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Opinion: DCPS middle-schoolers should be reading novels Many parents like myself were shocked by a recent change to the English curriculum at Alice Deal Middle School.

Staff at Alice Deal Middle School made the decision this year to remove all full-length novels from the 8th grade curriculum.

It's a mistake, current parent @aaronweso.bsky.social writes, arguing that "reading full novels has real and important benefits for middle school-age children and in life."

Fun fact: the LONGER your family has been in the US, the MORE immigrants in your family tree!

Much of my family has been here since the 1630s. I'm as American as you can get short of being indigenous. I come from literally thousands of immigrants.

For some strange reason Dali's is making me crave pizza.
#Dali #pizza #Christmas #Christmastree

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm. How it all began.

John Green is me, sitting down to eat. Hank Green is my cat, about to jump over the couch with reckless abandon

Little House on the Prairie is already under fire from folks who struggle to tell the difference between the *depiction* of real-life racism, and a racist author. See also: Huckleberry Finn.

Immediate follow for both topics!

Statue of Plato with his quote, “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Today’s mission: Look up your local public library board and find out when they meet. Review the latest agendas and meeting minutes. The anti-library crowd counts on you being too tired or busy. That’s when they sneak in bad policy and remove books. Don’t let them.

I stumbled on the Rice saga in real time and thoroughly enjoyed it. But what's this menswear dude story?!?

I'm about to run a Book Fair for middle schoolers and I've had to set up all the fiddly bits behind the register because they will ALL be stolen if I don't.

Most people use to outgrow this sort of behavior.

Not just writers -- artists too. "I can't pay you but think of the exposure!" And then they'll find their work for sale under somebody else's name...

Schoolslop. Yes! That's exactly what it is. A great breakdown of what teaching is like in high school rn.
www.tiktok.com/@busynessgir...

fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. " ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today.

Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities.

Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Y'all look radiant.

REPLICATE.

Nothing here appears to be a typo. 🚨🚨🚨

Nothing like a well-buttered strumpet for tea!

Nevermind the number of women who have to undergo C-sections because their body literally cannot deliver the baby any other way. Women who will invariably die without medical intervention. That kind of suggests the human female body was NOT made for reproduction, but manages it anyway.

Biology made a number of females much bigger, stronger, and more violent than the males... Apparently your gift from Mama Nature was NOT getting the Praying Mantis treatment.

I don't really believe in crystal properties but I still need this.

Y'all I have to be insufferable about fundraising for @scarleteen.com because the work we are doing is too important! We're establishing a $40k fund to help with health care expenses for staff and volunteers, and a dollar-for-dollar match kicks in at $10k!

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I heard tell that as a woman, I can't ride a train, or my uterus might fly out of my body. I can't even imagine the havoc a PLANE would wreak on female anatomy. Clearly no woman will every agree to fly in one.

BFAs who don't practice the art they studied club!

Name might need work. Hi, I'm a member too.

Which is to say, if schools were really beholden to "woke ideology," there would be no need for these supplies in the first place.

The funny part is: this rumor came from schools providing buckets and cat litter as emergency bathrooms in case of a lockdown due to a school shooting.

So not only is it wild BS, but it's BS rooted in their own abject refusal to do anything to protect children from unnecessary danger.

Aaaand immediate follow for the Hitchhiker reference #DontPanic

Also, how to use "thusly"

Or frankly just NOT to use it

If this were a tshirt, so many of my students would throw their money at it.

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"Kira" is a spambot.