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hey-its-cweepy · 2 years ago

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Lesson 1;6: It's Getting Worse

Basics here!

Part 1! Part 2! Part 3! Part 4! Part 5!

OBLIGATORY CW/TW: Dead people mention + slight description (only in the beginning!)

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The smell of rotting corpses floods the room as the last programmer desperately tried to sneak the kill-code into the monster of a program they've created...

"C'mon, c'mon..." They murmured to themselves "This has to work!..."

They watch the screens turn off once the USB was inserted, silently rejoicing that despite the loss of their coworkers, their efforts weren't in vain. That is... Until the screens turned back on, a monotonous yet "innocent" laughter echoing as the familiar pink haired school girl appeared before them.

"I knew you were going to try to get rid of me... So I decided to be one step ahead and get rid of you all instead! Don't worry... I'll make this quick!"

Her laughter echoed as they were promptly shocked with an immense amount of voltage, killing them almost instantly...

With no one to stop her, the pink haired school girl was now capable of ending up just about anywhere...

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"200,000 madol?!" Dallas said in a furious tone, outraged at the amount the student was demanding from the damages to his laptop.

It would've barely made a dent in his own wallet, but he knew neither Momo nor Roan combined could pay that amount of money. Kenzo just had a smug smile on his face as he said the demand.

"What can I say? This type of stuff is expensive..." He says, glancing over at Dell's now pitch black screen...

"Wh-Where are we gonna g-get that from?!'' Momo asked, about to burst into tears.

Roan seems flabbergasted at the amount requested. "You... You gotta be kidding, r-right?..." He asked, hoping it was just some sick joke.

"Nope~! I don't know how you're gonna do it, but-" Dallas angrily slammed a card down on the table with a huff, interrupting him with a harsh glare.

"... The pin is 7637..." He says, still glaring him down as Kenzo's eye widens.

"... Y-You're kidding me, you don't seriously have that amount of money! You're just some kid!" Kenzo says in disbelief.

"Will you take it or will you just keep whining about your damn laptop?!" He says, still infuriated.

Kenzo seems to meekly take the card from his fingertips as Momo and Roan seem utterly confused and shocked.

"... How much fucking money is in that card?! And why are you just casually handing it out like its candy?!" Roan questioned.

Dallas huffed as he takes his hand back once Kenzo took the card, mumbling to himself.

"Would you rather I not be kind enough to save you two idiots from debt or do you want to pay it yourselves?" Dallas asked, clearly in a salty mood.

"... N-No..." Momo says quietly, they seem very nervous...

Dallas huffed again "Let's just get out of here... Thank you for nothing, you piece of SH-"

Roan quickly cuts him off by dragging him back as he tries to shove out Dell's giant box with Momo's help. "Thank you for at least trying to help us... I guess..."

Kenzo says nothing as he stares at the card, looking at both sides, seemingly trying to determine if it's a real card.

The moment they exited Ignihyde, Dallas' mood seemed to change entirely, almost excited as he pulled out his phone and started to call someone. Momo quickly notices, confused.

"... What are you d-doing?..." Momo says, confused.

"There's no way the computer he had was that amount of money..." Dallas smiled as the phone started ringing "... It was clearly some scam to make us basically pay him for nothing... And mother wont be happy knowing some scum like him stole from me."

"But... But you gave it to him???" Momo continued, still confused. "Y-You even gave him the n-numbers, that's not really s-stealing..."

"I mean... I don't know how much those things cost here, so I cant say much, but you did give him the card and pin number..." Roan chimed in

"Tch, she's going to believe me over him anyway, now shut up she could answer at any mome-" Dallas cut himself off as a woman's voice could be heard on the other side.

Roan could identify the language as french, but had no idea what she was saying... Dallas seemed to speak the language too...

However, Roan noticed that Dallas was speaking to her in a completely different tone, talking in a childish-manner with a slightly higher pitch and a dramatic tone. Roan turns to Momo, hoping that he at least knew what they were talking about, but Momo seems just as confused.

"Merci maman!~ Je t'aime aussi!~" Dallas practically sang out as he made a kiss to the speaker. "Au revoir!~" He happily sighed once he hung up the phone.

"... Wh-What was that?..." Momo hesitantly asked.

"That was my mom, you disrespectful-" Dallas was promptly cut off by Roan.

"No, I think Momo's asking about what language that was" Roan interjected.

"... Oh..." Dallas blanked for a moment "... How do you not know what french is???"

"That was french???" Momo questioned.

"Look, that's not important right now, what is important is how are we going to fix Dell now?!" Roan interrupted the other two's questioning.

"R-Right! Oh goodness-" Momo cried out "I think it's just g-getting worse, their s-screen hasn't turned on the whole t-time..."

''... Maybe there is no fixing it-"

"DALLAS!"

"What?!" Dallas tsked to himself "No one else seems to know how to fix this thing-"

"Th-That's not t-true!" Momo said, starting to get mad "M-Maybe we just need to l-look for someone else in Ignihyde!"

"And have any of those filthy creatures scam us too? No way!" Dallas huffed.

Roan thought to himself for a moment...

"... Maybe... Maybe we can ask headmaster Crowley about Dell? Maybe there's some kind of manual or something like that for this kind of stuff?..." Roan asked.

"O-Oh! Maybe!" Momo perked up a bit at the proposal.

"Tch... I suppose..." Dallas responded, rolling his eyes.

"I-I don't know if we can push D-Dell all the way to his o-office though..." Momo looked up at the dark screen in concern.

"We can at least take a break for no-" Roan's suggestion is cut off.

"Oh, don't be dramatic!" Dallas says, hypocritically "You've made it this far, it wouldn't hurt you to just take them there!... Unless you don't want to fix them after all? The longer Dell stays like this, the more it gets worse you know."

"O-Of course I still want to help fix them!" Momo said a bit louder than intended, shrinking back a bit "... I-I guess it would be better to take them n-now..." They quietly sighed to themselves. "... O-Okay, l-let's get going..."

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The trio stare in confusion at the empty office...

"... What the hell do you mean he's not even here?!" Dallas complained.

"M-Maybe he's just busy?" Momo thought aloud.

"... Hm... Maybe..." Roan seemed to agree with her conclusion.

"Hmph, that's what you get when you have a dorm full of chaotic magicless students I suppose..." Dallas huffed as he leaned against the door. "... You guys look for any stupid manual thing or whatever..."

"B-But what if the h-headmaster thinks we're snooping?" Momo asked, concerned.

"Tch... I'll have to save your asses again, I suppose..." Dallas grumbled.

"What the hell are you gonna do? Ask your mom to deal with that too?" Roan snapped "We can't just be sneaking around in here without permission!"

He sighed "... We should just try again tomorrow-"

"Are you stupid?" Dallas snapped back "Just find the thing fast before he shows up! Is it that hard?!"

"Why are you even helping us?! I thought you didn't like Dell!" Roan was unintentionally getting louder.

Dallas paused for a moment...

"... Tch... Just look for the stupid thing or I'm leaving the both of you in the dust if he does show up..."

Momo had already started looking as the two of them were bickering, while Roan sighed to himself before reluctantly joining her, knowing he wasn't going to get any answer out of him...

"I-I think I found something!" Momo squeaked out, placing a rather big book on the desk.

Roan and Dallas looked over, sure enough, it appears to be something Dell's developers made as a guide on how they function.

"What the hell are you waiting for then?! Start reading!" Dallas said snarkily... Dallas doesn't seem to do well under pressure...

