A thread from a KY social studies teacher:
For years history and civics have been relegated as nonessential topics. A curriculum afterthought.
There is an emphasis on math and reading.
elementary students receive no social studies instruction at all. 1/11
Great care is taken to ensure math classes are small. Often I have 34 in a given class.
Students are inundated with all things math, science and reading - thanks to the ACT. 2/11
Oct 17, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
#angryteacher Thread
3 yrs ago I lost my mind at a Town Hall about teacher pensions.
I cried. I yelled. And was terrified I would get in trouble for my outburst.
That one moment launched me into the forefront of fighting for KY Public Employee Pensions.
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I met so many fierce warriors over the weeks and months to follow. All Kentucky women.
Each of them taught me so much.
We launched an all out assault on those legislators that wanted to destroy us and everything we worked for.
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