Author: Natasha Sapp

Teachers’ Strike: There Is A Difference Between Paying Teachers A Comfortable Living Wage And Continuously Paying Bad, Incompetent Teachers

And there is a drastic difference between legitimately identifying bad, incompetent teachers and using that as a blanket stereotype to bash all teachers; teachers doing the best they can with scanter and scanter resources, teachers whose performance would exponentially improve, be unrecognizable in a positive direction if provided said resources.

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I Am An American Citizen And I’m Tired Of Hearing About Gun Control

Not as a second amendment zealot, an NRA stooge, not as a gun control advocate (that isn’t to say I’m particularly opposed to the idea) fed up with too much talk and too little action as school shooting after school shooting savages our future, extinguishes our best and brightest. Rather as a person wearied of hearing about gun control as if it were the only thing to control instead of violence and the impetus towards it; who recognizes unless we do that, even should gun control’s most extreme faction succeed and citizen owned guns become a thing of the past, we will simply run out of things to ban and still have humanities violent tendencies to contend with.

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Dating, Flirting, Asking Out Or Showing Romantic Interest In Age Of #metoo: In Defense Of Socially Awkward, Sexually Awkward Men

No it’s not a sex panic yet, but how do we avoid one; how do we appropriately punish the guilty and spare the innocent, spare people who just wanted to ask a girl out, who genuinely believed behavior to be consensual? How do we distinguish accurately between aspects like sexual regret and sexual misconduct, assault and rape; we don’t know but #metoo doesn’t either despite clamoring for social change, a society wide behavior shift.

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