Writing on the Wall

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Why Making Teachers Carry Guns is a Horrible Idea

“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…

School Shootings

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Why Making Teachers Carry Guns is a Horrible Idea

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Attacking Teachers and Banning Books is the Point — Part III: What’s Happening Now

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…

Schools

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Apr 12

Tell us you don’t understand CRT without telling us you don’t understand CRT.

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.

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Jan 31

Anti-mask, Anti-vaxx Parents and Magical Thinking

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…

Covid 19

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Anti-mask, Anti-vaxx Parents and Magical Thinking

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·Nov 27, 2021

Upset by “Critical Race Theory?” Learn How To Manage Your Own Feelings

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…

Critical Race Theory

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Nov 18, 2021

Attacking Teachers and Banning Books is the Point — Part II: How We Got Here

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…

Teachers

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·Nov 18, 2021

Attacking Teachers and Banning Books is the Point — Part I: The Fascist Playbook

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…

Teachers

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Oct 20, 2021

…ch they ask for more. Once angels who deserved millions, teachers are now being told to suck it up, find a new job if they don’t like the situation (like this is part-time at a fast-food joint or something), and to just get over it. A pandemic. Some…

Stop Gaslighting Teachers: We Don’t Want to be Heroes

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When people say that or post it, I tell them to be careful what they wish for.

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.

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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.

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·Oct 14, 2021

Why I feel safer teaching online

Most of us who teach will agree that online teaching has not been easy. It created more work when we had to re-format or adapt everything we had spent years developing for in-person instruction and then put everything we would say or have students do online — often in multiple…

Online Teaching

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Sep 8, 2021

The Year The Classroom Norms Died

“Everything I did was wrong,” a colleague recently said about her teaching last year. That sentiment probably summarizes a lot of our teaching experience during the 2020–2021 school year. In the before times, teaching was already difficult. But there was at least we knew what our jobs were — even…

Online Learning

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