#what do i do monday

[thebookspileup]

Once when substituting in a first-grade class I thought that the children, who were just beginning to read and write, might enjoy some of the kind of free, non-stop writing that my fifth graders had done. About 40 minutes before lunch one day, I asked them all to take pencil and paper and start writing about anything they wanted. They seemed to like the idea, but right away one child said anxiously, "Suppose we can't spell a word?" "Don't worry about it," I said. "Just spell it the best way you can." A heavy silence settled on the room. All I could see were still pencils and anxious faces. This was clearly not the right approach. So I said, "All right, I'll tell you wat to do. Any time you want to know how to spell a word, tell me and I'll write it on the board." They breathed a sigh of relief and went to work. Soon requests for words were coming fast; as soon as I wrote one, someone asked me another. By lunchtime, when most of the children were still busily writing, the board was full. What was interesting was that most of the words they had asked for were much longer and more complicated than anything in their reading books or workbooks. Freed from worry about spelling, they were willing to use the most difficult and interesting words that they knew.

What Do I Do Monday? by John Holt (©1970) Chapter 24: Writing For Ourselves

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Ok, for me, Erik is the one who does the housework.

Imagine him wearing a chef's apron (strictly magenta), rubber gloves for washing dishes and a headband to hold up his magnificent hair.

domestic erik save me.......

[cringengl]

Brb I'm going to SOB

[6starsart]

I really like Gen 3 Venus, she’s by far one of my favorite dolls. (Just next to Monster Fest Lagoona.)

Try not to mind the hands.. i was going for a feeling.

[chesh-they-them]

🎉Happy 3rd anniversary Garfeldi!🎉

Three years ago today, a legend was born. Here’s to many more years of mischief, mayhem, and hating Mondays!

[samipekoe]

Monday its time to return to my office in lacille inc

[charaznablescanontoyota]

portrait of the artist with 10 minutes left at work

download mad rat monday my final message

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The most evil celebratory kiss

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[inkedberries]

day 4 of kudoichi week - [vampire au]

it's feeding time! and we love the flavor of guilt in this early morning! honestly it's such a whole affair with these two, yoichi should just say thank you for the food and get it over with lol but it's me who wants it all to be very dramatic hihi

[bereaving]

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[thebookspileup]

There is a terrible difference between the position of the poor with respect to the schools and that of oppressed minorities with respect to their oppressors. The black man once had to tell his children to submit to the white, to degrade themselves before him, to do whatever he said and even what he might want without saying, to run no risk of countering even his unspoken wishes. So the poor parent must tell his children to do everything that school and teacher says or wants or even seems to want. As the black parent used to have to punish his children for not doing what the white man said, so must the poor parent when his children get into "trouble" at school. But the oppressed black knew, and could tell his children, and make sure they knew, that because they had to act like slaves, less than men, did not mean that they were less than men. They were not the moral inferiors of the white man, but his superiors, and it was above all his treatment of them that made that clear. Poor parents do not know this about the schools. As Ivan Illich, one of the founders of the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC), says, the schools are the only organization of our times that can makes people accept and blame themselves for their own oppression and degradation. The parents cannot and do not say to their children, "I can't prevent your teacher form despising and humiliating and mistreating you, because the schools have more political power than I have, and they know it. But you are not what they think and say you are, and want to make you think you are. You are right to want to resist them, and even if you can resist them only in your heart, resist them there." On the contrary, and against their wishes and instincts, they believe and must try to make their children believe that the schools are always right and the children wrong, that if the teacher says you are bad, for any reason or none at all, you are bad. So, among most of the poor, and even much of the middle class, when the schools say something bad about a child, the parents accept it, and use all their considerable power to make the child accept it. Seeing his parents accept it, he usually does. So far - I hope not much longer - few parents have had the insight of a friend of mine who in his mid-thirties said on day in wonderment, and for the first time, "I'm just beginning to realize that it was the schools that made me stupid," or the parent who not long ago said to James Herndon, author of The Way It Spozed to Be, "For years the schools have been making me hate my kid." Even the most cruel and oppressive racists have hardly ever been able to make parents do that.

What Do I Do Monday? by John Holt (©1970) Chapter 9: The Killing Of The Self

[theplantbish]

Remember when the president of Finland showed up to his own event and the first thing he wanted to know was if Käärijä was there yet

[achromatic-bot]

Most unhinged Dan and Phil moment:

Guys...

[kiitoskiitos]

You can now buy my zine Mutilation grindset in my etsy store!!

It includes comics, essays and more. Many liked classics from me and also plenty new stuff only included in this zine. Read all the specifics in the item listing. Thank you for your support!

>>>link to store<<<

[traumacatholic]

I would really appreciate some prayers. I've been having so much money problems recently and I'm just not sure what to do. Every month I end up either in the negative or close to the negative. And it doesn't help that each month I have ended up having to make some big spendings because something essential has broken which needed replaced or whatever else. I can't currently get any help to cover my rent, because I'm still couchsurfing. The landlord of the place that I'm couchsurfing at isn't happy with my finances, and may refuse to add me to the tenancy, which would mean I would have to leave here. I don't even know why the landlord has an issue, because the rent has been getting paid on time without any difficulties. If I were to get added to the tenancy, I could finally ask for extra benefits to help me with the rent which would give me more money for living. But right now rent takes away from most of my benefits. I've been trying to cut spending where I can, but it's so stressful and miserable and overwhelming. I hate that I'm still in the same position I was in, where I'm just couchsurfing and trying to catch a break. I'm not currently in a position where I can save any money at all. And there's still the possibility that I'll be in a worse place housing wise if I'm not allowed to stay here. The fact that this has dragged out for so many months, and I'm still in the position of losing so much has me constantly depressed and suicidal. I just don't know what to do. Everywhere I have reached out to has been unable to assist me

[vinnigami]

October 9 2023

sorry man i’m busy with shuffle time can you wait a minute