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nazfam610 · 7 months

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Holy Family School - A Decline in Enrollment

In recent times at Holy Family School, our Catholic elementary and middle school in Nazareth, Pennsylvania has experienced a significant shift in its dynamics following the appointment of Mr. Derek Peiffer as the new principal. While every change in leadership brings about a period of adjustment, it's evident that Mr. Peiffer's time with us has left a mixed impact on the school community.

One of the most noticeable challenges has been Mr. Peiffer's communication style, which has been less effective than previous principals at Holy Family. Effective communication is crucial in any educational institution, but the staff, parents, and students have found it lacking under his leadership. This lack of transparent communication has led to uncertainty and frustration among parents and teachers alike.

Furthermore, there are concerns about the accountability of students. It seems that Mr. Peiffer's approach towards discipline and accountability has shifted, causing some to feel that students are not being held to the same standards as before. This shift has altered the positive culture that our small school once enjoyed, as a sense of responsibility and discipline were integral to our community.

The consequences of these changes have been felt deeply within our school. Many dedicated teachers have chosen to leave or are considering doing so, which not only affects the quality of education but also erodes the sense of continuity and stability. Morale among both the faculty and parents is notably low, creating a challenging environment for both teaching and learning.

In the face of declining enrollment and the risk of school closure, it's crucial that the concerns of the school community are heard and addressed. Meaningful dialogue, transparent communication, and a shared vision for the school's future are essential components in rebuilding the positive culture that our school once thrived upon. It's our hope that these issues can be addressed and resolved promptly to ensure the continued success and viability of our beloved Catholic school.

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hack-saw2004 · 18 days

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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egophiliac · 3 months

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BIRD SSR????????????

NOOOO I wasted all my keys on Platinum Malleus, HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME

(I do kinda love that this is officially "Raven Jacket" Crowley though) (does this open up the possibility of a selection of future Crowley fashion cards)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #eyestrain #(my knowledge of rave attire is very limited i am so sorry)#(to be fair i don't believe crowley knows anything about raving either)#(he's there in a misguided attempt to chaperone/make sure students don't do anything he might be legally liable for)#petition for an ssr of crowley's beach shorts and fedora #anyway i saw the banner and immediately assumed it was going to be another absolutely unhinged no-context episode 7 story card drop #and lost my MIND #and then i scrolled down and...oh it's an event whoops #alas another month without more main story #does this mean more staff cards in the future though? HEY TWST DOES THIS MEAN MORE STAFF CARDS 👀👀👀#are they going to have stories. do we get to see crowley try once again to convince the school board not to fire him. yes PLEASE #god i have NO keys what am i going to DO #i thought i had time to save for sebek's birthday!#but...but our terrible birddad...

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luck-of-the-drawings · 1 month

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[<==PREV PAGES] [NEXT PAGE==>(not out yet.wait a year.or maybe more.imagine.]

saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #GONNA START FORMATTING MY COMICS BETTER. W THE PROPER 'PREV' 'NEXT' LINKS #REALLY DIDNT EXPECT TO CONTINUE THIS SERIES BUT AAAUUUHH MY BRRAAAIN MY BRAIN IS SO IDEASSS. I HAVE 3 OTHER PAGES SKETCHED OUT #NO PROMISES ILL FINISH EM ANY TIME SOON OR EVER. MY WHIMS ARE THEIR OWN BEAST AND I ONLY DRAW ON MY WHIMS #THAT BEING SAID IF U COMMISSIONED ME ILL GEEETT TO YOUUU IM SORRYYYY. ART IS AN EMOTIONAL RELEASE FOR ME N BABY I HAVE EMOTIONS.#ESPECIALLY ABOUT GILLION TIDESTRIDER CHAMPION OF THE UNDERSEA HERO OF THE DEEP.for the desc here i put smth that i typed up in the tags of #another thing i made. i gotta make a proper Baby Gillion tag or smth. eventually.. eventually...I LOVE DRAWIN THIS LIL BABY GUY..#i also LOVE depicting the teachers as just being so fuckin mean. ofc theres variation in that. just like in all things.like the teacher her #idk if itll be mentioned but the octo lady is named Ms Octburn.an octopus pun based off the name of an actual councilor i had #when i was in elementary school i got bullied alot but teachers never did anything. i hated adults and didnt trust them.#but this councilor o mine was so genuinely sweet. i remember spending alot of time w her. she doesnt work there anymore.#but that one school adult that actually earns ur trust and is there for you when they can be.its SO important for a child i think #i hope she knows how much she helped me.youll see in the next page that ms octburn isnt perfect either.but she tries. they all try.somehow.#ALL these comics are gonna be inspired by somesorta experience o mine in the school system. school is so fucked up u ever thing abt that #AND GILLIOOOOONNN IN THE MOST FUCKED UP LITTLE SCHOOL OF ALL. MAINTAINED BY A CULT. CENTERED AROUND HIM. OUR CHOSEN ONE #I IMAGINE ALOT BANKS ON HIS SUCCESS. THIS IS THE WORLD. THE WHOLE WORLD. THE PROPHECY IS GOING TO COME TRUE N UR TELLIN ME #THAT ITS THIS LITTLE IDIOT THATS GONNA BE SAVING US? WHAT IF HE FAILS. IF HE CANT GET THIS RIGHT THEN HE WILL FAIL AND WE WILL DIE #WE NEED TO TRAIN HIM. WE NEED HIM TO LEARN. AND TO SUCCEED. OR ELSE WE'RE DEAD. WE'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD. I IMAGINE THAT MUST BE STRESSFUL #in other news i hope ppl actually giggle when they read these. they ARE intended to be comical. dark humor or whatever. like its also sad #this is intended to be a sad comic series. but a funny one too. does that make sense? god i hope so.saw some1 say they had flashbacks-#-reading this. like YES!! THE INTENDED EFFECT!! YOU GET ME!! i love seeing ppl get upset on this lil baby boys behalf. i LOVE seeing ppl-#-wail n weep n cry in the comments. i LOOOVE seeing ppl RELATE to baby gillion. and i love letting u all know that this wont be a happycomi #gillion gets his happiness arc in the actual show. this series is one of unfortunate events. teehehehe. do u guys remember that show #i keep listening to the lil songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events for inspiration. GOOD STUFF!!#anyway uuhh uhh thats all i got in my brain. for now. feed me ur comments give me ur input i NNEEEEEDD THHEEEMMMM

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penwrythe · 6 months

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What's stopping the possibility of a ceasefire is pretty simple. Hamas is holding 239 Israeli civilians hostage including children and the elderly. What's happening in Palestine is a travesty and horrendous. But Israel can't initiate a ceasefire from the position they're in, so we need to be agitating for Hamas to release the hostages and call for a ceasefire instead.

NO GENOCIDE IS JUSTIFIABLE

HOW DOES THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE ON THIS EXTREME LEVEL FORCE HAMAS TO RETURN HOSTAGES??

ISRAEL'S BOMBARDMENT AND INDISCRIMINATE SHOOTING IN GAZA THREATEN EVERYONE THERE INCLUDING DOCTORS JOURNALISTS CHILDREN ENTIRE FAMILIES AND THE HOSTAGES

EVERYONE IS TARGETED

YOU HAVE HOSPITALS BOMBED HOW ANY OF THIS IS JUSTIFIED

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@sarroora @fairuzfan @palipunk @wearenotjustnumbers2

You know more about this than I do.

