#MAN I FORGOT SOME OF EHAT I WROTE

[simpjaes]

I’m picking Jake up early for the weekend, leave his things outside, I dont wanna see you🖤

he’s already at ur house wdym, im supposed to be picking him up for christmas 😭😭😭😭😭

[iliveinprocrasti-nation]

I would like the tea

Ok let’s fckin GO MATE

So, picture this: theres the Anyplace Academy School. For some reason it’s in a different city than Anyplace, but no one talks about that. It’s a private school that starts at like two years old and once you get to first grade you gotta wear uniforms.

So this school likes to say it’s all inclusive. It’s a pretty good school, good teachers and all, and small classes which is nice. The fact that they have a lowkey morning prayer/announcements but isn’t a “Christian School” makes it a big pick for some families. One issue: it’s not really all inclusive and is basically one or two steps away from being Christian. Some things that happened during the three years I went there:

My social studies teacher told us all about his divorce with his first wife and how that caused him to leave the Catholic Church. This teacher also occasionally went on Jesus rants (y’know the ones, “whoever your G-d is, He has a plan for you” and occasionally he forgot my friend and I and just told us “Jesus has a plan for all of you” which we found hilarious (as a Muslim person (her) and Jewish/pagan person - I had phases, it’s in a rant I posted earlier - telling us Jesus has a plan for us just makes us crack up)

There’s like... a Christmas wreath or something we did that I’ve only ever seen in churches and not really in peoples houses - I think it’s called an advent wreath. We’d light those and my principal would talk about Jesus. It was an experience. She talked about G-d and Jesus a lot now that I think about it

Of course during that same time we had the hannukah ceremony where one of the only Jewish teachers would bring up a few Jewish kids, have them say one prayer, and then light the menorah. Me and the only other Jewish kid in my grade found this hilarious because neither of us had ever done only one prayer, the teacher in charge of the ceremony would sing a song (never in Hebrew, always an English one about the holiday) for one of the days, and then all the kids on stage always looked so uncomfortable and it was funny because our little siblings were always up there

We had to write prayers for morning prayer. Every student did and then we’d have to read them in front of the whole school (they were also not great prayers so like,,,). During my pagan phase I wrote “Dear Gods, Goddesses, and Deities” for one of them because screw everyone else I do what I want. My teacher literally crossed it out and was like “we’re just gonna say Dear G-d, ok?” Little me was pissed but also a goody two shoes so I followed ehat my teacher said. Looking back, there was a kid two years above me who was Hindu (I think- I’m pretty sure but correct me if that’s not the religion) and I feel so bad for him having to go through the very much monotheistic morning prayer every day. Also kids were allowed to say “in Jesus’s name we pray” at the end of speeches but no one could address them to multiple gods so like double standards much

The one time where they went on about Easter or Good Friday or some holiday like that and Passover was literally the same day but no one mentioned it at all ever and I was pissed like it was the only thing I spoke about for two days my friends were so tired of me by the end

The dozens (literally dozens) of times I heard my principal tell other students hat their Jewish friends either wouldn’t be at school or would come late because it’s a Jewish holiday and they’re at the synagogue. She never even went into what holidays they were

The time my social studies teacher (same one with the Jesus thing) shut down the class discussion about a synagogue shooting with “whatever” - note that he didn’t even know it happened (although we had a 45 minute discussion about Notre dame and other big events during the years). He wanted to get over the topic and shut it down like that.... (ok this is random but also when he taught about the Spanish Inquisition and such he just offhand mentioned that it was bad for some people and that what happened wasn’t fully right but then just plowed through and never mentioned it again)

And, my favourite example, the time they pulled one of my best friends up (the one I mentioned earlier, she’s Sunni Muslim) to speak about a holiday she doesn’t celebrate (I think it was an Islamic new year holiday that another kid, who was a different type of Muslim, celebrated). They had her read a poem after the other kid explained the holiday and introduced her by saying “__________ wanted to read a poem about the new year” as if she celebrated the holiday and they hadn’t just handed her a random poem they’d found and printed

That’s all I can remember off the top of my head (btw this is unedited soo it’s gonna be a wreck sorry it’s late and imma pass out after this). But like these things are bigger than I might make them seem - also the breaks we got there were insane and for every Christian holiday while Yom Kippur wasn’t even spoken about once and I legit had to explain to people why I could have pizza during Passover ok yea I’m bitter about that can you tell also I’m always up to spill tea about my old school (especially my coach like that man lost all my respect in my last year there) so yeah thanks for asking and I’ll add on if I remember anything more. Also if you wanna find my rant you can look in my “judaism” or “jumblr” tag and it’ll have a note at the top with something like “long rant from frustrated Jewish girl” if you wanna read that mess