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from Wichita!!!
I knew from art schools that we attended in Phila and NYC had been lying to me for years and SHE unfriended me since I sent out my hand drawn Christmas cards, as I usually do, and it showed the fucking moron as the Grinch and a nut. Only a year ago I learned that she had not told me that she had been HOME SCHOOLING her two teenagers while her "attorney" husband had been on their local school board for years and I never told me they didn't attend public school ever! We had lengthy conversations about public education and I was led to believe that her husband was legit and she never told me until Jan. that he wasn't able to make a living as an attorney, has "been working for 8 years exposing the corrupt left/progressives" and that she worships "our wonderful president" and that I am "delusional for believing the fake news"". I was an illustrator and had to make a living so I paid for myself to go back to college for two additional years, took a zillion tests, subbed for two long years before I got a position as a teacher in Southern CA and became a union rep in my district. She couldn't make a living as a fine artist, her husband could never pass the bar exam and they had to file for bankruptcy several years ago so that they could get free healthcare for their kids with Medicaid, since her daughter became very ill, meanwhile the two of them are healthy adults and could work at any job and they could send her kids to public school easily. On top of this my sister told me that 25 years ago her friend, who had been this same person's roommate, found neo-Nazi literature under her bed after she left Phila and married her husband and moved to Northern CA what she apparently still is living a hypocritical life of a Medicaid collecting, home schooling, Democrat hating non working and healthy adult, wife and mother. Yet, I am the one who is delusional and believes the fake news. UNBELIEVABLE! I shall never speak to her again. I am sure she has a ton of tiki torches in her shed and she and her idiot husband will be raising two wonderful little neo Nazis that they can be proud of while we pay for their healthcare with our tax dollars so that they can bitch about how corrupt we terrible Dems are for ruining the country. 
it wars my heart!
Did you perhaps mean "warms"?
Gonna have to take points off for failure to capitalize the start of 2 sentences, as well.
Hmm, need a slide rule for this one. Add the bonus for effectiveness, deduct for spelling and capitalization, carry the naught... 99%!
(Wife taught for nearly 30 years. Red ink pens turn up all over the house, still).
Lots of teachers in my family. Thanks for doing the most important work in the universe! And you seem to be doing a damn good job of it, too.
(Sorry about the spelling jab, though. Incorrigible proofreader, here. 
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I guess we're still "asleep".. 
You are preparing your students for the real world
like the term "lit" (have had to have my 20-something nieces and nephews keep me up with the lingo ).
"Woke" = "aware/engaged" (notably politically aware)
As for 'lit', the only lit I know comes out of a bottle -- I must be very old.
Nowadays "lit" is like "sick, jumpin', bangin', fired up, the bomb, or going back further, like outta sight, groovy
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