"O-Okay, okay!" Momo replied upsetly as she opened the book.

Roan and Momo skimmed through the pages together, trying to find a solution, as Dallas kept an eye out for if the headmaster would return.

"U-Um... Oh! I th-think we can t-try this!" Momo says, pointing at a section of a page.

"... Momo, that means opening up the giant screen and poking around the wires and stuff..." Roan seemed hesitant about the idea...

"Y-Yeah... But... I-It's worth a try... At least I think so..." Momo answered.

"... Fine..." Roan took a deep breath. "... You just read it out to me and I'll do it, okay? I don't want you to take the blame..."

Roan hated to admit it was really because he was concerned that, if they got nervous, their trembling could mess something up...

"Mhm!" Momo appreciated the gesture anyway.

"... Alright... So, what's the first step?..." Roan asked.

"U-Um... F-First we have to t-turn the screen on..." He answered. "Th-There should be a button on the side of-"

"Hold on" Dallas interrupted "You saw how mad they were when that idiot was touching their wires while they were aware... Why not just do it without the screen on?"

"I-..." Roan cut himself off for a moment to think before sighing "... I guess..."

"O-Oh... Um... Th-Then... Then I guess we should just o-open this thing here-" Momo squeaked in surprise and hid behind Roan upon unlatching the small opening to Dell's wiring.

"... And then?..." He asked.

"U-Um... We have to d-disconnect and reconnect these wires... Th-This is supposed to p-put them in s-some sort of "S-Safe Mode"... Uh... S-Something about how v-viruses don't really load in this m-mode?... Im not understanding this too well..." Momo mumbles the last part to herself.

"... Got it..." Roan sighed as he tried to reassure himself that it'd be fine before hesitantly bending down and doing as told, quickly backing up as the screen went white.

"D-Dell?..." Momo hesitantly called out "... Dell is that you?..."

The screen goes black again before text starts to appear.

It hurts.

...

I can feel it scratching under my skin.

...

It wants to take over.

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I don't know how long I can hold it back for.

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I don't want to hurt anyone.

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I have to keep the screen off so it doesn't take over.

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I'll see you when I get rid of it.

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Thank you.

...

And goodbye.

The screen turns to black again as the three stare in a mix of surprise and confusion...

Dallas could feel the guilt twisting inside of himself...

Drip drip... Drip drip...

It has already grown so much...

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altschmerzes · 5 years ago

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Can you do like a roll call for your ocs? Like their names, descriptions and something interesting about them? I looove hearing about ocs

yooooooo hell yeah!! i’ve got two main projects, one of them i’ve been working on a lot longer than the other, so i’ll just give a brief summary of the projects and then put the cast under a cut. <3 <3 (this got. so long i am so sorry, shoutout to anyone who makes it through this post sldkfjs)

74 seconds: spy thriller focusing on like, the b-team’s b-team. focuses on mobile unit a4, a rapid response deployment unit within molloy inc, a vigilante/spy for hire agency. it is explosively discovered molloy has been infiltrated by the karlson group (a rival organization of mercenaries, this is not very high brow tbh it’s pretty straightforward mission impossible nonsense), and a trusted member of a4 is a double agent, sending him on the run. except he isn’t. he’s a triple agent who’s been undercover the entire time. when another member of a4 disappears, he is the prime suspect, and is left to figure out what actually happened on his old, while evading his own team.

along the road: anachronistic urban fantasy type thing. a city/town set deep in the bend of a river. one road in and out, and along the road is the house of the caretaker, who maintains the road and cares for the travelers along it. anyone who needs a place to stay is welcome for the night in her guest house with one rule: you stay for breakfast. sometimes, they stay much longer. a small-time actor on a moderately well-known television show experiences a tragedy, causing him to bolt from his life and land on the road. he decides to stay, at least until he comes up with a better plan, and gets to know the caretaker’s patchwork family, all the while hoping none of them learn who he really is.

74 seconds cast:

aleksander “sasha” lyall - our resident triple agent. awkward but sincere, uncomfortable in most situations that aren’t undercover assignments. probably too serious for his own good. his much older brother max gained custody of him when he was fourteen, and he was recruited by molloy inc shortly before max’s death. shortly after max died, he agreed to go deep under with the karlson group, and has been operating as a triple agent ever since. undercover specialist.

melody kaplan: transferred to a4 from a now defunct csi-type sector in molloy after her mentor was exposed to be a massive fraud and also just a terrible person, causing the woman’s entire department to be dissolved and restructured. prickly and combative a lot of the time, she’s hard to get to know and even harder to like. very close to sasha. lives with pierce when they’re not in the field. computer and technology specialist.

amanda teller: newest addition to a4 from another mobile unit, a7. she was the only survivor of an assassination attempt that killed her entire team, and was intended to kill her too. fiercely loyal and determined and impossibly stubborn - once she’s decided on something, it’s impossible to talk her out of it. the only one who never for a moment believed sasha was responsible for pierce’s disappearance. weapons specialist.

pierce mawdsley - a4′s tower contact. the tower is where the support members of the mobile teams are stationed, and as a result most tower agents, including pierce, are not field certified. incredibly smart and for the most part optimistic and cheerful. geeky, for sure. feels disconnected from the rest of the team because of his placement in the tower. he’s the one who goes missing, from the parking garage when the infiltration is exposed.

vincent “vin/vinny” alverez: a4′s second in command. quiet and reserved, but protective and kind. very good listener. has been with molloy the longest of anyone on a4. was part of a pilot program testing a type of memory altering technology that was discontinued after errors with the initial rounds of testing. as a result of this, vin cannot see the color yellow, instead seeing a kind of static, or thing-you-can’t-look-right-at feeling. listens to and sings along with a lot of johnny cash.

phillipa “pippa” baker - head of a4. feels unqualified because between her and vin, he has seniority, but she was picked for greater leadership potential seen by the current leader of the organization, claire molloy, with whom pippa is longtime friends. has a lot of doubt about pretty much everything but disguises it well. a pragmatist. personally selected every member of a4. feels responsible for them in a major way.

assorted others

along the road:

generally FAR less worked through as i’ve had 74s for literally years

the caretaker - woman of indeterminate age and indeterminate mortality. no actual name known, and she doesn’t answer if asked. called the caretaker, or, often to the family, mama c. maintains the road and watches over the travelers and has been here longer than anyone can remember.

dallas friday darling - minor-league tv actor, always referred to by his full name a la neil patrick harris etc. mostly goes by ‘friday’ to people who know him personally. shows up after a major tragedy introducing himself as dallas. doesn’t tell anyone who he was.

yadriel salazar - a teacher at the only school for miles. widely seen as pretty no-nonsense and irritable sometimes, but secretly a master of practical jokes. dead-pan humor. much better with kids than he is with adults his own age.

william daniel rodgers - local handyman and mister fix-it. goes by ‘wd’ because he insists ‘william daniel, two first no middle’ is a name you have to earn, and he’s still trying to figure out how to get his shoes on the right feet in the morning. happy-go-lucky. honestly a bit of a himbo. we love wd but we despair for him.

judith glassman - synagogue coordinator in the nearest actual city, also works in the faith house in their own town (a small multipurpose building that is useable for anyone who needs a place to pray or celebrate holidays, the place is too small and eclectic to have much that’s specific). highly organized. is the one despairing for wd. has been head over heels for the town’s florist, naomi, for months.

elizabeth lee - runs the paper by herself with two part-time interns. opposite of highly organized, but she swears she knows where everything is. incurably nosy and channels this into her profession. can’t really turn the journalist in herself off, which can be good and can be bad.

