After 20 years, I resigned my cush K12 job. It's time we talk honestly about schooling vs. education. I'm here to make sure you get the latter for your child.
Oct 4, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Many are appropriately aghast at what the State is (and isn't) doing in North Carolina. How could they?!
Simple. They know you can't hold them accountable because they hold the Ring of Power: our schools.
First, the surveys. Feds twll K12 that they can have more funding if families complete surveys. 2/
Oct 3, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Here's how you know public school is dead:
I had dinner with an old teacher friend the other day. She's noticeably exhausted. She tried not to talk shop, but kept drifting back. Several students popped up repeatedly in her narrative. The stories were all the same, at root. 1/
These kids have storied pasts. Nothing the school tries changes their behavior in any way. They've held multiple interventions following their MTSS (aka RTI, aka PBIS) plan. Multiple pros are involved: counselors, psychs, speech-language paths, teachers, and principals. 2/