Todd Porter MD MSPH

Amazing night at #jeffcokidsfirst annual Gala getting to meet the ⁦⁦@Riley_Gaines_⁩ & celebrating the amazing advocacy work being done to protect our children. Thank you ⁦@ldatko⁩ for being the heart and soul of this group. Riley did not disappoint!👏💪.

CNN just fact-checked Chuck Schumer live on air and wrecked him. Schumer claimed the SAVE Act “appeals to only the most fringe element of the MAGA base.” CNN instantly put up the numbers: White Americans: 85% support voter ID Latino Americans: 82% Black Americans: 76% The anchor straight-up said: “Voter ID is NOT controversial in this country. Not by party. Not by race. The vast majority of Americans support it.” Schumer just called 76% of Black Americans, 82% of Latinos, and 85% of Whites “fringe MAGA.” They don’t oppose voter ID because it’s unpopular. They oppose it because it works. Time to nuke the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act.

When a teachers' union with 3M members spends its time on activism training instead of academics, it tells you everything about the misplaced priorities in education. ➡️ foxnews.com/politics/leake…

The U.S. already spends more per student than any other developed nation, while student achievement lags. More money isn’t the solution.

@dany_egorov Missing out? lol. That’s a feature, not a bug. open.substack.com/pub/educatedan…

Wow. So messed up that their family’s wishes were not respected.

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve gained a bunch of new followers, so I thought I’d just reintroduce myself. I’m an ex-California public school teacher who watched the system degrade into near-universal failure from 2001-2022. My initial work was to explain the systemic incentives that have robbed millions of kids of a proper education. If you want to understand exactly how things have gone so wrong, I linked the first in a series of five articles explaining how the very structure of public school has been vaporized below. My new goal is to bring you the simple structures I use in my day-to-day practice as a classroom teacher in a classical charter to get outsized gains in teaching kids what it means to be a Good American. (It’s slow work though because my nine-to-five is more like a seven-to-ten; that’s what it takes to scale this up to 150 kids.) More will be coming soon. For now, if you have the stomach for it, the articles below will help you understand where we are so you can start building a Plan B for your family, even if you can’t fully exit the K12 system. open.substack.com/pub/educatedan…

Excellent points by @MarshallMinded Our new study shows how the Biden FDA could have undertaken a risk-benefit analysis using the data available at the time (Jan 2022). Some colleges still mandate covid vax, and some medical schools still mandate the covid vax for students - many males still in the 18-25 bull's eye for elevated risk. Shouldn't we ask them to conduct a risk-benefit analysis now, in the context of widespread population immunity? How are they exempt from this sort of critical thinking to inform policy, not to mention informed consent?

Instead of aligning with the science of reading, Reading Recovery aligned with a branding consultant. New name: Literacy Council of North America. Same approach. That’s not progress. Rebranding isn’t reform. It’s a missed opportunity — and our students deserve better! @DyslexiaIDA @Reading_League @kjwineducation @smervosh @ParentsUnion

Chicago has a public school with space for 912 kids, yet only 28 students are enrolled. The school is 97% empty. It spends $93,787 per student. It's staff to student ratio is 1:1. ZERO of the kids are proficient in reading.

@ebennett74 @Fynnderella1 @DrBenTapper1 @drsimonegold @drcraigwax @docbiss @DoctorCole @MaryBowdenMD @DrKellyVictory @P_McCulloughMD @BrianLenzkes @MidwesternDoc @DrKatLindley No. No we don’t really. 😂

@smalltownpeddoc @Fynnderella1 @DrBenTapper1 @drsimonegold @drcraigwax @docbiss @DoctorCole @MaryBowdenMD @DrKellyVictory @P_McCulloughMD @BrianLenzkes @MidwesternDoc @DrKatLindley And also. Do we want to know? 🙈

Wow match day for Residency sure has changed…. @DrBenTapper1 @drsimonegold @drcraigwax @docbiss @DoctorCole @MaryBowdenMD @DrKellyVictory @P_McCulloughMD @BrianLenzkes @IreneMavrakakis @MidwesternDoc @DrKatLindley

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@ebennett74 @Fynnderella1 @DrBenTapper1 @drsimonegold @drcraigwax @docbiss @DoctorCole @MaryBowdenMD @DrKellyVictory @P_McCulloughMD @BrianLenzkes @MidwesternDoc @DrKatLindley What exactly is social pediatrics? Did I miss something in residency?

@Fynnderella1 @DrBenTapper1 @drsimonegold @drcraigwax @docbiss @DoctorCole @MaryBowdenMD @DrKellyVictory @P_McCulloughMD @BrianLenzkes @MidwesternDoc @DrKatLindley Uh…what?

Rashida Tlaib just wrote a post in which she refers to the United States of America as "they". When I passed by her office on Capitol Hill this is the flag I saw. Why are American taxpayers funding this???

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@KrugAlli @anish_koka @drjohnm @DrJMarine It is a great post @drlucymcbride

Great post, Lucy, and I agree with you. I'm not sure she's the best choice, to be honest. I think you would do a great job, I think @anish_koka or @drjohnm or @DrJMarine would as well. However, she was bullied by Sen Murray into providing a clear and direct answer on flu shots and she didn't cave. I think that's important. She does get nuance. That said, I don't think she should have used the word "horrifying" re birth control pills. At the root of all this, I realize, is communication. It's still an art, isn't it? And what are we really looking for from a Surgeon General? What do we want from this position? @drlucymcbride lucymcbride.substack.com/p/what-concern…

It’s good to see conversations that have been happening in some US education circles get a boost to the national stage.

@MonicaGandhi9 Nothing more to say than what the other comments already do. You don’t speak for most of us. Disappointing

Don't see the American people supporting more war- and killing children violates international law

@notaproviderMD @Thiohna 💯!

@Thiohna If the mother's life is in danger at 34 weeks, then delivery of her live infant is an option. Please provide a scenario where it's necessary to abort a 34-week fetus to save the mother's life?

No one is aborting a 34wk fetus for shits and giggles. Abortions at this gestation are to save the womans life.

@Parents4RJ This is great to see of course yet it is not realistic for most private pediatric clinics that are not funded by a large hospital system that has the resources to employ a literacy coordinator. A short screen would be feasible. I am waiting on the one Nadine Gaab is developing

What’s happening in Columbus should be the national standard. Pediatricians see kids years before school starts. They’re trusted. They’re consistent. They’re where real early impact happens. This isn’t just a good idea — it’s a system upgrade. Every pediatrician’s office. Every state. Let’s go. 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/readin…