I can’t feel proud to attend a performing arts school that both actively ignores the harsh realities of homophobia and transphobia and also refuses to offer any form of support, either via staff or student-based groups.
School is not about a business, and if parents withold their children from attending our school based on their own prejudices, good. I don’t want to attend a school where the safety and wellbeing of others is put behind the image and reputation.
What grades determine:
- Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
- Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
- Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
- Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable
What grades do NOT determine:
- Your intelligence
- Your creativity
- Your emotional capabilities
- Your likeliness to succeed
- Whether you’re a good person
She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn’t come along, she went over to the palace and got him.”
- Walt Disney, speaking of Cinderella in 1949.
- Walt Disney, speaking of Cinderella in 1949.
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