my device just autocorrected the word “winter” 3 times to nonsense words (”winiter” “wintear” “wintar”)

what??

i teach a lot of kids who are deeply skeptical about most kinds of traditional english class material and yeah, i find that poetry often connects with some of the most alienated of the lot

and then they sometimes write their own incredible stuff

our local JC is similar — an incredible, dynamic place

grads transfer into UCs and all kinds of other programs

and there’s a culture of support for all kinds of students. I attended my first graduation there last summer and it was so much more sentimental and joyous than any I’d experienced before

the part where students measured their own certainty was the new aspect today and i noticed something really interesting

today they were much more restrained in their assertions when they had to identify explicitly how likely they thought their inferences were. much less wild theorizing!

What's one thing you would change about school?

"We don’t get to do a lot of things w/ each other, which...I don’t think it’s good for our mental because I think just sitting and we also don’t get to get up a lot. I feel like if we were allowed to move around more it would be so much better."

this should be a litmus test, if ever there was one

witnessing this kind of revolting misogyny, would you stay silent?

if you do, you are an awful person, who should feel ashamed of your cowardice every day until you figure out how to be better

killed with vehicles … if that was unclear

thank you for saying so, i feel the same

there is no way in hell i would have been silent or still in that moment. i can barely contain myself even *thinking* about it in retrospect