But not on white kids who misbehaved in the same ways. They also often referred to 10 year old Black kids as ‘teens’ but 10 year old white kids were ‘kids’.
I’m slowly working my way to leaving the profession cause it’s exhausting and demoralizing.

I don’t know if you’re just looking for patron stories, but at a previous job my colleagues expected me to do all the ethnic holiday displays since I was the only POC librarian and I cared so much about race issues. 🙄 These same colleagues would call the cops on Black kids who misbehaved

Recently listened to a podcast on a book about this called The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. Have it in my to-read pile since I work with kids.

I got hit by a car a few years back. Snapped my ankle in half. The paramedic asked if I wanted anything for the pain and my first question was, ‘how much is that gonna cost me?’ I ended up saying nah and waiting til we got to the hospital since we were only 10 mins away. 😭😬😭

Yes

It still might provide useful info 🙂

I forgot to mention, he also used to live in Baltimore.

Nick might know of things to do up that way. As a Buffalonian I think he knows folks from there/spent some time there.

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Here is actually what is happening: braindead management is pushing AI wherever it can, launching it, laying off some people, then realising it can't replace them, then hiring back *less* people than before. AI is used as a soft layoff excuse to dress up flagging growth.

😭😭😭 Praying for you 😂