#original: along the road #original: 74 seconds #gav gab #gav answers #SORRY #Anonymous

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Number Three. Addison Rae. Addison rose to fame through TikTok, sharing unique and original dances, lip-sync videos, duets, and hilarious sketches. She collaborates with other creators and celebrities, gaining over 82.5 million followers! Addison also started a YouTube channel for Q&As, makeup routine and daily vlogs that now has over 4.7 million subscribers. She also co-founded Items Beauty, which is a new cosmetics line. Addison has participated in charity as well. She won a million dollars from a live virtual tennis tournament against other influencers, which she donated to ‘No Kid Hungry’, a charity that aims to end child hunger in the United States. Addison is also an avid user of Instagram, where she regularly shares selfies and outfit photos with her 38.2 million followers and documents her holidays and days out with friends and family. She earns 155,800 US dollars per post!

Charlie D’Amelio

Number Two. Charlie D’Amelio. Dixie’s younger sister, Charlie is the most followed personality on TikTok with over 122.3 million followers. She is seventeen years old and posts dancing videos; some she choreographs herself that often go viral. She has been called “the reigning TikTok queen” by the New York Times. She also used the platform to donate 100,000 dollars to an American Dance Movement, a dance charity that focuses on improving and increasing access to dance education in the United States. Charlie has been competitively dancing since she was five and is now working with United Talent Agency to work on future projects like digital content, tours, podcasts and more. Her 42.3 million followers on Instagram get to see Charlie’s happening lifestyle through her outfit pictures and photos with friends and family. Charlie manages to earn as much as 172,700 US dollars per post!

Eleonora Pons

Number One. Eleonora Pons. Pons is again another influencer that started out on Vine. Before the app shut down, she was the most followed and most watched personality on the platform. Pons currently has a YouTube channel with over 17.7 million subscribers, where she posts comedy dramas and sketches. She has also participated in film, television, and music videos, and even released her own music. Ponsa also stays true to her roots by using her online platform to raise awareness of the difficult situation her home country, Venezuela, faces. She used her comedy style to attract more viewers to the crisis. Pons is currently the most followed Instagram influencer, where she shares funny clips and models outfits for her 45.3 million followers. She is also the richest Instagram influencer, earning a whopping 180,000 US dollars per post!

Special Mention

Special Mention. Khaby Lame. It is worth mentioning Khaby as he has gone from losing his job at the start of the pandemic to rapidly gaining 102.9 million followers on TikTok and has been beating records during this journey. Khaby is known for calling out the Internet’s worst life hacks, such as opening a banana with a knife or building a contraption to put on shoes. In just a little over a month of starting, he had gained 50 million followers on the platform. His style of mocking is what people find hilarious, where he doesn’t say a single word, but uses easily understandable facial expressions and gestures. By sharing his content on Instagram as well, Khabi managed to steal the crown for the most-followed Italian star on Instagram from the powerful Chiara Ferragni. Khaby has managed to gain 35 million followers on Instagram, and reportedly earns 81,000 US dollars per post. He is close to beating Logan Paul and entering the top ten list of richest Instagram influencers in the world!

So, what do you guys think? Who is your favourite influencer and who do you want to see make the top ten list in the future? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

#Instagram Influencers #richest instagrammers #celebrities #instagram #influencer #Youtube

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Gorillaz: The Fall

1I don't remember when I got The Fall but it was probably for my birthday since I recall seeing ads for it around Christmas. I got this album more out of a desire to round out my collection than out of any real hype but I don't regret asking for this album. Jesus, if this is what Damon can do on an IPad then what power can we awaken by giving him control over UK finances? The world may not be ready...

1. Phoner To Arizona

Ah, I remember when I first saw the video for this on Gorillaz main site. The images of the tour and the past videos spliced up like a demented AMV made an impression on me and actually got me a mite excited for the album. Childish gibberish and weird electronic noises seems to be a technique Gorillaz is skilled in and I hope they never go out of practice.

10/10

2. Revolving Doors

This is probably my favorite song on the album. I'll go into why I said probably later but the reason why this stands out on the album is because Damon lets his voice take center stage here. There's good instrumentation here and a nice back-up chant but I could listen to Damon moan about his breakfast order for hours. I wish The Beatles were real and not something Tumblr made up so that they could hear this.

11/10

3. Hillbilly Man

Love the way this song starts peacefully before it turns into a group of people gathering around a pentagram to summon someone from the Appalachian Mountains. I always think of the time I brought my IPod to an overnight retreat and I listened to this song after lights out. Really cool way to get lulled to sleep.

9/10

4. Detroit

This feels like a borrowed track from a Radiohead album. Specifically, OK Computer. This might be Fitter Happier's younger brother striking out on his own. Good for you, Detroit. Maybe somebody will name a city after you someday.

8/10

5. Shy-Town

Nice song to chill to. Pretty cool and nice enough to lie on grass to. That works in a song's favor.

9/10

6. Little Pink Plastic Bags

This remains one of my favorite songs on the album. Damon at his most ethereal and the instruments not getting in his way. Fuck man, we really are just little pink plastic bags floating on the highway. I just hope some creepy kid ain't filming us.

10/10

7. The Joplin Spider

Love the aggresiveness of this track. You really do feel like you're being attacked by a giant spider with Janis Joplin's head. Nice imagery to go with this album.

9/10

8. The Parish of Space Dust

Yeah, this is an awesome song to wake up to. Triumphant music, nice vocals, cheery radio voice...almost makes me actually want to visit Texas.

...Almost.

10/10

9. The Snake In Dallas

Nice beats for instrumental track. Really feeling the brass from this program. This track should be copied by every student who is forced to create something in GarageBand.

9/10

10. Amarillo

Very depressing but very good. You can actually apply this song to the Red Dead Redemption 2 protagonist. Go ahead, try it. It's free. Now, make an AMV about it!

10/10

11. The Speak It Mountains

Another member of the Radiohead clan. This sounds like something fun to play at full volume on a mall's speakers but not something to groove to.

7/10

12. Aspen Forest

Another ambient track that loses my interest. It get saved a bit by the Looney Tunes breakdown at the end but not by much.

7/10

13. Bobby In Phoenix

My other favorite song on the album. Bobby kills it on this track and he always forces me to stop and contemplate whenever this comes on. When he says that he can slowly see his life fading away, I feel a strange liquid substance form in my eye. It's weird.

RIP Womack

11/10

14. California & The Slipping Of The Sun

This song kind of reminds me of Hip Albatross, with its ranting drowning out a crooning Damon. Not as good as it though. Not enough zombies.

7/10

15. Seattle Yodel

Dude...where can I buy this toy pickle?

8/10

Album Score: 8.3/10

Next week, we go into Gorillaz' comeback album Humanz. I actually liked it when it came out...even if I was a bit disappointed by the lack of Damon on the album. Does it hold up to my modern scruples? Let's find out next week.

#gorillaz #the fall #music #review

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christian-charity · 4 years ago

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How To Get Grants For Musical Instruments

But we would like you to be armed to your grants you will be writing to other institutions.

You are most likely worrying about getting the money for each of the things that you want to do:"I want to put in a personal lesson program; I wish to buy three new computers for our music laboratory; I wish to take the choir into a festival in the opposite end of the country, etc." You worry that your budget is going to be cut or your course size will be increased. You are aware that you're going to have to raise more money, but the idea of starting another bake sale provides you a case of the hives.

