But they aren’t??? Well, now I just feel stupid for asking all those mice about Israel.

We had the same deal in my house. I think I called my mom twice for pickups in the middle of the night. She wasn’t thrilled but preferred it to the alternative. We also had a “no questions asked/no punishment” attached to that deal.

Oh, yeah, I got that addendum too. I think it’s pretty important, and that it should be brought up again even if a young adult child is visiting home.

I think the most unrealistic thing here is a 9-year-old who only needs to be told twice to sit down.

Story time:

Speaking as one, yes there are. The truth is though that we have to teach to the test. Our standards are written based in what will be on the test, we teach to it. It is actually what is required of us. Some of us try really hard to impress upon our students that there are multiple versions of history and that often…

Or after they go to sleep *cough*

PSA for modeling appropriate drinking behavior around your child. Like, wine should be consumed with food, and limited to 1-2 glasses.

If you do make time for exercise, she’ll start insisting you have a nosh whenever you see her. Once you engage, you’ll never break free.

#lazygradstudentgenocide

He didn’t like my response : (

I wonder if he frequently juxtaposes two thoughts like that.

It’s always amazing to me how anti-semites will simultaneously suggest that the Jews are sub-human rat people but also the shadowy masterminds behind a global super-conspiracy dominating all finance and media.

Where is my cut of nefarious plot action, dammit? What else did I suffer through Hebrew school for?

Have you considered not being so Jewish?

And it should be noted, that even though they had religion, they couldn’t read the almighty bible. Why? Because learning to read was illegal.

A couple of those examples (say, how the slaves brought important knowledge) seem less like attempts at making slavery into a positive thing, and more of a very clumsy attempt to document some kind of... agency or personhood for people who are often only depicted as helpless, faceless, no-impact victims.

Religion gave ​slaves a sense of self worth and a hope for ​salvation in this life and the next

So, I started in a Texas High School during my sophomore year, and it was pretty much the same shit. Even the text itself maybe wasn’t so bad, but the teachers were absolute bastards, who’d frequently tone their lectures with “it wasn’t all that bad” shtick.

Don’t know many fucking lawyers, do you?