This is the quest where the dudes sitting at the 2nd story of the bar quit their jobs.
This one just means more. Like the other posts I used this site: http://highschoolnicknames.homestead.com/
- Auburn/LSU/Missouri Tigers: 881 Unsurprisingly for a mascot that over a fifth of SEC schools use, the Tigers are used by a great many high schools. When including variations the number reaches 930, with the most interesting of those being the "Flyin' Tigers" and "Hustlin Tigers"
- Regarding Auburn, there are also 16 schools nicknamed the "War Eagles", all of which are in the south but none of which are in Alabama.
- Georgia/Mississippi State Bulldogs: 806 A very popular mascot name, but one which doesn't appear in any other P5 conference. Including variations, the number rounds up to 849. Interestingly, two schools use in NJ and NM use the spelling "Bulldawgs".
- Kentucky Wildcats: 669 Nice. What team? Wildcats! This number goes up to 697 when including Wildcat variations, including a cool school in Watsonville, CA that uses "Wildcatz"
- Ole Miss Rebels: 186 Which becomes 196 when adding variations, including the "Cockney Rebels" of the British School of Washington, DC.
- Florida Gators: 74 Despite being native to the southeastern US, a decent number of northeastern and western schools use the Gator as their mascot. A small number of schools use the variations "Lady", "Fighting", "Golden", and "Wild" to round out the overall number to 79.
- Texas A&M Aggies: 17 Unsurprisingly, most of these schools are located in the south or in traditionally rural areas. A notable exception is Saint Agnes in Saint Paul, MN, but I can't fault them for wanting that alliteration.
- Vanderbilt Commodores: 11 These schools are scattered along the east coast and midwest, with none of them being in TN. Including "Lady Commodores" this number is bumped up to 13. I've always loved this nickname and wish more schools would use it.
- Alabama Crimson Tide: 9 Despite its great fame at the college level, the Crimson Tide mascot is nary to be found in high school, let alone in the south, with 8 of the schools that use it ironically being in the north. The lone southern school that uses this name is Minden HS in Louisiana. Honorable mentions go to the Crimson Wave in Petersburg, VA and the Crimson Pride at Roncalli Catholic in Omaha.
- Tennessee Volunteers: 6 All of these schools are in the south, but none are in Tennessee. Their players likely live up to the nickname much more so
It's annoying that the Olentangy Trail is closed again. In addition to being inconvenient it's a degradation to pedestrian and cyclist safety. I saw a young women hit by a car, albeit not badly, today at John Herrick and Cannon Dr. One really has to watch for cars given the detour takes you through three intersections and traffic lights and then forces you across King Ave.
Several months ago the city where I live in Kentucky posted a proposal from a local Catholic high school where our city park land would be leased to the school for $1 per year for 99 years. In turn, the school would pay to construct a new baseball stadium for their private use.
Next week is the council meeting where the 6 members vote whether to accept the proposal.
I, along with a number of other citizens plan on speaking in opposition to taking this public land that is well-used and turning into something that will benefit those outside of our city more than those that live here.
My specific legal question is can a municipality take this public land and essentially donate it to a Church entity for their private use? Is there precedent that this must be decided via ballot versus a council?
I just want to understand options should the council decide in favor of the plan.
Edit: A point of clarification about my intentions. This is not a personal vendetta against the school or church. My kids attend one of the feeder schools for this high school. I have personal friends, who I am at odds with now, that want this field built as their children will benefit directly from it.
In high school, I would always wish that I wouldn’t wake up the next day before going to bed. That was 8 years ago. Just now, while getting under the covers, I randomly said to myself “goodnight world, hope to see you tomorrow”.
(This is my first post and I apologise if I have mis-understood what is acceptable to post here. Long time SSC Reader and lurker though!)
I hated high school. Now I have two kids, and I'd like to do better by them. But when I ask other parents and even teachers I know in my every day life, I get the impression that schools are still pretty similar to what I experienced 20 years ago, and there is surprisingly little openness to change.
In particular, I'd love to find a schooling option that:
- Doesn't try to cover so much material - I feel I spent years 'learning' things I forgot immediately after the exam was over, plus all of that schooling took up so much time my brain had almost no functioning left for anything else at the end of the day.
- Gives my kids more freedom to be curious about things and study them independently (or, with some support), instead of ticking points off a curriculum.
- Teaches at least some practical skills, e.g. actively studying time management options instead of just expecting teens to figure it out, or learning how to actually use data, etc etc.