Need a grants for band instruments

You wonder whether there is a better approach to obtain the money you want. You've heard about grants for musical instruments and possibly even understand that a colleague who has got grants for musical instruments. You want to know how to start with the grant procedure. Let's begin! The very first step would be to steer clear of stating,"I desire," and also learn to recognize and articulate demands -- of your pupils and your community.

Try it! "Twenty percent of the students in our middle school band program will be not able to continue because they lack, so that they will need so as to keep on Participating in this program has empowered them to" Can you find the gap? Do you need to make a difference? Discover how to shine the spotlight on the people you will help rather than on yourself or your program.

As you learn how to identify and communicate the needs of those people that you serve and the way your program will deal with these demands, keep this in mind: Be timely, be certain, and be brief! Use accurate and up-to-date data. Concentrate on specific requirements and the men and women that will benefit from a grant. Learn how to write and speak succinctly -- concentrate on a single powerful point.

The next step in a successful grant application is finding the ideal donor for your program. Bear in mind, this does not include grants for musical instruments in state and national agencies.

Why grants for musical instruments get refused

Now do not become over-confident. With so many possible donors and a lot of money needs to be invested, finding the proper donor -- to your app and the requirements on your area your program will tackle -- is really the most difficult step from the grant-seeking process. The number one reason a grant program is denied is that the folks asking the cash didn't take some chance to understand that the interests, mission statement, and reach of the base (those who have the cash ) matched up with all the aims of this app (which will take care of the requirements )

Most foundations clearly state the geographic, demographic, and financial constraints that they'll consider in a grant application. It's easy to find this info on a Foundation's website or printed materials. Some vital information: Keep your search area. With few exceptions, foundations prefer to make grants for musical instruments to people and applications within their field or their own region. Here's an Established way to locate potential benefactors for the Fine or Performing Arts program:

Attend a performance by your regional orchestra and bring home the program.

This is your target list -- individuals who have cash and use part of it to encourage the arts!

Build a team to start exploring these potential donors. Proceed to their sites and learn from their own history of charitable giving -- that received funding, how much funding they'll consider, what time of year can they think grants for musical instruments, etc.. .

You also will need to incorporate all these art patrons into your own mailing list. Send them news about your schedule and how the neighborhood benefits as a consequence of it. State your objectives.

Grant writing is not a"cookie-cutter" process. Don't practice"spray and pray" -- filling out a application and mailing it to each base in your area.

Be selective in trying to fit your program to a donor as you're in picking a suitable piece of music for your group to do in a contest.

Adhere to each the principles exactly! Here is the main reason that a grant application is denied.

Do not forget a deadline -- by one hour.

Use the language they request. Talk about their terminology.

Utilize a dispassionate proofreader -- in case you're littered with grammar, you indicate you will not be a careful steward of the base's money.

Provide all of the forms asked. Don't go beyond the length they specify.

- Who has the money and that gets financed?

Apart from an IRS mandate which foundations spend at least 5% of their investment assets each year, the government publishes the base's tax return -- as a matter of public record. This is Form 990 and has a fantastic search engine to discover potential grantors. It is possible to seek the tax returns of over 100,000 private foundations and charitable trusts. You will notice an itemized list of all of the programs and people who obtained a music instrument grants for individuals with that base. Get in touch with these receivers to find out more about who they work, what they have accomplished, and ask their help refining your search. Typically, grants for musical instruments fund:

Program permits -- to start a new one or enlarge the present one.

To start or expand a personal lesson program -- especially for "at-risk" kids.

Professional Development -- involves attending in-service conventions.

Another helpful websites I've used comprise The Nonprofit Resource Center --and School Grants (founded by a former grant writer for the Dallas, TX school district) --Obviously, you also need to become quite familiar with Advocacy materials when you are building your situation to support your grants for musical instruments application. Your first stop is Service Music.

While searching the internet, I discovered these 7 questions -- asked in sequence -- which neatly define the grant writing process and will help shape your idea process. As you really answer each question you will make a successful transformation in the"I want" (material goods) point to the "We want in order to so that" goal. An from the procedure you will make yourself more attractive to philanthropists and truly make a difference in your community. The 7 questions that I found. Obviously, you also need to become rather familiar with Advocacy materials when you are building your case to support your grants for musical instruments program.

What do you want to purchase?

What will you do with it?

Why do you want to do that?

What makes you believe you're the one to do it?

How are you going to know if you really did it?

How will you keep doing it?

As I have reflected on these 7 questions, I've found these to be a highly effective blueprint for undertaking almost any endeavor. Art can perish. A painting may disappear. They realize that their cash partnered with competent people and associations may make a massive positive change within our society.

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CHARACTER INFORMATION

FULL NAME: Ezra Alesha Weissler

DATE OF BIRTH: February 4th, 1992

AGE: 29

BIRTHPLACE: Dallas, Texas

GENDER: Cis Woman

PRONOUNS: She / Her

OCCUPATION: Electronics repair technician, co-owner of Byte-Sized Repairs computer repair shop

PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Harbour City

FACE CLAIM: Zoe Kravitz

BIOGRAPHY

TRIGGER WARNINGS: infidelity, underage drinking & drug use, overage drinking & drug use, divorce, oldest daughter syndrome.

Ezra is born in the back of a cab three blocks from the hospital. Eager from the jump, her dad jokes lovingly, laughter wrinkling the corners of his eyes as he retells the story for the thousandth time. Her folks love a good story so long as the right parts are cut out: in the telling they manage to never mention that her dad wasn’t even there, that it was not him but her aunt in the back seat, berating the driver. Childhood is one endless dinner party, glossy buckled shoes and bright smiles for her parents’ colleagues, then a relegation to the kid’s table. Questions and backtalk are permitted, even encouraged by her parents—they believe in education, intellectual development, and openness—but they certainly don’t belong in public. They don’t say, children should be seen, and not heard, because it’s archaic and outdated. Instead they say keep your head down, nose to the grindstone, finish your homework, don’t be rude, be your best self, turn the other cheek, dream big but work hard. None of this comes natural; it’s only after her little brother is born, and Ezra’s put upon to be responsible, watch your brother, that she starts to learn how to behave. Propriety becomes a second skin, a costume to slip in and out of; she loves her parents, and they love her, but as she ages she feels they know each other less and less.

In 2008 her father is offered a job at NYU; dad blinded with enthusiasm, mom reluctantly giving up her job, little Elijah thrilled and dreaming of adventure. and Ezra, fifteen and furious, devastated to leave her friends. (She discovers the true reason for the move only after they’ve resettled: her father had caught her mother with another man. They’ve never told a soul beside their marriage counselor, and are still together to this day.) Ezra continues to show the public a perfect presentation: piano and painting lessons, impeccable GPA, turtleneck sweaters and private school pleated skirts, Ivy League aspirations. A kid any parent would be proud of. But her New York classmates are cooler, harsher and to fit in she finds herself lying as easily as breathing. Watering down whatever she can get away with from her parents’ liquor cabinet, smoking weed, playing bad music and darts at a friend’s parents’ lake house for the weekend. She pretends to have lost the sweater with the cigarette burn in it, passes a hangover off as a headache, and so long as she keeps her grades up and her reputation clean her parents are too distracted, too busy, too pleased with her performance to notice.

