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@theonceandalwaysfutureking

Umm... My name's Christina Marie... I kind of really like Dr. Pepper, pugs, and Ernest Hemingway. I'm starting to get an idea of what I'm doing with my life. Nope. I lied.
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All US public schools should receive the same funding based on the amount of enrolled students

All property taxes that would initially go to the local school district should be nationally divided between all US public schools.

If previously wealthy school districts funding needs aren’t being met, the education budget should be nationally increased, to provide the same public school education for all children in attendance.

Low test scores should never decrease funding. 

Schools should not receive funding based on the success of their students.

Schools with high rates of failure should receive special attention to bring them back up to par with the rest of the public education system.

All students should have safe and reliable transportation to their public school if they cannot make the walk to school due to disability or distance.

All students should receive a free lunch and breakfast if they want it while at school. These meals should meet the nutritional needs of the students.

A public school should never rent out equipment, musical instruments, supplies, etc.

Students should never pay for things the school already owns.

If a public school demands its students wear uniforms then the school should buy the uniforms for their students.

If a public school demands certain supplies the public school should provide said supplies to all students.

All public school students should have healthcare; if they don’t already have it then the moment they are enrolled in school they should be given it for free by the state. Poor attendance from students should never put them in juvi, or other detention centers for youths. 

Poor attendance from students should never decrease funding of a school.

All students with poor attendance should have special academic and medical attention paid to them to solve the problem of why they cannot or will not show up to school.

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For Atlantis, Disney needed a new language for the Atlantean people. To do this, Disney hired Mark Okrand, the man who also created the famous Klingon and Vulcan for the Star Trek series. In the Atlantean language, Mark Okrand’s main source for it’s roots and stems of its words are Proto-Indo-European,but as Okrand also described it as being the “tower of babel” or “root dialect” for all languages in the world, he also used ancient Chinese, Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, along with many other ancient languages or their reconstructions. As such, you can actually learn to write and speak the language!

This film is so underrated it hurts.

ah this explains how they understood french and english so well almost instantly… better than the magical wind in Pocahontas that’s for sure

Man, don’t you just wish Atlantis took off as a sci-fi franchise for Disney just so all that world building they did between this and Subterranean Tours could have found more use?

In a cooler alternate timeline the most successful Disney movies are Atlantis and treasure planet and every movie that came after them was influenced by their style, charm, and most importantly the creativity and passion that went into every little detail

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a chapterbook: *came with a stitched in ribbon bookmark, had a cloth spine, had those rough edged finished pages, or came with a map*

8 year old me: i am a 500 year old librarian and this is the most valuable book in my collection. i rescued it myself from a castle as it burned to the ground. *gingerly runs my little grubby hands down its spine and gazes wistfully out of the school bus window* i am the keeper of all civilization’s knowledge

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                                    Atelier de Lesfressange  (Series XXII)

1. Alfred Emile Stevens - The Reader, C.1860 

2. Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (Belgian painter, 1823- 1906 

3. František Dvořák  Lady with a book in the garden (1892)

4. Daydreaming. Fernand Toussaint (Belgian, 1873-1955)

5.  La partition (c.1910). Herman Richir (Belgian, 1866–1942)

6. Woman Reading (Laura Muntz Lyall)

7. A Gotthelf reader, 1884, Albert Anker. Swiss, (1831–1910) 

8. George Romney  Lady Hamilton as Serena Reading (ca. 1780-85) 

9. Lady Stirling Maxwell James Guthrie (1859-1930)

10. James Sant, Ida, c.1863-1941 and Ethel, c.1863-1888