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@Katsbigopinion2 Oh, poor Harry. That’s what he wants to hear, right? He thought it was going to be fun out here. Poor guy.

He never wanted to leave the royal family. He never wanted to leave Great Britain and the safety of Great Britain. He did it all for his wife and now he’s been stripped of almost everything. Has lost his self-respect and dignity, & has a questionable visa while living in the USA.

@NetNym @TolentinoTeach Students are being taught by teachers who are miserable.

@NetNym @TolentinoTeach All the extroverts in my family are also a teacher issue. Thought the introverts would get a pass.

Unpopular idea: Many school environments are not built for introverts. Yes, collaboration matters. Yes, school plays an important role in social development. But let’s be honest about the other side. The constant noise. The pressure to speak on demand. The overuse of group work. The lack of control over classroom volume and behavior. The absence of sustained silence. All of it works against the introverted student. Many of the “quiet” students aren’t disengaged. They’re out of their element.

@FixingEducation How about when one of my teachers threw an eraser, knocked over a desk and told the class he was done for the day? Lucky him. There’s never a consequence to teachers based on their impact on a classroom environment.

Ranking student consequences based on their impact on the classroom environment: 🟢 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 Major impact. Removes the problem entirely for the rest of the students. 🟢 𝐎𝐮𝐭-𝐨𝐟-𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 Clear message + gives the classroom a reset. 🟡 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 Can be very effective…if the parent is aligned with the school. 🟡 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 Quick, direct, and underrated. Works well for low- to mid-level behaviors. 🟡 𝐈𝐧-𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 Depends on structure. Can work, can also be a holding room. 🟡 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 Short-term fix, but necessary to maintain order. 🟠 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Low-level consequence. Rarely changes meaningful behavior. 🔴 𝐏𝐁𝐈𝐒 Often overused rewards without consistent consequences. Rarely effective.

@miguelifornia @Ghostofcynthia @spencerpratt California finally getting creativity and a sense of humor back!

🎬 SPENCER PRATT FOR LA MAYOR 🌴 @spencerpratt LFG

@blueskypinit The only actor with a future is the factory worker.

He felt safe… until THIS happened 👀

@TheHittingVault I like the skinny little umpire that runs in to break up the fight.

This just makes me really sad. How do we stop this type of thing from happening? Parents. Please. Think about your kids. They are watching everything you do and say. This guy should never be allowed on a field again let alone coaching young athletes.

@mattvanswol @AwakenedOutlaw This is why every family I know is looking for alternatives to public school.

🚨HOLY CRAP!!!! Over 50% of ALL NORTH CAROLINA KIDS will NOT have school on Friday so that teachers can protest. Parents are PANICKING after even MORE school districts cancelled classes LAST NIGHT. My son's school has cancelled classes for this protest... THIS IS INSANE!!!!!

@wussup1818 @blueskypinit Spare me the lecture. Put a cot in the classroom and teach those with their eyes open instead of wasting time in what is probably a very boring class.

@TBoneTidbit @blueskypinit yep and when he’s living on the streets he will know why

Student disrespects Principal Johnson… and regrets it 😳

Former public school teacher, now a homeschool mom, says countless kids have been hurt by the way the school system treats them. She published an apology to a student named Jacob for the hurt she caused him (unintentionally) with the public school mindset.

@0riettaRose If only every teacher understood the impact of an encouraging word. Thank you to this teacher.

@FixingEducation Teachers created, supported and now complain about the educational system that most kids hate. Ask kids if they have had one great teacher. A few might say yes. And those just might be what you call ‘low performers’.

Schools pour huge resources and tons of money to try and support the lowest performers. But does that come at the expense of middle and high achievers? Should we rethink the balance?

@Montse_fr6 @JamesAFurey Yes, passing tests opens the doors to jobs. Then comes the real life stress test for teachers. If only they were teaching robots all would be well.

@TBoneTidbit @JamesAFurey Los profesores han aprobado una carrera y unas oposiciones. Ya han pasado dos filtros.

I’m sure people are getting sick of me repeating myself, but if a student chronically shows themselves incapable of behaving in a classroom in a way that is conducive to the group learning the should be removed. Permanently in some cases. There is a sort of inversion of morality that has occurred in education systems in which we show the most care to the worst students and sacrifice the best on the off chance it will help them.

@FixingEducation Nothing worse for students than a teacher who hates the job and documents the reasons why daily. Hope those are the ones quitting.

9 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗚𝗢 “Teachers need to either stop complaining or quit!” 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗪 Teachers have left the profession at record rates. America is currently short 400,000+ teachers and it’s only getting worse. Now what?

@BasedSamParker @aishahhasnie Take note: Every single thing you say to a reporter no matter what the occasion will be repeated if it provides the reporter air time.

2/ @aishahhasnie, why would the press secretary's husband express concern for your safety literally over dinner at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner? Isn't that pretty odd? x.com/aishahhasnie/s…

🚨 BREAKING: DID FOX NEWS CUT OFF LIVE BROADCAST INDICATING FOREKNOWLEDGE OF SHOOTING? ▪️Karoline Leavitt: "There will be some shots fired" ▪️Aishah Hasnie sitting next to Leavitt, & her husband says: "You need to be very safe, *looks around room*, there are some....[mic cut]" Via | @Mollyploofkins & @Brandon6numbers

@ihtesham2005 @tedcruz It seems like teachers now complain about everything and blame students, parents and their administration for their lousy attitudes. There’s a reason students love this professor’s course. He loved teaching!

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

@TolentinoTeach Everything Everywhere Everybody (including Teachers) Changed.

If you haven’t taught in a classroom post-Covid, you don’t know what it is like to teach the modern student. The students have changed. Teaching has changed. You have to be in the classroom daily to understand what I mean.