every time i’ve been forced to see a picture of post malone my brain attempts to induce amnesia out of self defense
(via mosseffect)
I am currently both a teacher and a student, and I am of the apparently controversial opinion that late work should always be accepted. Not just if they have a doctor’s note or their mom’s death certificate. Not just for one or two assignments a semester. Always.
“But that’s unfair to the people who submitted on time!”
I didn’t say you had to give everybody full credit. Drop the grade for each individual assignment by 5% for every day late until it gets down to 20%. Never, ever take it below 20%.
Here’s my rationale:
1. If you are a good educator, then you created that assignment in the first place because YOU WANTED YOUR STUDENTS TO LEARN SOMETHING. You still want them to have an incentive to complete that learning experience even if it’s not “on time.”
2. You want to prepare your students for the the real world, right? Well, if you missed a deadline (for example, submitting report cards), would your boss throw away everything you’d worked on, dock your paycheck, and tell you to try again next time? No. They would be upset with you, but they would ask you to take time out of your schedule to finish the project as quickly as possible. It wouldn’t cease to exist.
3. Based on point #2, if you are teaching high school or below, not accepting late work is holding children (who by the way, generally do not have full control over their schedules or what materials they have access to) to a higher standard than adults.
4. If you are teaching college or graduate school, you are working with adults who are taking years out of their lives and paying thousands of dollars to learn from you. Why make it harder for them than it already is?
5. You have or will teach students with extenuating life circumstances that they don’t tell you about (e.g. chronic illness, caring for children or sick relatives, abusive relationships) because they are embarrassed to share this information or have already been taught to shut up and stop making excuses.
6. You have or will teach students with learning disabilities that they don’t even know about. I was diagnosed with ADHD in high school after years of being treated like I was just a bad kid. I suffered from depression and anxiety for over ten years before I went on medication. I did not even learn the words “executive dysfunction” until I was in grad school.
In conclusion, yes, we all know that being a teacher gives you authority but that’s no reason to flaunt it by imposing restrictions that don’t exist anywhere else in the name of “education.”
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me: what a lovely day! even the flowers are singing!
flowers (singing): the sins of our forefathers bind us to the dirt
(via confirmance)
“no one likes to be around an eeyore”
excuse me eeyore had TONS OF FRIENDS, your statement is patently untrue according to WINNIE THE POOH CANON
The whole point of Eeyore’s character was that despite his depression, he had tons of friends and was always included in their lives.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
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sometimes ppl make posts like ‘brown eyes? lovely!’ and ‘big noses? adorable!’ and ‘curly hair? gorgeous!’ and then they get a million comments and anons making it about themselves who have the uh opposite of those features and like. first of all i see what ur doing and it’s not a good look second of all make ur own post
a post clearly meant to show positivity towards features that the media calls ugly: if u dont meet typical western beauty standards guess what ur gorgeous!! the media will try to tell u ur not but you are! ur gorgeous!
a million ppl in the notes + op’s inbox: people who do meet typical western beauty standards are also gorgeous. if you look exactly like every single cis white thin model and actor ur valid
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I’m just gonna say it. If you think a razor company saying “Rape and misogyny aren’t manly traits” is an attack on all men, or some sort of leftist feminist propaganda; then you are fucked up. The fact that a video standing up to bigotry has 90% dislikes makes me feel absolutely disgusting.
If you’re not terrified that 90% of people felt personally attacked by an ANTI-RAPE, ANTI-MISOGYNIST message, then you’re not paying attention.
And if you think the ad is anti-male; you can stay the fuck away from me because I don’t wanna be a man like that, and I don’t wanna not be a man around people like you…
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one time i accidentally convinced a coworker that there are snipers on the roof of every wegmans and if you try to steal something they will kill you
