ryttu3k:

darkwizardjamesmason:

dienaziscum:

fishcustardandclintbarton:

huffingtonpost:

Mom declares her daughter is done with homework in viral email.

Blogger Bunmi Laditan sent her 10-year-old’s school a clear message.

“Hello Maya’s teachers,

Maya will be drastically reducing the amount of homework she does this year. She’s been very stressed and is starting to have physical symptoms such as chest pain and waking up at 4 a.m. worrying about her school workload.

She’s not behind academically and very much enjoys school. We consulted with a tutor and a therapist suggested we lighten her workload. Doing 2-3 hours of homework after getting home at 4:30 is leaving little time for her to just be a child and enjoy family time and we’d like to avoid her sinking into a depression over this.”

A++++ parenting 💜

I’ve talked with a whole cadre of child therapists and psychiatrists about this very issue. There is little conclusive evidence that homework significantly improves elementary school children’s grades, understanding of subjects, or facility with various operations, processes, etc. However, plenty of evidence suggests that ever-increasing amounts of homework for young children lead to stress, anxiety, emotional fatigue, resistance toward academics in general, lack of leisure time to build social/interpersonal skills, and poorer family relations.  (My kids were doing about 3 hours a week IN KINDERGARTEN, at age 5 – so that’s ½ hour every night, after a 6.5 hour school day, or else saving it up for long slogs over the weekend, even more disruptive. And that wasn’t including reading practice!)

We have stopped doing homework altogether with my 7 year old as a result of severe anxiety/depression and a learning disability. She had gotten to a place where she had so little self confidence and truly believed that she was stupid and worthless, not just because of homework of course – but every time we tried to sit down to do homework with her, it’d end in tears with her really vehemently berating herself, and no amount of encouragement could ameliorate the damage done. Now, granted, she’s got other things going on besides just an overload of school work. But in NO WAY did the homework help her, either academically or emotionally. 

No little kid should have to spend an hour or more each night getting through homework. Now, my deal with Siena is that if she wants to give her homework a shot, I will absolutely help her if she wishes for help, but I no longer force her to complete all of it or to work on it for some set length of time before finally throwing in the towel. 

Guess what? With the pressure taken off, she’s actually doing MORE independent work now, purely out of the desire to learn and practice, than she ever was before we’d decided with her therapy team and school that homework was just not a thing this kid could handle.

Luckily for my older daughter my school’s 3rd-grade team decided to hand out homework only 3x/week, and the sheets take no more than 15-20 minutes to complete. That is totally reasonable for 8-9 year olds! 

Anyway tl;dr just because the school system may require it sure as shit doesn’t mean parents can’t, or shouldn’t, fight it. Do what’s right for your kid, and above all, let them be kids. 

I eventually stopped doing homework because I was overwhelmed by it.

There was an article just the other day in the local paper about a primary school that’s abolishing homework! You can read it here (autoplay video, gives you a few seconds to stop it).

pidgepitchu:

strict-constitutionalist:

constitutioncutie:

Minimum wage: $7.25

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

In every Southern state (didn’t have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven? 

Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t going to fact check him, and they’ll ignore any contrary evidence that’s presented to them anyways.

Things like this really tick me off and It’s not political or anything but it’s the fact that you think all that money is there. Here’s what I mean;

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?

probertson:

Animations I did for The Eric Andre Show 

Bird Up
Ranch It Up

purgatorytavros:

id be ok if he killed me because im now attracted to a sphere with a human body

@homestuckartists

fandomsandfeminism:

kotnavy:

vrrnx:

wuuthradical:

lesbianfreyja:

being around straight people is so wild because they don’t take “because i’m gay” as a valid, sensible answer to a question

being around gay people is so wild because they don’t take “because i’m straight” as a valid, sensible answer to a question

oh no, we talk about straight people all the time, and “because they’re straight” is used very frequently to explain their many flaws

Stop attacking people based on their sexuality, you literally look like the shittiest human beings.

“Why can some people not differentiate between harmless internet humor and attacks based on sexuality?”

Because they’re straight.

ladyloveandjustice:

peppers-pray:

awildktappeared:

jankybones:

8anter:

oak23:

roombadeathsquad:

oak23:

teen titans go is just so unpleasant to watch

Damn them for appealing to children

i just literally watched an ep where robin wanted to build a pool instead of a senior’s centre because he wanted to see starfire in a bikini and rub lotion on her and acting fucking creepy as fuck about it like what child goes through wanting to see one of their peers wearing a bikini how is this appealing/relatable to children like

there was also an episode i saw recently where the team lost their memory except for robin and he spent the entire episode convincing everyone he was their leader and he like, raised and saved everyone or something, basically convincing them to worship him, but when it came to starfire he tried to convince everyone she was his girlfriend and she seemed confused and uncomfortable but robin was like “ha ha! just a bit of couple banter! love you sweetie!” and refused to stop treating her like they were dating until she got her memory back? like? what message does that give. robin is a creepy bastard towards starfire in every episode i catch on tv. ttg is not a good tv show for children. it appeals to them through humour and designs and easy to follow storylines but that doesnt make it a good show for children, especially when they pass off someone like robin as a protag.

There was another episode where Cyborg was shown stalking Jinx, like he knew her favorite bands and foods and what she smelled like?? And they basically put a highlight on stalkers because even though she pointed out it was creepy, and he said “I know” in a comedy bit to brush it off, they ended up dating happily.

What is that teaching young boys and girls? That stalking is okay? That stalking is romantic? Come the fuck on.

I once saw an episode where Cyborg had a sass button that was pushed and then he acted like the sassy black woman stereotype for the rest of the episode. That was pretty uncomfortable to watch.

the fuck….

Teen Titan Go didn’t appeal to me for the episodes watched but I had no idea shit like that was happening what the hell?

You can’t just say it’s okay for kids shows to suck because they’re for kids because that’s insulting to kids. You wanna know what else was a kids show? Avatar the last airbender. And the original teen titans. And gravity falls. And they were good.

wunkolo:

The latest discourse on my dash this April 14th of 2017:

Using spaghetti as a drawing tablet nib

An actual genius, June 12, 2011:

Buy a roll of round ~1.65mm(~0.065 inch) weed whacker wire and you have enough nibs to last you twelve lifetimes

A better idea:

Use the money you were going to use to buy the weed whacker wire and just buy the nib replacement.

autistic-dave-strider:

dishwasher-in-a-suit:

autistic-dave-strider:

people shouldn’t have to pimp themselves off to the military to afford college wtf

They don’t…lol

actually almost every teacher i’ve ever had has suggested joining the military because they’ll pay for college and almost half of my class is either doing it or considering it but i hope that rock you live under has air conditioning

isntnothing:

I’m in love with this stupid shirt