I'm not trying to get the best possible schooling system that will unleash all their potential here; I'm setting the bar closer to "does not suck out most of their potential by boring them half to death"
>> Has anyone else thought about this stuff? I have a few specific questions below but really, any advice or thoughts you have would be welcome.
- Can anyone recommend a high school you feel is better than average on the kind of things I care about? (UK/USA/East Africa)? We will be pretty mobile as we currently live in a developing country and feel we will have to move for education in 5 years or so anyway.
- Does anyone know of a good curriculum I could follow in starting my own school or "homeschooling" my kids with some likeminded parents? (We would be hiring someone with some expertise to lead this for us, which could be its own challenge of course).
- Has anyone who shares my type of concerns kept their kids in the regular US/UK system and found a way to make it work?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions anyone can share.
I’m 24 now (this was in 2010) and I was going through old videos that I saved and I found the video. I was a very shy girl and he was my first boyfriend.. I was scared to do anything remotely affectionate because I knew I was going to be bad... and he didn’t like that he wanted to have sex, make out, etc.. but I wasn’t comfortable doing that so he lashed out on me (he was a junior I was a freshman). When the bell rang he came into my English class with all his friends and yelled at everyone in my class and said my full name and told them “he wasted 2 months with me” and is breaking up with me. After that happens everyone just laughed and looked at me. After class my male teacher asked what his name was and just laughed at me. Nothing happened to him. I think about it now and that was so fucked up and humiliating... I never told anyone my side of the story because I thought there was something wrong with me and I thought they would just laugh at me.
But I reached my limit with Calculus.
Just wondering if it's actually worth taking all throughout high school because I currently have the option of continuing in grade 11. But I am core french not extended. Im worried that even if I go through it, it wouldn't matter because i won't even be able to fluently speak French.
One of my family relatives took French throughout high-school and she said she isn't fluent in it but that may just be her? so, couldn't I just learn it myself? And be fluent without affecting my GPA? I'd also be able to control how I WANT to learn it and I feel like high school focuses too much on grammar and not enough on how to actually speak.
And if I didnt take french I'd take gym which gives me a breather between my classes. Any advice would help thanks!
I'm a girl. 21 years old, i currently live under my abusive narcissistic dad's roof, with a toxic horrible older brother- since i was a child. Which, both of them has made my mental health deteriorate even more.
I've had leap frogged, from job to job months and years ago- to no avail of keeping all the money in a piggy bank, for some shit to save up for.
I failed from graduating high school, 4 or 5 times- because of the fact about how my first failure of graduating (2015; age 16), has impacted my mental health very seriously and drastically- that I did not handle it very well. My dad's 'tough love', 'encouragements'; more like yelling at me, degrading me, having bullshit expectations for me, toxic shit, disappointments, etc- had made it very worse for me. Trigger warning ahead: To the point, he took a razor away from me while i was weeping on my bed at 5pm, cutting my wrists. He came home after finishing his work. That day- was the next day after I had received the news that I failed graduating for the first time. Hence.... I surely did not handle it very well.
Another reason is that, at that time, around 16-19, my surroundings and how the environment was for me, in that school, has made me develop extreme social anxiety, a jealousy for a few students that had a bright future ahead of them, a growing fear of failure, a stubborn brain-fog that had made me unable to concentrate and focus at all during those 4th-5th mediocre attempts at graduating, year by year.
All of these reasons became even more worse, because of the birth of my depression and suicidal thoughts- at that age, 16-19.
Which in the end, made me completely lose hope.
It won.
So, from 16 to 19.... to 20 to 21. To now....
At age 21, today..
Two days ago, I picked up my old french homework that was in the closet. I looked around the pages...
I was suddenly filled with this tiny sense of ...'I can do this, again."
In the middle of going through the book- I got very triggered.....
And i was hit with these images of being in a classroom, me crying after i received the first, the second, the third, the fourth news of failing of graduating- my dad yelling at me, me trying to kill myself and all the shit i've been through.......and so on.
I closed the book.
And my tiny hope that sparked in me, vanished.
....And now. 2 days later, the depression is coming back.
I had those dark thoughts again. Today.
...I'm a failure.
Whenever I think about my future- I just see me, being rejected. B
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Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
Oh, how that glittering taketh me!
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
Hello again, everyone! Everyone has been so sweet on here and I want to thank you all for helping me find Spy x Family 1-3 and for your kindness! I’m very excited to get this series in the mail! I am currently on the hunt for these mangas as well but I am also considering any cute/wholesome manga you might have for sale! Aside from A Silent Voice since I think the box set is cute, if you don’t happen to have the the full series, that’s totally okay too! Thank you very much for reading! ☺️
