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There are teachers from every grade level here.  I asked teachers to send me their wishlist if they needed classroom supplies and materials that their districts and/or students’ families would not be able to supply.  Many teachers on this list have been tumblr friends of mine for years, while some have just come to the #education community more recently.  The majority of the teachers here teach in Title I schools (areas of high economic need), special education, or are new teachers.  Your support makes a world of difference to our students and to us.  Here’s to a successful 2015-2016 school year!  

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narunfiltered:

Retail

Atlanta, GA

I was working as a cashier at a retail store during one very rainy summer. When I finished ringing up a customer, I would always ask if there was anything else I could do for them. A lot of customers, thinking they were clever and original, would ask me to stop the rain. I would look out the window, snap my fingers, and then look annoyed and apologetic when the rain didn’t stop, and it made the customers smile.

One day it was raining extra hard and a customer asked me to stop the rain. I looked out and snapped my fingers at the sky and, by pure coincidence, the rain immediately stopped and within about ten seconds the sun began to shine brightly.

I was as astonished as anyone but I managed to keep a straight face, turned back to the customer and asked, “Is there anything *else* I can do for you?”

She just backed away slowly, gripping her purse, staring at me with eyes like saucers, and then turned and fled.

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outofcontextdnd:

“I’ve already had three pints of breakfast.” -Dwarf Cleric

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reallyginny:

lizinprogress:

scifigrl47:

My mother had three pregnancies, and two children.  She had a miscarriage, between my brother and I, in that four year span between our births, there was another pregnancy, another child desperately wanted, who didn’t live to term.

My mother had her pre-natal care, and her post-miscarriage care, at Planned Parenthood.

Because it was the best place for her.  Because at the time, she had a two year old child and a bike and they were living just around that nice little sweet spot between ‘desperately poor’ and ‘almost have enough to consider a savings account.’  And when you are poor, and female, and need health services, Planned Parenthood is there.

And my mother walked past the protesters, walked past the people who screamed at her about not killing her baby, about how she was a whore, and she was going to hell.  My mother, in mourning for a child that she had lost, blaming herself, hating herself for failing at this most feminine of things, walked through that, to care for herself, to get the medical care she needed.  So that someday, two years later, she could have me.

I cannot speak to the courage that must have taken.  But that path is walked by thousands of women.  Every single day.

She donated to Planned Parenthood until her death.  And she said to me, that the people who screamed at her saw her only as a vessel for a baby.  They didn’t care about her, they didn’t care about her baby, either.  They were pro-birth, not pro-life, because none of them would be there after her baby was born, to offer help and support and care. 

The protesters didn’t care about her.  And the medical professionals inside did.  It is the right of every woman to have access to safe, affordable, quality health care, no matter where she comes from, what her income is, or what choices she makes with her life.  And that is what these kind of bills are attempting to take away.