Four years into my job as a college Professor of Teacher Education, I was still working in my office after 5:00 pm. I was leaving for a conference on Wednesday and was presenting with my former PhD advisor on Friday morning. I was trying to prepare my presentation — an…

“We need to arm teachers,” the self-professed Good Guy With a Gun (GGWAG) gun says, disingenuously arguing that the solution to guns is more guns. “You just don’t understand how guns work,” the GGWAG will reply when I try to explain on social media why arming teachers is an incredibly…

Trump Fascists’ Direct Attacks on Our Schools Link to Part I: All Fascist governments attack and attempt to control their schools and teachers. Link to Part II — Attacks on U.S. Teachers is Nothing New Now the increasingly fascist Trump/Republican Party is moving past the covert attacks and political and media attacks of previous decades. Those just…

Tell us you don’t understand CRT without telling us you don’t understand CRT. Given, no one outside of a few specializations in academia understands CRT because it’s a made-up “controversy” created by right-wing extremists. Commenter blocked.

When I was three or four, I was afraid of the smoke alarms in our house. Because I was too young to understand cause and effect, I believed that the presence of a smoke alarm meant we would have a fire. I didn’t understand that doing something to prevent something…

I’m a distant descendant of the Revolutionary War hero, Nathaniel Greene, and his wife, Cathrine Littlefield Greene. Not directly. The Greene family and Null family intermarried at some point, so the Greenes are a great, great, great, great (however many generations) uncle and aunt. Growing up, we saw the statue…

Attacks on U.S. Teachers is Nothing New Link to Part I: All Fascist governments attack and attempt to control their schools and teachers. Link to Part III: Trump Fascist’s Direct Attacks on our Schools Although the demonizing of teachers, removal of “offensive books”, and packing of school board meetings has been escalating this fall, it did not…

Three-part Series Summary: The current far-right attacks on school boards, schools, teachers, and curricula is not surprising. All fascist movements have attacked their teachers, schools, and curricula. Although the current far-right attacks on school boards, schools, teachers, and curricula has reached a more extreme stage, this is not new. Fiscal…

When people say that or post it, I tell them to be careful what they wish for. This year, most districts can't find enough teachers. Teachers are not surprised.