"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Feb 18, 2018 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
I am a retired teacher and another middle school teacher shared this story with me today. Yes, it is very long. Yes, it is scary.
But you damn well have to read it.
ALL OF IT.
Then share it. Repeatedly.
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Yesterday, after 17 people died at a school shooting in Florida,
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I stood in front of my middle school classrooms, hour after hour, reteaching the intruder drill procedures for my room. I wanted to reassure my kids that there was a plan in place if this thing that should be unthinkable, but which is now perfectly thinkable,
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