#ParentStrike

FL public ed friends, we are on the fast track to machine learning for all students. We are going to need @fairplayforkids . I donated. Please join me.

@FLBaloney It sure made a bunch of consultants a boatload of money 💰 though.

“If the test-based teacher evaluation system had simply failed, it would be one more story of educational amateurs insisting that you can measure a cloud by taping a ruler to a sponge while standing in a river, but this approach has done considerable damage to public education.”3

“Virtually nobody working in a school thought that the test-based teacher evaluation system was fair or accurate, but anyone who dared to challenge it was accused of being against any kind of accountability for teachers or school.” 2/

“A working paper just issued by five researchers concludes that the “massive effort to institute new high-stakes teacher evaluation systems,” had essentially no effect on “student achievement.”” forbes.com/sites/petergre…

@Chasten Every time my granddaughters have described their school's latest drill my heart breaks. I'll never forget reading about 11-year-old Kayleigh giving advice to adults on how to survive an active-shooter drill. musebycl.io/advertising/11…

It must be absolutely exhausting for our nation’s students to watch some adults care more about teachers bringing history books to school than a gunman brining a weapon.

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Op-ed from @AlachuaSchools superintendent: "If and when there’s another covid surge in #Florida, public schools will be without two of the most useful weapons in our fight against the virus: masks and quarantines." #Floriduh washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

"Radical Censors want to Burn School Library books at the Spotsylvania School Board meeting. Bring a fire extinguisher and protect public property!" #Virginia facebook.com/events/s/educa…

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So if I’m in a store and someone starts shooting, and I grab their gun and tackle them, they can legally shoot me in self defense?

Can we normalize that the teacher burnout is real and that we are all struggling with our own mental health at the moment? #teachertwitter #TEACHers

Let us say again. And again. And again. Rich and powerful forces like @WaltonFamilyFdn think #txed has failed and want to privatize it. The crisis is here. It’s been here for years. There is one person who can stop it. You. And one place to stop it. Your neighborhood. #txlege

Like a water oak, DeSantis grew fast and thus he grew weak. Water oaks are an undesirable tree as they tend to fall over in storms when the ground is saturated, but they also are subject to rot in their cores. grumpyoldteacher.com/2021/11/20/pre…

BREAKING NEWS: The Senate just confirmed Charles “Chuck” Sams III as head of the National Park Service, making him the first Native American EVER to lead the agency. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS GREAT NEWS!