Yes. 100%. From the daughter of a diabetic alcoholic, this is important and exactly how I read the coroner’s report.

She WAS a good person. Through her writing and stage performances (one woman shows etc.) she helped many people also suffering from mental illness to understand their disease. I am one of them. As a person with bipolar I literally owe the real Carri Fisher (as distinct from the role she played as Princess Leia) my…

she did not die because she used (and sometimes abused) drugs.

Except she’s best friends with Kate The Wasp, another female comic who doesn’t do vulgar Amy Schumer type stuff. Except she’s a staunch supporter of a lot of important feminist causes. Except she is one to generally laugh at herself. Except her point about being smart with your comedy and not “like one of the boys” is…

These polygamist/child rapists are the Queen Welfare Queens. Their faces should be on every protest poster when the repugnantcans start trying to cut funding to poor families.

Man, the Leftovers finale is really disappointing.

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I’m glad they caught him. The judge was warned that if he was allowed out on bail, he’d bolt - and sure enough, he did. They need to not make that mistake again.

I love that they used Offred’s story as a jumping off point to other perspectives on what took place in the universe that Atwood created. There’s so much there to unpack I find it really interesting seeing it from the different perspectives. For me especially contrasting Aunt Lydia and the other commanders who…

As far as I saw, the last time Alexis Bledel’s character appeared was where she was a handmaiden at some other house across town, with a kind wife who kept delaying the ceremony for her sake. The show didn’t explain her absence in the gathering in the season finale though, which I would have loved to see since it…

I liked them, too! Also the boat escape into Canada was harrowing!

Well, they used to learn to write a paragraph in third grade. Some kids can learn to do it in second grade, and that’s great, but what happens to the kids that can’t? They don’t know how to write a paragraph when they enter third grade, and the expectation is that they will write a five paragraph compare and contrast…

Many commenters have pointed out how this data can be manipulated. I’m happy for the students, and I love their excitement. I believe in their potential. However, there are a lot of factors here- 1. Those tests of proficiency are poor measures of actual proficiency. 2. Schools can and do find ways to manipulate the…

Nothing on the face. But I don’t trust DCPS adminstration to put kids first. Getting this story was probably more important than any particular kid. There is lots off ends justifies the means logic.

That doesn’t indicate anything that was actually tailored to the individual student. The school had lots riding on this and given everything I know about DCPS shenanigans, I suspect noncollege options weren’t acceptable.

This this this a thousand times this. My parents scrimped and saved for 18 years to pay for me to go university. I had no guidance in school, I had no idea what I wanted to do other than possibly go to law school. I came out with a general degree with no direction unable to get a loan for law school and my parents…

There’s nothing with going to Community College then metriculating to a state university. My brother just graduated, debt free, by doing that.

When you see teacher turnover like that, it is because of the principal. Even in high-poverty schools, where the students have a lot of challenges, most teachers will tell you that the kids aren’t the problem. It’s the lack of support from administration. My school had 25% teacher turnover this year. We lost some…

Right. We need janitors, fast food workers, and other similar jobs that don’t require degrees. I think that every graduating senior should know how to budget, how to apply to different jobs, and have an idea of what the workforce is like.

One semester of college and debt is worse than no college and no debt. I hope the students got good one on one support. I support everyone who wants to go to college going, but pushing everyone into college is a failed model.