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Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

11 Jan

NEW: Mississippi Senate leaders are proposing a plan to give teachers with a bachelor’s degree and no experience in the classroom starting salaries of $39,000 instead of the current $37,000.

They'd start getting yearly $500+ raises after their first year.mississippifreepress.org/19568/mississi…

“While teachers really appreciate the current (pay) step increases, they are so small they really don’t feel them. They are typically eaten up by inflation increases and insurance premiums,” said Parents Campaign’s Nancy Loome.
mississippifreepress.org/19568/mississi…

Aside from $500 raises most years, teachers would also get raises of at least $1,325 after their 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th and 25th years in the profession.

Lawmakers built the proposal around conversations they had with educators across the state.
mississippifreepress.org/19568/mississi…

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Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

11 Jan

People with personality disorders are p-e-o-p-l-e and account for about 10%-13% of the population.

Some of y'all feel way too comfortable saying terrible, hurtful things about a huge group based on their neurodivergence that you'd never say re race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.

Listen to people from communities you're talking about (i.e., people with personality disorders) when they say something's hurtful.

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." —Maya Angelou

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Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

23 Dec 21

https://twitter.com/sociallysani/status/1473773191155884036

THREAD: In the 1990s, Britney Spears' family sent her to a historic segregation academy in McComb, Mississippi.

The school had no Black students enrolled then—despite being in a then-58% Black city.

Today, Britney called out her "white 'classy' family." 1/

https://twitter.com/sociallysani/status/1473773191155884036

Parklane Academy, where Britney Spears' family sent her, opened as a white-only "Christian" segregation academy in 1970 (in reaction to the Supreme Court ordering Mississippi public schools fully desegregated in 1969).

Hundreds like it opened that year. 2/jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/…

The Supreme Court ruled segregated private schools were illegal in 1976.

Yet in 1994 when Britney Spears was at Parklane Academy, a school admin addressed its lack of Black students this way:

"We have a couple black students. Well, we have a couple of students named Black." 3/

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Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

12 Dec 21

Only in America do public school teachers race one another to scrounge around on the floor to collect $1 bills in order to... *checks notes* fund their classrooms.

This isn't heartwarming. It's dysfunctional, dystopian shit.

@AnnieTodd96

"The first-ever Dash for Cash event pitted 10 Sioux Falls (South Dakota) area teachers against each other to grab as many single dollar bills as possible in less than five minutes. The money was donated by CU Mortgage Direct."

Story by @AnnieTodd96:
argusleader.com/story/news/202…

https://twitter.com/AnnieTodd96/status/1469830818587725829

The sponsors dumped 5,000 in $1 bills were dumped on the floor.

10 teachers raced across the ice to get to the pile of cash and then crawled around on the floor to snatch up as much of it as they could as quickly as possible to fund their classrooms.