#do you really think this will work on me; like hell I'm gonna stay silent for you #I hoard bookmarks like a dragon so guess what I have been saving from the posts I had reblogged to this blog and my sideblog #firefox bookmarks manager are a blessing oh my gods #how does one block anons #sorry for going full Black here on this post but yeah I'm a little livid #the entirety of Western media heavily propagandized for Israel and the US #how the US media covered this look at how our politicians keep funding Israel with money that could have gone to #our schools healthcare housing etc; my tax payer money is being used to kill innocent people and silence protesters #tw death #tw racial profiling #palestine #update: changed a few tags because I mistakenly compared Al Jazeera's coverage to Western Coverage #Al Jazeera has the best coverage of what is happening in Gaza and unfortunately also lost journalists #They deserve respect for what they are doing #thank you for the corrections wearenotjustnumbers2 (see their response in the notes pls)#genocide

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batsarebetterthanpeople · 1 year

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And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

#ofmd meta #Our Flag walks the line like a fucking tight rope acrobat and I'm not gonna let fake fans sleep on that #like they depict things aesthetically without actually depicting them sometimes #ill talk about the aesthetics of episode 9 all fucking day #in universe what happens is Ed signs a paper with an x either because hes illiterate or because he doesnt want to sign it #and is resting on the assumption that hes illiterate to get away with not signing it either as longform fuckery or to soften the blow #and he signs it to save his white boyfriend from getting fucking shot #and then he goes to a privateering academy where he does enjoy folding socks and he's liberated from his black beard and hes cool with that #everything is more or less his choice which makes it palatable and doesnt completely take the tone somewhere dark and harrowing #BUT ALSO what were seeing is the British Military forcing an indigenous man to sign a document and he does so with an x #and then taking him to a secondary fucking school ass school away from his community where hes forced to change his appearance #but also they let him keep his hair so that they dont step on that particular trauma #im vibrating what the fuck is this show #how do they do it?#Like seriously this has been a comedy show?????#And don't tell me I'm reading into it too much episode 2 primes us to think about colonialism

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ipomoea-batatas · 3 months

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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY PIRATE PPL!! ❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹

#ofmd #our flag means death #adopt our crew #save ofmd #izzy hands #la vie en rose #accordion #i let valentine’s day bum me out for WAY TOO MANY YEARS #so now I just treat it like we did in elementary school where everyone gets a valentine #and it’s all about the kitschy vibes #this is my valentine to you all ❤️❤️#and if you’re sad today that’s valid too and i’m hugging you 🫂🫂

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squishosaur · 8 months

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hey man. i'm just saying. why would we put inexperienced teenagers with over-inflated egos and obvious emotional issues into combat classes and make them claw their way to the top of their dorms and expect things to just run smoothly. who actually thought this

#the reason rsa doesn't have overblots is because they understand the joy and whimsy of life and friendship btw #LIKE. why is there no school counselor?? do you know how much time & resources & effort & TRAUMA we could have saved the students &#school from if ANYONE had reached out to riddle and was like 'hey are you alright i heard xyz and i wanted to let you know...' ESPECIALLY #since TREY LITERALLY TELLS US 'oh well here's the lowdown on her trauma this is Probably what is causing this'#or if someone sat down to tell leona 'hey! i'm rooting for you in ur magift(?) game! you're my fav player!!' AND LET HIM FEEL NOTICED #or if someone approached azul as an Equal to try to stop his plans. as a friend even. BEYOND A BUSINESS TRANSACTION #or if ANYBODY BUT ESPECIALLY KALIM was like 'jamil i think you should follow your passions and do something you enjoy today!!' or AT LEAST #let him know he was appreciated as a person NOT JUST FOR HIS WORK #'i know you're doing a lot today but i just wanted to thank you for how much Effort you put into this and..' etc etc etc #ERM.. IF ANYONE TREATED VIL LIKE A HUMAN BEING AND NOT A CELEBRITY??? or even 'hey i loved you in this film i was wondering if we could #do a play together or something..!!' AND LET HER TRY A TYPE OF CHARACTER SHE NEVER GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE. and sing her praises.#if anyone reached out to idia beyond a 'hey the teacher said to come to class'/'get out of your bed and come to our housewarden meeting'#or even. IF ORTHO HIMSELF was like. 'you know it's not your fault... you didn't cause all of this. not really' OR SOMETHING #or if malleus ever got to experience a small firsthand loss AND WAS COMFORTED THROUGH IT. not just quick fix via magic. not replacing. just #GRIEVING SOMETHING??????? and wasn't feared by literally everyone #um. maybe the real twisted part is that all of this tragedy was easily preventable if we had a support system in place.#but idk. twst is a highschool. there's no support in real high school either. i'd probably overblot too if i could ajdjrjfinfdndjd #twst #chatter #LONG RAMBLE SORRY #yes overblots are essential to the plot. but also. do you know how frustrating it is watching the blot build up and sitting in silence.#I'M SORRY IK IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS WAS HAPPENING TO A GUY I JUST MET I WOULD PROBABLY NOT NOTICE.. but of it was my Friend or Housewarden..#I'D ASK BRO.... I'D ASK ... UGHHHHHUUUHHHH #not that anyone would notice if *I* was about to lose it tbh #speaks volumes about our society o think #OKAY NOW I'M DONE FOR REAL

