#and every curriculum

[mediumgayitalian]

every single one of you needs to find your favourite elementary school teacher and send her a seven page apology letter

[luanna801]

Jin Guangyao is really out here like "I am going to get a good grade in Accidental Incest Husband, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve".

[thebluestbluewords]

Any random descendants headcanons you want to share?

I know I've been holding on to this ask for ages, but fear not!! I have FINISHED MOVING MOSTLY (I just have a couple boxes of craft supplies left to unpack, and tbh I mostly keep those in storage bins for organization anyway so it's fineeee) AND I HAVE SOME ENERGY ONCE AGAIN. 

Because I've been hearing a lot lately about my irl coworker's kid and her battle with school (she's been suspended twice in the last two weeks! And one of those weeks was spring break!) here's some VK school headcanons. 

As all of us book fans know, Carlos and Evie love school. They're TRAGIC, HOPELESS NERDS. 

Building on this, I think that Evie loves school so much that she's chronically overscheduling herself.  She's the girl who takes a full course load plus a bonus class just for fun, plus four or five extracurriculars.....plus of course she's doing the most for her required Auradon Prep volunteer hours, and on top of that she's running her fashion empire. She's the girl who has an absolutely ruthless schedule for herself, and she's never without her planner. During AP finals week, she's the one who schedules herself a five-minute cry break in the library, and then when her alarm goes off, she stops crying and gets back to work. She's spent so long being castle-schooled that she is not giving up a single moment now that she can experience school to the fullest. 

As a Very Important Headcanon Note, I do believe that Auradon Prep has a volunteer hours requirement for all students. They've got to have....something like 35 hours of volunteer work each year, which is about an hour a week if we're following a standard US school schedule. 

Lonnie organizes fun runs for charity as her volunteer hours. She's got a couple other international students on board too, and they work together on it. One of the school faculty supervises them and signs off on the hours. She organized one for the benefit of the isle, not that she's going to admit as much to the VKs. 

Evie refuses to participate in any Isle-based charity drives. She's on the junior kingdom advisory council, and that's enough time spent thinking about home the isle for her. Her school-sanctioned volunteer work is with an organization that helps bring fun STEM experiments into the public elementary schools. Of course she's going to design experiments that let the kids have a little bit of explosives. As a treat. The little girls deserve to know that they can look cute and cause chaos! 

Mal failed the required safety training, and isn't allowed to go into the elementary school with Evie. Apparently if you put curse words in every single one of your write-in answers, the school decides that you're not worthy of being a role model for the youth. 

She's getting her volunteer hours by working in the museum archives. It's mostly scanning boring, dusty old books into a digital archive. Totally dull stuff. She's only doing it because it keeps her away from the innocent public for her volunteer hours, and she's definitely not reading the books in the museum archive, which are mostly there because the kingdom did a very badly organized roundup of magical books when the magic ban first went into place, and nobody ever organized the piles of random spell books that have been collecting dust in the archive since. Totally not reading them. 

On an unrelated note, Mal's been sent to in-school suspension once every three weeks (the maximum amount that she can get away with before the consequences start stacking up) for accidental fire-related property destruction. On the plus side, she knows how to cast fireball now! 

Jay and Carlos are both doing their volunteer work through the on-campus junior sports teams. They're teaching adorable elementary students how to hit balls and not trip over their own feet. Jay is thriving. He loves kids and being adored. He's got a pack of under-ten kids who think he's the coolest thing ever. He gets to toss them around like boneless little sacks of meat, and they love him for it. He's doing great. Carlos is.....surviving. He's got two surly little pre-goth kids who are only in sports because their parents made them sign up, and they think he's the coolest student coach because he threatens them with physical violence when they don't participate. 

Middle school kids aren't required to do volunteer work, but Dizzy and Celia are HYPE to get student volunteer access to the AP chemistry labs once they're old enough to volunteer as lab cleaners. 

Squeaky and Squirmy are planning on running away to sea before they get to high school. They have not told anyone about this plan. 

Uma's pirates will eventually get a singular year of high school education each, during which they will cause at least thirteen new behavioral rules to be added to the AP handbook. 

Gil volunteers to crochet blankets for the Auradon City hospital, and accidentally finds his calling as a baby whisperer. Tiny babies love him. He's huge and warm and used to handling kids from all his half-siblings that keep popping up on the isle. What he lacks in critical thinking skills he makes up for in literally just picking up a kid and making them fall asleep. 

