This is what happened at Northgate and it remains fairly challenging to get to the station despite some improvements in the meantime

Addendum: certain school board members are trying to close as many as 21 schools in the coming year pretty much for no reason, so the scenario will likely get worse

Was replying specifically to the commenter, not directly to your OP. Obviously cursive isn’t as important as contact info at all, but failing to teach it has still had broad negative effects on education and reading specifically

Cursive has several important well-studied developmental and cognitive benefits including reinforcing orthographic mapping in learning to read (reading being a significant weak area nationally at the moment) - it’s not just about the utility of reading handwritten texts per se

Cursive has several important well-studied developmental and cognitive benefits including reinforcing orthographic mapping in learning to read (reading being a significant weak area nationally at the moment) - it’s not just about the utility of reading handwritten texts per se

We’ve also seen the demise of Capitol Hill from a cultural hub to …. whatever it is now. Also the CD and ID. We don’t have the same spaces & places that could give rise to the next Northwest School or grunge or Quincy Jones or RSPT. You have to head out of town more for this: Bellingham, Spokane…

This is essentially a modern stacked take on a French/Breton longère, long narrow farmhouses originally but easily a 1,000 year tradition (some examples still exist in North America in Québec, Detroit, and New Orleans) - narrow properties can and do work very well!

This is an important if not crucial point: neoliberal ideas of efficiency and cost-effectiveness dominate even in places like Seattle; our schools do not really model true, modern progressive thinking in education at all, beyond lip service

At Decatur, there used to be a ticky-tacky white barracks laundry building that was in disrepair that preservationists tried to protect. Today it’s a green play area for the school. But honestly those preservationist people have no shame, they’re just chaos agents

Obviously they sneeze from dust and matter in their nose too just like we do

It’s surprising I know, but there’s a body research behind it! Here’s a short rundown of dog sneezes though: www.rover.com/blog/dogs-sn...

Dog sneezes are often the equivalent of a human laugh believe it or not