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Honour student who works two jobs to support her siblings after her parents split up and left town is put in JAIL for missing school due to exhaustion

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decanted:

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  • Diane Tran, 17, thrown in jail for one night because of repeated absences from school
  • Honours student has been working two jobs to keep family afloat since parents’ divorce
  • Has been taking advanced placement and college courses in addition to jobs and missed school due to exhaustion
  • Spent the night in jail for truancy
Petition for the decision to be overturned here

Saw this on the news last night. She was also fined $100, despite the fact that she’s clearly already struggling. 

Oh my god I was in the EXACT SAME situation just about.  Only instead of jail, they decided that they wouldn’t give me my high school diploma.  They ended up relenting after they learned what I was going through for my siblings.

Signing this petition.  It’s unfair enough that life hands shitty deals to teenagers sometimes— to punish them is just beyond reason.

That is so incredibly awful.

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First look at Arrow

The CW has released the first footage from their new Oliver Queen series. It’s just Ollie sadly. Here’s the official description of the show.

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, much-beloved sister Thea, and best friend Tommy welcome him home, but they sense Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While Oliver hides the truth about the man he’s become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was. Most particularly, he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance. As Oliver reconnects with those closest to him, he secretly creates the persona of Arrow - a vigilante - to right the wrongs of his family, fight the ills of society, and restore Starling City to its former glory. By day, Oliver plays the role of a wealthy, carefree and careless philanderer he used to be - flanked by his devoted chauffeur/bodyguard, John Diggle - while carefully concealing the secret identity he turns to under cover of darkness. However, Laurel’s father, Detective Quentin Lance, is determined to arrest the vigilante operating in his city. Meanwhile, Oliver’s own mother, Moira, knows much more about the deadly shipwreck than she has let on - and is more ruthless than he could ever imagine.

I hope the show is as good  as the clip.

(Source: The Huffington Post)

Mother’s Day tribute to some of DC’s mothers.

[From left to right:]

Koriand’r, Alura-El, Hippolyta & the Amazons of Themyscira, Donna Troy, Martha Kent, Lois Lane, Pantha, Dinah Lance, Barbara Gordon, Dana Drake, Kate Spencer, Stephanie Brown, Helena Sandsmark, Ellen Baker, Linda Park-West, Bonnie King-Jones, Bianca Reyes, Crystal Brown, Talia al Ghul, Lara-El, Mera, Mary Grayson, Martha Wayne.

(Source: wonderarity)

Tough ass! Disney Princesses. BY joshwmc

The Promise, Part 1 Alternative Scene

  • Sokka: Everybody calm down! Avatar Aang can handle himself! The best thing for us to do right now is wait.
  • Protestor: Outta our way, you Water Tribe savage!
  • Sokka: Wait, I'm sorry. I think I may have some residual hearing loss from the time I destroyed a fleet of Fire Nation airships while saving all of your asses, so I may not have heard you correctly. Or maybe I got a concussion while falling from said airship after willingly sacrificing my life so none of you had to be burned to death or sold into slavery.
  • Sokka: Maybe the definition of "savage" changed during the year I spent traveling with the Avatar and my sister in order to help them master their elements and single-handedly defeat the Fire Lord. But the last time I checked, it meant "primitive and uncivilized".
  • Sokka: That's really funny. What did you do last year? I know I had a productive time!
  • Sokka: I left my entire family and home for the first time in order to travel across the entire world.
  • Sokka: I figured out the method we use for keeping war balloons at a maintainable height.
  • Sokka: While perusing the contents of a sacred library, I discovered the date of the past solar eclipse and then manipulated an entire planetarium to figure out the next solar eclipse.
  • Sokka: And then drafted an entire invasion of the Fire Nation on my own.
  • Sokka: And then I invented the first submarine.
  • Sokka: But you're right. What does a savage peasant like me know about the Avatar (who, by the way, is also basically my brother-in-law) or the Fire Nation or anything at all? Carry on with your business.
  • Protestors: ...
  • Toph: Sokka you're forgetting one last thing.
  • Sokka: What? Oh yes, that's right: FUCK YOU ALL.