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[magicusermistakenfornpc]

Before I consider deleting my tumblr, here are the articles and social media posts on the cult I spent time in as a child. It still exists and is passing it's self off as a school. Please do not interact with this post if you are under 18. I do not want any more children or teens to be Traumatized by TNS.

A Private School Promised to Help Troubled Kids. Instead, Some Say, It Was a Nightmare

Parents and students thought a K-12 school would be a safe place for vulnerable kids. But more than a dozen people allege it was a nightmare

A few students and parents I went to school with were interviewed for this article a few years back. They are very brave and you should read this. If you hit a pay wall the O.P. of the reddit post (I know, ugh reddit) posted the text. I think incognito mode might also get you past it. I heard internet explorer can also by pass it it if you don't normally use it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Delaware/comments/1cbkoo6/expos%C3%A9_on_delaware_school_in_the_rollingstone/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Longreads/comments/1cbz856/a_private_school_promised_to_help_troubled_kids/ https://www.reddit.com/r/indepthstories/comments/1cc856k/a_private_school_promised_to_help_troubled_kids/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cultsurvivors/comments/1cbji1p/does_any_one_else_know_about_this_cult_in_delaware/ A few survivors talk here, though this is about as old as the article.

Planned Parenthood firebomber avoids additional jail time, will serve probation in treatment facility

The man who firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Newark two years ago was spared additional jail time when sentenced last week, but he

The guy that threw the fire bomb went there and was allegedly brainwashed. When I went there some of the staff were aggressively anti abortion. https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2024/04/26/rolling-stone-investigation-alleges-nightmare-in-the-new-school-newark-delaware/73454060007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z115046e1116xxv115046d--55--b--55--&gca-ft=185&gca-ds=sophi Another article. https://law.justia.com/cases/delaware/supreme-court/2002/6270.html This is when John Hiner Jr's ability to practice law got suspended. Note, most of this doesn't on the actual abuse allegations. There are actual serious allegations of physical emotional psychical and sexual abuse of children at that school. And the cluster fucks that were J.C, Tribunal ect. I don't know, this is fucking weird to talk about. Do any of you remember thunderdome? Are there any other TNS surivors?

[coldasyou]

All these years, I actually felt sorry for you. I didn't ask for that. I never... I never asked for that.

[thecollectibles]

Virgo by Artem Chebokha

[random-brushstrokes]

Nikolai Bodarevsky - Her Favourite (1905)

[olderthannetfic]

Reading is in the trenches because why did my 9 yr old nephew look at the word "jealous" and said "jewish"? And when asked why he mistaken it as such he said they both started with a "J". It's like his brain is doing autofill. No matter how many time I try to tell him slow down and sound out the words he just won't.

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TRAP CARD ACTIVATED

No, but seriously, anon, you need to look into what's going on in his classroom because he's probably being taught this trash method instead of phonics. He does not know how to slow down and sound things out because his school has never taught him that. When you tell him to do this, he has no context for what you're even talking about.

This has come up repeatedly here, and I don't have time to froth at the mouth today, but look up "whole language".

This podcast made waves a few years ago when all the lockdown parents discovered, to their horror, that their kiddos weren't being taught to read in the NORMAL FUCKING WAY WE'VE USED FOR LITERALLY CENTURIES and were instead being taught a fake-ass method backed by vibes and antivax-levels of pseudoscience.

Intervene now, anon, or he's never going to read well.

[kittenwriter]

I remember one of my grade school teachers discussing with my mother the differences between me and my sister at learning to read, and he described me as a "sight reader from the start"... which is to say, an acknowledgement that most people do not do that and it's not reasonable to expect that of the majority of kids, who really do need the phonics and the "sound things out."

Generally speaking if a kid has arrived at school not knowing how to read already, they're not going to do well with sight reading and need phonics. The few kids who develop The Reading in the way the whole language people think they should do it before they hit school.

[olderthannetfic]

So true. I know a retired teacher who bawwws and tries to contradict me when I rant about whole language at our knitting meetup. She's all "different kids need different approaches!" and "I saw it work!"...

But of course it feels intuitively sensible to her. She taught herself to read at age 2. That's the exact kind of experience that does make this method sound reasonable. But like you say, if it's going to happen, it happens very early and without the school curriculum.

