Y'all aren't going to understand the lower public education wields until you realize the ONLY agency still clinging to mask in schools policy is the CDC which made its announcement AFTER Randi and Becky came out for keeping masks in schools. 1/
Those two women are arguably the two most powerful public officials in the United States right now given the hundreds of millions of people whose lives they impact with their influence. 2/
Add to that the abuse our children are suffering, and the intentional retardation of their intellectual and emotional growth, and the public system is a national security threat like no other. /end
*power not lower
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Looks like I have to say it again: it's not a BAD thing to go to school board meetings, and complain about curriculum, or replace board members with those more likely to fire bad superintendents, and hire good ones, but it's not the solution you're being led to believe 1/
First: school boards (with two exceptions, CT and VT, and only minimally even there) don't choose curricula. State boards of Ed determine state standards, and curricula must meet those state standards. Since ESSA was put in place by Obama, ALL states must have an Equity plan 2/
Second: "Equity" per the US Dept. of Ed. means something fairly specific, and there are metrics schools have to meet that are, as you might guess, geared to *encourage* adoption of things like SEL/CRT/CRE, etc, all of which are "critical pedagogies," or Marxian to the core 3/
I am starting to forget.
You know that moment where you realize you no longer easily hear a deceased loved-one's laugh? Or remember the sound of their footsteps as they walked? I'm starting to feel that way about America. 1/
I know intellectually I grew up and lived most of my adult life in a country that was more open-minded, live-and-let-live, and generally "free" than the one we live in now, but I can no longer remember what it felt like.2/
I approach interactions with strangers with trepidation now, especially those involved with healthcare. I've been in the hospital much more than the average person in my life, and my experiences as a CHILD in the early 70s were vastly superior to anything since.3/
In the world of the Woke, things that have happened, should not have happened, OR only happened because someone with power allowed them to happen, or benefited from them happening. Here's how we prove them wrong. 1/
Frederick Douglass, a slave, escaped. How did this benefit someone white and in power? He then educated himself, not in a fancy school, full of cutting-edge tech, black teachers, DEI and SEL programs, but alone. He became an educator, statesman, and writer. 2/
Douglass married a white woman, at a time when that was illegal in many states. What powerful person benefited? They had a long and prosperous marriage. Who was his white benefactor, and how far do you want to go to denigrate his own hard work and achievements? 3/
@DrKarlynB
No one "owns" the idea that people should come together to fight woke ideas. This is not intellectual capital one can copyright or patent. This is an idea everyone should "steal" and run with; 1/
Whoever you are, whatever you do, I invite you to "steal" ANY of the ideas I've expressed, and if you can do a better job expressing them and persuading others to share them and propagate them too, PLEASE DO! 2/
I do what I do to protect CHILDREN, because as trite as it sounds, they really *are* the future, and it's a future I hope to live long enough to ENJOY, not suffer through. So I guess it is a bit selfish of me, but I'm also a MOTHER, and I worry about their future's even more. 3/
I think a lot of people grossly underestimate the power of having a target upon whom to project all manner of evil, while quietly, secretly, working at implementing the evil while you're busy defending/attacking said-target.
The Presidency has become too important. 1/
If I hold conservatives, the right, republicans, etc...accountable for anything, it's believing in the exclusive power of the executive, like kids believe in Santa, or the faithful believe in a Savior. But think about it...2/
Just as Biden, despite having the House, and having a friendly administrative (deep) state, ideologically 100% in his corner, cannot completely implement his agenda, neither can Trump, or any Republican. Difference is, 3/
Making a list of "Books kids should read before High School" for two bright kids (4th and 5th grades, reading at-level/slightly above) whose mom has asked me to do lit lessons with them b/c the school is only doing "reflections" and not "interpretation" or discussion.1/
Their vocabularies are weak b/c they read from the same genre all the time, and their critical thinking skills are almost dormant because they're merely asked to write ABOUT what they read, for a check-mark. 2/
The evidence showed up on recent SSAT scores. Perfect math scores, decent verbal scores compared with most kids, but not as good as they ought to be given their potential/cog. abilities. LOW synonym scores, and low higher order/interpretive scores. 3/