Sometimes I think about OTPs or about life. Andrew, 21, and set on figuring myself out. Higurashi, Fullmetal, Madoka, and other things. Fiction, Poetry, music, and other things. Waiting, running, trying, and other things. I'd like to be friends, so...
The Peace Keepers These large, powerful Dragons enforce order throughout the world. They are the strongest of all the Dragon families, and know the most about battling their enemies. They live in the desert sand dunes, tar pits and ice-caves and are always on the lookout for any creatures breaking the peace.
So I was debating posting this but I think it needs to be said.
So I’m a student teacher and this week, we started at a new school district. Now I won’t presume to begin to pretend that I know what everyone’s political ideologies are in this school district but keep in mind that it’s in rural New York State and rural New York State tends to run red. Not as red as some other places but definitely not blue and not even really purple.
Anyway yesterday was my first ever professional development day. So I’m all dressed up, introducing myself to other teachers, and I shake hands with the superintendent who seems like a really nice guy.
And about halfway through the day, he goes up to the front of the theater and he starts talking about the best ways to talk to and help transgender/nonbinary students. It’s the basic things we all learn in our education classes. And you can tell that he’s a bit uncomfortable and so are some of the teachers. And at last, he stops and says, “Folks, I have to be honest. My father is rolling in his grave right now.”
And I’m in the back like, “Oh no.”
And so he pauses again and then he starts implying that he was raised to have a very negative opinion on the transgender community. And he continues to say that he had to unlearn a lot in the past few decades and then he admitted that he still doesn’t get it. He outright admitted that he personally doesn’t understand how someone comes to the conclusion that they’re not their assigned gender. And he admits that of course he doesn’t because he’s never had to go through that.
Another pause.
And then he says, “But I don’t have to get it.”
The theater fills with whispers and then he says [and I’m paraphrasing here], “I don’t have to get it. I don’t even have to agree with it. Because it doesn’t matter what I think or what I feel or what my beliefs are. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that I respect that student and I respect their choice.”
And then he reminded the teachers of every single policy that the school district follows from letting any student use their bathroom of choice to changing the students’ names per the students’ requests to not telling the parents anything unless the student gives consent to do so.
And at the end, he brought it back by saying, “My father just rolled in his grave again. But it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what you think, it doesn’t matter what you believe, because it’s not about you. It’s about your kids. And you need to love your kids! Love your kids! Love your kids!”
Long story short, this looks like it’s going to be a good placement.
love your kids!! love your kids!!!
‘You don’t have to get it’ is the most important and (apparently) most difficult lesson to learn, alongside ‘this is not about you.’
Wait so you don’t believe that Adam was a real person let alone the first man? Walk me through this logic I swear I’m not trying to be an asshole about I’m seriously curious of your take on this...
I mean, there is no genetic possibility that all humans were descended from the same couple. There is a y-chromosome “Adam” and an x-chromosome “Eve” that all humans are descended from, but they are tens of thousands of years apart from each other in the genetic record. That is just science. Genesis is not a literal account, it is a spiritual account of mankind’s spiritual beginning and spiritual predicament. This is not too radical a statement - St. Augustine did not believe in a literal Genesis either, for example. An insistence on Biblical literalism is really a modern conservative Evangelical thing
Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt
From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. - Isaac Asimov
