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whereishappilyeverafter:

crackerhell:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

How A Middle-School Principal Persuaded Students To Come To School

by David Kestenbaum

Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos.
Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. The school was given a grade of F from the city’s department of education.
“It was in a bad place,” Rux says.
Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. Incentives that were more obvious to middle-school kids than, “If you come to school you’ll be better off 20 years from now.”
He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. One of the prizes was an Xbox. And he threw in an element of randomness: The first kids in line when the doors opened might get 20 tickets.
It worked. Kids started showing up early.“It was … like, ‘Get out of my way, I’m trying to get into school,’ ” Rux says. “It was nice.”Rux also created his own currency. He called it Rux Bux. Teachers hand them out when kids are well behaved. They can be traded in for school supplies, or special lunches. A sixth-grader named Wander Rodriguez is trying to save up 5,000 Rux Bux — enough for a personal shopping spree with Rux.
The principal also stands outside school every morning, greeting the students as they show up. This recognition is another, subtler incentive to come to school. “I like this school,” Wander Rodriguez says. “They treat me like home, they treat me nice, they always give me stuff. … They always say ‘hi’ in the mornings.”The school went from an F to a C. Daily attendance went up to over 90 percent. Then the hurricane hit.
The school is in Far Rockaway, Queens — one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Some kids’ homes were destroyed. One student who stayed at home through the storm told a teacher, “My apartment complex was in the middle of the ocean.” Rux’s car was destroyed. The first floor of his house was flooded.After the storm, after school started up again, Rux’s goal was to get attendance back to 90 percent. Every day, his staff texts him the attendance numbers. The day I visited last week, 89.2 percent of students attended school. Close, but not close enough for Rux.
The storm has been tough on everyone, he says. But that’s no excuse. Kids have to be in school.

not going to see this man in no news nowhere

God sees.

just being his fine ass self would’ve been enough to get me to go to school..

whereishappilyeverafter:

crackerhell:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

How A Middle-School Principal Persuaded Students To Come To School

by David Kestenbaum

Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos.

Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. The school was given a grade of F from the city’s department of education.

“It was in a bad place,” Rux says.

Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. Incentives that were more obvious to middle-school kids than, “If you come to school you’ll be better off 20 years from now.”

He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. One of the prizes was an Xbox. And he threw in an element of randomness: The first kids in line when the doors opened might get 20 tickets.

It worked. Kids started showing up early.

“It was … like, ‘Get out of my way, I’m trying to get into school,’ ” Rux says. “It was nice.”

Rux also created his own currency. He called it Rux Bux. Teachers hand them out when kids are well behaved. They can be traded in for school supplies, or special lunches. A sixth-grader named Wander Rodriguez is trying to save up 5,000 Rux Bux — enough for a personal shopping spree with Rux.

The principal also stands outside school every morning, greeting the students as they show up. This recognition is another, subtler incentive to come to school.

“I like this school,” Wander Rodriguez says. “They treat me like home, they treat me nice, they always give me stuff. … They always say ‘hi’ in the mornings.”

The school went from an F to a C. Daily attendance went up to over 90 percent. Then the hurricane hit.

The school is in Far Rockaway, Queens — one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Some kids’ homes were destroyed. One student who stayed at home through the storm told a teacher, “My apartment complex was in the middle of the ocean.” Rux’s car was destroyed. The first floor of his house was flooded.

After the storm, after school started up again, Rux’s goal was to get attendance back to 90 percent. Every day, his staff texts him the attendance numbers. The day I visited last week, 89.2 percent of students attended school. Close, but not close enough for Rux.

The storm has been tough on everyone, he says. But that’s no excuse. Kids have to be in school.

not going to see this man in no news nowhere

God sees.

just being his fine ass self would’ve been enough to get me to go to school..

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15 / 05

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RZZMG on Tumblr: [TW: RAPE] My rape is important.

rzzmg:

nakedbeast:

Inside this post is a imagined scenario of rape, as well as a discriptor of mine. Please avoid if you are triggered by rape or abuse.

Read More*

I think this is the most heart-breaking and important post I’ve ever read on this site.

Nakedbeast, what you say resonated…

15 / 05

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rzzmg:

Okay, so according to the movie, the following people survived (moving left to right across each photo):

1st pic: an older Ravenclaw girl (long blonde hair, far left), Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, a young boy with dark hair (just peeking over Neville’s shoulder, can’t see face or House affiliation), a Ravenclaw boy (blond-curly hair, behind Neville’s shoulder, don’t know name), a Ravenclaw girl (long, blonde hair & bangs hanging over one eye, beyond Neville’s shoulder, don’t know name), a young Gryffindor boy (hands clasped, just over Luna’s shoulder), a boy with longish blond hair (sitting sideways, behind Luna, don’t know name or House affiliation), an older Hufflepuff boy (dark frizzy hair - unknown name), an older Hufflepuff girl (w/reddish-blond hair, sitting next to frizzy haired boy), an older Ravenclaw girl (dark hair, sitting next to Hufflepuff girl, actress name Christina Low)

2nd pic: Michael Corner, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley, George Weasley

3rd pic: Padma Patil, some Hufflepuff girl (dark haired with Betty Page bangs, no idea of her name), Katie Bell, Cho Chang, a blonde girl (no idea of name or House affiliation as she’s turned away and in the background, behind Cho), some Hufflepuff girl (no idea her name, but you can just see the corner of her tie is yellow), Michael Corner

4th pic: Dean Thomas, Aberforth Dumbledore, Seamus Finnigan

5th pic: Some older Gryffindor boy (looks Middle Eastern, drinking something warm - might be Raza Mohammad), Pomona Sprout, Filius Flitwick, Horace Slughorn, some young Slytherin boy (black boy behind Slughorn’s shoulder), Pansy Parkinson

6th pic: a girl (dark hair, sitting high up on the left side, don’t know name or House affiliation), Susan Bones (the reddish-brown hair girl in the far back), Parvati Patil, some older blonde girl with braided pigtails (no idea her name or House affiliation), some girl wrapped in a blanket (can’t see her face or House affiliation), and Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter

7th pic: Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter

…You know, I find it irritating that the only Slytherin in sight is Pansy. JKR never explicitly states that Slytherins stayed out of the fight. How do we know some of them didn’t decide to join the Order’s side and fight for Hogwarts? I think it would have been good of the movie director to show such a thing, as all this does is highlight the continued prejudice between the Houses. Rather than unifying them, it keeps them separate, and demarks a ‘bad’ House in Slytherin. That’s always bothered me about the novels, and especially the movies. No everyone in Slytherin can be amoral arseholes.

exactly

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lovevsscience:

instabye:

omg

awwww

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15 / 05

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castielspelvis:

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astrolope:

People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.

I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.

A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?

It is a big deal because i’m a transman.

It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.

Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.

At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.

At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.

TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.

Christians claiming to be oppressed by homosexuals is simultaneously one of the saddest and most hilarious things in the universe.

That side of Christianity makes me so sad! Proud Christian, proud supporter! Go Target! I knew it was my favorite for a reason!

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14 / 05

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I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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13 / 05

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// Reblog if your mom is beautiful.//

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12 / 05

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askfemgermania:

ibara-san:

itscooltolovejesus:

what a bunch of lil shits

blossom you dont even have a fucking nose

oh my god i forgot how fucking sweet bubbles is

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