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I need some outside opinions.
I'm a high school teacher. My school has an alternative graduation path of sorts for EC students (special education) who qualify and whose parents agree that it's a good idea. It includes getting "work hours" while at school. That might include something like being a department assistant who does things like making copies and running errands, doing laminating jobs for the mc coordinator, or shadowing and helping a custodian as they change a fluorescent light bulb.
That all seems pretty cool. The part that's concerning to me is when I see them cleaning the school. I see some of them sweeping, mopping, and cleaning windows everyday.
Is it just my unintentional elitism showing that I think it's different to have a student making copies than it is to have then sweeping the floor? Working with a custodian on maintenance projects makes sense to me as job training, but just having them cleaning the school feels like it crosses into exploitation of a vulnerable population.
If all students had school maintenance duties at some point, that would be different. I feel like it creates a problematic power dynamic to have a few students clean up after the others while they're all in classes.
Thoughts?
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Excuse me?????????!!!!!!!
You assume ballerinas are nice and sweet??????!!!!!!
Do you have any idea how competitive and cutthroat ballet gets??????!!!!!!
The acid attacks??????!!!!!!
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"taken" style action movie where a man searches for his wife. as he fights baddies in gunfights and hand-to-hand combat, it's slowly revealed that:
his wife hasn't been kidnapped
their marriage is not healthy or functional
this guy isn't rescuing his wife, he's hunting her down
his wife is a crime boss, those are her henchpeople he's fighting in a john-wick bloodbath
the tension builds until, drenched in blood, our protagonist steps forward for the final showdown. he pulls a manila envelope from his bullet-torn jacket and throws it at his wife's feet. he's just spent an entire trilogy biting & killing & maiming....all so he can deliver his shit wife her divorce papers
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Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like “If you don’t like it, you can just move to a blue state.”
And now they’re mad the guy is doing just that?
You can’t oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.
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So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.
AI art bros are big mad about it.
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How the how Hilda frolicking like that without a bra?????
What's her secret?????
Hilda by Duane Bryers
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The U.S. ‘Ceasefire’ Proposal Would Allow Israel to Invade Rafah.
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Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in, necessitating amputation at the hip.
On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing the ceiling to collapse.
UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently.
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