My 6-year-old son asked me about going to Sea World the other day and I was straight up with him and told him my feelings (without being graphic). By the end of the conversation he was ready with a plan to go down there and set the whales free. Fuck Sea World!

Or... you simply don't read very well? Take your pick. Other people seemed to have no problem understanding.

Because they could be used as a go between for all sorts of adult services that are not legal. As a 3rd party, they'd have no way of knowing if porn is performed by people who are consenting, who are of age, who aren't being trafficked, but could possibly find themselves if not legally liable, at least in the position…

Escalating messages after you have clearly been ignoring him is intrusive and rude. You need to unfriend him.

Work with high school students, REMEMBER being a high school student and everything about this is stupid. High school administrators are some of the most narrow minded, petty and vindictive people I've ever met. For what it's worth, my school pulled the same dumb crap (i.e. letting things slide one day and nailing…

Oh, please. "Dehumanization of sex workers." She got kicked off a fundraising website for violating their Terms of Service. I'm totally not fine with the dehumanization of sex workers, but even suggesting that this situation is "dehumanizing" is hyperbole on a level I didn't know existed. She agreed to certain terms,…

Could use a "you're gonna make it" tonight. I'm (like many) fairly change-averse, and have been racking up the major life changes like nobody's business over the past year. I'm feeling creatively blocked just a couple months into a new job, and a lot of pressure to prove myself. I reached out to a local low-cost…

@spikespeigel - Having worked in the education system for almost 20 years now, let me tell you a little secret. You get what you expect from your students. If you enter the classroom with the expectations that you are working with "devious people" they will live up to your low expectations. High school kids get a bad…

So, I had a yard sale yesterday and posted in SNS about a creepy guy.

Teaching is a highly stressful job that never ends. Not only do you deal with students who are often times awful, you deal with their parents who taught them to behave this way. Add in an administration/school district that isn't always on your side and I understand why teaching is such a difficult profession.

I wanted to share my good news! Two weeks ago I was asking for good vibes for this job I was hoping to get. They called me the following Tuesday to tell me that I did get it! I started this week (went to the office a couple times while I wrap up things at my old job) and I'm so excited. Also because I was informed…

I bet you would be just as dismissive if Police started enforcing all the old laws that technically are still in force without warning. All them pesky Arizonians who own more than 2 sex toys deserve to be punished with no prior warning, because they broke the rules.

As someone who wore a uniform every day for 10 years, this is such utter crap. Kids will always look for ways to express themselves and/or stand out. We always had issues with girls getting told their skirts were too short, or that you could see another shirt through your blouse, or your earrings were too big, or your…

agrees with my inner teen, not you

This is what I was just alluding to. That fact that the president is Black means nothing. Often Black educators have internalized and even taken to an extreme the idea that students of color need to always be visually readable as non-threatening, assimilated or willing to assimilate. Dress codes at historically Black…

The teenager that still lives me says "no-they were angry at petty adult b.s. that wastes their time (like most of high school)"-and my adult self who has taught h.s agrees.

"I'm 70% confident that the only reason the school is enforcing these rules now is because they want to remind the students that school is still in session..."

So you hate high school students and you hate the school system in which you teach. I agree with apeshapedmanreturns, it sounds like you finding a different line of work might be in everyone's best interest.

You're missing part of the story that's kind of important. Eden re-tweeted offers of "adult material" from her followers, in exchange for donating to her fund. Defamer covered this part, why are you glossing over it? She didn't write the tweets or make the offers, but she re-tweeted/promoted them, and BOOM. She's…

If this is your honest, educated opinion maybe teaching isn't for you.