blacking out the friction

world-shaker:

A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. 
(AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern)

world-shaker:

A teacher hugs a child at Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Monday, May 20, 2013. A monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.

(AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern)

(Source: journaltimes.com)

— 20 hours ago with 212 notes
"One of my little boys just kept saying, ‘I love you, I love you, please don’t die with me.’ I never thought I was going to die. The whole time I just kept screaming to them, ‘Quit worrying, we’re fine, we’re fine.’ And I’m very loud, so I just hoped they could hear me because I could hear them screaming. [One girl] was sobbing, and I was like, ‘We’re going to be fine, we’re going to be fine, I’m protecting you.’ And then I said a few prayers. ‘God please take care of my kids.’"

RHONDA CROSSWHITE, sixth grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, which was leveled by a tornado.  She threw herself over students inside a bathroom stall as the storm passed, likely helping to save their lives.

Teachers.  Among the best of us.

(via the New York Post)

(Source: inothernews)

— 20 hours ago with 817 notes

selfdoubtandsyphilis:

dankestrnemes:

do animals think in english or in the sounds they make

this is what yahoo paid $1.1 billion for

(via kicksandgiggles)

— 1 day ago with 228983 notes
Michigan District Fires All Teachers, Closes Every School →

http://www.bvsd.k12.mi.us/education/district/district.php?sectiondetailid=1&

Look at the site — they’ve reopened!

(Source: stfuconservatives, via wildlywandering)

— 1 day ago with 220 notes
#education  #teaching 
"Some of you are graduating summa cum laude. Some of you are graduating magna cum laude. And some of you are graduating thank you laude."
PRESIDENT OBAMA, giving the commencement speech at Morehouse College (via CBS News)

(Source: inothernews)

— 1 day ago with 2488 notes
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre   (via thatkindofwoman)

(Source: arpeggia, via adiemtocarpe)

— 1 week ago with 48710 notes
Has anyone else noticed…

heymissat:

that at this point in the school year all your supplies seem to be breaking, broken, or missing?

Part of me is grateful things have lasted this long.

The other part of me is frustrated because kids seem to have no respect for things that don’t belong to them.

— 1 week ago with 111 notes