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Summer break has started very early for kids in one Michigan school district.

Buena Vista schools have been closed for five days already, and on Monday, the district’s website stated that the school would be closed until further notice. For good reason, this decision has parents, and the community, up in arms.

The problem in Buena Vista is that the school district, educating approximately 450 kids, is out of money. All the teachers have been laid off and a financial emergency has been declared. The district has suffered from declining enrollment, which, in turn, has led to a loss of $3 million in state funding since 2010.

In an effort to keep schools open, teachers said they would work without pay. This is not possible under Michigan law so educators have been left in limbo. To make matters worse, the staff has also lost their health insurance.

But at least Exxon can keep their subsidies, so we’re still okay for now.

notice that the kids in the article image are all brown.

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Reblog if you’ve formed a meaningful relationship with someone you met online.

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mosoli:

im still laughing at this

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picturesque-scene:

they saw the chance

they took the chance

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The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.

The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)

Truth bomb if I ever saw one.

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kiwibutt:

I’m scared of this

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t0gekisses:

I literally gasped

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seafarers:

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chubby-nerfherder:

Someone get it a drum set!!!

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Blueberries piss me the fuck off

all1sees:

They’re BLUE.

but mashed, they’re PURPLE??

AND WHEN SKINNED, WE SEE THE INSIDES ARE GREEN?????

WHAT THE EVERLIVING FUCK, BLUEBERRIES?!