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effervescentnonsense:

just-shower-thoughts:

You must wear a seatbelt when driving at all times, unless you are with 25 other kids in a bus.

Its because if a school bus were to catch fire, seatbelts slow down the evacuation process A LOT. You suddenly have 20-30 people strapped into seats to evacuate in less than 5 minutes. The younger they are, the less likely they are to have the hand strength and dexterity to undo the belt themselves. If you have a wheelchair bound kid in your group, your focus, as the adult in the group, will be to help them. That means even less aid to other kids who may struggle to unbuckle. Plus theyre panicking, so even easy tasks like unbuckling can be made even harder.

Searbelts on buses full of kids is more dangerous than no seatbelts. Thats why the seats are cushioned so heavily, and are so tall, to minimize injury.

This Escape Ramp Could Save Frogs From The Certain Death Of Swimming Pools

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If you have a swimming pool, chances are you’ve had to clear a few frogs (dead or alive) out of it. We humans aren’t the only ones who want to take a cool dip now and then, after all.

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typhlonectes:

The chlorine-treated water that keeps swimming pools clean and disease-free will prove deadly for frogs who spend too much time in it, which is where the Frog Log Critter Escape Ramp comes in…

Suggest! Make safe a human swim hole with trendy frog escape ramp

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hobbitsaarebas:

osointricate:

Trope that can die:

Grown men telling their small sons to “take care of things now” like their grown, capable mother isn’t standing right there, listening.

In addition to being misogynist, it’s emotional child abuse. Children already suffer with ideas of being more responsible for their families than they are. Many children blame themselves for divorces, parental arguments, deaths in the family, etc. Literally telling a child they’re responsible for the whole family is emotional abuse.

Can we add the thing where a girl grows up without a mother and she’s the one taking care of her dad? Like, grown up and picking up after him and getting his meals ready for him? Daughters without mothers are not replacement wives! 

ainaraoftime:

ainaraoftime:

one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips being “ham-flavored, probably”

y’see because spain and portugal are so close, labels in stuff like food, shampoo, etc often come in portuguese as well as spanish

this brand of chips, Lay’s, displays the flavor in spanish and portuguese, resulting in ham-flavored chips looking like this:

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with “jamón” being spanish and “presunto” being portuguese

however, “presunto” is also a spanish adjective, meaning “presumed” (or suspected)

so you have this in-joke going where spanish chips taste like ham, presumably

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nevaehtyler:

A message to teachers who refuse to pronounce the names of their students of color correctly. 

In a new video, Adam Levine-Peres, an educator in the Bronx, talks about the importance of teachers, especially white teachers, learning how to pronounce the names of Black and Brown students properly. He says pronouncing the students’ names correctly “will go along way in the classroom”, otherwise there might be lack of trust, students might end up giving up on things like their teacher gave up on saying their name the right way.

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Been happening to me since kindergarten.

My name is so easy but it always happens to me.
It’s pronounced Lee-uh, but i always get Lay-uh and even Lee. How the hell do you get Lee??

It’s not hard to try to learn someone’s name, especially if you are going to be seeing them every day or every week. It’s their name. You should learn it.

Writing it phonetically in your attendance is a good idea. I write it out and underline what I’m supposed to stress. (Once messed up Ste-FIN for STEE-vin halfway into a semester.) If you can get the roll beforehand, you can look over it so there are no surprises. I’ve looked up names in the past to see if I could get a guess for how to pronounce (although sometimes this isn’t accurate or they pronounce it differently). Also, repeat the name after they’ve said it to make sure you have it right. Call the role aloud for as many days you need to remember.

There are even games you can play in the classroom to try to get everyone more familiar with each other’s names. Going around in a circle and having each student say their name and each name before theirs. Or if you have a class discussion, having students for the first couple of days say their name when they’re called on to contribute to class discussion.

This is a matter that you ought to give as much thought to in your classroom as any other part of classroom management. If you screw it up, and you probably will (I do), apologize and try to get it right. Not doing so tells students that you don’t care.