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@RonDeSantis Bless me. Only a second term governor would say that. 😆

Ramones are not better than Zeppelin.

@DeelightlyDiana @SorforMore Me too! I'm not a troll or a bat or a weirdo thing. I'm just a dad interested in this topic. That's what I've seen so far. Crossed my heart.

@rm_hangout @SorforMore I find this hard to believe. I teach 7th grade, and our kids read three full length novels this year, not to mention portions of others.

I find it troublesome that so many students aren’t reading on grade-level, yet the first and last month of school lack solid instruction. It’s hard to move students a year’s worth of learning when the system actually provides much less than that! Also, testing schedules…

@rm041923 @FedIndependent @Principal_Jon And that is why classrooms are a mess. Teachers have no authority and the kids see it and know it. So they've created the mess they're in.

@rm_hangout @FedIndependent @Principal_Jon The teacher has no authority. The admin and parents have it. Admin requires parent notification multiple times before admin will give consequences. The teacher is calling cause they 1. Want you to fix your child 2. Admin requires it

Can we stop asking schools to take parent responsibilities? The fact that the school is willing to do toilette training is part of the problem.

@0riettaRose Probably the best comment I've seen on this subject. Well stated. Much of it is a mess for various reasons.

Every single day, people vent about the systemic failures of the K-12 system. They'll tell you, without prompting, that: Disciplinary issues are out of control. Teachers are chronically overworked, underpaid, & being asked to act as social workers, security guards, & educators all at once. Academic standards are tanking, & educational neglect is being masked by grade inflation. Technology is being overused and hurting kids, not helping them. They see ALL OF IT. They're living the consequences of it. And yet, God forbid you suggest stepping outside of that system! If you advocate for homeschooling, alternative education, or even critique the institutional model, defensive walls go up. The same people who can easily list systemic failures will suddenly defend the institution as a sacred, flawless pillar of society. It's a FASCINATING disconnect. People have been conditioned to view the public school system not as a failing service provider, but as an unavoidable, mandatory rite of passage. They treat any critique of the system as an attack on the concept of education itself. The institution is failing kids. Questioning its monopoly isn’t radical, it’s logical. Expecting a broken system to fix itself is crazy, especially when it's proven again & again that it won't make effective change. It’s okay to admit the system isn't working, even better to realize you don't have to wait for it to change to give your kids something better.

@elonmusk Who cares about any of it? It's never been less relevant or interesting.

Who specifically is the asshole who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?

@GhostWhoHaunts @Ben_Baby Ok. It's about jokes. No one cares about anything just said when they're from somewhere else making a joke about Cincinnati. And by the way, they do make fun of New Jersey. Tell a NY'er they're from NJ and see the reaction.

True, but, It’s an airport. How much time does the average Cincinnatian spend going to and from CVG? Personally, it takes me 10-15 minutes to get there from my home in Delhi (West Side of Cincinnati) by taking the Anderson Ferry. Technically, I live about as close to the city of Cincinnati OH as you can get without being a city resident. My commute to the airport is much faster than if the airport was in Cincinnati’s adjacent Ohio suburbs like Norwood, Montgomery or St. Bernard. We are not alone, either. New York (Newark NJ) and Washington DC (Chantilly VA) also have airports in a state different from the one the city, itself, is in. All three are cities where the state borders are defined by a river. The more you know… 🌈 😉

As an outsider to the region (and a Kentucky resident the last seven years), I have never understood Ohio residents insulting Cincinnati by saying it's in Kentucky. Makes very little sense.

@rpondiscio Less reading = worse reading comprehension, writing and critical thinking ability. It's not that complicated. It really isn't. The problem is people who get into education are typically lower end students to begin with. It all flows downhill from that.

A new report suggests panic over whole books disappearing from classroom and ELA curriculum is overblown. The bigger issue may be standardized tests, which have quietly undermined the deeper habits of reading that matter most. thenext30years.substack.com/p/books-arent-…"

@jenteach13 No it doesn't. I have two kids in public school in a state where it sucks to be a teacher. 7th & 9th grade. It's never happened to either of them once. They have subs (for the teachers who take week long vacations in the middle of September), or the ones who quit mid year.

Nobody talks about the Spanish teacher who is the PE teacher today. The math teacher is covering the art room. The counselor is teaching English. All of it is happening because there is nobody else. This happens every single day in schools across this country.

@TruUptownPierre @Brcremer In America white supremacy, in the mainstream, was indisputably a Democrat party invention. To this day Democrats think black people are too stupid to even get a drivers license.

@rm_hangout @Brcremer It’s always the idiots who support maga .. that excuse rape , xenophobia , child abuse , the pillaging of our economy , desecration of our constitution.. and will have the nerve to hide their face …. Either a bit program or a maga coward

@FedIndependent @Principal_Jon The calls home today are about trivial nonsense that any adult teacher handled on their own when I was in school. A call home for serious issues. The minute a teacher calls home they immediately subjugate their own authority. It's like they're tattling to mommy and daddy.

@rm_hangout @Principal_Jon If you get a phone call that's when your parental responsibility shld automatically kick in. Sometimes it does take a village , BUT parents are the core, the child's foundation

@GhostWhoHaunts @Ben_Baby True. But it doesn't help that airport is in Kentucky. Let's be real. When you fly to Cincinnati you land in Kentucky.

Those boys need new material. For the uninitiated, Cincinnati OH borders the state of Kentucky, separated by the Ohio River. Saying Cincinnati is in KY is not the insult that Cleveland thinks it is. Kansas City MO borders Kansas City KS. St. Louis MO borders East St. Louis IL (also separated by a major river, the Mississippi). Cincinnati and cross bridges to go to and from Northern Kentucky all the time. It’s part of Greater Cincinnati. It’s only a joke to a small number of smooth brainer living in a city that borders a Lake that leads to an entirely different country.

@Ben_Baby Are you engagement farming or something? Where are you from that you don't know there's a negative stereotype of KY? Even a Simpsons episode made a joke about Northern Kentucky (an insult).

@billdavidsoniii You're spot on. I have a 7th grader. They never mentally grasped basic arithmetic.

The more I work with middle grade students the more I realize that many have never learned the connectivity within the number system. There's never a bad day for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & even 5th grade teachers to deliver 30-40 second fluency drills addressing the patterns such as these:

@MatthewAKraft It's not what they ARE doing as much as what tbey aren't. They don't read books. They don't write papers or essays. They don't have hardly any homework. Why wouldn't students perform worse if they don't read, write or study? It's honestly that simple. Rest is noise.

My hot takes 1) Declining interest in the teaching profession is an important & under-recognized driver of test declines 2) Condemning "screens" as universally bad is foolish. Online tutoring, computer adaptive learning can offer great differentiation nytimes.com/2026/05/13/ups…

@0Beanie05923291 I have a seventh grader and a ninth grader. Both are a/B students. It is considered a "good" public school. Neither has been assigned to read a book even one time. Not once.

Structured literacy was dismissed decades ago because some educators didn’t agree with the politics of the people who supported it. Millions of students were deprived of effective literacy instruction because adults let politics get in the way. That should never happen again.

@HumbleFlow I'll settle for reading.

Subjects that should be mandatory in schools: - Philosophy - Critical thinking - Problem-solving What would you add?

@ChrisMartzWX They look like Homer Simpson or a 6 yr old designed it.

If Tesla built a Cybertruck that doesn’t look like an ugly ass microwave oven and made it function like an actual pickup with a bed, I probably would buy one just to avoid paying for gas and to reduce maintenance.