I’ve been in Education for 20 yrs. I’ve taught every level from kindergarten to post-grad. Homeschool your kids if you can. Your district most likely offers a distance education option-enroll your child. Then enroll them in a team sport. You’ll thank me later xx
It has come to my attn, because of some comments, ppl are unclear that homeschooling does not mean you have to be a scholar in all subjects. The distance education program offered through your ministry will have trained teachers teaching your child all subjects. You facilitate -
-the learning in the same way you’d support your child in their piano lessons that they take at home or the community sports team that they play for. You’re not expected to be a pianist or an athlete either. The difference is: you’re much more involved in what they’re learning.
Just like working from home is so much better for your stress levels, learning from home is better for your child’s. Mornings are a lot less hectic, for one. You don’t start the day with a “Grab your bag! Do you have your homework? Don’t forget your lunch! Did you eat breakfast?”
Your child gets to eat w when they’re hungry or take breaks when they need to-not when the bell rings. They don’t have to ask to go to the bathroom. They can work on a science project all day if they feel like it, not just the allotted 40 mins or whatever. It’s more natural.
This has been our experience as a family. I am a trained educator who was part of a faculty union and I never imagined I’d be saying/feeling this. I was a HUGE supporter of public schooling in general for many reasons. But things have changed-a lot. And so my thinking has too.

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25 Sep
It’s sad ppl are so accustomed to binary thinking these days. I miss when ppl simply had other opinions and perspectives. When ppl were free to open their mind without immediate demonization of the ‘other side’. This world is so black and white. No nuance. No color. No flavor.
Fwiw, I was both indoctrinated and beaten while attending public school, while being homeschooled, and while in an Islamic private school. The school is irrelevant. Shitty parents exist-and that is a different discussion.
I’m sharing my perspective, my experience-you are under no obligation to agree. Obviously there are many reasons why public school is failing and many reasons why ppl cannot/ choose not to homeschool. No need to assume ppl who make different choices do so for nefarious reasons.
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13 Sep
When I started this account 5 yrs ago, I chose a cover photo of a Yazidi woman freed from ISIS, removing the black body bag she was encased in to reveal her colorful dress below. It’s so poignant.

Today #AfghanWomen all over Twitter are doing the same 🇦🇫

#Resist
#FreeFromHijab
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13 Aug
I had a student from Afghanistan a few yrs ago. When he’d come to my office, despite the noisy hallway, we’d have to leave the door open. He explained that since being kidnapped by the Taliban and being tortured in a room for two weeks, he can’t be in a room w a closed door.
He lived w roommates, but he could never close his bedroom door because the panic would immediately overtake him. It had been years since his family had paid the ransom and negotiated his release- the physical scars had healed, but the invisible scars were much deeper.
At the end of the term he brought me a wool scarf. He asked his father to send it. A beautiful traditional Pashtun color and pattern. He was such a lovely young man. Two weeks. Two weeks is what it took for the Taliban to ruin the rest of his life.
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24 Jul
It should come as no surprise that I receive messages w death threats consistently. I just ignore them.

Now I get messages with personal information about my daughters.

You’re mad at me for making Islam ‘look bad’, when it’s your actions that make your religion look like filth.
You make a Islam look like a religion for barbaric, murderous monsters who resort to threatening children because you’re incapable of accepting that someone speaks up against the atrocities done in the name of your Allah every single day. You are the worst enemy of Islam- not me.
I don’t need to be here to ‘make Islam look bad’. You do that daily when you murder ppl for denouncing Islam- hack them to death in the streets w machetes like…like what? What else does that? No animal or group of humans I can think of. I can think of no example worse than you.
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3 Jul
#Canada will not put trans men in men’s prisons because it is unsafe for them, but it allows trans women in women’s prisons.

Does anyone care that it ‘s not safe for women? Or do we only care about ppls safety if they identify as men?
nationalpost.com/opinion/barbar…
As usual, it is the most vulnerable women that are exploited and demeaned by their society.
“But among those making the move were killers, serial sex offenders and child rapists who now have a home among biological women.”

Sex offenders? With women literally imprisoned w nowhere to run? Really? How is this even real life.

torontosun.com/news/provincia…
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26 Apr
It’s alive and well. You just haven’t noticed. Feminists across the world are fighting battles you’ve never seen in the West.

They’re imprisoned in #Iran for removing their hijab. They’re imprisoned in #SaudiArabia for driving or pushing for the abolition of laws against women.
They’re fighting for laws that protect women and value their lives in #Kuwait, where men who ‘honor kill’ their sisters and wives get a perfunctory three years in prison.
They’re in the streets of #Pakistan literally risking their lives to say ‘stop raping us’.
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