something that’s always made me sad in cartoons is when donkeys are made ugly, especially in cases such as mlp where the main characters are other equines that are drawn super cute.
more than anything i don’t get why the mlp donkeys’ legs/hooves are drawn weirdly realistic compared to the horses and even the zebras (even though zebras are closer related to donkeys than to horses). also their potbellies irk me because if anything that’s a trait seen more distinctly in actual ponies and miniature horses imo..
basically i just think donkeys are more aesthetically pleasing and just as cute, if not cuter than most ponies and i think cartoonists treat them unfairly
my favourite donkeys i can think of rn are disney’s burrito and the pinocchio donkeys
DOES NOT “TEACH THEM TO BE SOCIAL AND DEVELOP INTO WELL-ROUNDED INDIVIDUALS”
IT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF THEM.
AND MAKES THEM HATE SCHOOL.
SERIOUSLY.
COLLEGES TOO.
THERE IS NO REASON TO REQUIRE A PARTICIPATION GRADE.
IF I’M MAKING 90′S ON ALL MY TESTS/QUIZZES
IT MEANS I KNOW THE DAMN MATERIAL YOU TAUGHT
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD YOU LOWER MY GRADE 10% JUST BECAUSE I DIDN’T TALK ENOUGH.
I SWEAR IF I GET ANOTHER “B” IN A CLASS THAT I EXCELLED IN JUST BECAUSE I DIDNT FEEL LIKE RAISING MY HAND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
I MIGHT ACTUALLY KILL U
PREACH
I may not be shy but I agree with you 100% about the whole participation part !
*SLAMS REBLOG BUTTON*
SERIOUSLY THIS IS AN ACTUAL FUGKIBG PROBLEM
over here, in Germany, participation is 2/3 of the grade, everything you write only counts for 1/3. I’ve always had As in written exams, but teachers thought it fair to give me Cs and Ds, just because I didn’t raise my hand often enough. (I did reply tho when asked directly.)
And other students who *beeped* up written exams but blabbered all lesson long (not even IN topic) got better grades than me.
This speaks to me on a spiritual level.
Also, don’t force the shy kid into a group project with the popular kids. They’ll only be humiliated by the popular kids, which will have the opposite effect of what you want.
AND I STG DO NOT
*popular kid is being loud and obnoxious*
*sits loud and obnoxious kid next to quiet and shy kid*
A) a shy person shouldn’t be a punishment
B) it’s more of a punishment for the shy kid than the loud mouth
C) how about you send the kid outside or put him alone rather than allowing a student to distract other students and make them feel uncomfortable
plus, FUCKING DO SOMETHING WHEN SOMEONE IS BULLIED!
^^^
*DEMOLISHES THE REBLOG BUTTON*
Please! I swear! Teachers, learn from this! My sister has selective mutism (which means if she doesn’t talk much in public. If she doesn’t talk to you, don’t get offended. She didn’t talk to our aunt until she was six. She says she wants to talk to people, but it feels like the words get stuck in her throat) and school got so bad, my mother took her out of public school and started homeschooling her. Teachers, please, do not force shy, quiet kids to talk. It makes their shyness/quietness worse.
I CANNOT SUPPORT THIS ENOUGH
I have some social anxiety, but I push it down during conversations and when I KNOW the answer to a question. MY FRIENDS CAN’T ALWAYS DO THAT. And it doesn’t help when we are regarded as one of the top students by our classmates, but then we give the wrong answer to your question and they laugh.
Please, if you’re going to grade us on participation, grade us relatively; so judge how much we talk to our friends and use that. Don’t compare the shy kids and the extroverts, because OUR VERY MINDS WORK DIFFERENTLY. Besides, you ask fewer questions than there are students to answer, so you are actually setting us up for failure if you don’t call on us WHEN we DO raise our hands.
I RELATE TO THIS POST SO MUCH It always happens during school since I am a very shy person
YES AND TEACHERS WHEN YOU RANDOMLY CALL ON A STUDENT DONT YOU FUUUCKKIIIIING DARE SAY “speak up I can’t hear you” CUZ THATS THE WORST THING EVER IT JUST MAKES US FEEL ALL EMBARRASSED AND SHAKEY AFTERWARDS!! LUCKILY I’VE HAD TEACHERS WHO WERE CONSIDERATE ENOUGH NOT TO FORCE ANY OF THE STUDENTS TO TALK BUT THERE WERE A FEW EXCEPTION AND MYYY GOD DO I HATE THOSE FUCKING TEACHERS. LIKE SERIOUSLY, YOU LEAVE A BAD IMPRESSION ON US!
lets just turn abandoned shopping malls into affordable apartments and keep the food courts and comfy palm trees and fountains and places to sit that’d be real nice
this is a fine idea tbh. who wouldn’t want to live in a nice mall???
File under: things that are actually a thing (but look super awesome and should be more of a thing):
You might have seen an obituary for the Great Barrier Reef
floating around over the past few days. Published by Outside Magazine, the supposedly
satirical article declared that the Great Barrier Reef had “passed away after
a long illness” at 25 million years of age, and that “no effort” was ever made
to save the reef.
This is not true.
It’s really, really, really
not true.
Yes, the Great Barrier Reef recently underwent a massive
bleaching event that affected 93%
of its coral. That bleaching event resulted in the death of 22%
of its coral.
22% dead is not the same as 100% dead.
So why did author Rowan Jacobsen
write the obituary? Some are saying it was satire, a deliberate exaggeration meant
to raise awareness of the Great Barrier Reef’s plight. If this was the case, the
plot backfired spectacularly. Many people took to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr,
and other public mourning venues to declare their sadness and outrage over the
death of the world’s largest living structure.
This is a dangerous reaction, but not an uncommon one. And
it’s a reaction that Dr. “Rusty” Brainard, chief of the Coral Reef Ecosystem
Program at NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, worries will hinder
efforts to save the very-very-very-not-dead reef. As
he told the Huffington Post, people may begin to think that “if there’s
nothing that can be done,” we should “not do anything and move onto other
issues.”
In the interests of preserving the Great Barrier Reef’s not-dead state, let’s not do that. While the Reef is arguably dying, it can still be saved, and we should be
doing what we can to save it.
So what can we do?
If the news of the Great Barrier Reef’s “death” upset you,
please
read on.
This is important! Please always question sweeping declarations about the state of a particular environment… they are usually oversimplifying the issue at best, and at worst the statements like “RIP Great Barrier Reef” are as good as encouraging people to abandon a cause, that - in reality - needs more champions.
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