I teach high school (primarily sophomores and juniors). They do not check their email. Not their personal email. Not their school email. Frequently, they don’t even know the passwords for either!

He’s right.

Do by saying he was in Washington DC he was not in “the District”? How shitty was his homeschooling, really? I feel like US geography is pretty non-confrontational unless you're Texas

This is pretty awesome. Like, yes.

My friend started the HP series when her son was around 7 for his before-bed reading. She got hooked herself and stayed up till 3 this summer finishing book 7 because she has read FAR beyond him.

I scrolled and my brain just yelled PENIS PENIS PENIS at me.

Why is one of the few things on your menu that can be eaten without fear or regret — a lunch-only sandwich of chopped soy-glazed pork with coleslaw and cucumbers — called a Roasted Pork Bahn Mi, when it resembles that item about as much as you resemble Emily Dickinson?

The one with the caterpillar mush!

I’m a high school teacher. My lunch break, from bell (when my students can leave the room) to bell (when I am contractually obligated to be in my room, ready to teach, is 22 minutes. Please count into that 22 minute “lunch break” thr time it takes each kid to gather their shit and leave the room, the questions they…

The standards for all positions should be high and gender, age, race, zodiac sign, WHATEVER, should have NO bearing on whether or not a person gets the job. Set the bar high, train people, give them the job the qualify for. Don't lower the standards because someone has a vagina or is 25 or something equally arbitrary.

Brilliant. Perfect.

The issue Jia is addressing is that these readers are only focusing on how they are doing this reading...not actually writing about the good and interesting and diverse writers themselves. The focus is on the writer of the blog, not the authors of the novels.

I drive by one of the bus stops for the high school I teach at every morning. The stop is two miles from school (I run the route regularly, so I know this to be a fact). Parents sit with their kids in the car and wait. I make it to school WELL before that bus. Why the parents wait for longer than the drive would take…

My cousin’s daughter turned 2 on Dec 30 and started preschool yesterday. It's all about socialization

yes. All this.

If I was wealthy enough (or like a really old lady), I’d have my hair washed and set for me two or three times a week. I hate taking care of my own hair

But, like, the original portraits are striking and beautiful.

The queen is not amused

It doesn't matter how rich and famous he is. Dude is a pedophile. He obviously goes for under aged girls.

Three weeks ago, my cousin died of a heroin overdose. She’d been an addict for years, on and off drugs, in and out of contact.