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I can’t do prescriptivisim today. Both are valid. One is more of a colloquial phrase than the other. If we’re going to qualify the validity of “standard” English, then I say that we need to stop using “Google” which is a location, as a verb. Peace.
Oh, Japanese class. How I miss you.
crotch watchin! via
Pale~Reverie: I am going back to school.
To earn my degree. I’m shooting for a BA in linguistics, or perhaps a certain language(s)… maybe even anthropology. (Because the magical make-everything-better-fairy will make it so there are many jobs for linguists/polyglots/anthropologists.) I am ridiculously excited! I would like to maybe do…
Do not repeat my mistake: Pick a really good school that not only has a strong Linguistics program, but also will set you up with internships/apprenticeships. My school didn’t and still doesn’t have any of that. It’s hard enough to get a job in this economy, but it’s even harder to get a job in a Lib. Arts field.
Best of luck!
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Letter to Tumblr
Dear Tumblr,
I’m posting this letter to anyone who might be able to help. I realize that I have no right to ask, but please bear with this letter for now.
I am in the process of creating a classroom library for my kids. I work in a high needs district…
11-year-old child singled out in Georgia school for being Pagan
Children Have Rights Too!!!
Christopher Turner, an 11 year old student from Bowden, Georgia, is your every day kid. He plays basketball down the street with his friends, he is a straight A student, and he likes to go to church every Wed. with his friends because he finds it fun and like to socialize. What makes a straight A student who loves school to be fearful of returning to school?? Bullying, plain and simple.
When bullying happens it is usually taken care of by the school, but what happens when a mother’s cry for help gets no answer? What happens when the faculty at the school are the ones doing the bullying? Nothing apparently, except for even more discrimination and harassment.
Towards the end of October the Turner family was getting very excited for Halloween, or for them Samhain. For them it is not just a time to get free candy and dress up for a night, but rather it is a holiday to give thanks and to remember ancenstors for the lives they lived. Samhain fell on a Monday, and like any other religious holiday, Christopher did not attend school. The next day Christopher’s teacher, Mrs. Ross, pulled him out of class and proceeded to drill him about Paganism, ending the conversation with “Paganism is not a religion.” Remember, this is an 11 year old student, with no parent present while being harassed about his religion by someone who is suppose to be an educator.
Christopher’s mother, a single mother of three, immediately called the Carroll County Board of Education. She was transferred to Mr. David Goldberg, assistant Superintendent He apologized and assured her that her son had every right to Freedom of Religion in school. He promised that a meeting would be set up between the teachers of all three of her children with the principal of the school present, but she was never given the opportunity to also be involved in these discussions. Is this what our school system has come to? Secret close door meetings about our children, belittling students in front of their peers, pulling 11 year old children out of classrooms in order to bash them for what they believe in? It’s a pretty disgusting way to run our education system, but I guess that’s how Carroll County likes it. Who needs religious freedom anyway? Certainly not Pagans.
It didn’t stop there for little Christopher’s nightmare. Thinking the worst was behind, Christoper went back to school, but there was another surprise from Christopher’s teacher. On November 29th Mrs. Ross informed her class that they would be doing an essay on “How Christmas started”. In the good ol’ fashion of history, she informed the class that they couldn’t have anything on their report pertaining to Paganism. Intrigued, a female student in Christopher’s classroom asked what paganism is. In response to the question, Mrs. Ross looked directly at Christopher, not the student asking the question, and replied “anything that is non-biblical is paganism.” According to David Goldberg, assistant superintendent of Carroll County Board of Education, Christopher was assured religious freedom. Is this religious freedom? Can a school force a student to write only about “biblical” essays when his religion is different than that of Christianity?
Understandably, Christopher didn’t know what to do, especially when later that day he got suspended on the bus ride home for speaking Spanish. He was speaking Spanish with other Spanish speaking students and was told by his bus driver, Mr. David Ayers, that he couldn’t speak Spanish on the bus. Christopher being part Hispanic, continued speaking with his friends, who were not given the same warning. After being kicked off the bus and being given two day of ISS (in school suspension), his mother was told by the bus driver “If he (Christopher) continues to speak in a language that I can not understand then he will get in trouble.” Not only will this 11 year old child be bashed by his teacher for his religion, but now he will get suspended for speaking a language that he has every right to speak. Is this YOUR America?? If you can stand for this type of treatment for our children then our country is in serious trouble.
Since this time, Christopher has been back to school once. His mother has tried to call his teacher and Mr. Goldberg, but no one will call them back or give them the time of day. Christopher cries every night thinking he has to return to this bullying and discrimination from the same people he feels should be there to protect him. It is sad that with everything children have to overcome in this day and age, that they have to be fearful of the one thing that is there to give them an opportunity in life. We can not stand for this!
This family is in need of help. Please call and blow up the phone lines and email boxes of the people responsible for leaving this child fearful of attending school. No one should have to deal with this type of harrasment!Superintendent - Mr. Scott K. Cowart
Phone Number: (770) 832-3568
Email: Scott.Cowart@CarrollCountySchools.com
Teacher - Mrs. Connie Ross
Phone Number: (770) 258-2161
Email: Connie.Ross@carrollcountyschools.com
Principal - Mrs. Rebecca Waldrep
Phone Number: (770) 258-2161
Email: Rebecca.Waldrep@carrollcountyschools.com
As soon as I get the chance, I’m going to ask my mother what protocol needs to take place at this point and pass on that info. This is sick.
(Source: tenpointsfromgryffindor)
Yay! Another one.
Things to Take Note of:
1. There is also another type of map that is popular: the Dymaxion Projection (Waterman Butterfly).
2. The Mercator projection may not have been created with bias in mind, at least not in 1569; however, because of how the map is “distorted,” the bias toward all things North & European causes a problem because of how people equate power with size and elevation. Also, look at how small Africa and South America appear to be.
3. It is, currently, impossible to acurately recreate a spherical object on a 2D plane. The Peters Projection that is mentioned in the clip tries to compensate for this in order to reduce inaccuacies.
4. If no one wishes to look at current and past maps, then just look at Google Earth when you have a chance. Africa, Asia and S. America are huge, yet our current maps, which are based on a 16th century map, only make them look “relatively” big.
Aaron McGruder should have a tumblr. I feel him and a lot of people I interact with would get along quite nicely.
Reblogging this for tranziet.
i love this with a very large portion of my being
i really miss the boondocks comic strip …
I liked the comic more than the cartoon. (Except for the episode about the ‘itis. That was hilarious!)
She was a teacher who would escort little girls into Berndt’s classroom when he was all alone. Berndt would come over in the middle of day, whisper in her ear, and they would giggle, and then teacher would pick out two girls, escort them through a common door, so that they were stuck with a pedophile in this classroom.
Lawyer Bryan Claypool • Speaking on the rash of horrific charges to emerge from the pedophilia case at Miramonte Elementary, in the Los Angeles County School District. Claypool says he notified the Sheriff’s department after becoming aware of a female teacher, who he believes “patently aided and abetted” the alleged pedophilic abuse methods of fellow teacher Mark Berndt, one of two former teachers arrested on such charges. As a consequence of the scandal, and the public outrage directed at the school, the entire staff has been removed pending further decision. Be warned, the full details of this story are quite graphic and disgusting. source (via • follow)
(Source: shortformblog)
