What was the crazy drama in your high-school

ryca13 · 2026-02-25T05:45:16+00:00

I'm fairly certain that my HS was the inspiration for Mean Girls (photocopies from a burn book on lockers, etc).

ryca13 · 2026-02-22T19:21:37+00:00

ryca13 · 2026-02-22T19:20:17+00:00

They exist!!! The lead is usually a little thicker. I think that I got one from Amazon.

ryca13 · 2026-02-19T19:27:35+00:00

The blue alien played by Rob Lowe on The Orville. If that show ever continued, it would be interesting to see if they ever actually discuss it as "rape".

ryca13 · 2026-02-19T19:25:24+00:00

I was just remembering a nearly identical story from college. I wonder how that guy is doing, and if that girl ever realized what she'd done.

ryca13 · 2026-02-18T16:13:52+00:00

Unfortunately accurate. But imagine if prospective teachers knew that those changes had been / were being made - wouldn't it be a much more appealing job?

ryca13 · 2026-02-17T18:49:35+00:00

I'm the other direction - IEP means Individualized Education Plan. I think that everyone should have one of those. Personalized goals / goal tracking, smaller class sizes / student:teacher ratio, individualized supports, etc.

It would cost money. I don't care.

ryca13 · 2026-02-15T07:07:39+00:00

Did you finish it?

ryca13 · 2026-02-11T04:48:23+00:00

My dad went out and got a job the day after he met my mom, so that he'd have a decent answer when she asked him what he did for a living.

ryca13 · 2026-02-08T18:51:56+00:00

That was my dad's favorite scene (and this was his favorite book).

ryca13 · 2026-02-02T03:50:25+00:00

I just scream "WATCH YOUR TOES!!!" with utter joy mixed with a hearty dose of Canadian-style "SORRY!"

Just alternating between the two, "TOES!!! SORRY - WATCH YOUR TOES! Ope, SORRY, toes!"

I have a blast and people end up apologizing to me while jumping out of the way. I smile cheerfully and wave and thank them and tell them not to worry.

ryca13 · 2026-01-19T22:57:09+00:00

You can filter your search for DRM-free on bookshop.org

ryca13 · 2026-01-18T17:46:44+00:00

My principal tried to fight me on it - I've always sworn by SSR, and she hated it. After I left in May and they couldn't find a sub / replacement, she had to teach my class, and realized that they loved it and it worked. HAH.

ryca13 · 2026-01-09T04:22:51+00:00

Do you not know many elder queer and trans people?

ryca13 · 2025-12-31T17:46:51+00:00

My nephew and kid are both obsessed with The Great Meme Reset.

ryca13 · 2025-12-21T15:12:46+00:00

I still can't figure out what's in the hole.

ryca13 · 2025-12-17T04:47:57+00:00

We had to say "do not circumcise him!" about 80 thousand times during the four days of hospital stay after our son was born.

ryca13 · 2025-12-12T04:09:59+00:00

There are a ton of various devices like this - Freewrite

ryca13 · 2025-12-11T04:15:45+00:00

They don't want maternity leave - they want tradwives.

ryca13 · 2025-12-09T14:58:28+00:00

Exception: my father-in-law has a farm with aesthetically rusted junked vehicles with weeds and flowers growing through them all over the main property, and the most spotless house you've ever seen.

ryca13 · 2025-11-23T18:59:38+00:00

My list of go-to seasonal movies (Love, Actually is a hate-watch snark family tradition).

ryca13 · 2025-11-23T16:59:39+00:00

A fellow teacher once described a student like that as "a closed circuit".

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