Gretchen

Baby girl (aka Little One) has arrived! What started with a routine appointment led us to rush to the hospital for me to be induced and eventually deliver, but she’s here and is perfect. My friends and family were asked to send prayers for her, I’d love that from you too.

Although parents across the United States can sue their school districts for private-school tuition, no one is as likely to opt for this route as a New Yorker. A 1993 Supreme Court case gave parents nationwide the option to file a “due process” claim against the Department of Education if their children have learning disabilities. These lawsuits are referred to as Carter Cases. If the city settles, or the family wins in a hearing, the DoE will be liable for the cost of services, transportation, evaluations, and/or tuition at a specialized private school. The rate of claims per student in New York State is ten times higher than the national average. In the 2023-2024 school year, according to federal data, New York State represented nearly 70 percent of all special-education due-process claims filed in the United States — and in 2021, 98 percent of these cases came from New York City. Over the last decade, the city has grown what you might consider a Carter-case industrial complex with an unusually dense geographic concentration of high-end, specialized private schools; tutors; therapists; educational lawyers; advocates; and evaluators who all know and recommend each other and who help families navigate the system. “There’s an entire economic infrastructure around due process,” says Christina Foti, a deputy chancellor for New York City Public Schools. “That ecosystem has included inflated costs.” Read Anya Kamenetz’s report on how, for well-resourced, mostly-white parents whose children have learning disabilities, suing the city for private school tuition has become a norm: nymag.visitlink.me/FhEedR

Anthropology class? Nope. Just kids at school experiencing what the 1990s were like. Honestly, it's funny watching them treat these items like absolute relics. My personal favorite is the Rolodex! Anywho, I wish this was integrated in classrooms everywhere. I think lot of parents would agree this generation has a fascination with how we used to live.

This is already true. I’m opting out with Waldorf school.

@jolocrlst @americanamemes That really hurts

@americanamemes same LA dads at their kids' high school graduation...

LA dads at their kid’s preschool graduation:

@americanamemes Ouch

@mbateman My 2 year old, when she starts saying “Actually…”

Any time 6yo starts a sentence with “For example, …” you know you’re in for a scorching banger

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers wsbtv.com/news/local/atl…

@sarahlouwou Welp, glad it worked for me back in the day and I don’t have to deal with this ****.

😵I’m out

@SacWalkSafe @saclib I had to go there to get a new library card, for whatever reason they weren’t offered at McKinley… I was pretty shocked to see the conditions then.

Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card. Colonial Heights (anticolonialists might need to rename this branch) @saclib has Sac Co Opioid Coalition tabling in front foyer. No paraphernalia, just nasal narcan, fetty test strips and CANDY Like this group better because they push treatment. Couldn’t turn in my dirty needles tho. I’ll have to go to Southgate tomorrow from 3:30-4:15. 👋@war24182236 @choeshow @MarioNawfal

This entire thing is blasphemy:

@MuseZack The irony of taking a story that is as deeply about a place as East of Eden and filming it in another country… that’s a no go for me.

@HannahWardEdu This is wild. I learned during my hunt for preschools how much regulation goes into potty training in childcare settings, there’s a lot of staff training and oversight that happens. I can’t see how a school could just override the state licensing and regulations.

This school board just unanimously voted that toilet training other people's children is now a staff responsibility at their public schools. Not kids who need special accommodations. ALL the kids. What is a parent's job now exactly? What can parents reliably be expected to do?

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

@BytheWay2188 @ZillennialApple Also teachers.

@ZillennialApple Parents of affected children need to file a police report and sue every adult in the school that was aware of this dangerous behavior. From the School committe to the lunch lady (they all know). Kids don't lose their right to safety just because they enter a public school.

I don't care if violent behavior is a manifestation of your disability. You should still be expelled. IDEA needs to be amended so it no longer protects violent children from immediate expulsion or long suspensions. I don't care if I'm called ableist for this take.

Districts keep spending millions on programs students hate, teachers barely use, and test scores still aren’t improving. At what point do we admit edtech isn’t fixing education?

@mbateman @IvanaDGreco Awwww

@IvanaDGreco One of the most tragic periods of now-6yo’s childhood is when we removed all the non-board books from her library for a few weeks because she couldn’t resist destroying them. I think she was 1

This baby is currently ripping up a pop-up book (which he has been repeatedly told not to do) and hiding the evidence in his onesie. And yet he’s so cute I can’t make myself stop him.

@beryl_byrdie Yikes 😬

My school just installed cameras that can single out any voice even if you’re whispering. So now all shit talking conversations must be in a

Listen to the beautiful love song of the Yosemite toad. It’s a Sierra high country rite of spring that is joyful to witness.

@didactickatydid @esaagar The solution is a whole school screen/media pact, which I’ve only seen at Waldorf schools- and a big part of why that’s what I’m choosing for my own child.

@esaagar @offgridteacher Since screens in classrooms are (usually) fairly controlled when in use, they’re probably the only remotely valuable screens kids get all day. Banning them alone will have basically zero effect on cognitive decay. I don’t know the solution for getting parents to also ban them.

It's the screens ban them. All of them. No smartphones, no chromebooks whatsoever. Paper homework only