THIS. I’m a social worker in a midwestern state (I don’t work for child services, though) and it’s nearly impossible to get a child removed from the home, or to even get the county to look into ANYTHING. I’ve had kids with visible injuries and can’t get CPS to even come look into it. Had a middle schooler impregnated…

I was trying to explain to my husband that this stuff happens ALL of the time if you’re female and I think he thought I was exaggerating until I gave him several specific examples. From getting groped on the school bus when I was in 6th grade to having men yell “bitch!” (and worse) at me in bars when I politely…

I agree. Absolutely call CPS or the police and let them know about his history.

Yeah. The stuff of nightmares. It came out later that the guy was a former student and had dropped out and gotten involved in some kind of cult. But no one knows why he crawled into the freezer.

Exactly. I consider a “conservative” to just be someone who holds views that are different than mine, but with whom I can still have a rational, respectful conversation. James Woods being “blacklisted” in Hollywood isn’t because he’s conservative, it’s because he’s an irrational hate-spewing jackass with a penchant…

Sadly, I don’t think it’s necessarily uncommon for people to get trapped in walk-ins. When I was in college in 1999, some random guy (not a student)  wandered into an old unused kitchen in the basement of my dorm, got trapped in the walk-in (which was not in use, so it wasn’t cold), and died in there. He was only…

I’ve been in the area since 2004 and the crime rate has definitely increased (or maybe more accurately, it has increased in certain neighborhoods), but for such a liberal city, there is a LOT of embedded racism. So it’s easier to blame all the crime on “people from Chicago” than to address the real issues.

Wait, you can’t blame WI and our ridiculously lax gun laws for all of the guns in Chicago! We’re busy blaming “people from Chicago” for every crime that happens in Madison!  

I hate that he is calling it disrespectful. I see nothing disrespectful about it- and quite frankly, the images of players quietly kneeling and linking arms are incredibly powerful. Disrespectful is a “president” who shits on the constitution, brags about sexual assault, supports white supremacists, mocks the…

I was saying exactly this to Mr. Fashion Don’t earlier today. Funny how free speech is only allowed if it’s an idea they agree with.

I don’t think they would walk out because the NFL is supporting their right to kneel (even if it is for $$$ reasons). I think it is more likely that more and more players, coaches, owners, etc will start kneeling.

Yup, we’re around the same age then. I only remember saying it in elementary school and it never occurred to me that other schools still say it at all, let alone in high school.

I hate the NFL as a corporation, but.....I just love the Packers too much (I live in WI of course). I justify it because the Pack is owned by the fans. And they do a lot for the community.

So I’ve worked in a high school for the past 12 years and we have never once had our students recite the Pledge. Pretty sure they don’t do it at the middle school in my district, either (not sure about the elementary school). I never even thought about it until my husband, who works in a neighboring district,…

THIS.

Yeah, but Harry is British and classy, so he had to be more subtle. This way he can say he was just adjusting his coat with the gleam in his eye that we all know what he really meant.

I’ll let my mom know that. Perhaps I’ll also buy her a giant speaker to put on top of her car for Christmas....

Yeah, I grew up in Holland. Her parents (well, her mom, since her dad died) have a mansion down the road that used to be considered huge, but is nothing compared to Betsey’s place. For as long as I can remember, my mom has been yelling obscenities every time she drives past the place because she hates their whole…

I loved her as Ramona Quimby and reading her anecdote about the incident with the camera operator when she was 9....wasn’t she about that age when she played Ramona?! Did some camera operator make that comment to RAMONA F’ING QUIMBY!? He must die.

Yeah, I’m a school social worker (married to a teacher). Master’s degree and 12 years experience and I make 45,000. I live in WI where Scott Walker did away with unions, so now we have terrible health insurance, haven’t had a raise in years, and our district lengthened our contracted day to 9 hours without having to…