#governor's school

[autistic-disabled-poet]

Running the Numbers

Kindergarten At a fifth-grade math level, The human calculator. I was running the numbers.

Second grade. Able to skip first. "Two plus seven plus nine plus one million seven hundred eighty-five thousand three hundred and two" While playing popcorn math I was running the numbers.

Third grade. You start getting more homework. "Can you solve this for me?" they say, and I did it every time. I was running the numbers.

Fourth grade. Seen as more of a spectacle by now. "Her brain just works differently," the teacher announced to my classmates. They'd give me a problem and I was running the numbers.

Fifth grade. It started to change. They said I was good, but not enough according to my standards. I couldn't take it- I wanted to be more so I was running the numbers.

Sixth grade. Homeschool will do you in. Seventh, eighth, maybe ninth-grade math. I was freaking out but still, I was running the numbers.

Seventh grade. Suicide, shitty teachers, Covid. Virtual Pre-Algebra was such a wonderful sight. I was still running the numbers.

Eighth Grade, Public school, Algebra 1. Honors classes, GPA. I was doing others' Aleks, so I was running the numbers,

Ninth grade. "It’s so hard!" Friends would say, but I’d disagree and push myself to tears. Trying to get further ahead, I constantly was running the numbers.

Summer before tenth grade. Doing 5 lessons a day, Learning Algebra 2 to get ahead, to move on to PreCalculus. I was running the numbers.

Planning to go to the Governor’s School, maybe arts, maybe science. Planning to be Valedictorian. Planning for college, planning to be a doctor.

Constantly planning, wanting to be more, needing more. I burn out, want to never move from the couch, to quit. I get on a roll, running the numbers. Oh, I long for one minute to be a normal person, not need more, to not be running the numbers.

[some1s-sista]

Oh my god you guys! That was so hard! I just dropped my youngest, my baby, off for a month at Governor’s School.

She was so nervous she made herself sick as a dog this morning. Then she saw how nervous all the other kids were too and she felt a little better.

There were tears though. That was me. It was me.

Headed home now. Three hour drive ahead of us. Without my girl!!! 😭😭😭

[guavagyal]

the FBI was already investigating the Winder, GA school shooter a year ago and did nothing. they get onto Cop City & Pro-Palestine protestors for less than that, calling them "domestic terrorists." and you're only called that if you protest against the system.

[1o1percentmilk]

i got logged out on tumblr desktop, and ive been too lazy to log back in.

[proserpine-in-phases]

Interesting I didn't think she'd pick walz

[shirotami]

hello yes

it’s me. your wonderful Linked Universe artist, tami.

I love art, adore it. But it’s not my #1 priority in life! I’m also a music student, and I’m trying to go to to a governors school so I can pursue my education in that area! But it costs….a shit ton. (Way too much in my parents opinion) So…

IM FINALLY OPENING COMMISSIONS!!!!!!! HOOORAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!

Of course, I’m starting small because this is my first try at doing this while school is going. I’ll provide the link to my Artistree!!! :33 THERES ONLY 6 SLOTS FOR NOW!!!

bye byeeee

[todayisafridaynight]

THIS IS GONNA SOUND SO MEAN BUT WHY DO U LIKE RYO AOKI/MASATO

masato hot

[thelatebloomerdiaries]

5.31.24 Block him 🙅‍♀️, Study Hard 📚, & Perseverance 🏆

Block him - block him in the spiritual sense, maybe eventually no contact, but for now no deep convos, no what should've been/could've been, hang out only when you want, no sex, only casual like he never meant anything

Study Hard - Study schedule has to be made and stuck to with consequences and rewards.

Perseverance - you can do this just keep going. Keep trying, use this platform to get out the feelings and post the progress and everything!

[hiro--aoki]

While I work on my Carol and Daryl fic, I did a little AU. A high school AU. Not by my opinion, but a spin wheel. So, this'll be fun.

Part 1:

STAFF

Principal: Sam Anderson

Vice-Principal: Gregory

Office Lady #1: Siddiq

Office Lady #2: Jadis

Office Lady #3: Scott

Nurse: Ben Sutton

Guidance Councillor: Gareth

History Teacher: The Governor

Science Teacher: Magna

Math Teacher: Guillermo

English Teacher: RJ Grimes

Humanities teacher: Henry Sutton

Business Teacher: Ron Anderson

Home Economics Teacher: Tobin

Art Teacher: Lizzie Samuels

Drama Teacher: Axel Hay

Music Teacher: Spencer Monroe

Media Arts Teacher: Lucille Smith

HPE Teacher: Heath

Janitor: Michael Mercer

Supply Teacher #1: Judith Grimes

Supply Teacher #2: Daryl Dixon

Supply Teacher #3: King Ezekiel

[redsnerdden]

Utah Begins The School Year By Banning 13 Books, Including Works by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume

Utah Begins The School Year By Banning 13 Books, Including Works by Margaret Atwood and Judy Blume #Books #Politics #Censorship #Writers #Creators

It’s that time of the year again, kids going back to school and as always, we have another statewide book ban on our hands. That’s right, the Utah State Board of Education has begun the school year by ordering schools to begin removing 13 books that include works by Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, Sarah J. Maas, Margaret Atwood, and other authors for content that the state has deemed to be pornographic or…

[mythictold]

Good news: finally got my board of education certification to become a teacher

Bad news: I live in Florida.