As for me, I've said it before, but I assume anon wasn't around: I could not learn to read.

I was in second grade. (First grade? I can't remember. Around then.) Most of my classmates were reading at least a little. Me: nothing. I could not learn.

It was even a god damn private school, but I had to have a fucking tutor. I got dragged over to that lady's office a few days a week for... two months? Four months? It really wasn't that long, as far as I know. I was more than ready to learn. I just needed an actual fucking method that wasn't lying trash. Almost at once I jumped from nothing to reading well above grade level. For the rest of my childhood, I continued to diverge from my classmates in how many words I knew, how well I could read, the works. Every year of grade school makes that gap widen. I was on the desirable side of that gap. I was lucky.

It's obvious how verbal I am from reading my tl;dr on this blog.

But I could not learn to read.

I was a couple years younger than this nephew, but not that much younger. It's not too late. Now is the perfect time for some tutoring. If you can afford it, get a pro. If you can't, do your best. But you've got to do something.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The four cueing systems if whole language reading education are a band-aid method used by severely dyslexic people. When people's dyslexia is so bad that they simply cannot learn to read effectively, tricks like cueing allow them to function well enough in society to get by. They do NOT teach proper literacy.

This system was popularised by a guy who is obviously dyslexic, refuses to acknowledge that when asked, and essentially decided that everyone else must be like him and therefore the system that helped him get by was a substitute for real literacy since it was so much faster and more achievable for him to learn to "read" this way than phonically. It's kind of like if somebody without hands was learning to sew, found it incredibly frustrating to do without hands, so they started putting their creations together entirely with fabric glue which they found easier to apply... and told everyone how much easier it was so all the schools got rid of needles and thread and sewing machines and everyone was taught to "sew" using fabric glue only and then wondered why their clothing kept falling apart on their bodies.

[sroloc--elbisivni]

[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

[autheatrecesoir]

Julien Macdonald Fall/Winter 2011

[coleopterabyte]

Part of the reason I'm so adamant about encouraging people to get comfortable with bugs, my own interests aside, is because we cannot have a bright, solarpunk future without them.

A green future is not a bugless future. It is, in fact, a fairly bugful future. If you care about ecological stability, then you need to start with bugs, because they're the most at risk with our current use of pesticides.

[femalegothic]

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

How Women’s Sports Uniforms Became So Controversial, Long Before The Paris Olympics

Nike’s viral track kit is just one part of the story.

Faced with restrictive and uncomfortable uniforms, these women athletes fought to change their gear

(cnn) — When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she

Women’s beach handball team fined for choosing shorts over bikini bottoms | CNN

The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined after players opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms during a European cham

Top female athletes speak out amid Olympics, defy convention through their uniforms

Female athletes are breaking with their sports' apparel conventions -- if not regulations -- to prioritize their comfort during competitions

Women’s Uniforms: judgement of women clutters sports front

Sports Commentary Historically, women in sports have not garnered the same respect as men, though they perform the same tasks and play the s

An Olympic medalist who refused to compete in bikini bottoms says skimpy outfits are putting women off athletics

Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw refused to wear the customary bikini bottoms and crop tops favored by the majority of female athletes.

Underlying Injustices: Female Athlete Uniforms

According to Women in Sport, 78 percent of girls avoid participating in sports while on their period. 78 percent.  CEO of Women in Sport, St

[greekmythcomix]

Persephone and Demeter meet for coffee.

(Originally for #Classicstober)

[gaylor-moon]

[embroiderycrafts]

Luteal rage stitching by wasraelx on reddit.

[greekmythcomix]

Suddenly remembered this stupid thing I made and can’t remember if I ever posted it here

(Hey Odyssey fans please also enjoy my interactive book and audiobook podcast YOU ARE ODYSSEUS 👍)

[thememedaddy]

[uwingdispatch]

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[thegullwitch]

My most toxic witch trait is pretending I’m doing magic by looking at witch things on tumblr and pinterest but then not doing anything in the real world 👀

[upthewitchypunx]

I just call it research so it seems much more important.

[liberalsarecool]

The bubble is nigh.

[imawitchywitch]