A reminder that turning in assignments for partial credit is better than not turning them in at all. It is. Even if you think you’ve done a bad job and are ashamed of your work, or it’s way overdue, you take whatever you can get. Partial credit dramatically improves your grade over a zero, and I’m always astounded by how often even the smartest kids don’t really comprehend that. 60% is worlds better than 0%. Even 10% is going to help you. Letter grades are misleading and are not created equal. “F"s are mathematically valuable. Turn that late assignment in.
Please, all new teachers and TAs, don’t be that person who decides you’re going to keep your students in line with a strict ‘no late assignments’ policy. Yes, I know the ‘real world’ has a stricter policy on deadlines than grade school or college does, but encouraging your students to do their work is a more important way to prepare them for the rest of their lives than punishing them for making poor time management decisions. When I started teaching intro Microbiology labs, I put all of my discretionary points into penalizing lateness and unfair division of labwork between partners, because the goal of teaching is to make sure the children are there for the lectures and physically doing the things they need to learn. A 30, 40, or 50% penalty to the grade is more than enough to make your point about meeting deadlines.
A 100% penalty just encourages your students to completely give up if they’ve made a bad choice. Maybe that’s really good at teaching respect for deadlines (and maybe it isn’t) but if that student doesn’t do that work, you’ve missed the most important teaching moment of all: the one where your student was supposed to commit to their education on their own time and learn the material you’re actually supposed to be teaching them, especially if that material is difficult or uninteresting to them.
People need to realize that there’s a difference between straight people and Straight People™
Straight person: Hey, you got a new haircut. Looks really good.
Straight Person™: No homo, but your haircut looks good on you.
In case you were confused 👌
Just like how there are white people who are gay and then there are the White Gays
White people who are gay: “I’m gay.”
White Gays: “I can’t believe I got accused of racism after calling that person a racial slur! I mean, I know what racism looks like because I’ve been discriminated for my sexuality. How is me being racist even possible? I’M GAY!”
Lmao all the angry White and Straight people in the comments, keep reblogging
neurotypical: i don’t have any mental illnesses or disorders Neurotypical™: Happiness is a choice!! ✨✨Have you tried yoga? Drink more water and eat kale ✨✨
cis person: i identify completely as my assigned gender
Cis Person™: It doesn’t matter what you identify as, cause you still have Female Genitals! I’m not being offensive!! Read a book on Human Biology! 🚹🚺
men: I identify as male.
Men™: feminazis ruin everything, get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich bitch
atheists: I don’t believe in god or identify with a religion
Atheists™: Don’t fucking talk to me if you believe in God. Open your closed-fucking-minds!! (usually targeted towards Christians)
nice guys: hey I know when not to invade someone’s space and I totally respect boundaries
Nice Guys™: IVE BEEN YOUR FRIEND FOR A MONTH AND NOW YOURE TELLING ME YOU DONT WANT TO FUCK ME ???? WHAT IS THE POINT OF WOMEN IF YOURE NOT HAVING SEX WITH ME?
this post got all kinds of better since I last saw it
This post is perfection across the board.
feminist: I believe in equality for everything between the sexes
Feminist™: ALL MEN ARE ASSHOLES AND SHOULD DIE! WE DONT NEED ANY OF THEM ANYWAYS AND THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING GOOD FOR US!!
Christian: I believe in God and his son Jesus
Christian™: We must Obey Bible In Everything and Take It Literally and if you don’t do it you’re Going To Hell! I’m praying for you to find God and have your sins Forgiven! Other religions are from Satan and So Is Atheism!
Have you considered that those scientists might be bias and pushing an agenda. Gender is a biological absolute.
Gender is highly contextualized by time and place. Like, if you want to talk about scientists being biased and pushing an agenda, look at modern western science for pushing a flawed binary narrative.
Non-binary genders are not a modern invention. The idea of third genders/non-binary genders is as old as human civilization, because gender is socially constructed and subjective, and people’s ideas about gender have changed over time and between cultures.
In Mesopotamian mythology, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to types of people who are not men and not women. In a Sumerian creation myth found on a stone tablet from the second millennium BC, the goddess Ninmah fashions a being “with no male organ and no female organ”, for whom Enki finds a position in society: “to stand before the king”.
In Babylonia, Sumer and Assyria, certain types of individuals who performed religious duties in the service of Inanna/Ishtar have been described as a third gender.
Inscribed pottery shards from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2000–1800 BCE), found near ancient Thebes (now Luxor, Egypt), list three human genders: tai (male), sḫt (“sekhet”) and hmt (female).
The Vedas (c. 1500 BC–500 BC) describe individuals as belonging to one of three categories, according to one’s nature or prakrti. These are also spelled out in the Kama Sutra (c. 4th century AD) and elsewhere as pums-prakrti (male-nature), stri-prakrti (female-nature), and tritiya-prakrti (third-nature).
