Learning

Hello, I like a lot of things. The constants are: Really into Jesus, lesbian, music (concerts, playing it, writing it, listening to it). 22. I'm trying to be better. I'm trying to learn.

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Hey, White America, You Need To Hear What These Ferguson Kids Have To Say

In a new video from social justice-oriented T-shirt company FCKH8, several Ferguson children lampoon the excuses white people give to avoid getting involved in ending discrimination in America and deliver a call to action to stomp out racism.

Watch the full video and see these kids explain how racism is still a huge part of even getting an interview for a job.

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THIS IS THE SHIT

[suchatimeasth1s]

Tonight by younger brother asked me why on earth I would want to teach high school and not college (because he thinks all high school kids suck)

I said: I don't want to teach college for the same reason I don't want to teach in a private school or a well-to-do high school - I'm going to be a teacher for kids who are missing out on opportunities to have a better life and are actively being denied an equitable education. Rich kids already have the good teachers, that's why they go to college. I'm just trying to make the world suck a little bit less for as many kids as I can.

Finally, I think he got it

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Martin Klimas

Sonic Sculptures

Like a 3-D take on Jackson Pollock, the latest work by the artist Martin Klimas begins with splatters of paint in fuchsia, teal and lime green, positioned on a scrim over the diaphragm of a speaker. 

Then the volume is turned up. For each image, Klimas selects music — typically something dynamic and percussive, like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis or Kraftwerk — and the vibration of the speaker sends the paint aloft in patterns that reveal themselves through the lens of his Hasselblad. Sonic Sculptures is a synaesthetic interplay of sound, shape and color. For this series, Klimas spent about 1,000 shots to produce the final images from his studio in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

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Educational attainment is affected by structural factors such as the tendency of people to live in close proximity to others with similar economic resources. Because public schools are frequently financed with taxes based on property values, schools located in poorer areas often do not have the same resources as those located in more expensive neighborhoods. This pattern is also evident among states. For example, 91.5% of the population in Minnesota completed a high school education in contrast to 79.9% in Texas. The poverty rates for these two states are 10.6% and 16.8%, respectively. Moreover, children who live in poorer neighborhoods are often exposed to environmental hazards or have health issues that impede academic performance. For these reasons and others, many scholars believe that children from working-class families are prevented from attaining levels of education that would improve their class position. Many Americans believe with good reason that getting a good education is a key to success. However, they often overlook the role that financial resources play in getting a good education. Numerous studies show that getting a good education is as much about opportunity and mentorship as it is about basic intelligence. Thus, for example, parents with money are able to pay to enhance their children’s educational experiences and shape their children’s educational choices. The children of parents with financial resources have the opportunity to study more and work less, and they do not tend to be shackled with repaying student loans after graduation.

Social Vulnerability to Disasters: 2nd. Ed., “Class”, pg. 91 (via h2ointowine)

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[cyan-istes-deactivated20171222]

#trying to make fetch happen

[suchatimeasth1s]

Bless that one person in every group that is like “keep going, I’m listening” and encourages you to finish your story even when everyone else is talking over you.

[dakotacityukuleleorchestra-deac]

[Teachers are mostly women because] as school reformers began to realize in the 1820s that schooling should be compulsory — that parents should be forced to send their kids to school, and public education should be universal — they had to come up with a way to do this basically in an affordable manner, because raising taxes was just about as unpopular back then as it is now. So what we see is this alliance between politicians and education reformers in the early 19th century to redefine teaching as a female profession. They do this in a couple ways: First, they argue that women are more moral in a Christian sense than men. They depict men as alcoholic, intemperate, lash-wielding, horrible teachers who are abusive to children. They make this argument that women can do a better job because they’re more naturally suited to spend time with kids, on a biological level. Then they are also quite explicit about the fact that [they] can pay women about 50 percent as much — and this is going to be a great thing for the taxpayer.

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/02/345104706/a-lesson-in-how-teachers-became-resented-and-idealized?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books (via saphire-dance)

[inspirationalpowerhouse]

[sparktorch]

This is very interesting. Great job to whoever observed this!

[suchatimeasth1s]

Maybe a classroom decoration. undecided

[suchatimeasth1s]

Serious question, how do people have time to watch tv shows let alone binge watch them. I need an answer because I want to do these things.

[lbitch]

[nonelikerae]

Do you want to create an emotionally stable life together and adopt a dog or nah.

[my-h-e-a-r-t-s-not-in-it]

hey sorry im late i didnt want to come

[earthturd]

it’s weird being out in public. it’s like… so many of these people are heterosexual. they are everywhere, they might even think I’m one of them.

[immortalhumanmess]

Reblog if you’re the gay sibling.

[themerrymaidenofasgard-deactiva]

I came out to my family about a year before my sister did and my dad was like “HOW CAN YOU BOTH BE GAY” and my sister just said “have you seen girls”

[suchatimeasth1s]

My ability to play the guitar will be a totally irrelevant, worthless novelty skill until I am as good as Kaki King. At which point I will probably not be famous because she is amazing and still isn't very famous

[assachusetts]

"Marry your best friend. Fooling around is fun, but life gets in the way and when it gets hard, you’d wanna be married to your best friend."

- One of my customers (via assachusetts)

[virare]

the best part about being in your 20’s is slowly caring less and less about what people think of you and surrounding yourself with good people

the worst is that I’m broke