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Lately I’ve been getting most of my pep talks from Mister Rogers.

Great. Now I’m disappointing Mr. Rogers.

Mr. Rogers is not disappointed in you. He’s proud of you for listening and thinking about what he said, and he hopes it plants a seed where sometimes maybe you notice yourself making an unhealthy choice and recognize it, because that’s the first step towards growth towards your best and healthiest self, which is a journey and a process, not an ideal state of which you are falling short.

Mr. Rogers loves you for just your being you.

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Four women who attended La Jolla High School between 2002 and 2013 say they were groped or touched inappropriately by a physics teacher at the school. An investigation by Voice of San Diego found no records of their complaints were kept by the San Diego Unified School District. Some student complaints may have never left the principal’s office.

Most of the girls in this article were my classmates. I can attest to everything they said. I also experienced everything they talked about. I was one of the people my year who went to Principal Shelburne to complain. There was a group of 3 or 4 of us who went to his office and told him about it. Nothing was done about it.

Mr. Teachworth used his power over our grades to get away with harassment. He would take points off for saying anything that disagreed with him so no one wanted to make a big deal about it for fear of losing a letter grade or two. It was also known that if you were a "good student" (i.e. kept your mouth shut and let him do what he wanted) he could write you a killer college recommendation letter. He would flip so quickly from being “nice” and “cutsie” to yelling at someone and docking points that there was never a time you felt safe. He knew exactly what he was doing and how to take advantage of his students.

Here's a story that didn't make it in the article: When we covered tension, he brought in an archery bow and had everyone in the class try to draw it back in order to “experience the force of tension.” Most of the guys could do it, but most of the girls were too weak. Every time a girl couldn't do it (which was pretty much every time a girl tried), he would stand close behind her and "help" her pull the string back. Pressing up against them with his arms over theirs. The year after I graduated, he started an archery club. He straight up made an after school club that made it easier for him to inappropriately touch female students.

People would jokingly call him Mr. Touchworth. And people would joke that if you wanted a better grade or wanted him to go easier on you in class, you should wear a low cut shirt. People would laugh at these jokes, but not because they were funny. Because laughing was all you could do when the school administration refused to stand up for its students.

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I could almost cry. I still have a few more scenes to flesh out and quite a few edits to make but there are no words to describe how it feels to have gotten through a first (very rough) draft of my first screenplay. And it feels even better to be excited about the story and how it has evolved and the direction it ended up taking. It was hard work but I loved every minute of it. Now I just gotta get to work on my other screenplay for my thesis because I'm kinda faking behind on that one 😂

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