Setting: San Diego County, May 1991 - May 1992

Background: 15-year-old protagonist in foster care. His hot-headedness, abandonment and anger issues had him tossed around from foster home to foster home, including several abusive ones, before eventually being dropped in one of the worst group homes where children come and go as they please. One day, ( Read more... )

setting: Chicago, Illinois circa 1924 or 1925; the character in question was born in London, November of 1907 ( Read more... )

I'm writing about two men from New York, starting in the Great Depression and WWII, and ending in the 21st century, and I'm trying to develop some background for them to use across two separate stories, possibly even more ( Read more... )

Setting: Modern day Stanford University

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Edit: Answered everything but the German wife aspect of things, still really need help there and am grateful for any help I can receive, thanks ( Read more... )

Setting: early summer, modern-day Mid-Atlantic United States ( Read more... )

So with classes of small children, teachers will often have rhymes or special claps to call the children's attention when it's wandered, I'm wondering about one I remember form childhood where the teacher would call out "One Two Three! Eyes on me!"I'm trying to figure out how long it's been being used and how wide-spread. So this is more a survey ( Read more... )

This isn't exactly a little detail, but I would be very grateful for any info on how children of openly LGBT parents were treated in the public school systems in the suburban Midwest (specifically Minneapolis) around 2000 - 2010. Research, well, it's not something you can easily Google, but my main experience is that I'm queer, and I've lived in ( Read more... )

Setting: 1930's Brooklyn
Searched: history of education, Brooklyn public schools 1930s, education during great depression, teaching the trail of tears

In my story, I have Captain America a WWII soldier from Brooklyn ending up in the 21st century. He is getting tutored in the several decades of history he missed, but in the process, Darcy his ( Read more... )

Setting: Boston (USA) suburb, contemporary with certain SFnal elements ( Read more... )