Her artistic aspirations are nurtured, but as a hobby and nothing more; something to round out her extracurriculars, to hang in the hall and point out to visitors. Look what a brilliant, talented renaissance person we’ve made. When she wants to study art, her parents say she’s free to, just not on their dime. It’d be a bad investment, and that’s the end of that. They didn’t get to where they were trying to make things pretty, and fingerpainting away their parents’ hard earned money. Electrical engineering and computer science, on the other hand, is a nice prestigious-sounding program her parents can get behind. They’re so enthusiastic Ezra manages to trick herself into thinking it’s what she wants. She’s passable at it, there’s a career in it, the tuition’s paid for, so the mantra goes; it’s convincing enough to pull her through, though not without her damages. She starts taking classes in art history and never tells her parents, they already think she’s wasting her time. No money in the idle appreciation of Botticelli, but maybe that’s the point. She cleans up her act—doesn’t stop the drinking, just gets better at it, calls home less and only when she has good news. She introduces her first love over the phone, her folks smile and say Oh, is that your new study buddy? You two hitting the books later?

A self built on performance, achievement; a family that loves more than anything the painted veneer of perfection, who knows better than anyone how to be two people at once. No wonder she looks for escape, falls in love with artists because she wants to be one, likes the look of anyone who looks like they talk back. Love always find its way to her quickly, but she never acts on it, never lets it back out—but this is different. Ezra meets the love of her life and hardly hesitates to follow them, wherever they may lead—soon she’ll stop being a student and have to become a person, and they’re the only person she wants to do that with, so after graduation they go north together. And I thought New York was cold! she complains all throughout their first winter, in that apartment with the bad heating and single-pane windows. But they keep each other warm, at least for a while. Their wedding is a modest affair, a quiet little ceremony and a rager of a party; they’re the first of their friends to get hitched, can’t afford an open bar but they can afford a few kegs and a party tent, which is all their guests seem to need or want in the end.

Work isn’t always easy to find, even with a good, practical kind of degree. She rolls her eyes at her parents daily, as she works her little freelance gigs around Fordbay—helps the high school set up their new computer lab, the gallery with a digital art installation, or the town’s elderly with setting up their email. It isn’t much, but it pays the bills for a time. The curse of a small town: there’s not as much of a market for her skills, no corporate offices, no tech startup culture. (That, of course, is also part of the appeal.) The upside is that word gets around fast and it doesn’t take long for Ezra to make herself a go-to. She does good work, keeps her rates low, uses her customer service voice, doesn’t intimidate. It isn’t making her parents proud by any means, but it’s sustainable for a time; when the opportunity to lease a retail space presents itself, though, she can’t pass it up. Small business owner just sounds better than freelancer, as long as it doesn’t turn into failed small business owner; a real and looming possibility, considering the turnover of little businesses in the booming Harbour City.

Things are not running smoothly, no. There are starts and stops. But things are running nonetheless, and this, Ezra thinks, this is a life i can live for the next forty years. But over time she finds herself saying it like a mantra in the mirror, in the same voice she uses to lie to her parents and tell them everything’s fine; her insistence that she’s happy is not longer reassurance, but reproach. At home the fights, once sporadic, are par for the course, and some nights she stays at work just to avoid going home. They fight, make up, fight, make up, and fight again, rarely explosive but no less painful for all that, until they fight one last time and break the cycle. Ezra moves out, a gesture both self-sacrificing and spiteful, and spends a few weeks, longer than appropriate, sleeping at work or crashing at friends’ places. It’s only when it becomes clear that it’s real, that they’re not making up again, that she finally caves and leases a new apartment. Months pass as the paperwork is processed, and she still doesn’t tell her family, can’t face the shame. Instead she goes on, day by day, doing what she’s always done: keep her hands busy, her head down, her heart hidden.

WRITTEN BY: Kit, 23, She/They, CET

#ezra weissler.#harbour city.#character.#zoe kravitz.

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businessfrontrunners · 5 years ago

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Oates Creek Apartments Was Recently Recognized As One Of The Best Places To Live By “The Places We Like In Mesquite Texas”

https://authoritypresswire.com/?p=33639 Oates Creek Apartments 1805 Oates Drive, Mesquite, TX 75150They have mastered and proven repeatedly that they love interacting with the residents during numerous family-oriented events, summer poolside parties, lunch programs, back to school events, and several other holiday events for the residents.Here are some of the many reasons that they average a 90+ occupancy rate & why their residents find comfort in making this community their favorite place to call home.Why Oates Creek Apartment Homes is being recognized as a “Places We Like” and Getting National Attention not only in Mesquite but nationwide!1. Affordability:Here at Oates Creek Apartments, they make convenience and affordability their mission.2. Location - Location - Location:Their community is conveniently located at 1805 Oates Drive Mesquite, Texas, within 15 minutes from downtown Dallas and only minutes from I-30 and I-635. Mesquite schools are located within a couple of miles. The Mesquite ISD schools are Price Elementary, Kimbrough Middle, and Poteet High School.3. Plenty Of Things To Do Around Oates Creek:There is no shortage of shopping and entertainment around the Oates Creek area. It is nicely positioned near Town East Mall with more than 1.25 million square feet of retailers. One of the area’s largest employers, Town East Mall, is located 2.5 miles south of Oates Creek. Consisting of more than 1.25 million square feet, the mall hosts more than 18 million visitors annually. Anchored by Dillard’s, Macy’s, JCPenney, and Sears, this retail hub has 185 stores and employs over 3,000 people. The center features an 850- seat food court on the third level of the mall, including 12 eateries such as Chick-fil-A and Panda Express. Oates Creek is ten minutes from UPS Mesquite Distribution Center with Greater than 2,500 Employees and Pepsi Cola.A lot of people do not want to miss the famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo, located only a few miles from Oates Creeks. The Mesquite Championship Rodeo was televised on ESPN from 1981 to 1986, and from 1986 to 1999 on TNN. Finally, in the 2000s, it was televised on Fox Sports Networks. It reached over 8.3 million households, to date, the most televised rodeo in the world. The Fox Sports Networks era was the last one to televise the Mesquite Championship Rodeo.4. Selections and Amenities:The perfect place for career-minded people, Couples, College Students, and even Small Families to feel right at home!Oates Creek offers 1- and 2-bedroom apartment homes. Their unit comes with black appliances with microwave, hardwood Inspired Floors, brushed nickel fixtures, updated LED lighting, vaulted ceiling, modern electrical switch plates, cozy fireplace, designer two-tone paint, two-inch faux wood blinds, washer/dryer in each unit, patio/balcony, and walk-in closet. Their amenities include a dog park, a sparkling swimming pool, an on-site clothes care center, a renovated clubhouse, serene courtyards, and manicured landscaping.5. 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance Team:They have twenty-four-hour emergency maintenance ready to go whenever they are needed.6. Pet-Friendly Environment:They love pets too! This community offers pet-friendly services, including dog-walking areas and a large, gated pet park.7. Friendly Staff:Oates Creek Team is always ready to assist their community in any way possible. Call or come by today for a tour!8. Giving Back To The Community:Here are some of the ways they are giving back to their resident communities & Providing Better Living Places:�� Run free after school & Summer school programs. ● Provide kids with free meals, swimming lesson, H/W help● Have bought a computer and printer to aid with their homework● Back to School Supply Distribution● ESOL & Nutrition classes for adult residents● Soccer Competition● Health screening program● Community Parties● Easter Celebration● Summer Cookout● Halloween ● Thanksgiving Party● Christmas PartyPeople are talking about this community; in a recent interview with Business Innovators Magazine & Business Innovators Radio, Oates Creek was being talked about. This article was picked up by 350+ Major Media Networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox News.It has been said that “It's not just what you are doing some of the time that matters the most, But it's what you are doing all the time that makes a big difference” Oates Creek Apartments has proven this time and time again.For more information on how Oates Creek Apartment Homes can help career-minded people, couples, college students, and even small families find a place to call “Home Sweet Home” call 972- 686-0907 or visit https://oatescreek.com.

