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TINASHE via Instagram (June 11, 2026)

I've seen this on several posts now where someone outside the USA will see someone talking about their school experience here, and they'll ask "wait, do schools in America do X?"

I started noticing it on my own post that blew up about my old teacher's extra credit policy. Too many people asked this for me to want to answer individually, but, like, I want to be clear, for almost everything you want to ask from one American's account of their education, the answer is Yes and No. Do American teachers actually teach literature primarily with multiple choice tests? Well, several of mine did! Don't they use more essay and short answer questions? Well, other people's did!

We have 50 states that all have their own standards on education (though Texas and California have outsized influence on certain nationwide standards). There is the divide between public schools (more standardized to state standards) and private schools (they do their own thing to some extent, the extent they're allowed to can depend on the state). There is a spectrum of private schools that are the fancy ones that are meant to provide better education, and ones that are made with a focus on religious indoctrination (Catholic schools often have some elements of Both). There is a temporal divide, there have been huge changes in the legislated standards of education from when the millennials and older on Tumblr would have been in school, to what the teens and early twenty-somethings experience/d, to what the current teachers on here are expected to do. (No Child Left Behind is the most major and notable but not the only legal change).

My experience at a Midwestern religious school that was constantly scraping for money in the '00s will be very different from a public school in a major city in California today, which will also be different from a private school in Utah today, etc etc. When someone talks about their personal school experience that might just mean that's what their school did, not that it's something that the whole country does.

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i love my mutuals because we never talk but we still… like… follow each other……….. and i admire that we stick together even tho there is no communication in the slightest………u kno what i mean… hello…

sumrot

Now I know something you don’t

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8nin

"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

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we kill the bat man

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Why do you blog?

Honor

Glory

Duty

Justice

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it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)

every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat

sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive

this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions

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If you think about it too, abled people do it all the time. Deciding to drink to excess at a party knowing they'll have a hangover. Going to a theme park knowing walking all day is going to hurt their feet by the end. We have the right to make those same decisions.

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This is called Dignity of Risk, and it's an important concept in disability justice.

Everyone weighs their physical and mental/emotional health against one another in constantly shifting balance; inevitably, there are times when we choose to accept consequences to one for the sake of the other.

Infantilsing us by undermining our agency in the name of "protection" or "care" is yet another way that we are disabled by society.

#everyone deserves an amount of recklessness #bad decision making as a treat is so much fun

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LITTLE ONDINE Cosmetics x Tamagotchi

#FUCK i want the tomogachi makeup

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What music app do you use

Spotify

Pandora (why?)

SoundCloud

YouTube (true neutral)

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#apple music & itunes erasure #we are real #and i do genuinely still purchase music sometimes if the deal is good

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become ungovernable

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apatheticfluorescence

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it