Emmet arguing with Ash over which one of them gets to challenge Zoroark!Ingo first😄
oh boys, don't argue. you can both fight Zoroark!Ingo at the same time! Maybe then you'll stand a chance with this stupidly overleveled Zoroark that gets the Wild Might stat boosts.
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Will you still be writing after the show ends
Definitely! Though depending on how much the fandom/requests slow down I might either become a bit less active on here or maybe branch out into writing for multi-fandoms
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orientation week (pt.1)
beginning thoughts: i knew that it was going to be difficult going into this new school, this new environment, and this new culture. it's been an adjustment period, moving to a new city and a new school, and the mindset that i've been trying to keep this entire time has been to keep an open mind and learn as much as i can. with that, let's get into what this orientation was like
day 1: first things first, why the f*ck are the days so long?? had us in sessions from 7:45 to 4:15. when i say i was exhausted, i was exhausted, especially because some of these sessions were two hours long and we would have sessions back to back.
what we were supposed to take away from the sessions: leaders create psychological safety, racial inequity of schools, the cultivation of an anti-racist culture, schools are dysfunctional in the current existence, teachers aren't respected
in the specific sessions for my position, we learned about the school's culture surrounding high academic achievement as well as what it means to be "culturally responsive" at this school
day 1 personal takeaways/thoughts:
what an interesting day this one was. i had so many thoughts running through my mind, but at the forefront, i had a couple questions: (1) is there a recognition of the intertwined-ness of Black liberation and Indigenous sovereignty? (2) as a charter, how is this school trying to reimagine education and schooling?
these were some initial thoughts i have been having and still have about this school. blame it on my liberal arts education or whatever, but i'm desperately longing for a place where learning is reimagined, connected to identities, connected to community and connected to the land. i'm also desperately longing for a space where it feels like all my identities, especially my indigenous identity are respected and feel welcomed in the space.
[EDIT: the school believes in Black excellence but no mention of Indigenous peoples which is f'in crazy considering plymouth rock is literally in massachusetts -- no land acknowledgement or recognition, nothing -- in reference to above, this school has no reimagining, they are working with what they got -- the least they could do is push the envelope just a little bit, come up with something new -- like okay, charter specializing in coding, what else can you give me? apparently not much besides a steady income]
i struggled very much this first day, keeping an open mind and trying to learn. i appreciate the school's attempt at developing an anti-racist culture and as i've shared with a friend, it pains me to think about how far behind schools are in the processes of anti-racism, abolition and decolonization. but at the end of the day, these processes are processes, they have to start somewhere. while i have an appreciation, it's not enough.
i think of lisa delpit and gholdy muhammad and their focus on the teaching of skills to Black and Brown youth to be able to succeed in the system we live in. i see where they're coming from. this school has also come to this conclusion using the work of claude steel and stereotype threat, as well as an anti-racist consultant.
where i think this gets a little lost is the focus on achievement. with the way the school is introducing itself to us, this achievement is based on test scores. while test scores are a part of data tracking, having it at the center of what you think student achievement is, feels wrong. this school talks about psychological safety and getting to truly know your students, but where's the connection to community? where's the variety in ways that students can achieve?
i think about the point brought up in one of the sessions that high academic expectations is anti-racist in that with an education, students are able to imagine themselves beyond the stereotypes that have been pushed onto them since they started interacting with the world. i think of two things: (1) there's no denying that furthered education creates more access to certain things (dependent on some non-salient identities) and (2) creating a culture of high academic expectations, that helps students imagine themselves as high-achievers is a bit of a double-edged sword.
what happens when students fail? when their perception of themselves as a high-achiever breaks down? while the school has the development of a growth mindset as part of its culture, from some student testimony, a lot of this growth mindset feels like this mindset is more of an "achieve despite..." i haven't been in the classroom yet with students, but i was and still kind of one of those people that keeps pushing and persisting b/c i am an indigenous woman and i want to prove people wrong, i want to achieve despite the thoughts other people might have of me.
i've gotten to a point in my life where this doesn't feel healthy. i don't want to achieve despite. i want to live a healthy, love-filled life. i don't want a life measured by my successes. i want a life measured in love and happiness and the relationships i nurture
[EDIT 2: this school has so much focus on its data but how many teachers are actually questioning some of these statistics? like i think its pretty obvious that the school is gonna have some higher testing scores b/c they're a small network compared to the city's public schools -- like i need people to be a little less ooh and ahh-ing and actually think critically about some of these figures and numbers that the school is showing us]
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i’m of the personal belief that if we were all animal people, we’d still have furries. Obviously the fandom would be a little different but I still think there’d be a community based around identity exploration through unrealistic personas + mascot costumes + fetishism + cartoons. Like if everyone was all fairly realistic animal species, weirdos would still be making crazy animals up to identify with
If regular animals still lived alongside us, perhaps we’d focus more on THOSE animals’ unique traits. Maybe more four legged characters, more focus on behaving like in an animalistic way? Not something untouched by furries but more that there might be MORE emphasis on those bits since that would still be inaccessible
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