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@educator4ever36 I can’t even teach seminar style in college anymore because if they don’t read then discussion is harder and admin says I have to do games instead. What do you recommend?

I’m subbing today at a HS that runs like a college. Open areas for students to hang. Not every student in classes all day. Teachers don’t have rooms but float in like in college. Tons of seminar offerings. I had this EXACT vision for a school I led once. Too bad my obstacle was a staff who refused to relinquish any authority nor give the students any freedom. I was crucified when I allowed students to eat lunch anywhere on campus. No way this model had a chance. Too bad Johns Crack, this could’ve been you. #upthecreek

@freyhk @cpaforerp @karen_kelowna Doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t isolate for a reasonable period whenever they have **any** contagious disease…

@TeachingSolved @cpaforerp @karen_kelowna There are no specific isolation guidelines anymore for covid, other than what is advised for any other URTI…

I am heartsick. My niece’s husband likely has cvid and won’t test. They have a 10 month old. Why are people so stupid.

@grandmasbo75710 @MsEscoTeaches @shesmiles717 If teachers get another job to pay their bills in the summer, what’s stopping them from staying in the better-paying job year round? Then who will teach your children?

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but those mandatory training videos that they expect us to watch and take a quiz on should be paid time. I’m sorry, but I refuse to do 6+ hours of work for free. 😒

@Chicken_Fat82 @MsEscoTeaches The time off that they get isn’t paid. They get the whole summer off, great. You could have the whole summer off too if you didn’t want to get paid for summer either. See how it works?

@sage_stage Can’t you still drive for Lyft too or did they have this already?

10) I know drivers, male and female, who grind out 60-80 hours a week trying to make a living. Or who work full time and then driver for a few hours just trying to make ends meet. Fares and tips are down, bills are up. People are struggling and that should not be discounted

Side hustle sunday- Uber is unveiling a new program that will pair women with women if they choose to. So a female driver can have only female passengers, and a female rider can opt for female drivers. Reaction is mixed, but here's a drivers perspective on it.

@cpaforerp @karen_kelowna Ideally people would follow isolation guidelines if they knew they had a positive result. But if they don’t care about others’ health enough to test or isolate, sure they COULD isolate without testing but they probably won’t.

@karen_kelowna If he gets tested, how would his behavior change?

@BestStephenD @karen_kelowna If people don’t test, they also don’t follow isolation guidelines.

@karen_kelowna If your niece's husband took the test how would a positive result and a negative result change their approach to their 10-month-old?

@MrDanielBuck Isn’t there ANY way to prevent the digital literacy backslide though? Of course I don’t agree with students using AI instead of doing their own assignments, but how are they supposed to learn how to use technology appropriately out in the real world if nobody teaches them?

If schools ban phones but keep 1-to-1 computing, they shouldn’t have even bothered banning phones, honestly Go paper and pencil or don’t bother

@CatminACAB @SketchesbyBoze 100% agree. I think the odd thing here is that it was used in a book and not just on a social media platform. But perhaps that was intentional, to show that the character was also trying to evade censorship. Or to evade censorship if the line was quoted on social media, as it is.

@SketchesbyBoze Mock the platforms’ coercion if you want, but don’t sneer at the people engaging in a genuine form of resistance, adapting linguistically to survive it. Orwell would’ve recognized which side the real threat is coming from.

I find this sinister, because euphemisms like “unalived” are part of a broader dumbing down of language. Orwell warned about “narrowing the range of thought” in 1984: “We shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there shall be no words in which to express it.”

@ChooseLove86 @PeterGraziano8 @SketchesbyBoze I can only imagine that perhaps they didn’t want the reach to be throttled on anyone quoting that line. Or they wanted to get the publicity from someone quoting that line to make fun of it. 😆

@PeterGraziano8 @SketchesbyBoze This. Like it was just supposed to be a social media thing to avoid censorship & suspension/banning for no reason. It was never meant to be a real word. That's a super odd choice for someone to use it in a book, lol.

@heymrsbond I mean I wouldn’t judge someone for not wanting to spend their own time and money decorating their classroom to the nines, but I also wouldn’t shame them for it.

@sage_stage @MrWCoffeeDude Maybe the admin needs a lesson on accountability- if they want to accept them late, they have to grade them. 😆

@MrWCoffeeDude I was able to say no and as far as I can see, it stuck. Who knows what happens later. But the way the admin ask, now makes it look like it is my fault for not accepting the work late. The lesson on accountability will be lost

Tuesday afternoon was the last time students could submit their final project online. I've already got 3 emails, including one from an admin asking if I could still take them. My grades need to be finalized this afternoon and the project timeline had been posted for a month

@dieworkwear I think your problem was your audience. People who are still on X are overwhelmingly not going to be receptive to anything that smacks of truth or compassion. Like I said when I previously commented on your thread, I only check X periodically anymore and I don’t really use it…

I shared my story because I think the narrative about undocumented immigrants has become very slanted in order to justify crackdowns. It doesn't help when people think that all undocumented immigrants are criminals who hate the US. The ones I know are good, hardworking people.

@AllisonETEC The states that don’t have unions, though, teachers can’t even earn a living wage and would literally make more in fast food. Education is inherently political and teachers deserve to get paid enough to survive.

The union I joined 27 years ago is not the one I see in the headlines today. I have never seen my union so fully engrossed in one side’s politics and it disappoints me. K-12 Education should be apolitical and laser focused on student achievement and growth. Teachers are frightened to leave the union for fear of retaliation. I am one of them.

@Elisabeth13 @TFLA_Tweets That’s awesome! I’m trying to see if I can get anything ready in German to make it worth teachers’ while to try out my site so I can go this year. Last year that was the big disappointment for a lot of people, that I didn’t offer German yet…

In Dallas planning an AMAZING @TFLA_Tweets fall conference in October! Y’all are going to love this hotel! #langchat

@lorojoro @arw_poetry @dieworkwear “Had to”?

@arw_poetry @dieworkwear Can’t fix a problem without knowing how bad it is. Xenophobia and racism are woven into national fabric & must be cut out, thread by thread. We need a pathway for legalization. I feel like this is what we lost after 9/11 when Bush had to do war instead of domestic policy

I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will. I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't. My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby. I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else. The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud. There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families. I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane. About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants. I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending. The militarization of law enforcement is over the top and only escalate the situation. I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away. If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters. Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.

@arw_poetry @dieworkwear I’m not surprised at the replies - this is X, after all. I only open it occasionally anymore and I’m glad I did today because I happened to see this thread. But I usually ignore it because ew.

@dieworkwear Derek, thanks for sharing your story. These replies are disheartening and sickening. I’m appalled at the lack of compassion.

@educator4ever36 @RobertSpenser20 The problem is that students wouldn’t pass them because teachers aren’t allowed to actually teach in ways that work. Many have to just mindlessly go through the textbook, so unless you test on that specific way that they were required to teach, which doesn’t tell you much…

@RobertSpenser20 I’m all for bringing back graduation tests.

I just listened to her for the second time and it hit ever harder. Please take 4 minutes and really listen to what she is saying. We have been warning you.

@AshSambaluk @TFLA_Tweets Thank you so much for being part of our event!

✈️ On my way to share some thoughts from Texas & exchange 💡 w/language educators in Arizona! The more 🧠s, the better- can’t wait to see what comes of our time together 🍇. 🙏to @TeachingSolved for creating this space & opportunity- it wouldn’t happen w/o visionaries like you!