I was in 7th grade when it happened. I'm not sure I understood the complete gravity of the tragedy or the sickness it unleashed in our society, but I remember feeling very uneasy on the way to school soccer practice later that day the next “school event” after it. It was clear to me something intangible had changed…

I get that “fast food workers’ rights” is kind of a joke to a lot of people, but I think it’s very illustrative of the enormous erosion of workers’ rights and the value of labor in general. It’s kind of crazy to see the sometimes vicious responses to the minimum wage discussion.

What?! Never! That is way too sensible.

Henri is my dad’s absolutely favourite thing on the internet apart from Aqua videos and the Leningrad Cowboys.

How have I never seen this before?! This is brilliant and horrible.

I remember when he invented the phrase “prime the pump.”  He just came up with it, right off the top of his head; you better believe it!

That photo of the MAGA rally. Wow. Is it just unfortunate timing, or did he ACTUALLY tweet a photo of the entire crowd doing the Nazi salute?

4th of July parade! Brilliant! Trump doesn’t get enough credit for all his great, original ideas!

It even resonates overseas - I live in a country without endemic gun violence, and my 18 year old sister admitted that with the coverage and knowledge of school shootings in the USA, she assessed her classrooms at the beginning of the school year in terms of evacuation and barricading. Just in case someone decided to…

I got the impression that the article is criticizing the macabre absurdity of teachers having to come up with their own strategies to keep their students safe from gun violence, because society and the system have abandoned them on this issue.

Or we could, you know, enact some sensible gun laws.

I’m the same age as the Columbine shooters (a year or two younger?). My little brother was in elementary school when it happened. To me at the time it felt like a “high school” problem, and not something little kids would even register. Years later, he told me that not only had it registered, it scared the shit out of…

It can definitely be that much, and more so at the younger grade levels.

I teach PreK. My son is in the same school, but in a different classroom. I honestly don’t know if I would stay with my class or go to my baby. 

Oh yes, and we’re expected to give our lives for our students- anyone who dares give that a second thought is automatically a horrible person. But the fact is, I have 2 kids of my own. Am I expected to leave them motherless for that student who called me the c-word last week? Or the one who just got out of jail (for…

Did I read somewhere that the average teacher spends almost $2000 of their own money to fund their classroom with basics? 

I’m a high school teacher, and I’d like to emphasize that individual teachers are expected to use their own time and money to secure their classrooms in the event of a lockdown. Our school spent time practicing for a lockdown last year, and aside from the general psychological fuckeditude of the experience, we were…

Considering I just saw a person basically say a teacher should be hanged for showing their students CNN, yeah...people likely do judge teachers for not being real life John McClane. 

As a teacher, the part that nags at me over and over again is the dark certitude of my students that it’s a question of when, not if.

“I love my students but I’m not a trained security guard or a first responder by any stretch of the imagination... and if you don’t do the right things you will be judged,” O’Brien adds