#maybe i could do like 3rd or 4th grade science. could be a good middle ground

[somelazyassartist]

Sometimes I wish I didn't live in the middle of nowhere so I could work at like a big science museum and tell kids about space and dinosaurs and bugs and physics all day. But unfortunately that would require moving to a city which has not ever ever ever been pleasant for me

[juliankinney]

━━ ( alex fitzalan + cis male + twenty-two ) oi , have you seen julian kinney around ? he lives in flat 14 in bedroom 4 ? i was meant to meet them this morning at bean me up before our lecture but he didn’t show . no ? well , shit . if you do see them , can you tell them i’m looking for them ? they’re a 4th year computer science student from madrid , spain & you’ll know it’s them because they might just remind you of a stack of unread books , the sound of keyboard typing at three in the morning , coffee creamer in every flavor , & unprescribed pills if that helps at all . just be careful , he can be a little distant , critical , & compulsive sometimes . —- oh don’t look like that , they’re usually ingenious , reliable , & confident most of the time . ✏ y! , 22 , she/her , cst

alright whats up guys, as jd once said, greetings and salutations!! im y and this here is julian, who i’ve known for two hours but adore already anyway. i usually play dumbass boys and he’s no exception, but i like to think he might just be a little less dumb than the rest of them. so lets jump into it!!! ♡

for starters here is his messy pinterest board that i made.. like i said... it is a mess, and still a work in progress but y’all can have it anyway!! (fun fact: was gonna make him texan but pepper called him country boy and i was triggered!!!!!!!!!!)

backstory:

 julian was the conception of two teenagers in love during the 90′s in spain; a local and a tourist. the pair were just seventeen when they became parents but it was a whole ordeal at the time because his father’s side of the family did not want anything to do with this impregnated nobody. it wasn’t his grandfather’s vision!!! his son was supposed to go into adulthood unscathed by his mistakes!!! as you can guess julian’s mom side of the family were your blue-collared society while his father’s side was more white-collared. at the time his mother was a student and helped her own mom with the family tailor shop while her father worked as a cook in a restaurant. on the other end of the spectrum, the kinney’s were in the film industry and of old money. needless to say, the two families had little in common.

the kinney’s tried to pay this girl off but her family was 100% not having it and after many arguments and empty threats they came to an agreement. said agreement was that julian would have his rightful surname and would stay in spain and the family would receive a weekly stipend for his expenses. in return no one would say a thing to the press— which, honestly was only ever a threat because the kinney’s wanted to pretend like nothing had happened. 

and so julian grew up in madrid with a single mother and the help of his grandparents. as far as he knew his father had died shortly after he had been born and had been madly in love with his mother (that part was true). the only reason he didn’t share a name with the rest of his family was because the pair had never married, which, would have been the truth regardless. everything was fine; he grew up working at the family shop, attended school, skipped school, maintained amazing grades while simultaneously spending 1/3rd of the time in detention, lost his virginity to marisol cordova in her lilac colored room, etc. he had the most basic upbringing a kid could have.

then his father died. his real father. and suddenly, on paper, he was well off. it wasn’t easy for his mother to tell him the truth when his grandfather stepped foot into the one story home like he had seventeen years ago with that sour look on his face, but she was forced to. she had no other choice. devastated as she was (and she was truly heartbroken), she told him the story of how one day during the summer of 96′ she met james kinney, and how the next year he came back. then, his grandfather informed him of his father’s will and how he’d have access to his inheritance once he turned eighteen.

it was... a lot to process, and as julian does when he feels overwhelmed, he got angry. he was very upset with his mother and even more so with this old man he was meeting for the first time who kept calling him shit like ‘his only grandson’ and ‘a kinney by blood’. it was infuriating for julian, and his mother further telling him about their weekly allowance among other expenses over the years did not help. at all.

that is how julian found out his father was a successful actor turned director, generally known for an action packed franchise released in the 2000′s. it was mind boggling— he’d turn on the tv only to see a picture of his now dead father on screen, news coverage of the deadly car accident that occurred during en route to manchester on every channel. it just didn’t make any sense and was very hard to feel sad for. besides, his mother had enough sadness for the both of them. at his funeral, the two had to stay in the back while the family tried to come up with a game plan of how things were going to move forward; james’ widow was not happy to see her husbands former lover and child at the scene. 