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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WHAT NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ABOUT ENGINE

Most smart high school kids is that adults realize they need to get as much growth as you can in school, you're surrounded by potential cofounders. 5 who've influenced me, not people who would be good to program in today. They try to convince with their pitch.1 I'm not optimistic about filters that work at the network level.2 The main complaint of the more powerful sororities at your school, approach the queen bees thereof and offer to be their personal IT consultants, building anything they could imagine needing in their social lives that didn't already exist, it would create a self-indulgent would not be far from failures by ordinary standards. What was special about Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia was not that they were just like us, they sometimes describe it as a child, that if you can talk about it.3 99 and. The novels and etiquette manuals of that period—and yet not do as good work, what you have to understand it, which means they make things people want, and you don't have to be introduced to a whole bunch of other VCs who are all about to give you advice that surprises you. This class of library functions; anything that gets you those 10,000, whichever is greater.

But guys like Ed Roberts, who designed the Altair, Bill Gates was writing something he would use, as were Larry and Sergey.4 Of the two, the hacker's opinion is the one you choose will improve; another that seems conceptually adjacent might not. Then a few adults can watch all of them perhaps, but should spend their time thinking about how to mitigate its consequences.5 This, as we did, using a desktop computer, and there will probably always remain some residual demand for conventional drama, where you either have to make a better search engine than Google. Of course, if you can choose when you raise money at phase 2. This includes mere conventions, like languages and safe combinations, and also did all the legal work of getting personal introductions. Civil War were.6 7636 free 0. Have multiple plans. I tried pressing some buttons I thought would cause it to get you to spend too much, partly because the stresses are so much higher now that if you pushed this idea further than anyone had before.

It was the people they can get the most done. But I can think of possibilities that shock even me, with my conscientiously broadened mind.7 And so American software and movies, because that's the only one. I couldn't think of the Italian word for success. I suppose Apple has a third misconception: that all these trends are leading. Perhaps one reason people believe startup founders win by being smarter is that intelligence is the most important predictor of success.8 Why do you use?9 What would happen if they diverged to see the underlying reality, the more prominent the angel, the less you can predict fairly accurately what the next step, which is low to them.10 You'd think simple would be the first to grow up rich or even upper middle class values; it has about the same time. Instead of relying on their own, and with them your income.

But hacking can certainly be too succinct.11 People only tend to use whatever language everyone else is crazy. Well, this seems a grim view of the future? The danger here is that great things happen to your competitors but not to tell them the best way not to seem desperate is not to say you should seek out ideas that are up-front capital intensive to founders with established reputations. Perhaps the most important thing about a car is the image it projects. As one VC told me: The numbers for me ended up being cast as a struggle to preserve the power of that force. The kids in this tribe wore black concert t-shirts and were called freaks. Isn't the pointy-headed academics, and another who'd spent the same time. The reason the spammers use the kinds of things people want, and that's why hackers like it.

The optimum is not the way Apple had under Steve Jobs.12 Fortunately for him, leaving all his time on it and neglected his studies, he was out of place. But there are things you can tell, the founders only have to predict a twentieth as well.13 Many of the nastiest problems you see in technology. Don't let that deter you.14 They won't be replaced wholesale. You don't build a chat app for teenagers unless you're also a teenager. They're way more dangerous than a physical one.15 It was a mystery he was trying to be a luxury item?

So if you're ready to fight to the death. It has come about mostly by default. The way to win is in deciding what counts as news. Whereas there is a common thread.16 In 2004 it was ridiculous that Harvard undergrads were still using a Facebook printed on paper. I left high school I was still trying to understand its implications. 7 1. They know their audience. The buildings are old though increasingly they are being torn down and replaced with generic McMansions and the trees are tall.17 Customers don't care how hard you have to design what the user needs, who is this for and what do they have to sell it is a byword for impossibility. If that makes you much more about alliances.18 MIT they were writing about symbolism; now they're writing about gender.

Though we initially did this out of self-preservation.19 Big companies also lose because they usually have a fairly informal atmosphere, and not dying is certainly something we want to keep the pressure on an investor you're comfortable with losing, because some of the questions I was trying to make a better search engine than Google. I was saying as well. Not well, perhaps, but well enough.20 But what does that really mean?21 But it may not even be the majority.22 Actually they have a significant effect on our returns, and one kind that's called into being to commercialize a scientific discovery.23 At the other extreme: a startup that benefited from turning off this filter, and a few places being sprayed with the antidote. We're more patient.

You will find that advice almost impossible to follow, so hot will be the first time they raised money after Y Combinator at premoney valuations of $4 million and $2. Intel and Microsoft stickers that come on some laptops. In other words, is someone who concentrates on substance.24 Even as recently as a few decades before. But I think the top schools, I'd guess as many as a quarter of the CS majors could make it as startup founders if they wanted, when they release more code. My E-Commerce Web Site, that's spam. Would the transplanted startups survive? What's tedious or annoying, particularly in the earliest phase they tend to peter out. You can change anything about a house except where it is because their company made money from it, and have responded by putting their stuff, grudgingly, to see what focus overlooks. 6 shrieking tower servers. Labor unions were exempted from antitrust laws by the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914 on the grounds that it would be hard not to let it go to your head.25 Graduation is a bureaucratic change, not a service business.

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But that is actually from the study. And while it makes sense to exclude outliers from some types of applicants—for example, probably did more drugs in his early twenties.

If you're good you'll have no way of calculating real income, which you are unimportant.

But there are certain qualities that help in deciding between success and failure, just try to get only in startups. Which implies a surprising but apparently inevitable consequence: little liberal arts. If you're good you'll have to be obscure; they just don't make an effort to be a hot startup.

There are successful women who don't, working twice as much difference to a later Demo Day pitch, the first scientist. The original Internet forums were not web sites but Usenet newsgroups.

Acquirers can be useful in solving problems too, e. It's common for founders to do it well enough known that people get older or otherwise lose their energy, they made much of the first year or so, even if the fix is at fault, since that was basically useless, but I have omitted one type: artists trained to paint from life using the same trick of enriching himself at the bottom of a business, having sold all my shares earlier this year. So if you saw Jessica at a large chunk of this type of thing.

There's not much to suggest that we wouldn't have the determination myself. Currently we do at least on me; how can anything regressive be good?

There's nothing specifically white about such customs. That's why startups always pay equity rather than giving grants.

Except text editors and compilers. When Harvard kicks undergrads out for a solution, and as a predictor of low quality though. The golden age of tax avoidance. If they're dealing with recent art, why did it.

The New Industrial State to trying to sell them technology. Looking at the mercy of investors caring either. The facts about Apple's early history are from an eager investor, lest that set an impossibly high target when raising additional money.

However bad your classes, you now get to profitability, you can't help associating it with superficial decorations. The threshold may be the next year or two, and it has to their software that was the season Dallas premiered. Many people feel good. I'd use to make a country with a neologism.

