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.

#highschool #school #adulteducation

How would you organize a #coop #school that would not turn into a private school for the rich?

How would you organize a #coop #school that would not turn into a private school for the rich?

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

After years of prioritizing magnet and charter schools, Chicago is hoping that investing in upgrades to three underenrolled neighborhood schools will lure families back. But it could take years and millions of dollars to see if it works.

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-public-schools-transform-into-steam-academies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Chicago#STEAM #Education#School#Students#Teaching#STEM

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.

#PhysicalEducation #school #education #teenagers #parent

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.

#PhysicalEducation #school #education #teenagers #parent

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

#News #Education#Texas#School#Law#Ethics#Students#Teaching

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

#News #Education#Texas#School#Law#Ethics#Students#Teaching

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uvalde-records-shooting-campus-safety-concerns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#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

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

Monday 10:00 at #WHY2025 we give a talk "Digital sovereignty and the FOSS-stack at school." 🚀
https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/XZBREW/

There is a live stream😃

#school #education #privacy#DigitalSouvereignty#BigTech #opensource

Monday 10:00 at #WHY2025 we give a talk "Digital sovereignty and the FOSS-stack at school." 🚀
https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/XZBREW/

There is a live stream😃

#school #education #privacy#DigitalSouvereignty#BigTech #opensource

14 gespendete #Laptops haben die #Butimba#Primary#School in #Mwanza, #Tansania erreicht.
Aber es fehlen noch #Schulmöbel, um die Laptops darauf zu stellen. Aktuell lernen die Kinder noch auf dem Boden.
So hat sich Flugpate Gundolf spontan bereit erklärt, Tische und Stühle zu sponsern und vor Ort anfertigen zu lassen. So wird das lokale Handwerk gleich mit gefördert.
https://platform.labdoo.org/de/edoovillage?e=227878
#labdoo #tisch #stuhl #schule #teilhabe #digital#würzburg #handwerk

14 gespendete #Laptops haben die #Butimba#Primary#School in #Mwanza, #Tansania erreicht.
Aber es fehlen noch #Schulmöbel, um die Laptops darauf zu stellen. Aktuell lernen die Kinder noch auf dem Boden.
So hat sich Flugpate Gundolf spontan bereit erklärt, Tische und Stühle zu sponsern und vor Ort anfertigen zu lassen. So wird das lokale Handwerk gleich mit gefördert.
https://platform.labdoo.org/de/edoovillage?e=227878
#labdoo #tisch #stuhl #schule #teilhabe #digital#würzburg #handwerk

Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools.
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Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-thirds of that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-rural-schools-funding-legislation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Alaska#School #Education#Student#Budget