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Bill Fitzgerald

21 Feb, 6 tweets, 2 min read

I'd like to congratulate George Bush, Rick Perry, and Greg Abbott for showing how a deregulated energy industry with an almost exclusive dependence on fossil fuels bankrupts regular people in their time of need.

nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/…

This, from Abbott, is complete and utter bullshit. The bills have already been issued.

Abbott is too late here.

How will Abbott refund the money that has already been stolen from Texans?

This is one of the clearer calls to abolish capitalism I have ever read.

Adding in some history/details: A look at the effects of deregulation in Texas, from 2015: texastribune.org/2015/08/12/rep…

And for those blaming Texans for "voting for Republicans" - this is why gerrymandering and voting rights matter. Tom Delay led the plan to radically gerrymander TX districts, back in 2003. This is part of the picture that affects the present.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Texa…

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@funnymonkey

6 Feb

We need to reopen schools.

We need to reopen schools before more people realize that all the technology purchased with millions of taxpayer dollars to transform education doesn't really work.

We need to reopen schools because the school to prison pipeline won't fill itself.

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Bill Fitzgerald

@funnymonkey

4 Feb

People are trying to draw a straight line between 100% in person school and educational attainment, and that's just disingenuous.

Or, to be more precise: it's only accurate for the people for whom the system already worked. Everyone else is still excluded.

Another wrinkle here: the "benefits" of in person school are not one size fits all, and different people (and different populations) experience any benefits in different ways.

What are the benefits that can only be delivered via 100% in person school?

Is this really a hard and fixed requirement, or do we have other options?

How attainable are those options?

Who benefits most if we pursue these options?

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Bill Fitzgerald

@funnymonkey

24 Nov 20

My kid's school went to full remote today for the first time this year (and hoo boy that's another conversation).

The district has a "camera on" policy.

And less than a minute in to class, they are learning the hard way that video is bandwidth intensive.

But the principal said that he was "very confident" with their preparation.

Of course, as part of their "support" for remote participants, they didn't have audio working consistently for the first three weeks of this year.

Like, they never tested audio across classrooms.

I've been begging to be allowed to help since March. It's pretty amazing the level of resistance to even having a conversation with a parent volunteer who can provide informed feedback, and concrete steps for improvement.

(and this is a small, well resourced school).

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Bill Fitzgerald

@funnymonkey

1 Aug 20

Over the next few days and weeks, as time permits, I'll share some additional thoughts and details from the research that shows how the College Board shares student data, in ways that potentially violate their own policies.

The detailed writeup is here: medium.com/cr-digital-lab…

The College Board site loads a javascript file when a person visits the site. This is not atypical on the internet, but the events defined in this file are interesting. An archived version of this file, from our testing on July 28th, is here: gist.github.com/billfitzgerald…

This file contains events that appear to be set and controlled by the College Board, and include information about cash transactions.

The event defined below appears to send information to Snapchat when a student buys a Subject Test.

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