Ditto JK Rowling.

All fun aside, no person should be worth 18 BILLION dollars. That’s obscene.

Are you Canadian? I also have some weird Kiefer stories (also non pedo). I think he must go all to hell with himself when he visits the Motherland.

I have 2 acquaintances whom Kiefer hit on enthusiastically, while falling down drunk (on seperate occasions). While this doesn’t prove anything, he does go for adult women when shitfaced.

I’ve worked in the private and public systems and would never send my own kids to a private school. Public schools are far from perfect but many private schools have unbelievably sketchy hiring practices.

Not necessarily. I work at the elementary level and we’ve absolutely filed police reports for kids who were victims of crimes outside of school hours.

People like that should not be teaching.

Honestly, I don’t think schools are anymore unsafe than they used to be. Juvenile crime is actually much lower than when I went to school in the 80's and 90's.

It’s a delicate balance. When I taught kindergarten I had a parent who wanted to press charges because another 5 year old in the class lifted up his daughter’s skirt at recess. A couple of months later his daughter pulled down a boy’s shorts in gym class. That meeting was FUN.

If you work at a school and a child comes to you and says they were robbed and beaten up, I’m sure most people would respond appropriately (comfort the child, send them to have their injuries checked, try to find the perpetrator, etc). Many people lose this common sense the moment sexual assault is added to the mix…

For me, the worst thing someone could do would be to hurt one of my 2 babies (they know I would go full Cersei and burn cities to the goddamn ground). That someone would do that themself turns regular punishment on its head.

Wish I hadn’t read this just before bed. Children are so precious, how someone can do this to a part of themself (or any child TBH) just doesn’t compute. It’s the opposite of what you’re hardwired to do.

I seem to remember bananas being thrown at a black politician in Italy fairly recently as well.

but has so far refused to acknowledge the possibility that racism played a part in what occurred.

Isis are the attention whores of the terrorist world. They’ll claim responsibility for anything that has a vaguely Islamic connection, even if it’s just a messed up teen who looked at a jihadi website once then decided to do something destructive.

This just proves the point that gun control won’t stop people from finding ways to perpetrate a mass killin...wait, no one died except the suspect? Ok, move along, nothing to see here.

Every parent knows the fruit of the vine is sweetest when the spawn are at rest.

Flam is that feeling you get when you’re exhausted and have to wake up at 3 AM to change and feed a newborn. I wish Stranger Things had existed then because you totally feel like you’re in the Upside Down. Oh, and you also look and feel like the monster who lives there.

I also have to leap out of bed at 5:45 AM and immediately take on the role of drill sargent to get everyone out of the door on time. Weren’t mornings painful enough already before you had to become the braying harpie forcing people to brush their teeth?