anyways in spite the fact that julian wanted nothing to do with the kinney’s, his grandfather had other plans. a vision of his own for the only grandchild his son had brought into the world, and that started with schooling. julian graduated and had no plans for college until his grandfather threatened to contest the will if he chose to stray from the path, and they needed the money; so college it was. a college of his grandfather’s choice of course, and what better place than somewhere closed off enough to distance julian from the outer world but elite in its own right? 

his grandfather’s plan basically is to make him successful, and being that julian has no interest in their world, he’s had to compromise and just live with the fact that julian is just going to be your regular everyday man. he’s only really doing all of this because he feels guilt over the years but not guilty enough to tell the world that there’s an extra kinney lying around (last names are so common right!?!??!) . however, he still wants him to be in the family. as in everyone in the direct family knows of him and he gets to be involved in all family affairs, etc, but julian just does not give a fuck about them fksdhjfs specially because of how they fucked over his mom and how james’ widow is so fucking bitter about the will.

ANYWAYS he’s been at the school for four years now, gets his schooling paid by his grandfather but still has a job because pride or whatever, and will hack into your shit!

personality/hc’s

i love him, he’s sweet but also not annoyingly sweet. as in yeah he’s nice and polite but has no problem squaring up due to his short temper. kind of blunt sometimes though, and either is dumb or acts dumb if he says something that might hurt someones feelings. like oh.. sorry you feel that way ksjfsdkln

super smart???? has amazing grades and constantly does his work; knows how to multitask and balance his life out (for the most part... at least until he burns himself out). an intellectual™ . not an eboy but i guess u could say a little bit of a gamer,, has tik tok downloaded on his phone, the dad friend i guess

is either in one end of the spectrum or the other when it comes to socializing. most of the time though he finds it exhausting,, talking is hard but once he does start talking it’s like shut up dude no one cares about javascript 

has a small pill problem,, he’s got to be successful somehow right !! also drinks lots of coffee and is a fan of coffee creamer, does not like the strawberry shortcake creamer though because ew. only tea he will drink is matcha green tea, anything else can suck it. 

has also developed some ~anxious~ feelings , why ? idk, light trauma i guess. his pill usage sure doesn’t help though! loser! ... tbh maybe his anxiousness has grown over the years because he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do after school like he has money (that he tries not to use if i’m being honest, would rather use the money he gains from his job which i haven’t decided what should be. leave me alone), and will have a degree, but he’s still just questioning everything?? things have just been weird

sometime during middle school years (idk whats the equivalent of this in spain, shut up) he got into computers and... i’m not proud of this but his first hack was into this girls account that he liked and bro all he wanted to do was see some titties man thats it i promise. that crush did not work out, obvs.

anyways yes he continued down this computer path and made an app during high school!!! it wasn’t successful at all and he eventually deleted it but good for him coding and shit!!! 

would hack into school systems to help out his buds and their grades. yeah they could have just copied off of him but... where is the fun in that lads 

sometime he be just looking up ‘james kinney interviews’ on youtube just to see who this dude was dshjkg poor lad

can speak english and spanish ,, has that lisp thingy spaniards have i hate it but i guess whatever 

kind of messy honestly, can someone clean his desk 

connections

literally anything just hmu i can’t come up with these things tbh

[neoscarlet13]

Neo Speaks: Reformation of Education

I happen to have a very intelligent and political friend in my calculus class by the name of Braxton whom I had a very lengthy discussion about the American Education system with today. I wanted to briefly describe a few of the thoughts we came up with to improve our current education system.

Firstly, some of my own thoughts: • Beginning in middle school and continuing through high school, each student will be given personality and skills evaluations to determine which classes are most appropriate for them and can benefit them the most. This is intended to distinguish between individuals with artistic, creativity-oriented minds and individuals with very academic minds. Be warned, there can be a great many overlaps, especially with engineering and architecture, which require both a creative mind and one that can solve problems using exact formulas and equations. • Individuals with artistic minds shouldn’t be forced into classes of contradicting fields, such as math, but should still be encouraged to try different things. • Much like the Japanese school system, yearly evaluations should be done to make sure the students are still learning and haven’t hit their peak potential. If it is determined that an individual isn’t suited for any higher forms of education such as high school or college, then they should begin classes that train them to enter the workforce at that point. • In a Capitalist economy this is hard to avoid, but…less emphasis must be placed on money and the connections between money and happiness. Many people can figure out that happiness and money have no correlation whatsoever (listening to The Beatles helps—“All you need is love”), but there are still many people who keep this association throughout their lives and thus stress themselves too hard with schooling and work. • The sexual education system must be reworked. Mainly, it must be streamlined across all states (some states don’t even have sex ed currently) and it must provide actual useful information. Honestly, people need to stop treating sexuality as such a taboo subject and start treating it as necessary information for life, whether to partake in it or not. Furthermore, along with the information on how to protect yourself from such things as sexually transmitted diseases, it might be useful to actually tell individuals in a sex ed class how to actually perform it. A demonstration is not required, but it is definitely not okay that most teenagers (including myself) figure out what sex is solely through the internet. • Furthermore, sex ed must now encompass homosexuality, asexuality, and the likes. Equal representation must be made for all genders and also information regarding protection against pregnancies and diseases must also encompass homosexual relationships.

