In many places condoms and birth control are both tax exempt.
But diapers are not dispite the fact that having too few diapers (because they are expensive) leads to babies not getting changed often enough, which leads to diaper rash and increased likelyhood of infections. Therefore adequate diapers actually do prevent disease.
So, all in all, it's not simple. And the woman with the above sign is adding confusion to an already complicated issue.

I wouldn't stay on a date with someone who was opposed to that ad. And when I read this post to my roommate her response was "atta girl". I think its completely feasible that this happened.

Wow. Impressive

They wouldn't be restricted from moving on with the subjects they excelled in.
Unfortunately for this to work lessons would need to be given out nearly exclusively by video, and teachers jobs would have to include managing students progress in a very different way. Also you would probably need to give students some level of responsibility over their education. And we tend to stray away from that for some reason.

Also, I agree that it's a bad decision to just move kids on to the next level when they aren't ready for it, I think that the idea of just failing students as a solution is fundamentally broken. In fact, making students repeat an entire subject when they struggled with a couple units or worse a whole year when they did really well in some subjects is hurting their education far more than its helping.
There isn't an easy way to fix this the way things are set up now. Ideally, student would have lessons they were expected to complete and they could do them as long as they had done prerequisites. Grade levels would become obsolete as a child could be 10, still working on getting down subtracting fractions with common denominators, but also learning to write a 3 paragraph essay. Or a kid could be 16, still struggling to write a 3 paragraph essay, but also doing calculus. Obviously it would be important to ensure students kept working on subjects even if they weren't good at them, but

@lucky11 I'm not doubting it's a problem, it's just definitely not the only problem. I spent enough observation hours in schools to tell you that there are definitely students struggling that teacher just literally do not have time to help. I can't even be 100% certain that isn't what was being observed. Often time with something like Grandparents day there are extra activities and interruptions to the norm that mean you absolutely need to get every lesson done quickly. Sometimes it is more time efficient to just let students be right on a day like that as long at what they said was remotely passable. It's also possible that they were actually doing fairly well for the level they were expected to read at. If you don't encourage students for doing well relative to what they have shown they can do they will often feel discouraged. Some kids refuse to try entirely. Again, I could be wrong, not all teacher are good teachers and this could be an example of a bad teacher.

It seems as though you have lived an interesting life @silvermyth

Computers can even grade them on some assignments. And teachers would have more time to help individual students who need it. Or read every essay thoroughly instead of skimming over them as quickly as they can at 11pm because they just want to go to bed.
Obviously I don't want computers to replace teachers. Humans can help a struggling student in a way that computers can't. But I think that using computers to replace the more repetitive and time consuming parts of a teachers day would allow us a better education for everyone.

Even if a teacher spends that time helping students, it's not nessicary enough time, and then he or she must evaluate student work on their own time. Which leads to the kind of overworked teachers who want to help genuinely but are to stressed and tired to notice that little Timmy's poor grades directly correlated to when he started wearing that same sweater all the time even though its 80 degrees and he's clearly hiding evidence of child abuse.
More teachers would help, obviously, but so could some changes in how we teach. Many schools across America are opting to give students laptops instead of more teachers. I assume this is a combination of getting good deals and the fact that it looks better to the public. Giving kids laptops makes you look like a good school. Hiring more teachers only makes you look like a bigger school. But I digress.
We can make videos of the same lesson, and then assign students to watch them and ask questions when they need assistance.

@lucky11 I agree that reading and vocabulary should be taught better than it is, bit I severely disagree with the stated cause. Some teachers might do this, but it's been my experience that when a student doesn't get the extra help they need with reading/vocabulary, it's because the teacher is struggling to balance teaching 30 kids everything the core says he or she must teach, while enforcing a basic code of conduct to maintain order. And yeah, that's 100% a teacher's job, but that job doesn't actually allow enough time to give every student the attention they need.
I think the real problem is that our schools are understaffed and the current curriculum requirements need revisions. Also, the way we teach could use some refining.
Teachers spend most of their days teaching lessons to rooms of students. And often spend student work time evaluating student work. Which leaves little to no time for helping students.

Also avoid too much sugar.

Well, Aang was the Avatar, so he actually could do both.
But yeah, if Thor were in that world he would be considered a firebender

I think they are referring to lifting the hammer.

I speak English natively and I still didn't get it. Thank you for the explanation.

But it's only funny because if the reposts. They give you the context

Yeah, but I think that an inside joke gaining popularity is the whole premise of modern memes.
In the beginning, memes were something most people could understand. But now a lot memes don't make any sense unless you have enough shared experience to understand them. Even here people were confused about posts about the building if they missed the begging until they gained enough experience to understand.
And I think that's a good sign. You can have shared meaningful experiences through memes. Before the internet inside jokes were typically limited to a few close friends. But now we can have that with strangers.
And it will make a mark. A week from now the building meme will have died, however a year from now when someone finds the meme on random with 12 watermarks, they will repost it and everyone who was here will remember.
The original version isn't even funny. It only works because it's a trend. The highway exit meme that @silvermyth posted is so much funnier than the reposts.

I did. I sort by all. :)
It's really nice to be known and remembered though.

Yes?

@vitklim- I reposted the building. This was supposed to be a joke.

Yes. Although doing this is actually less battery efficient. The 1 battery will die faster from the extra strain and you'll end up using more batteries than if you just use them 2 at a time.