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In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.
Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.
During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.
On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.
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things to do when ur stuck in bed, but u have a phone!
crosswords! Word searchs! Jigsaws! Logic! Sudoku!
Digital Paint by number stuff !
story apps. story apps! choices, episode, etc (pixelberry studios has a bunch)
ur gonna hate me, but look up Exercises you can do while in bed. it’ll be better for u in the long run ( here’s some rn )
PAPER AIRPLANES do u have any idea how many TYPES of paper airplanes there are??? go nuts
origami in general if u have paper! its fun !
get a pack of cards. learn magic tricks
download the kindle app, or other book app. get back into reading
learn how to play chess
download language apps, learn one new word a day / doulingo
clean out ur inbox, go thru ur photos, etc etc. time waster but good for ur digital health
write letters to ur friends!
do online surveys, you can help science experiments, some others offer coupons and money rewards!
heck, just help science people in general!
It’s boring but also important, look up and see if there’s any local school board meetings, town hall meetings, etc that’s been recorded and uploaded online! It can be important to know about all of the stuff happening around you
online volunteering is a thing X / X / X / X / X / X / X
donation websites, where all u donate is a click of a mouse but u make a big change: X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Learn something: X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Websites where you learn things but fun: X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Click a button to go to a fun website :) That’s all, ok have a good day
X - no warnings that i know of. O - Flash warning / Volume warning. C - relates to food
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I used a piece of one of my favourite background fabrics to make the sail for this tiny dimetrodon!
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hey!!!! remember standing rock water protectors and the dakota access pipeline?
the massive, poorly constructed environmental risk that spat all over the Standing Rock Sioux people's treaty rights? that dug up their sacred burial sites? the one where the oil corporation who owned it bought out a private company to do a sham of an "environmental analysis" and never consulted the tribe and STILL didn't actually get approval? the one that's literally operating illegally and without proper permits right fucking now?
yeah, that.
you remember that.
surprising absolutely no one, the army corps of engineers this week (September 8, 2023) released an EIS (environmental impact statement) draft for public comment that takes into account absolutely 0 of the tribe's concerns, and in fact did not consult with them once in the process!
they're going to officially approve the pipeline.
what's the good news?
IT'S A DRAFT. YOU CAN SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER 13!!!
This link RIGHT HERE (https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/dapl-eis-2023) will take you to a Lakota Law Project page where they've set up a form to make it easy to submit a comment.
All you have to do is add your name, email, and zip code, and it pulls up a form with a pre-written message you can just click and submit, listing the most pressing concerns. You can also personalize it if you want, but you don't have to. This will take you two minutes. Please.
you can also access the comment information on the USACE website here, email [email protected] yourself, or call Brent Cossette, the contact for the draft, at 402-995-2716!!!
you can also donate directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe here.
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Montana Outdoors. July/August, 1976. Illustration by O. C. Howard.
Internet Archive
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Happy puffin
[ Patreon / galaxy themes / insta / S6 / RB shop / appstore ]
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Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
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Look at my poor, poor idiot daughter
My kitten, Piper, slipped off the railing of my stairs and fell 20ft onto hardwood while I was gone this morning. Her bones seem fine and nothing seems painful, but she does seem to be in shock. We’re having a purr party for both of our sakes
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