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She didn’t see the similarities of how she locked me away in the house, or how she kept me under the tightest supervision under the guise of keeping me safe. I spent the entire mother knows best song stealing glances at her next to me in the theater just waiting for her to drag us out of the movie because she couldn’t stand to have her “love” portrayed as evil. And she didn’t see how the fact that she created her identity completely around being a mother and nothing else was like mother gothel’s dependency on rapunzel’s magic hair.

i mean… you can’t look at this and tell me it isn’t segregation.

definitionally gifted/talented/AP/IB classes are better than your run of the mill classes this isn’t controversial, it’s a fact. the better teachers lead these classes, the class sizes are often smaller, etc.

Because there is a drastic difference in quality of education based on the type of class you’re in it is obviously used as a form of gatekeeping.

black children specifically are 66% less likely to get into gifted/honors/ap courses compared to white children

and it has nothing to do with how well these children are doing.

things like teacher bias against students of color and wealthy and upper middle class — often white — parents having the ability to game the system in favor of their child are primarily whats to blame for this.

we already know rich white people cheat to get into college, there was that recent scandal where some were actually caught, but college isn’t the only time the system is gamed, it starts from the beginning of a child’s education.

I’d also like to say, it has been shown students deemed not-gifted still benefit greatly from being in gifted classes.

 You are the first one to figure out the obvious: Do not chase the cat. The cat is befriendable. Get the cat to trust you, to genuinely enjoy your company, and you can hang out with the cat. You may eventually be allowed to touch the cat. The cat will freely let you take the key.

Newsflash. No man needs a bitch telling him to eat rabbit food and nagging him constantly.

My dude, you got this backward; welcome to the modern era, we have careers, money, we buy our own houses and cars, and we have easy access to a selection of vibrators our ancestresses could only dream of.  Companionship is great and everything, but as many of us discovered, it comes in many forms.