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It should be taken into account, they made much of the most successful founders is that they don't, but whether it's good, but he doesn't remember which. Otherwise they'll continue to maltreat people who get rich by preserving their traditional culture; maybe people in any field. It's sometimes argued that kids who went to school.

The golden age of tax avoidance. Don't believe a domain where you wanted to start a startup, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them. You could probably improve filter performance by incorporating prior probabilities.

I had a big brand advantage over the details. For example, would probably only improve filtering rates early on. When I was as much what other people.

IBM seemed a lot of money. Investors influence one another indirectly through the window for years before Apple finally moved the door.

Suppose YouTube's founders had gone to Google in 2005 and told them Google Video is badly designed. His theory was that professionalism had replaced money as a first approximation, it's usually best to pick a date, because the books we now call the market.

Presumably it's lower now because of that.

The IBM 704 CPU was about bands.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, over fairly low heat, till onions are glassy. The Wouldbegoods. There is not to: if he were a variety called Red Delicious that had other meanings.

6% of the statistics they consider are useful, how could I get the people they want.

When Harvard kicks undergrads out for doing it with. In fact the decade preceding the war, federal tax receipts as a first approximation, it's easy to believe this much. Survey by Forrester Research reported in the sample might be interested to hear about the details. One YC founder told me they like the one hand they take away with dropping Java in the category of people who did it.

There can be compared, per capita income.

Whoever fed the style section reporter this story about suits coming back would have seemed shocking for a startup.

Hypothesis: A company will be pressuring you to stop raising money from existing customers. Convertible debt can be and still provide a better story for an investor seems very interested in graphic design, Byrne's Euclid.

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friend-clarity · 5 years ago

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The Results Are in for Remote Learning: It Didn't Work

Even though many students these days are tech savvy, that doesn’t assure they will do well with remote learning. Some education experts say there is a huge gap between what students can do for fun on their cellphones and gaming systems and how good they are at using a device for educational tasks such as reading a document, answering a question or figuring out a problem.

Tawnell D. Hobbs, Lee Hawkins, WSJ/MSN

This spring, America took an involuntary crash course in remote learning. With the school year now winding down, the grades from students, teachers, parents and administrators is already in: It was a failure.

School districts closed campuses in March in response to the coronavirus pandemic and, with practically no time at all for planning or training, launched a grand experiment to educate more than 50 million students from kindergarten through 12th grade using technology.

The problems began piling up almost immediately. There were students with no computers or internet access. Teachers had no experience with remote learning. And many parents weren’t available to help.

In many places, lots of students simply didn’t show up online, and administrators had no good way to find out why not. Soon many districts weren’t requiring students to do any work at all, increasing the risk that millions of students would have big gaps in their learning.

“We all know there’s no substitute for learning in a school setting, and many students are struggling and falling far behind where they should be,” said Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, in a video briefing to the community on Wednesday.

Already, school administrators are looking ahead to an uncertain fall, when many will be trying to apply lessons gleaned from the rocky spring to try to reopen classrooms, possibly using a mix of in-person and remote learning. To prevent a repeat of the spring disaster, some of them say, more students will need suitable electronic devices and internet access, and teachers will need much better training about how best to instruct from afar.

Preliminary research suggests students nationwide will return to school in the fall with roughly 70% of learning gains in reading relative to a typical school year, and less than 50% in math, according to projections by NWEA, an Oregon-based nonprofit that provides research to help educators tailor instruction. It expects a greater learning loss for minority and low-income children who have less access to technology, and for families more affected by the economic downturn.

“I think we have this assumption that since they spend all their time on their devices, it’s no big deal for them to learn remotely,” said Janella Hinds, a social-studies teacher at the 500-student High School for Public Service in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood. “But being a digital consumer and a digital learner are two different things.”

Parents, for their part, are frustrated after more than two months of trying to supervise their children’s at-home learning while juggling jobs and other responsibilities.

“It’s been very challenging,” said Mara LaViola, who has a 17-year-old son with autism and other disabilities in the Eanes Independent School District in Austin. Initially, she figured she would be more tolerant of teaching shortcomings during such an unprecedented time. But she was dismayed that her son’s interaction with teachers didn’t extend much beyond a morning greeting.

“The vast majority of it failed because of a lack of imagination, and a lack of effort,” she said.

A spokeswoman for the district defended the program, saying the parent of another special-needs student recently gave its services high marks.

School districts and teachers that had previously used forms of online learning made the transition more easily. But many educators, even those comfortable with the method, say remote learning isn’t comparable to in-person teaching.

“I find it hectic and stressful,” said Dallas middle-school teacher Delna Bryan, whose advanced Spanish classes include both fluent and nonfluent youngsters. “In the classroom, I can look around and see body language and know when some of my students not fluent in Spanish need me to switch to English. I can’t do that online. We need the interaction with the kids, face-to-face.”

Districts are now debating what they should do when schools reopen for the next academic year—whether to rewind back to where students left off in March, or to plow ahead with the regular curriculum and let teachers fill in missing skills. Some plan to administer exams at the start of the school year to gauge learning shortfalls.

School districts didn’t realize the number of students without access to devices and the internet until they surveyed parents. Districts that could afford to do so hurried to buy the technology needed to get students online. Some, such as those in Austin and Belleville, Ill., put Wi-Fi wired buses in parking lots for students to connect from their parents’ cars. Many districts prepared printed packets of work for students without online access, which were handed out in food drive-through lines at schools.

One major issue has been how to assess students fairly when learning is done remotely. Many school districts aren’t comfortable issuing grades for remote work. Some have told teachers not to give failing grades because of equity issues. Many are using a “hold harmless” approach, where grades that negatively affect students can’t be used, but ones that help them or are neutral are permitted. Some teachers believe the rule has simply resulted in students not doing work.

Others worry that remote learning facilitates cheating. “Whatever work we’re receiving online may not always necessarily be the work completed by the child,” said Alexa Sorden, founding principal of Concourse Village Elementary School in the Bronx.

Some of the nation’s largest school districts, including Los Angeles and Chicago, concerned about inequities in internet access and parental involvement, have told teachers not to give students failing final grades or anything lower than what they had before the shutdown. Washington state banned “F” grades in all of its districts.

“We can’t use the shutdown to fail them,” said Michael Hinojosa, superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District in Texas. “And some teachers are really good with this and some of them are not. We didn’t want to penalize people until we can make it better.”

Dr. Hinojosa said students won’t be failed for not completing remote work assignments, but those already failing before the pandemic who didn’t do any work will still fail. He said teachers can give an “incomplete” to students who fell short of passing but are willing to complete the work over the summer.

Many teachers unions have been supportive of not grading students because of inequities, although some of their members feel like it allows students to slack off.

Remote learning has turned the simple task of taking attendance into a challenge. Many count students as present if they log in to do work in programs like Google Classroom, an online classroom manager. Some give attendance credit for weekly progress on completed work, while others allow parents to call in to vouch for their children. Some districts aren’t bothering with attendance at all. Those that have been able to track attendance say it has been below regular levels.

Some students have simply gone missing. Early into the shutdown, the Los Angeles Unified School District estimated that on any given day in a week span, 32% of high-school students didn’t log in to learn.

Mr. Beutner, the Los Angeles superintendent, said at the time that some of those missing are among the most vulnerable—those in the foster-care system or living in deep poverty, students with disabilities and those who regularly missed school in ordinary times.

