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Mixed fruit scone, but it doesn’t count as a college baking adventure
A love for everything and nothing in particular
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Philadelphia: High school students walk out of class and march to City Hall to protest severe budget cuts and planned school closings, May 9, 2013.
The budget cuts are absolutely horrific. Here are some of the proposed changes:
- Schools with more than 1,000 students would no longer be required to have librarians or librarian assistants.
- Schools would no longer be required to have counselors, and counselors’ caseloads would no longer be capped.
- Teachers could be assigned to unlimited classes outside their subject area, and high school teachers could be assigned an extra class without pay. There would be no limit on amount of consecutive time taught in a school day.
- There would be no limit on class size
- The district would no longer be required to provide copy machines, or “a sufficient number of instructional materials and textbooks.”
- Counselors would no longer be guaranteed to have rooms with privacy and confidentiality, a telephone, a locked filing cabinet and a door.
There’s more here.
notice most of the posters are children of color
I just want you to notice
USA. USA. USA.
I’m not defending these cuts. I think they’re horrible, but I want to highlight two things sort of distorted by the comments. These cuts apply to all public schools within the city district, and while philly neighborhoods tend to be fairly segregated by race, which is a bad thing, it wasn’t certain schools being slated to be closed, but ALL of them getting hurt. Also, the city has no money, and isn’t getting any from the state. It’s a systematic policy problem that is killing an already hurting school district.
(via thatopinionatedblog)
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"Anyone can write a credible story in which humans can teleport, travel in time and make themselves invisible. A future in which there are cable compatibility standards, that would be real science fiction."
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May is Tumblr Filmmaker Month on PBS New York →
PBS THIRTEEN is presenting short films by Tumblr filmmakers all month. Three shorts are presented on ThirteenNY.tumblr.com each week and your votes decide which films will air on TV. New shorts appear each Saturday night and online voting for week 3 is underway.
Congrats to this week’s filmmakers, Christina Lu, Jason Mitcham + The Avett Brothers, and Rich Landes!
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My mom’s actual graduation cap from this weekend because I have the coolest mom
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