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fatehbaz · 8 days

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#thinking of dinosaurs and troodontids were my favorite dinosaurs as a child #when younger i had a real full troodontid tooth fossil that meant a lot to me #for a time we lived within a few kilometers of hadrosaur sites and troodontid sites #while wider general area had many sites of recovery for the big celebrities like tyrannosaur and multiple dromaeosaurs #at that time troodontids were kinda infamous for i think the depiction in some childrens field guides and dino books #which depicted like a fantasy speculative humanoid troodontid based on 1980s model at Canadian Museum of Nature in ottawa #anyway would visit a small local paleo center a lot and woman in her 70s or 80s ran the counter of their center and rock shop #one day she asked me what my fave dino was and i said troodon so she pulled out the tooth and just gifted it to me #in little black case size of ring box with padding and transparent plastic viewing cover kinda like laminate for displaying a trading card #tooth got stolen from out my vehicle while giving some people a ride while at university before i got too poor for tuition #later during first year of pandemic owner of my storage unit died and new property owners threw away everything i ever owned #i was homeless anyway lost job due to early pandemic closures and had to allocate any money to insulin and other prescrip meds #but wouldve found a way to save my things if the new owners had contacted me #they threw out photoalbums y backpacking gear y books y musical instruments y clothes y artwork y camera y all family keepsakes #and all childhood treasures like souvenirs and gifts and school awards and writing portfolios and all the little memories #which i was always sentimental about as child #from earliest age my room looked like a natural history museum with plants and maps and library of field guides #and rocks and field trip keepsakes and all kinds of little animal figurines and mother had painted room in forest greens and browns #to feel like a forest and among the succulent plants and a globe sat the troodon tooth #parents passed when i was a child #never near any family and were always moving never got to settle into proper stable place then father passed after long sad illness #and mother put in so much effort but she passed few years later and i could not take care of myself or my remaining material possessions #and so im still quite hurt having nothing whatsoever remaining of my childhood or school friends or mother or life generally #and when trying to process grief my thoughts often come back to the troodontid tooth as a focal point a distillation of what was lost #even when young i knew it was advised not to become too connected to material physical possessions #but still there are some small little trinkets in our lives that seem to hold so much meaning and i tortured myself for losing that tooth #thinking about troodon reminds me of childhood

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movedtodykedvonte · 11 months

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I think it’s be funny to have a Spider-Man that is genuinely just a kid, not like a teenager or a kid who understands the gravity of his abilities but a kid who does heroics simply because that’s cool to a kid.

The gimmick is that the villains think it’s a gimmick and Spider-Man(?) fucks with them by acting like a kid to make ‘em feel bad or embarrass them only for them to realize he’s a literal child due to a forced team up where they like offer him a brewski afterwards and he’s legitimately like “Mr I am 9 years old, I just do this cause my aunt can’t take me to the park every afternoon.” And they grill him on adult things and he sits there just blanking cause he’s fucking 9.