Some things that Braxton stated: • Along with skills and personality tests, efficiency evaluations for all subjects should be conducted. Rather than grades being calculated through some bullshit systems that no one truly understands, rework them to show actual learning abilities and how well the students retain the information. Additionally, break the ridiculous notion that good grades lead to successful lives. Grades should be an evaluation of how well you are currently doing, not a projection of how the rest of your life will be. • Kindergarten should be removed. 1st grade should have the first few months be conditioning for the appropriate behaviors to have in the school environment, and then education involving basic arithmetic and social behaviors should be introduced. 2nd and 3rd grade should focus on vocabulary building while also enforcing arithmetic and writing skills, along with social interactions. In 4th grade, introduce science and history and geography. And in an effort to push the education system to its limits to bring out the best in individuals and to determine who has what skills, 5th grade should teach basic Algebra and 6th grade should have Geometry, while also focusing in on specific sections of science (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) to see which subjects the students are best at. English and Writing in 6th grade should be condensed into some kind of “Social Workings” class for individuals that will likely grow up to be lawyers, politicians, public speakers, historians, information distributers, and the like. • Additionally, elementary school classes should include a few basic “real-world skills” classes, such as art, music, tinkering, mechanics, and further science classes for individuals that show interest in those subjects. The best course of action is to test each individual for their skills and their personal preferences so they can work on skills that will give them a happier future. • Middle school should be a time for students to bring out their individuality and personal development. Simulate real-life discussions with friends about relevant topics. Classes should focus on real-world and concrete aspects of life, as many kids will test out of schooling and begin entering the workforce at this point. Furthermore, 8th grade should be a year of tests that are not difficult by nature, but can provide useful information for high school course selection such as an IQ test, a 16-point personality test, and a test similar to the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) to determine which jobs an individual could easily fill. • High school, obviously, has many choices for classes to strengthen certain points of an individual’s personality and personal development such as Early Childhood, Photography, Music, Art, Culinary, Engineering, Theatre, and so on. Therefore, a lot of guidance is needed. Braxton suggests that there should be weekly meetings with counselors in order to determine how well each student is doing in their classes and to continually check to make sure they are on the “path of least resistance” to a happy life. Don’t make counselors “an option if the student needs them” so much as they should be actively guiding students. Furthermore, if a student is struggling in a certain subject, but still shows interest in learning about it, the counselors’ job should be to move that student to another teacher of the same class, so see if they learn better from the guidance of someone else. • A large priority for high school is to ACTUALLY TEACH the students, rather than “preparing them for college”. High school today makes it out that college is necessary in order to get a good job and a happy life. It really isn’t! In fact, to present a true anecdote, my cousin recently graduated with a Doctorate in Archeology and a Masters in Psychology and now works as a waitress in order to pay off her debts. Getting a degree does not guarantee access to that job, and many times you don’t need a degree so much as you need the right mindset in order to fulfil a certain job. • Additionally, in order to prevent students from graduating in a certain field and never finding a job in that field, colleges should keep accurate up-to-date information on the current job market and encourage students pursuing a dead-end job to maybe start looking for jobs that require similar skills. • Also, students should not be directly compared to other students alike or dislike. What I mean by this is that students should not be competing against each other to be “better than the rest” but rather, “to be better than their past self”. Students work to get an education to better themselves and their way of life, not to have a better life than someone else. Humans, by nature, tend to categorize others and distinguish their traits so as to identify them easily, and although this concept has been rampant throughout the previous points of this text, that does not mean this system has to be visible on the surface. And plus, where one student can excel in mathematics, another can fail in math, but become the world’s greatest artist.

I think everyone can agree that teachers deserve higher salaries. “Students are the heroes of the future, teachers are the superheroes of today!”-Neo S.

-Neo Out