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Gun Control in America

I’m a 16 year old sophomore at a public high school in TN. I live in the one county in TN who didn’t choose Trump back in the 2016 primaries, but the majority of people are still very conservative. The past week at school every teacher and the administrators have been talking constantly about what to do in case of a shooting. I shouldn’t be scared to go to school! Schools should be a place of learning and free thought. Places to grow and express yourself. The students from Parkland should not have to use the media attention from going through a school shooting to get politicians to listen. Gun Control is necessary. My grandparents, big in their 70’s told me “think about the other side” when I mentioned we need stricter background checks. The other side? The other side are the people who ARE shooting schools. Everyone should be on the side of gun control. I don’t want to worry that when I’m a library worker, sitting next to our library’s glass wall in the commen area of my school that i’m not safe. Every teenager should feel like their life is safe at school. More guns won’t solve anything. And please don’t think because i’m a teen or in gen-z that i’m immature or stupid. I’ve had to grow up fast the past few years as my country became a dystopian society like the ones i’ve read about in books my whole life!

lavndrmint

Now as a teacher in the Northeast- being on the teacher side is also terrifying cause what do you mean I’m supposed to try and protect almost 30 students at once if anything happens …

leogirl97

i hope 2017 is soft and forgiving

ponprincess-deactivated20170614

It’s SO funny seeing posts like these. Remember when we all said 2015 was the year from hell and 2016 WILL be better? Remember how that was a literal complete lie. Now look at us….grasping onto our last hope

possiblyunhinged

"In the United States, approximately 50% of adults have literacy skills below a high school level, often around the reading comprehension level of a seventh or eighth grader. Studies, including the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), indicate that many adults struggle with complex texts and may find tasks like interpreting dense information or analyzing lengthy documents challenging."

What the fucking fuck.

"21% of US adults are illiterate, and 54% read below a 6th grade level. This means that 130 million adults are unable to read a simple story to their children." (x)

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

I heard this statistic on a podcast and didn’t believe it at first. But when you really sit with it… it’s just brutal. This is what happens when generations of governments fail people.

And honestly, it makes complete sense why people who’ve been abandoned by society, and then blamed for it, are so pissed off at the political system—and honestly, the left too.

This isn’t just some abstract frustration; it’s a system that has been rigged to fail so many people. And it’s not just a personal failing—this disproportionately affects ethnic minorities and low-income families. This is a form of oppression, pure and simple. The way the system continues to perpetuate inequality while gaslighting those affected by it is infuriating.

iridescent-sunshine

Hot Take, apparently: The US's failing public school system is not proof that it should be defunded. It's proof that it was defunded until it failed. You cannot measure success with a faulty system (standardized tests), punish schools that don't meet goals by taking away their funding, squeeze the a system until there's nothing left to take, and then go, "See? Funding it is a waste." Defunding it literally created the problem, and teachers have been screaming that at politicians for decades. And instead of listening to the teachers who were saying, "We could succeed if we had the resources we needed," they just kept blaming the teachers for not being able to manage a 30 children alone in a classroom with outdated textbooks, the supplies they could afford out of their own paychecks, and one fucking ream of printer paper a semester. Can you imagine going to an engineer and saying, "We only have the budget for the cheapest plastic on the market. Make a plane," and then getting pissed off that the plane crashed? Like what are y'all TALKING ABOUT? Defunding the DoE is not the answer. FUNDING EDUCATION FULLY is the answer!!!

sophsun1

The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

dailyflicks

THE PRINCESS BRIDE dir. Rob Reiner, 1987

I think BookTok has a larger stake in this “adaptation” than Tumblr…..

English teacher here— this isn’t an adaptation of the novel, it’s a rewriting and overly romanticized wattpad fanfic with Barbies (Robbie literally) being moved around a dollhouse with fancy, outside time period, dresses and all.

#wuthering heights #emerald fennell #news #literature #booktok #heathcliff #catherine earnshaw #edgar linton #classic literature

foeofcolor

Only day you can rb this

foeofcolor

This post is like a fucking rosetta stone I've had the same theme song tagged in at least 6 languages so far

literally-jasmine

The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”

furbearingbrick

you know what? fuck this *un-smiles your painting*

sinick

HAD to keep @furbearingbrick 's tag:

rosslynpaladin

He gave her softer eyes, bigger breasts, a sweet inviting smile, narrower arms and wrists, and a less emphatic chin. A complacent and Proper Maiden for his smug consumption.

That is NOT what the artist painted.

The artist painted the cleaned image. Thank goodness and highly skilled people that we get to see it.

singerin

I'm so mad that the restored version is cropped in the photos there. I badly wanted to see the whole background cleaned. That SKY. SHOW ME IT.

NEVERMIND. The fucker who added boobs and a coy smile also pasted on a whole strip of new canvas at the top and slapped a skyline on there. o_0

curiosa-hypnotica

Reblog if you believe trans rights are human rights.

valtsv

girls go to college to get more knowledge. men go to svalbard to die in the polar night.

valtsv

wait fr

oh my god

valtsv

men when they die in svalbard

loyalshipper

valtsv

and waste fresh meat???

beepost-generator

I didn't think that it would be more wild, but it is. Terrifying.

seidmadr-secrets

Oh yes. The graveyard is quarantined.

Longyearbyen has some other nice laws, such as it being illegal to lock the doors of houses and cars (so that people can escape polar bears), or it being illegal to leave the town without firearms (so that people can defend themselves from polar bears.)

Is a pretty cool place.

britcision

So it’s not illegal to die there they just firmly prefer you try not to

theconcealedweapon

hansdown

cool cool cool cool let’s not talk about gun violence in the country where young people are more likely to be killed by guns than anything else

emkaymlp

please no halloween posts just yet. there’s still 2 months left

blelbinems-deactivated20190925

did someone say halloween

emkaymlp

Nine years and it’s still not at 1 million notes. I know we can do better!

anaquana

Let’s see if we can get this to 1M before the 10 year anniversary on the 3rd.

jonlybonlyfromboldlygo

journeys-offical

It's "See how well you can follow instructions" time ya lil fuckers!!

Here's a poll, you can't press any of the options, that's the only rule, no voting. Reblogs, likes, and comments are totally allowed, you just can't vote

You all have one week, let's see how this goes

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Voting ended onAug 16, 2024

@maryland-no-rabies Tagging cause I need people to see this

Have fun !!