Many have interpreted the “eunuchs” of the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean world as a third gender that inhabited a liminal space between women and men, understood in their societies as somehow neither or both. In the Historia Augusta, the eunuch body is described as a tertium genus hominum (a third human gender),
The ancient Maya civilization may have recognised a third gender, according to historian Matthew Looper. Looper notes the androgynous Maize Deity and masculine Moon goddess of Maya mythology, and iconography and inscriptions where rulers embody or impersonate these deities. He suggests that the third gender could also include two-spirit individuals with special roles such as healers or diviners
Anthropologist Rosemary Joyce agrees, writing that “gender was a fluid potential, not a fixed category, before the Spaniards came to Mesoamerica. Childhood training and ritual shaped, but did not set, adult gender, which could encompass third genders and alternative sexualities as well as “male” and “female.” At the height of the Classic period, Maya rulers presented themselves as embodying the entire range of gender possibilities, from male through female, by wearing blended costumes and playing male and female roles in state ceremonies.“
Andean Studies scholar Michael Horswell writes that third-gendered ritual attendants to chuqui chinchay, a jaguar deity in Incan mythology, were “vital actors in Andean ceremonies” prior to Spanish colonisation.
Two-spirit individuals are viewed in some Native American cultures as having two identities occupying one body. Their dress is usually a mixture of traditionally male and traditionally female articles, or they may dress as a man one day, and a woman on another.
In Pakistan, the hijras are officially recognized as third gender by the government,
it’s amazing how quickly “science says there are only two genders” becomes “have you considered that science is fake and is pushing an agenda?”
I’m a biologist and I can assure you the 2 gender binary doesn’t exist. All around we see animals that don’t fall into either categories. Gender is a spectrum is the realest line there is when it comes to biology and gender.
Cis people: Science says the truth.
Science: *Says they’re wrong*
Cis people: Actually, you know what, science is bad and is lying.
If you think Steve is on the light side of the Force then you’re kidding yourself because Steve Rogers fights- and has always fought- with anger, and one of his biggest fears is loss (Re: Tearing down a HYDRA base for Bucky, tearing apart the Valkyrie after Bucky dies, hunting down the Winter Soldier after Fury ‘dies’, tearing down HYDRA and Shield after finding out who the Winter Soldier is). He doesn’t fight to protect or defend like Jedi are supposed to, at least not before he was Captain America, and even when he’s Captain America he fights with his anger as a motivater. He was angry at bullies and at being smaller than the average guy in the first movie, and during missions shown in movies most of them post-Bucky’s fall have him brash and angry when fighting. The only time he really had a lighthearted mood to him when in a fight was with the Howling Commandos. He may not kill people, but what fuels him is loss and his anger, meaning his designation is with the Dark Side.
I agree with everything said above.
But.
You could not, under any circumstances, get Steve Rogers to hurt an innocent. Wouldn’t happen. If you hurt someone he cares about he will destroy you six ways to Sunday, but there is no world, ever, in which Steve would kill a child or someone trying to do the right thing.
So the light/dark designation is far too simplistic when it comes to Steve Rogers. He would feel the dark side, and be most powerful when calling on the dark side, but he would never fight for the Sith, or the First Order, or anything like that. So he would either figure out how to be the only dark Jedi fighting for the side of the angels, or he wouldn’t use the Force and would instead figure out another way to help and protect people.
Steve Rogers cannot be contained by your Jedi binary.
Steve Rogers would never hurt an innocent person, he hates when innocent lives are lost during a mission, when someone even sprains their ankle on a mission because it’s an unnecessary causality.
I think he’d join the Resistance- because that’s where his morals point- and do as much good as he possibly can being a Jedi on the Dark Side. He’d be the first person to brake that Dark Side=Evil stereotype because he’d use his powers for good.
The Jedi consul would probably fear Steve and his dislike for conformity and ability to both be on the Dark Side and be a good person. His morals don’t line up with theirs and that’s a threat to them, but does Steve care? Hell no.
when your teacher writes OK on a question that was clearly not what they were looking for but was undeniably correct all I can think about is them doing this while grading
I feel like when you’re writing, organizing chapters and dialogue is easy
but jfc, the amount of time it takes to constantly keep people moving and make sure they’re in the right spaces and trying to come up with wording for it is always such a shock.
Like, fuck, I made you pick up a coffee cup, you need to put it down at some point. also I can’t remember what I dressed you in, can you push up your sleeves? I don’t remember if you even have your shirt on.
and YOU. YOU OVER THERE, you got out of your chair earlier, but did you come back yet? Are you coming back? Where did you even go and why’d you get up? Fuck, I can’t make you sit down again already, you just stood up, go…over there. go get more coffee. Did you bring your mug with you? fine. bring the pot to the table and—wait, wasn’t the coffee pot already over here? shit, hold on, I need to go back and re-read and re-write
The Archery Range 