and suspensions drastically increase the odds of a student dropping out of school. Students of mine have been arrested at school and all that happened is they hated their principals and started skipping class, cuz…

Jesus, this cat weighed ten more pounds than my 2-year-old.

Ladies and gentleman, we have our new bumper sticker slogan:

And of course I had to go and hate-read some. Luckily, someone named Bob has taken it upon himself to smack the assholes down and it’s beautiful.

My toddler would argue that last point with you, but she’s wrong. Cookie Monster forever.

Assuming you even live in a neighborhood with a bank in the first place. A lot of the folks using scams like this RushCard are doing it because they don’t live close to an actual bank/credit union, or because they work jobs that issue paychecks in the form of pre-loaded cards like this (I don’t even get how it’s…

This is also how it goes when you really DON’T want to be pregnant, oddly enough. EVERYTHING MIGHT BE A SYMPTOM.

Well in my case it’s because I’m ignorant about how to spell Gandhi, obviously. But not so ignorant that I don’t know the difference between him and Columbus.

Cracklin’ Oat Bran. Expensive as fuck and surprisingly high in fat but so. so. good. It’s basically oatmeal spice cookies.

Big ups to Reese’s Puffs. I’ll still eat ‘em for dessert.

This sounds like my kinda’ night.

I wish everyone would shut up about Bernie being a socialist. He’s a capitalist just like every other candidate.

Do you live in VT? There’s a company in VT that has some breast-cancer themed cement trucks. It was like, their thing.

They call it slacktivism for a reason, people!

You’re really going to compare Columbus to fucking Ghandi? Fuck off.

I’m drinking Moxie cuz I FOUND SOME! in a specialty soda and candy shop that just opened downtown (next to a blow-your-own glass studio! JESUS FUCK, gentrification is so. real. y’all). It’s so rare outside of New England so now tonight feels really special. :)

Also: very impressed with your delicious-sounding soup, but…