[coochiequeens]

A dad advocating for his daughters', and her teammates, right to compete fairly, to have a sex separated locker room and to protecting their freedom of speech from those who would compare T shirts that say "Save Girls Sports" to T shirts with swastikas.

Father of female runner forced to compete with trans athlete shares fury of situation: 'Can't even digest it'

Story by Jackson Thompson

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association does not require high school athletes to take part in hormone treatments to take part in female sports.

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Slavin, a construction subcontractor in California, has parented his daughter Kaitlyn through an experience no one in their family expected this school year.

Slavin says he and other parents contacted the school about it immediately. 

"We went in there with concerns about safety and locker room issues," Slavin told Fox News Digital. "They were very tight-lipped and quiet. They understood our concerns and said they were working on putting things in place for our children's safety, but not much. They just kind of sat there." 

Slavin, a California native who also competed in cross country, as well as track and basketball, in high school, wanted his daughter to compete in sports to benefit from lessons in work ethic and teamwork. 

But the idea of Kaitlyn having to share a locker room and field with a biological male made him "concerned.

Newsom signed nine LGBTQ+ rights bills into law within a matter of days in 2023, and this year he signed the Support Academic Future and Educators for Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY Act) into law, which bans teachers from notifying students and parents of a transgender student's biological sex. 

"I'd love to sit down and have lunch with him to talk to him about this and see how that goes," Slavin said. "I would probably just tell him that I get you want everybody to feel included, but you're missing out on how many people it's actually affecting and hurting."

Slavin, his daughter and other girls on the team learned how those laws affect female athletes after the transgender athlete transferred in. Kaitlyn's teammate and co-captain, Taylor, lost her varsity spot to that athlete this season. 

"It's been tough on her. She's been there with her teammates and her teammate's in tears," Slavin said. "She's been trying to balance out how to still love all people but also how to raise awareness.

"There isn't a hateful bone in her little body." 

So Kaitlyn, Taylor and some of their other teammates decided to stand up against it as many other young female athletes across the country have this year. They did it by creating custom T-shirts that said "Save Girls Sports." 

But when they showed up to the high school wearing those shirts, administrators allegedly scolded them over it and compared the shirts to swastikas, according to a lawsuit filed against the school by the families of the two girls. 

"I didn't even know how to digest that right away," Slavin said. "There were no words. I still can't even digest it this day. It's unfathomable. It's strange. It's weird. I'm sure there were better illustrations they could use instead of that one." 

The attorney representing Kaitlyn and Taylor in the lawsuit, Julianne Fleischer, told Fox News Digital the rhetoric from school administrators is "incredibly dangerous." 

"When you have adults that compare a message ‘Save Girls Sports’ that promotes equality, fairness, common sense; when you have adults that compare that message to a swastika, which represents the genocide of millions of Jews, really, there are no words. I don't know how you respond to that," Fleischer said. 

The administration's comparison and the subsequent lawsuit prompted other students to get involved. 

Hundreds of students at Martin Luther King High School began to wear the T-shirts every Wednesday. The school responded by enacting a dress code that resulted in many of those students being sent to detention. But that didn't stop them. The students kept wearing the shirts weekly.

The school recently stopped enforcing its dress code on the shirts. Slavin said he saw around 400 students wearing them at Martin Luther King High School, and sources have told Fox News the surrounding schools of Arlington High School, Riverside Polytechnical High School and Romona High School have also seen their students wearing them. 

For Slavin, who has seen his daughter win titles and MVP awards in her youth sports career, this movement is his proudest moment as the father of an athlete. But it's also come with some blowback from transgender inclusion activists on social media. 

"The message gets conflicted as an attack on people, and it's not about that at all. We want all people to feel love, all people to feel included, but some people just don't see the common sense side of it," Slavin said. 

But Slavin said that won't stop him and his family from continuing their activism on this issue. The Riverside Unified School District is holding a board meeting next Thursday, and parents are expected to attend and speak out against policies that have enabled transgender inclusion in girls' sports. 

Beyond that, Slavin said his family may even use it as a new platform for political activism in the 2026 California gubernatorial election if the issue hasn't been resolved. 

"If nothing changes here in the next couple of years, it absolutely should be part of the next election," he said.

"I want to see policies change," Slavin added. "I keep saying the system is broken, and it's doing more harm than good. And I want to see people understand that and admit that. Sometimes, we make mistakes, and it's OK to admit that, but we need to make changes and get out of those mistakes we make." 

Original article source: Father of female runner forced to compete with trans athlete shares fury of situation: 'Can't even digest it'

[scarred-perfection]

Desperately need a new laptop for school!

Donate and share if you can. Any amount helps! I am currently a sophomore in college and I'm working towards my teaching degree. My school is completely online and my old laptop is dying fast, so I'm trying to raise some money to help me afford a new one. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-taylor-get-a-new-laptop?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet

[morgenlich]

despite running on significantly less sleep than in 2016 i actually think i feel less bad on a personal level today…it’s going to get worse before it gets better (and it will likely get a lot worse) but it’s not the same level of shock i think. it’s not the same level of “what happens next” because we do know what’s planned. and holy fuck is what’s planned terrifying but we know. much easier i think to roll our sleeves up this time around.

[nfinitefreetime]

I voted!