What is it with idiots and their “women and” comments. It’s like they don’t realize that half the world’s population is female, and as such, making generalizations about them as a group is generally an insulting, condescending waste of time that doesn’t make anyone involved look or feel smart. It’s like thoughtful…

Jesus. Did you only have one night to read all of Moby Dick? I really hate assignments like these. Students shouldn’t be penalized because their parents can’t drive them somewhere (in middle school we had to go visit a Civil War battlefield for an assignment—most of them were 1-2 hours drive away) or don’t subscribe…

Well, I’m glad you can be that voice!

Science fairs always break my heart for this. You can always tell which kids have parents that can’t or won’t help them out. At one end of the gym you’ve got the cardboard backdrops with the experiment written in pencil. no colors, pictures, and a project consisting of a few sad bags of microwave popcorn or…

Also it's like the most classist idea ever. I'm order to do well in school you have to drop two grand on a science project. I also hate this commercial deeply.

This reminds me of when my 7th grade teacher told everyone the extra credit project was to watch this Moby Dick movie that was coming on that night and write a short paper on it. The problem was is was being made by some cable channel which I didn’t have. When I pointed this out the teacher her solution was I could…

This story got me right in the feels. I’ve done some work in science curriculum development in a really wealthy school district and I’m often the only voice criticizing lessons that require lots of parent support or outside of school activities that put our less wealthy students at a disadvantage.

It was the first and clearest example in my young life of how circumstances can outweigh your best efforts

This reminds me of my own failed science project. In middle school, we were required to make a bug collection. We learned about the different categorizations of insects, how to catch and preserve them, and how to mount them. We were then supposed to go out and catch a certain number from each of the categories that…

I am a teacher, a scientist and I’ve helped run science fairs. In any of the events I’ve been involved in, you’d have to make a special request for electronics and they would have to specifically support the project. (e.g. a laptop for demonstration of a perception experiment.)

To be fair, they thought it was a Michael Bay blockbuster.

Seriously, the Transformers movie budget was $150m to Jem’s $5m. The G.I. Joe movie’s was $175m. They are different kind of properties from Jem so it’s not like I expect them to have the exact same budget, but 30+ times as much is bullshit and insane. A lot of this is just self-fulfilling prophecy—if you decide not to…

THIS MOVIE MAKES ME ANGRY ENOUGH TO KICK A PLANT.

Good. Don’t take just the names from nostalgia properties and then target them toward an entirely different generation. They will not give a shit and you’ll turn off the people who would have been into it.

Prissy Yelp parent may have been disgusted by the burping and farting animals, but I guarantee their kids were fascinated.

WAIT you live by pa’s?

This sounds more like a terrible customer. Don’t sit on the pumpkins for sale, right? And it’s probably $12 cause it’s a corn maze, which take time and effort to create.

I seem to recall that the “crying indian” was actually an Italian guy. Or maybe I dreamed that.

That cat was so unbelievably cool and smart about it. Just stayed put!

I would be stuffing my cats in my jacket, too. I love the little bastards. Even through I would be cut to ribbons by the end.