#uncle Ben dies still but it’s not Peters fault but he ends up idolizing super hero’s hard #cause he believes that if one got there in time he could’ve been saved and dreamed of being the hero to do it #and then he got bit on a school feild trip to an oscorp sponsored science center where a mysterious new breed of spider was being shown and #got out and being the brave boy he is he found and caught it but not before being bit #all the villains are the same age if not a tad younger give or take a year #and they alls are like does that new hero seem a little childish? yeah he acts like a 4th grader and peters like #um actually a 5th grader 🤓#he’d still be scarily smart for a kid his age cause the villains are only slightly more forgiving in this version #all his friends are his age and he’s a paper boy for the daily bugle instead and he would end his adventures reading the paper about his #exploits like his very own comic book and he sends in pictures of himself doing dumb stuff as a joke but Jameson is like #this ten year old is our best photographer and Eddie ‘grown ass has beef with a kid’ Brock hates him #like tbh only harry mj gwen and his high school mates are his age villains are adults cause it’s funnier #peter parker #peter b parker #spider-man #spiderman #spidersona #Spiderverse #a technicality but yeah #Spider-Man(?) au #I’m gonna think about this for a bit

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nerdyvocals · 2 months

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I can’t wait to rock into my hair appointment next week with a picture of Cynthia Zdunowski and a request of “see this butch? Fuck me up”

#for reference this hairdresser is a friend from high school #we have this kind of relationship #I don’t swear at random people #grease rise of the pink ladies #rise of the pink ladies #rotpl #grease rotpl #save our pinks #cynthia zdunowski

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froggi-mushroom · 8 months

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Finding out that over 100 public schools in the UK were build with flimsy concrete and that the tory government knew that it had to be replaced for years but did nothing about it shows exactly why you should never fucking vote conservative

#not a reblog for once #froggi rambles #uk politics #I don’t wanna hear anyone say they vote tory cuz ‘they can manage the economy better’ they voted to starve poor children and did nothing #when they knew that over a hundred schools were just waiting to collapse in on themselves #our economy’s in shambles anyway the least we could do is have a political party in charge that doesn’t actively endanger and harm the most #vulnerable of society #let this be a lesson to you all the tories will happily let poor children die to save a few pennies

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commonsensecommentary · 8 months

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“There is nothing heroic about convincing unhappy children and adolescents who are confused about the changes in their bodies—and desperate for trustworthy adult guidance—that the solution to all their problems are cross dressing, breast binding, puberty blockers, or surgical alteration of their genitals.”

(From my blog archive)

#government #extremism #education #public education #public school #children #protect our children #protect the children #protect your children #adolescents #teachers #educators #save america #Gender #gender ideology #sexuality

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allureofcrimemurdermystery · 1 year

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Hiding in the event of a School Shooting

In this post I’m going to list what are the safest places to hide within a school if there isn’t a safe way outside or you are not safely in a classroom going through lockdown procedure. This is entirely hypothetical; you won't necessarily be involved but in the event of a school shooting it’s best to know how to stay safe just in case.

- A janitor's closet that can lock from the inside (preferably one that is not within the main parts of the school.)

- An elevator (make sure it’s closed and not moving.)

- Sub-rooms within room (storage rooms in music and art rooms most likely would be some of the safest.)

- Offices within the guidance/main office (navigating through the guidance/main office is times consuming, rarely have windows, and lock from the inside, making them fairly safe.)

- If you can, within a locker (an active shooter will most likely not look through all of the lockers in the school.)

- If there is a basement or area that only has pipes (it most likely won’t come into an active shooters mind to check, just avoid any electrical rooms/sections.)

- Small storage cabinets within an empty classroom (the shooter most likely would not enter an empty classroom to begin with and the cabinet would safely conceal you.)

- 1 person bathrooms (they typically have better locks on the doors of 1 person bathrooms and a shooter most likely wouldn’t think about them.)

** In the event that you can get outside GO OUTSIDE, and if there are no police outside already here are some helpful tips: **

- Hide behind cars (make sure you’re concealed from any windows.)

- Get away from the school grounds (nearby neighborhoods/businesses.)

- When running out/away from the school, run zigzags (this makes you a harder target.)

- Even if you don’t have a set destination, keep running until you feel as though there is absolutely no way you could be seen from the school.

!!!NOTIFY AUTHORITIES!!! Even if you think somebody already has, do it anyways. Also, if you saw/know the shooter give a description to the police (it could help them.)

