Page Summary
Active Entries
- 1: Occasional Poem by Jacqueline Woodson
- 2: I wonder if, despite my best efforts, I've managed to come down with a mild cold
- 3: Linguistics question
- 4: Yet again, I’ve been injured doing laundry
- 5: Job has a coffee maker
- 6: When I was a kid I read a Sleator book
- 7: Well, today I saw a groundhog
- 8: (no subject)
Style Credit
- Style: Dawn Flush for Compartmentalize by
Expand Cut Tags
No cut tags
no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 05:43 pm (UTC)I know from experience that it's very easy for kids who are frequently targeted for violence by other students to be dubbed 'troublemakers' and 'violent'. The thought that such kids, falsely-labeled because of desperate attempts at self-defense, might be put in a cage to fight like a dog against the aggressors they should be protected from... it's sickening.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 05:43 pm (UTC)I know from experience that it's very easy for kids who are frequently targeted for violence by other students to be dubbed 'troublemakers' and 'violent'. The thought that such kids, falsely-labeled because of desperate attempts at self-defense, might be put in a cage to fight like a dog against the aggressors they should be protected from... it's sickening.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 05:52 pm (UTC)