Christo Rey High School is one model that is working.
100% of seniors accepted into college.
They’ve been open about 5 years and they have delivered these amazing results virtually every year. These kids don’t start off as privileged or high performing, either. In order to enter the 9th grade, they have to be reading at at least a 5th grade level. The education is rigorous and standards based. If they don’t pass the standards they stay after school or take summer school. Each student also has a job – They work in a sponsored company 1 day per week. The company pays the school for the student worker, and that’s how they afford tuition. Many students end up working at the same company all through high school and some even after college.
AWESOME.
JUST IN CASE YOU NEEDED JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF WHY THE MILITARY IS INEPT AT RESPONDING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.
It’s finally warm again in Minneapolis. Let’s join Leo in growing toward the light.
(via neildegrassetyson)
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Explains why almost everyone enjoys a good ghost story.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/391ee99bd949a89277cfce230873bfb0/tumblr_mm2lw4Hxzw1qewacoo1_r1_500.jpg)
Trigger Warning: Rape, Sexual Assault
The poster reads:
“If you tell anyone, you’ll get in trouble.”
-Age 11. Next door neighbor’s grandson.
“Turn around & pull your pants down. I’ll make you.”
-Age 13. First “friend” at new school.
“We never hang out anymore! I miss you! What happened?!”
-Age 20. From “best friend” at age 13. She told the school we had sex & I was pregnant out of jealousy. High school was living hell.
“But I love you.”
-Age 16-20. On-again, off-again “boyfriend”. It was just for the sex.
“Keep screaming. Nobody’s going to come save you.”
-Age 17. Rapist #1, at the bar where I worked.
“So are we gonna have sex or not?”
-Age 18. Ex-boyfriend, rapist #2, in my 1st year dorm room under pretense of “reconciliation”.
“She was a fucking crazy bitch.”
-Age 18. Ex-boyfriend’s best friend after a confrontation.
“That was good. You love it when I choke you like that.”
-Age 19. Abusive ex-boyfriend, the 1st time we “had sex”. It was rape.
“Sex can look like love if you don’t know what love looks like.” - Rebecca Walker, author
NOW I DO.
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Goddamn I look angry.
I guess I have a reason? I consciously remember trying to not look angry for that picture. #fail
You look like a BAMF on a mission to me. YOU’RE AMAZING.
Currently feeling: (almost done with this MFA essay)
»pocket disambiguator for the modern times« by sérgio l tavares filho
1. make a question
2. tap and hold
3. intepret your answer
(via neocronica)
This proved very helpful on a number of occasions today. Thanks, art!
HELLO THIS IS DOG — no greater thrill than your dog answering your FaceTime call.
