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July 1

In the news today

IPS schools have increased their graduation rate by about 17%! Unfortunately it seems that they haven’t done this by providing better education, they have accomplished this by providing waivers to students so that they can graduate. 26.7% of IPS students last year graduated with a diploma using a waiver.

In case your wondering in order for a student to graduate - among other factors, it requires the student to pass Algebra I (generally taken in 9th grade) and 10th grade English.

“To earn a waiver, seniors who have not passed one of the required tests must show they had 95% attendance and had a C average in that subject. If they took the test every time it was offered, completed extra help sessions offered at school and earned a recommendation from a teacher and the principal they can still graduate.” - Scott Elliott

To put this in perspective, statewide 21.41% of black students graduated with a waiver compared to 14.12% of hispanic students, and 5.7% of white students.

Something is obviously wrong with this.

May 6

apocalyps0:

Matt & Kim - Lesson Learned

and so I stayed up all night
slept in all day
this is my sound
thinking about tomorrow won’t change how I feel today

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Slut Walk

http://www.slutwalktoronto.com/

So apparently a cop in Toronto made a comment about how women who dress provactively encourage others to A.) Degrade them and B.) Sexually Assault them

In response to this, Slut Walks have started popping up all over the country. Women have the right to dress however they want, while we are quite aware of the way our dress affects the male population, if would never, ever, assume that by walking out of the house in lingerie I am going to be raped. 

Perhaps the men of the country need to have a little more self control… 

March 7

tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

FAVORITE? SUCH A THING DOES NOT EXIST! 

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Funny but true Courtroom Quotes:

  • Lawyer: "This myasthenia gravis -- does it affect your memory at all?"
  • Witness: "Yes."
  • Lawyer: "And in what ways does it affect your memory?"
  • Witness: "I forget."
  • Lawyer: "You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?"
  • ___________________________________________________________________
  • Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
  • Witness: "No."
  • Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
  • Witness: "No."
  • Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
  • Witness: "No."
  • Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
  • Witness: "No."
  • Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
  • Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
  • Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
  • Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
  • ___________________________________________________________________
  • Lawyer: "Now sir, I'm sure you are an intelligent and honest man--"
  • Witness: "Thank you. If I weren't under oath, I'd return the compliment."
  • ___________________________________________________________________
  • Lawyer: "Do you know how far pregnant you are now?"
  • Witness: "I'll be three months on November 8."
  • Lawyer: "Apparently, then, the date of conception was August 8?"
  • Witness: "Yes."
  • Lawyer: "What were you doing at that time?"
  • _________________________________________________________________
  • Lawyer: "Are you married?"
  • Witness: "No, I'm divorced."
  • Lawyer: "And what did your husband do before you divorced him?"
  • Witness: "A lot of things I didn't know about."
  • __________________________________________________________________
  • Lawyer: "When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?"
  • Other Lawyer: "Objection. That question should be taken out and shot."
  • _________________________________________________________________
December 7
Micala sent this to me.

Micala sent this to me.

July 23
“ Where we going tiny white peope. Crooked Little Vein, Warrn Ellis