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me last night: i feel so alone…. no one loves me…. wahh boo hoo

me today: i love MUD i don’t need LOVE or AFFECTION all i need is the soil that nourishes all life on this earth *listens to girls just want to have fun on loop while lying in the dirt*

secretlve

plot twist: your teacher accidentally calls you mom

todaysbird

And... They’re Wonderful

now-theres-a-spoiler-for-you

Finally, a new Australian species that (probably) can’t kill me

Level of stress 99%

Okay I was gonna put this in the tags, but I feel like it’s important enough to say for everyone to see. I work in CPS. I can remove a child from home. A school official cannot.

Maybe the school thought process is that “inability to pay for lunch = abuse/neglect.” Therefore, as mandatory reporters, they’ll call the CPS hotline for kids with lunch debt.

Then CPS will look at the facts. Is there any abuse or neglect there? Nope. Policy mandates that abuse and neglect cannot be founded on the basis of poverty alone. If you tell me the kid has welts on his back and a lunch debt, I’m taking that case. Because of the injury on the back.

If I get a call just about lunch debt, I can refer the parent to community resources. Maybe there’s a food pantry, maybe mom or dad had trouble with the free lunch application. I can help with that. But I, the one with the power to remove the child, will not remove the kid for lunch debt.

I’m also a huge proponent of free lunch (and breakfast tbh) for all students. Honestly, the only good part of the coronavirus pandemic is that the schools in my state have extended the summer lunch program through the end of the year, meaning any school-aged kid can get a free meal 5 days a week.

TL;DR: schools can’t remove kids, they can only make reports. Local departments of social services can make removals and aren’t allowed to because of poverty alone.

buckykingofmemes

in space, no one can hear you violate workplace safety regulations

nxgasonic

dragon-in-a-fez

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

antigothesis

Teen: *gets a job*

“I GOT THE JOB!”

Parents: Well, when I was your age, I already had 5 jobs and was supporting my family

discowitchparty

Teen: *gets all A’s*

“I worked really hard!”

Parents: Well, of course you did, this is the expectation, not a celebration.

silver-tongues-blog

probably why so many teens take to social media where they can enthusiastically share their interests and achievements and get positive feedback that their parents never gave

moonlighteduniverse

A LITTLE LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

bisexual-boredom-deactivated202

This hit hard

rowark

I remember once, when I was in my early 20s, I was an afternoon supervisor at my job, and I worked with mostly teenagers, and the one day this one kid, who was like 15, was bored so I suggested he could clean out the fridge. He did and when he was done I said he did a good job.

After that, this kid was cleaning out the fridge at least once a week, and I was like, “why are you always cleaning the fridge?” Like, I didn’t mind, but it seemed odd. And he said, “one time I cleaned the fridge and you said I did a good job. I wanted to make you proud of me again.”

Literally, I changed the entire way I interacted with teenagers after that. I actually got a package of glitter stars and I would stick them on their nametags when they did a good job, and they loved it.

My manager had commented on how hard these kids work and I said, “they’re starved for positive feedback. They go to school all day then come to work all evening and no one appreciates it because it’s expected of them, but they’re still kids. They need positive feedback from adults in their lives.”

Like, everyone likes feeling appreciated. Everyone likes being complimented and having their efforts be noticed. Another coworker (who was a mother of teenage children), hated that I did this, and said they were too old to be rewarded with stickers, but like… it wasn’t about the stickers. The stickers were just a symbol that their effort was noticed and appreciated. I was just lucky that I learned this at a time when I was still young enough to remember what it was like to be a teenager. I was only 2 years out of highschool at that point and highschool is fucking hard. People forget this as they get older, but ask anyone and almost no one would ever want to go back and do it again, but they expect kids to suck it up because they’re young so they should be able to do school full time, plus homework, and work, and maintain a healthy social life, and sleep, and spend time with family, and do chores and help out at home, and worry about college and relationships and everything else, and then just get shit on all the time and treated like they’re lazy and entitled. And then they wonder why teenagers are apathetic.

hydro-homies

One day it will get its revenge

anexperimentallife

The cabbage guy from AtLA wrote this.

tisthequenchiest

It’s what he deserves

scaredenglishmajor

If anyone deserves a raise it’s the employee from four seasons total landscaping who answered the phone and went “yup, we can set up a podium and everything” and just acted like nothing was out of the ordinary.

nerdymouse

aphony-cree

The company has issued a statement that they would have hosted any presidential candidate that asked to speak there. They’re not an aggressively pro-Trump business, they just got an odd call and went with it

They’re now selling stickers that say Make America Rake Again