Learning Life

I'm a 34-year-old, tenth year science teacher. I love my students more than any of them will probably ever know because I suck at emotions and letting people in. The thoughts, feelings, and opinions expressed on this blog are mine and in no way...

[ruinedchildhood]

[wilwheaton]

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[wwbioteach]

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[wwbioteach]

Me: I need to be productive today.

Also me: I'm not doing shit today.

[astrodidact]

[wilwheaton]

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[brawltogethernow]

“People are saying mask-wearing might become a seasonal practice” God I hope so I’m tired of getting breathed on every flu season and honestly they’re kind of fashionable.

[wwbioteach]

I will always be grateful for the year I wasn't told on a regular basis to smile more. I would wear the mask in public for the rest of time if it meant no random strangers telling me to smile. If I wanted to smile more I fucking would.

[quovadis-jasen]

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

Defend them from what?

[ashlynnbun]

Presumably, from the consequences of their own actions.

[feministism]

compare.

[yourdarlingdaisy916]

THIS is what I wanna see in our history books.

Highlight the injustice and inequality. Stop erasing it.

[wwbioteach]

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[planetsedge]

Nevada group proposes forcing teachers to wear body cameras to ensure they don't teach critical race theory

Nevada group proposes forcing teachers to wear body cameras to ensure they don't teach critical race theory

Nevada group proposes forcing teachers to wear body cameras to ensure they don't teach critical race theory

[grayer]

You read this, and you don’t even know where to begin. As a result, the only thing I can say is people are so ridiculously stupid. Every bottom-feeding moron thinks their opinion is equal to everyone else. They hear something on their White Supremacist Facebook group, and they run with it. 

[wwbioteach]

It's astounding to me the number of close minded people that claim we're indoctrinating kids when we teach them their own history.

[dynamite5ftjewishbitch]

Fun, someone said the words “prior authorizations” around me and now I’m pissed off at 730am on my day off. I go off on this rant all the time. ALL THE TIME.

[wayfaringmd]

Oof. This man gets it.

[yekkes]

Serious post I would like people to spread!

This is Naomi Schwartz, she is a 14-year-old girl from Palm Beach Florida who is battling a rare form of cancer which requires a bone marrow transplant. She is mixed race, her mother is a brown Puerto Rican woman and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish, and as a result, currently has no matches in her family or in bone marrow databases. Naomi’s family ran a drive to try to find a match for her, but that’s no guarantee she will find one. I thought I would use my platform here to encourage people or people you know, especially with a similar background to Naomi, to register on bethematch.org.

Royal Palm Beach teen battling rare disease in need of bone marrow donor

A very important bone marrow donor drive-thru event is being held Saturday for a local teen. Earlier this year, 14-year-old Naomi Schwartz w

Be The Match is a global leader in bone marrow transplantation and connects patients with their donor match for a life-saving marrow or bloo

[bbgood]

I don’t usually add onto posts but I would like to say that I recently had a bone marrow transplant due to cancer as well. I learned a lot about bone marrow transplants due to this and it’s something that was totally off my radar until I was in it.  The Bone Marrow donor pool is extremely white. On average a white person has a 77% chance of finding a match in the pool, it drops significantly for people of different ethnicities. My specific “white european” genetics made my chance personally 93% and because my sister wasn’t a match mine came from the registry and they were a “perfect” match, this literally saved my life. I hope dearly that Naomi can find a donor, I also hope that you consider sending a away for a kit if you can and especially if you can help widen the donor pool. It’s super easy, and it means life or death for those of us handed a very difficult kind of cancer or other rare diseases. 

This is from the be the match site giving the average stats for people by ethnicity: 

[yekkes]

Relevant to Naomi, It said in the article that people with a mixed ethnic background have a 15% chance of finding a donor match, also!

[andthosearesmalleragents]

How You Can Help - Strength to Give | Blood Stem Cell Donation

All it takes is a quick and easy sample of your DNA through a swab test. Through 5 simple steps, you can join Australia's Donor Registry and

Many bone marrow donor registries also look internationally. In Australia you can sign up at Strength To Give.

[artedish]

This was my mom. It was truly a miracle that she found a match. Please join the registry!

[wwbioteach]

I was at ultimate tonight and one of my teammates was struggling- she looked like she was going to be physically ill. I grabbed a water and Gatorade from my cooler and walked back over to give them to her. She looked up, smiled, and said, "Thanks, Mom!"

A few weeks ago I gave my team captain some pre-wrap and tape to keep his gauze in place over some nasty turf burn and he was like 'YOU'RE THE TEAM MOM!' like he knew there was someone that's always mentioned as being super prepared but hadn't realized it was me. It's literally been why I've been drafted in a decent spot sometimes even though I'm never in shape and not exactly athletic, lol.

[wwbioteach]

I just discovered two old voicemails I never deleted that my dad left me- a happy birthday message from 3 years ago and one from last summer asking me to cut a specific size board for him. I can't tell you how happy I was to hear his voice again and how sad it made me at the same time that I'll never hear it again or see his face light up when I walk into a room.

[wilwheaton]

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[yayfeminism]

Very informative thread -source

[master-sass-blast]

Just gonna do a good ol’ rebagel.