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Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.
Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Education #Trump #School #Teaching #Parents #Family #Children
October was always his favorite month. (Watch Principal Skeleton cartoons! Right here: https://www.youtube.com/@grickle ) #grickledoodle #principalskeleton #horror #school #october #halloween #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
October was always his favorite month. (Watch Principal Skeleton cartoons! Right here: https://www.youtube.com/@grickle ) #grickledoodle #principalskeleton #horror #school #october #halloween #cartoon #art #drawing #funny
My natural impulse is to help people so I constantly feel guilty when I hear my classmates struggle with a subject I thrive in and I don't offer to help, but I've never tutored before and don't really know how to do it. I don't know how to transfer my knowledge onto somebody else.
Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-charter-superintendent-pay-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Texas #Education#School#Parents#Family#CharterSchool#Superintendent
Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-charter-superintendent-pay-performance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Texas #Education#School#Parents#Family#CharterSchool#Superintendent
My daughter is starting high school (USA). She's brought home 4 things I am "required" (?) to sign. 3 they are just normal lists classroom rules. The 4th is for gym... Ugh. It is every bad gym teacher stereotype spewed across four pages of text, with lots of all-caps, plenty of phrases like "you WILL...", "NO EXCEPTIONS", "you will be ABSOLUTELY SILENT", etc.
Most of the rules and "expectations" are pretty reasonable but the angry, accusatory tone is unhelpful, and the missed-class rules are openly punitive rather than educational.
So I wrote a note to that effect above my signature, and clarified that my signature meant I had read the document.
Kid was concerned about my annotation. I offered to tell the gym teacher I lost the document and request a new one, but kid decided to just let it ride.
Many thoughts, including
- This is how you make most students hate PE
- This is how you keep negative #stereotypes alive (I'm actually aware that Not All Gym Teachers, but this doesn't help)
- This is how you tell the kids there are two tiers of students: the athlete ingroup, who are used to this kind of communication and know this gym teacher (who is also a coach) will be sympathetic to them despite the strident tone, and everyone else, the outgroup.
This school is generally pretty good, but there are always issues, usually of exactly this kind: a subset of teachers or administrators treating all kids like criminals regardless of their behavior.
My daughter is starting high school (USA). She's brought home 4 things I am "required" (?) to sign. 3 they are just normal lists classroom rules. The 4th is for gym... Ugh. It is every bad gym teacher stereotype spewed across four pages of text, with lots of all-caps, plenty of phrases like "you WILL...", "NO EXCEPTIONS", "you will be ABSOLUTELY SILENT", etc.
Most of the rules and "expectations" are pretty reasonable but the angry, accusatory tone is unhelpful, and the missed-class rules are openly punitive rather than educational.
So I wrote a note to that effect above my signature, and clarified that my signature meant I had read the document.
Kid was concerned about my annotation. I offered to tell the gym teacher I lost the document and request a new one, but kid decided to just let it ride.
Many thoughts, including
- This is how you make most students hate PE
- This is how you keep negative #stereotypes alive (I'm actually aware that Not All Gym Teachers, but this doesn't help)
- This is how you tell the kids there are two tiers of students: the athlete ingroup, who are used to this kind of communication and know this gym teacher (who is also a coach) will be sympathetic to them despite the strident tone, and everyone else, the outgroup.
This school is generally pretty good, but there are always issues, usually of exactly this kind: a subset of teachers or administrators treating all kids like criminals regardless of their behavior.
We can make a lot of positive change starting at #local levels. All of it is important, but don't underestimate the impact of winning #localelections for #school board & #councils to resist & reverse the Trumpist agenda. #GreenParty regularly wins locally!
https://newrepublic.com/article/198396/michigan-school-parents-defeat-antitrans-maga-activists
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
We can make a lot of positive change starting at #local levels. All of it is important, but don't underestimate the impact of winning #localelections for #school board & #councils to resist & reverse the Trumpist agenda. #GreenParty regularly wins locally!
https://newrepublic.com/article/198396/michigan-school-parents-defeat-antitrans-maga-activists
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
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An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-vouchers-private-schools-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
New Uvalde Records Reveal Details About School Safety Concerns and Shooter’s Behavioral Issues
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The release is part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit that news organizations brought against state and local governments. The fight continues to get the Texas Department of Public Safety to release its own records.
#News#Texas #Uvalde#SchoolShooting#School #Education#Safety#Students#Lawsuit
We waren te tegast in de @angrynerdspodcast onderwijsspecial 
op het hackerkamp #WHY2025 🤓. Samen met @BjornW van @publicspaces en @nicorikken van de @fsfe
Luister de aflevering hier terug:
https://angrynerdspodcast.nl/specials/Angry%20Nerds%20Live%20op%20WHY2025%20-%20Maandag%2002.mp3
#onderwijs #school#BigTech#AngryNerdsPodcast #privacy#Google#Microsoft#OpenSource
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