Uma creates a new volunteer position where she sits in the Isle Affairs office and bullies the adult coordinators relentlessly. She has one of them signing off on her volunteer paperwork, and another one of them paying her under the table for her consulting services. 

Harry is exempt from volunteer work, due to the unmitigated violence that lives in his soul. Also, he's like twenty, and refuses to do even a singular year of high school. He spends the time that Uma's choosing to waste in high school auditing college-level psychology classes so that he can learn better ways of psychologically tormenting their rivals. 

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

This is an episode series of Cultish I listened to on hiatus, and while I know I've got LDS followers, it's geared toward Christians and I'm chiefly recommending it to my Christian followers.

These guys are part of a Reformed ministry to Mormons in Utah. They, like myself, have many Mormon friends and loved ones, so while the podcast name may seem inflammatory, it is meant to be literal & earnest, as they have immeasurable compassion not only for Mormons, but for all members of cults, from vanilla conspiracy theorists to literal Nazi colonies. They're not here to say, "Look how loony these people are," but rather, "There but for the grace of God go we."

Because their main evangelical focus is in apologetics, it's very important to them that their textual and historical information be accurate and their discussions accurately reflect the (quite diverse) views and professions of Mormons themselves.

As the LDS church's mainstream profile grows, in both negative ways--such as the countless new docudramas you can find streaming on any platform--and positive ways--such as the rise of Angel Studios--I think it's important that Christians understand what they ACTUALLY believe and how they ACTUALLY got there.

This series is by no means exhaustive (only one season is complete), but it is a great start.

[magicat1337]

Telling my art teacher that I want to go as Agent Elrond for Halloween and then she responds “In 2024?!”

(She was a huge Matrix/LOTR fan way back in the day. I once even found her fanfiction.net account with a Neo x Smith songfic with the lyrics of She Loves Me Not by Papa Roach)

[fella-lovin-fella]

"we did learn how to do taxes in school, you were just busy drawing eyes in the back of the classroom." my personal finance class was just watching dave Ramsey. do you know dave Ramsey's advice? it's literally the worst advice. not every school is the same

[meezer]

it hurts me deeply to my core to not do the very best I can and get really good results. and it's likely going to disappoint people I love. but like. I think I'm gonna have to bite the bullet, accept that I'm not gonna pass some classes, and just focus on the other shit. goodbye literature class.

[beneathsilverstars]

i hope everyone is enjoying the occasional "day in the life of someone whose real ass job is singing and dancing with toddlers" segment here at beneath silver stars dot tumblr dot com

[flashhwing]

“uh duh I paid attention in history class, I got an A” skill issue. I slept through every single history class and still got an A

[gaytorade-fucker-69]

I hate geography bruh every other HASS topic is peak but geography sucks ass 😭😭

[hearth-of-olympus]

shout out to that girl in my art class who saved my ass today by letting me use her loose makeup powder to set some ink bc id forgotten my fucking fixative spray and had to hand over my project today

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Answering your tags in the children’s rights post, no, not where I attended school (US public school). I wasn’t even aware the UN made a document about it until now, which is unsurprising for the US but nonetheless aggravating

every day I learn something more horrifying about the US education system.

I'm pretty sure we read the children's rights when I was in grade 5 here in Australia? so I would've been 8 or 9 or so. I have no idea if this was standardised so really idk what I'm surprised about. but man that was something that built a foundation of autonomy for me as a kid that I could fall back on when I was scared... I have the right to safety. I have the right to xyz. seems important I think.

[friendofesteem]

I find it a little baffling when people tag posts with ship names or fandoms only to complain about them?? Please leave people who like things alone??

[karinyosa]

my writing workshop lecturer has a lot of stories with really interesting prose on her curriculum but they're all so cynical and unmedicayed depression core that i'm like girl are you ok. like it's one thing to have kind of that gorgeous rich idiosynchratic mix of seemingly comtradictory emotions for another character in media it's another thing for it to be like. this was narrated by someone who dreads being alive do you know what i mean

[esleep]

it makes me sad how often textile arts are ignored as actual art forms, and are relegated to the disregarded realm of 'old lady hobbies'. there is so much skill involved, such a broad diversity of forms, but so many people straight up do not think of things like crochet or quilting as art.

[monards]

i think one thing i frequently forget about teyvat lore is how. nobody knows jackshit about khaneri'ah. like i know we know because we're out and about looking at stuff that would get us celestia nailed if they cared enough actively. but if you asked the average citizen they'd treat us like they treat fischl