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@Jebanydebil1 @LioncurtL @StihlUser @InternetH0F When what?

@LioncurtL @StihlUser @InternetH0F When?

Gaslighting final boss

@JamesAFurey It's all in the background

No it’s not. Social transition happens all over the country. Schools honor name and pronouns change and don’t change it on official paperwork in order to keep parents in the dark. This person is a liar.

$800k to run a school with 1,000 students. It's an abomination. ksat.com/news/local/202…

@JamesAFurey LTT trends have some of the lowest scores seen in 50 years. But what's more concerning is the steady decline in SAT scores. SAT, despite a reset in 1995 has been declining, especially in reading, since it started basically. There is one lesson for me: compulsory education failed.

I’m working on kinda a giant response to the NAEP results from January. Help me out. What are some arguments you’ve seen for why the results aren’t as much a cause for concern as people like me say they are? I’d like to respond to all of them. Here’s what I got: - Proficiency is an unrealistic goal - Basic is closer to grade-level - The scores aren’t really declining, they’ve always been low - Calling it a crisis is overselling it - If we disaggregate the data, only certain groups are doing poorly - There are many important factors the test can’t capture What did I miss?

@red_standing @jmdenouden @JamesAFurey I could not believe she said that.

@jmdenouden @JamesAFurey The US schools are funded better than any other nation.

@jmdenouden @JamesAFurey 😂

@JamesAFurey Schools aren't receiving enough funding to expect improvement in any significant way

We have lots of inspiration from right here in America, but we also take ideas from elsewhere. Take the sponge city design by (Shanghai) @KongjianYu and his firm Turenscape to harness the collection and flow of water. This is worth a watch: youtu.be/8gLl50h8YWk?si…

No more outdated, one-size-fits-all schooling. Students aren’t just test-takers—they’re creators, problem-solvers, and innovators. Education companies compete to provide the best learning experience, not just fill seats.

This isn’t just school choice—this is a market-driven education system: The best providers win more contracts The worst get replaced Students graduate with tangible skills Teachers have freedom to innovate The government only pays for results

What’s a capstone project? Instead of filling out worksheets or cramming for multiple-choice tests, students create real-world projects: A business plan A working prototype A research study A documentary A coding project An urban planning proposal

Instead of public schools or school vouchers, we’d have competitive bidding for education contracts. Private companies win contracts for a set number of students and are paid based on real student learning outcomes—not standardized tests, but capstone projects.

The government gives private businesses contracts to do things it can’t do efficiently. Why not do the same for education? Let private companies bid on contracts to educate students—not for test scores, but for actual learning. Here's how it could work. 🧵👇

@rebelEducator There has been major incentive not to figure out education and pretend like we have.

America is the birthplace of the internet, human flight, and open heart surgery. We've created some crazy innovations in our 249-year history. And yet only 80% of American adults are functionally literate. Clearly we haven't figured out education yet.

I'm proud to have been one of the early supporters for this Walkable USA documentary. Now you can check it out for free. Thanks to @JeffSpeckFAICP, the film team, and @cityofhammond Looking forward to seeing more cities we can be excited to live in. pbs.org/video/walkable…

@rebelEducator Yes! We live in an overly litigious, credentialist, backwardly constructed society. Time to start turning around!

This sentiment is really important across every level of education. Right now we have the opposite: grade inflation and purchased degrees.

@JamesAFurey This

It seems that many believe schools are mere holding pens for kids. Disrupt? Cheat? Refuse to work? No problem! As long as you’re in the building, it’s all good. When raw numbers of warm bodies matter more than quality of education, everyone loses.

@humantransit Yes!

Should I have a podcast? (Pls elaborate in replies.)

Pythagoras said, “Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men”. In the same vein, if you indoctrinate the children, it won’t be necessary to convince the men. Apply that logic to the system of your choosing.

3. An option to remain in SDPBL until graduation (completion of their final capstone) This model could empower students as independent thinkers, rather than training them to accept any singular worldview—whether secular humanism or theonomy. Think this will was to chaos? How?

Flexibility for families to opt into college prep, vocational, or hybrid models. We will also have: 1.A K-4 academy for learning the essentials, similar to a typical elementary school. 2. A college prep and vocational track for older students.

Many assume education must serve a specific ideological mission—either to construct a collectivist democracy (progressivism) or to rebuild a theocratic society (religious fundamentalists). But what if education didn’t have to serve an ideological mission at all?