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me age 15 sitting alone in an oversized hoodie listening to pompeii by bastille through my broken apple earbuds at school feeling deeply depressed but also thinking i was the most interesting and unique person alive

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Teachers should let kids eat and drink in class, I have no idea why high school teachers act like tiny dictators of their pathetic kingdoms. Like, let them go to the bathroom, if they are hungry let them eat, if they are thirsty let them drink.

It shouldn’t really be so difficult.

Anyway, children are people, so maybe stop adding onto this post trying to justify why it is ok to treat them and train like animals in a 1920’s zoo.

As a teacher, the reason kids at my school (high school in Australia) aren’t allowed to eat and drink in class is because:

1. They leave food scraps and wrappers all over the desks and floor and refuse to clean it up

2. They throw food

3. They spend half the lesson sharing around gum/lollies/drinks instead of doing the work

If they’re allowed to eat and drink, it makes teaching 50% more difficult to do. There’s a reason they have recess and lunch breaks

Cool, I’m from Australia.

If they refuse to clean it up then they can’t eat in class and enjoy detention. Same goes for 2. The same things that would happen when students blatantly and purposefully flouted any other set of rules.

3 is not a real thing, like, it might happen in the rare occasion kids have lollies in class because they have to be covert about it and because it is so rare. If being able to eat whenever you wanted was a granted they wouldn’t be smuggling contraband around the class.

There was always gum under my fucking table because we weren’t supposed to eat it so people would just put it under the desk.

Had a teacher who said he only cared about gum being put under the desk and so if we chewed gum then just put it in the bin and he didn’t care.

There stopped being gum shoved under the table by his students.

I don’t know how teachers have not figured out how resentful students clearly are in high school and how much better they respond to mutual respect. Students would go to war for teachers that showed them respect and even students deemed as “troubled” would give so much more effort, time and respect to a teacher who approached them on equal footing.

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wireslide

Hi. Former high school math teacher (in the USA) here.

The only reason my students couldn’t eat in the classroom was because we had mice and couldn’t guarantee the sanitary conditions of anything in the classroom. I was open with my students about it. One young woman started carrying a roll of butcher paper in her backpack. She’d cover her table and snack while her team worked. End of class, she gathered up the butcher paper and brought it to me to cut it into pieces for scrap paper. Any food-stained paper was trimmed into the trash. Sanitary, no leftover mess, and by the end of the year we had stacks of scratch paper. None of the other kids objected to her team being able to eat; if they wanted to snack they moved their chair over there or asked her for some paper for their table. HER rule was that if you came to her table for snacks you had better also be ready to work.

Best behaved class I ever had, and one student who could only get food at school was often brought extra containers of food in those little cheap ziploc containers and given it in my classroom.

This was a remedial math class, by the way. Every student in there was “difficult.”

Seriously “You can eat in class, but if you don’t clean up after yourself, you won’t be allowed to” is not a difficult concept, and it’s better than punishing everyone for something they MIGHT do.

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renthony

My grandfather was a brick mason and my mom worked jobs with him, and this resulted in me effectively getting a bricklayer’s apprenticeship because I wound up on job sites all the time because they had nothing else to do with me.

I have Very Strong Opinions about brickwork. Very Strong. Also, get me some brick and I can build you a house.

That drippy shit where they don’t scrape the excess grout? I fuckin’ hate that shit. It looks sloppy and lazy and is absolutely wasteful.

This shit? Nasty. Gross. Properly scrape it, you absolute terrors. You could mix half the amount of grout and still have the rest for the next job. Goddamn.

Hey

Hey ren

How do you feel about

This

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU PAINT OVER PERFECTLY GOOD BRICK

BRICK IS PRETTY

THAT PAINT JOB IS BORING AS FUCK AND EVERYONE WHO SIGNED OFF ON IT SHOULD BE ASHAMED

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iconuk01

Sometimes you paint it to protect in coastal towns.

This is the town of Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland (Better known to a generation of Brits as “Balamory” from the kids series of the same name)

Now THAT I will accept. It’s done well and I like the colors.

There’s a weird trend around pockets of the south to just kind of…slap cheap white paint over some truly stunningly gorgeous brickwork, and I cannot wrap my head around it at all.

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alwaysbewoke

This Christmas let’s remember this fact…

I’m not even Christian and I still feel compelled to reblog geographically ethnically accurate Jesus

#athiestsforblackjesus

#witchesforblackjesus

#christiansforblackjesus

#pagansforblackjesus

#druidsforblackjesus

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witheringeye

#satanistsforblackjesus

guys jesus was born in bethlehem which is modern day palistine he was brown y’all

#atheistsforbrownjesus

#christiansforbrownjesus

#witchesforbrownjesus

#catholicsforbrownjesus

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adoratato

#jewishpeopleforbrownjesus

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Ok but like bars

[Video Description: A TikTok video of young blonde woman. She sits back in her chair as a song begins to play. Pasted over the video is a sticker that reads “My little brother made a SoundCloud.”

She looks mildly interested as the beat begins, but progressively seems more and more amused and horrified as it continues with a deep voice beginning to rap. Eventually, she leans in to turn off the song laughing from disbelief

Lyrics:

Might, Might, Might

Might stick my dick in a rathole

Have Stuart Little nibble on my asshole

Might throw it back for the little rascal

Say Daddy come eat this asshole

Yeah

Throw that little mouse ass back

Come here little baby let me give it a smack

Got me a little rodent fixation ]

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