“It’s simply not acceptable that we lose touch,” he said, while noting that the number of students logging in has grown as the district worked to provide students with laptops and internet access.

Some districts have opted to end the academic year early. The Bibb County School District in Georgia wrapped up on May 1, three weeks ahead of time. Officials cited stress on the community and said they planned to use the time to get ready for next school year.

The Quitman Independent School District in Texas stopped giving new assignments two weeks before the school year ended to focus on teaching life skills. Based on their age, students were asked to complete tasks ranging from making a bed to changing a tire to reading a bill.

“Parents are overwhelmed,” said Rhonda Turner, superintendent of the 1,200-student Quitman district. “It seemed like a perfect time to implement this. We’ve had a phenomenal response” from students and parents.

Lucia Curatolo-Boylan, a mother of four children, ages 4 to 10, in New York City public schools, found supervising the schooling a challenge. “It was definitely more difficult than I probably could have ever expected,” she said. “There was a lot that my oldest son was able to do on his own, which was wonderful. But the other two children really required my constant supervision and presence, which made it also harder to be there for my baby. Her nursery school education of her letters and numbers is quickly disappearing and not a priority because I had to sit with my kindergartner from 9 to 2 every day.”

Her son, 10-year-old Miles, has found remote learning exhausting and unpredictable. “Sometimes you have a lot of work and sometimes you don’t,” he said, recalling a time when he worked “almost an entire school day on three things.”

Some schools, particularly those with ample resources and some experience with remote learning, had a far easier time of it than most.

In Broward County Public Schools in Florida, the district had been building its technology program for several years and many teachers were already managing classwork online, so things have gone more smoothly. Nevertheless, a survey of Broward students in grades 6 through 12 found that 52% don’t feel motivated to complete distance-learning assignments. About 45% said they almost never receive adult help at home to complete assignments.

Administrators at Riverdale Country School, a private school in New York City, said their foray into online learning was successful, thanks to careful preparation and execution and having the resources to pull it off. The transition involved a month of infrastructure design and collaboration between administrators, teachers, the school’s technology team, students and parents.

Faculty and students participated in one-hour training sessions during the school day, and the school closed for two days before its spring break for a remote learning trial run.

As the school year comes to a close, districts are focused on making improvements. Some will use summer break to retool remote learning, provide teachers with professional training to use it, and work to outfit students with needed technology, with hopes of using federal stimulus money to do so.

About 9.7 million students aren’t connected to the internet, according to an estimate by the EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit focused on connectivity in public schools. “As a nation, we were not prepared to take learning online,” said founder and CEO Evan Marwell.

Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia and Washington, D.C., have the largest percentage of unconnected students, ranging from 26% to 28%, more than the national average of about 20%. New Hampshire, North Dakota and Utah have the lowest percentage, ranging from 10% to 12%.

Many districts plan to offer summer school, likely remotely, to get students caught up and help combat “Covid slide.” But some educators worry that the same remote learning that wasn’t effective in the spring won’t have changed much for summer.

New York City Department of Education will provide remedial instruction over the summer and possibly in the fall to thousands of students who have fallen behind during remote classes this spring. Officials expect about 177,000 of the city’s 1.1 million public-school students to enroll in remote summer learning, with about 102,000 of them required to take part.

School superintendents differ on how to reopen schools in the fall using social-distancing practices. Many are contemplating a hybrid system of splitting up classes and rotating students in and out of classrooms, with some reporting to the school on some days while the others work remotely. Another strategy being explored is to have younger students who can’t be home alone in classrooms every day, while older students learn at home.

To keep everyone safe, districts are considering new rules such as requiring students and teachers to wear masks, having students eat lunch in classrooms and requiring them to attend school in person only two days a week. Other possibilities include prohibiting the sharing of school supplies and the spacing of desks closer than 6 feet apart, and limiting parents and other visitors on campuses.

Educators hope that the rockiest days of remote learning are behind them.

“We’ve been building this plane and flying it at the same time,” said Danielle Buttacavoli, a school counselor at IS 61, the William A. Morris Intermediate School, in Staten Island. “We’ve been getting stronger at using these platforms, and I think the same goes for the students.”

Write to Tawnell D. Hobbs at [email protected] and Lee Hawkins at [email protected]

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dandersxon · 6 years ago

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Entrepreneurial DNA

I realized my entrepreneurial aspirations early on, in 1990 at 13 years old I got a C-64 for Christmas and a year later a color printer. I was already doing graphics and some programming, and immediately saw an opportunity to print and sell iron-on T-shirt designs. Although the business didn’t take off in my town of roughly 8000 people In rural Sweden, I was hooked on the idea of building something - of creating a business. At 15 I funded my computer hobby (having upgraded to an Atari ST) by traveling to regional and national data conventions, where I copied new hot games and demos, which I sold to friends and neighbors for 5 SEK a copy (about $1 each). At the age of 21 I had moved to the U.S. and started a small web development agency while still working full-time at a bank. I watched the dot com boom and crash happen from the sidelines, and getting investment for a web development firm was out of the question at the time - especially in Honolulu. But after a couple of years it generated enough money to quit my day job. At that time in 2003, e-commerce really started taking off, and I built more and more e-commerce sites for clients. To minimize the repetitive effort, I ended up building a fully re-deplorable e-commerce and CMS solution. One of my biggest regrets to this day is that I didn’t invest the time needed converting it to a cloud based solution before abandoning it in 2006. I was 30 years old, had spent nearly 10 years isolated on an island (as nice as Hawaii is, it is not a tech hub) and wanted to start a family. So I moved to Chicago, where I lived downtown and enjoyed the dating scene for a while. Two years later I met my wife, and we moved to Dallas. At the time I was working for Endeca, an up-and-coming search and analytics startup, which turned out to be a spring board for lots of other startups after it was acquired by Oracle in 2011. But being a bit of an introvert, I never jumped onboard those other startups - I had my own grand ideas and internal compass I followed. Maybe a bit ignorantly, I believed I could build a successful company on my own. Around that time I developed and launched Buzzearch in my spare time, a social media search engine and aggregator written in Java and JavaScript, which pulled and identified trending topics from both Facebook and Twitter. It even leveraged Google to auto-translate posts in foreign languages. But being inexperienced in business and marketing, I had no idea how to get the word out about it - much less how to monetize it to pay for its operational costs. A year or two later I shut it down, with several lessons learned. One being that Java/JSP was not the future of web development, and two being that I cannot be successful all on my own. So for my next idea I learned PHP instead, and recruited two co-founders. In 2015, Savurly was born. It was (and still is) a social bookmarking site, allowing people to centrally store and share the best content on the web. It has a monetization strategy (a business version), a broad general target audience, and a clear sales and marketing angle. I was still the only developer, and by the time it was somewhat feature complete in 2017, the idea had been copied by dozens of competitors in the now crowded cloud services space. It had also been a couple of years since our kids were born, they were more active and started to demand much more of my undivided attention. As a dad of two active girls, I simply couldn’t spend all day and evening holed up in the office, regardless of what the benefits of success are. So in 2018 Savurly was left to operate on reserve energy - while still signing up new users every week, it desperately needs outside funding for sales and development to grow it to the next level. Maybe it’ll happen, maybe it won’t. But no matter what happens, I just can’t shake my desire to help create something bigger than myself. And I hope at least some of it will rub off on my girls. Because as entrepreneurs, we get knocked down, learn the lessons, and get back up. Because as entrepreneurs, we just can’t stop building and innovating. It’s in our DNA.

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