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One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom

“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel

Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: “Allie, I’m not playing. It’s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.”

She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn’t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she’d like to tell me what was wrong.

“My ponytail,” she cried.

“Can I see?” I asked.

She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie’s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn’t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie’s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.

“How’s that?” I asked.

She smiled. “Good,” she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.

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archiemcphee:

I’ve been watching clips every night of all the Star Wars movies, so this had to be posted.

Star Wars = Zawesome!

[Original photo by Johnny Chiang]

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Dave Bloomfield, aka Starheadboy is an unstoppable art and joy-making machine from Seattle. You can follow his adventures via his blog or on Facebook and you can even buy some of his wonderful artwork via Etsy.

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sapphrikah:

Exposing the Artificiality of Women in Fashion.

This is great, and hilarious, quite frankly.

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a little harry potter love..

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On this date in 1543, Mary was crowned Queen of Scots. She was nine months old.

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notaddisonshepherd:

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I feel like this has been a good tumblr morning. Everyone’s really putting out their best stuff to get us through this hurricane.

YES. i want to show this to everyone at work who questions me when i say things like “wow, the lobby looks like asshat.”

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