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A student blows up at a teacher, drops the F-bomb. The usual approach at Lincoln – and, safe to say, at most high schools in this country – is automatic suspension. Instead, Sporleder sits the kid down and says quietly: “Wow. Are you OK? This doesn’t sound like you. What’s going on?”
He gets even more specific: “You really looked stressed. On a scale of 1-10, where are you with your anger?” The kid was ready. Ready, man! For an anger blast to his face….”How could you do that?” “What’s wrong with you?”…and for the big boot out of school. But he was NOT ready for kindness.
The armor-plated defenses melt like ice under a blowtorch and the words pour out: “My dad’s an alcoholic. He’s promised me things my whole life and never keeps those promises.” The waterfall of words that go deep into his home life, which is no piece of breeze, end with this sentence: “I shouldn’t have blown up at the teacher.” Whoa.
Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85% (via mchotdog)
what a radical idea yo
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Bam. Kids “misbehave” for actual, real, valid reasons. And have feelings.
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For fuck’s sake, it takes the people in charge so long to figure shit like this out! Good for Lincoln High!
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This needs to be the policy EVERYWHERE…
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No, but actually, this shit works.
When I was in high school, I had a few actual, genuine professors who wanted to know what was up. They showed me that, unlike everyone else in my life, I could trust them, and they cared about me.
One time, in the middle of class, I stood up and walked out. I was upset, frustrated, and angry. Just, incredibly angry. I got into a fight with my dad on the way to school, and the class was my 1st block, and I was boiling. I walked out, because I knew that if I didn’t, I would hurt myself. I stepped outside, fully waiting for a dean’s asst. to come get me and take me to the dean’s office, but my professor, instead, came out and sat down with me, asked me what was going on.
Instead of writing me up for cutting, or giving me detention, he talked to me for about ten minutes, and then asked me to come back after school.
Later in my career, I would be approached by dean’s assistants, custodians, and other professors. I was treated like a human being. Even in college, I am continually treated like a human being, and every time it fucking astounds me.
I’m still not used to it, and still don’t believe that it happens.
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it takes 237 muscles to fake an orgasm but 15 to say “it’s called a clitoris and it’s right here”
#don’t ever fake an orgasm let them know they disappointed you
I’ll never understand why women fake it. I mean, how do they expect the guy to get any better if he thinks what he’s already doing is satisfactory?
“Lilo and Stitch” 2002
Deleted Scene
Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.
IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D UNDERSTAND
I desperately need to understand
WHY
WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
Was this scene cut from the movie??!!
Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??
The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.
No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.
oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY
It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)
Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.
I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!
This shit is hilarious, too.
NO WAIT SHIT
I GET IT NOW
I GET WHY SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHING TOURISTS AS A HOBBY
SHE WAS BEING FUCKING SATIRICAL AND OBJECTIFYING
IT’S NOT BECAUSE SHE’S A DUMB KID WITH A WEIRD HOBBY IT’S BECAUSE THEY DO THAT TO HER AND HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY LIKE SHE’S SOME KIND OF FUCKING THEME PARK CHARACTER AND SHE WANTS THEM TO KNOW HOW IT FEELS
HOLY FUCKING DICKS DISNEY WHY WOULD YOU CUT THIS
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Hi my name is Eva and I’m the biggest fucking asswipe in the world. Please treat me like shit because guess what? That’s all I am. Nothing but an object for your goddamned sexual pleasure. But please, lie to me and tell me you love me before you fuck me like the object I am.
Then throw me a goddamn bone, darling.