Again, this is entirely hypothetical, but safety is key, and these are just some things that came to mind, feel free to add more.

I understand Mental Health is extremely important too, but should it ever get to there being an active shooter please read these, so you know what to do in that unfortunate situation.

Please be safe in schools.

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hobisexually · 3 months

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I have so many problems with karamo but the s8 finale… he sees an asian woman who has severe trauma surrounding her father due to (some) asian culture(s) not allowing people to properly talk to their parents about their emotions or issues with them because that could be seen as disrespectful, oui? so she hasn’t spoken to him after her mother died and that is hard, yes?

and this man chooses to surprise her in the car (after making her cry) with an unannounced FaceTime call with said father, which forces her to immediately talk about why she’s upset with him after three years of not speaking??????? without being prepared, without knowing what to say to a stubborn elderly asian man who never learned to deal with his emotions and fucked up because of it? REALLY?

the LEAST he could have done was tell her in advance so she could write it down for herself and so she could be prepared

sure they talked. sure they made a start. but at what cost. what violence did this wreak on her for no reason. jesus CHRIST THIS MAN ANGERS ME SO MUCH

#queer eye #spoilers #I guess #there’s maybe (1) season in all 8 where I wasn’t pissed at Karamo’s ‘therapy’#this man is the LAST on this entire list I would want to talk to I would just throw everything on Tan while we shop ngl #I love this show DONT get me wrong but SOOOOOOO many times karamo has the right idea but the complete wrong execution #also what the FUCK was that whole thing in dentons episode?#he tells you the school for the deaf is at risk of closing down due to funding #aka big societal capitalistic issue that speaks volumes about what’s wrong with our society #and karamo decides to hit him with ? you’re scared to fail? You’re too hard on yourself #NO SHIT HES SCARES TO FAIL THERES CLOSE TO NONE SPORT EDUCATION SCHOOLS FOR THE HARD OF HEARING #AND HES TRYING TO SAVE THE ONLY ONE STANDING IN THE AREA NO SHIT HES SCARED #HELLO?????????#Don’t even get me started on that episode where he suddenly pulled in the guy who put the hero in a wheel chair by shooting him #without announcement #(I forgot their names it’s been a while apologies)#like sorry #my dude you can’t do this that’s insanely #triggering #??!?!??????!??!?#anyways. whew.#I bawled my eyes out at the season finale like it ticked all the boxes just now but fucking karamo #I swear to god.#be better try harder maybe ask an actual therapist #fuck me dude #it’s for the best I was never selected for this show because oh my god he triggers my fight instinct #would make for good tv though I guess

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chaotic-neutral-knitter · 4 months

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ofmd is important to me because it helped me quit grad school, which was slowly killing me.

not just bc ofmd is the "it's never too late to re-invent yourself, just walk out you can leave" show, but because, thanks to ofmd, I've written more in the past two years than I ever have before. and through that I've made friends with people who were outside of my whole situation and liked me for things that weren't related to grad school/didn't see grad school as an intrinsic part of my identity.

in contrast to that, people important to me in my actual real life thought I was joking when I said I might quit because I was miserable. even when they knew I'd been suicidal. or they were like "yeah everyone feels that way." the pressure to just push through even when it was hurting me was so strong.

so fandom helped me find new parts of my identity that weren't going to crumble apart if I didn't get the PhD. and that made me brave enough to get out of there even when I didn't really know what came next.

and sure, yeah, that's more about ✨the power of friendship✨ than the actual show, and it's not like the friendships are ending, but it's all tangled up together for me and I'm just real fucking sad the show got cancelled.

#[ricky voice] the gentleman pirate saved my life!#<- sorry #this is why ed's s2 search for identity after he decided NOT to die hit me like a goddamn truck btw #anyways i love you hrj and tumblr friends #going to keep writing fic when I'm not busy with my job that started two days ago #which is very much marking the Next Phase Of My Life After Grad School #and yeah I have big feelings about ofmd getting canceled on my second day #our flag means death #my nonsense #grad school

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