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one of my most firmly held beliefs is there's no such thing as an inappropriate book for a kid and people try to debate me saying like buhhhhhh I shouldnt have been reading the things I did when I was a kid and it's like cool but did you die??? did anything bad happen to you?? or were you allowed to think about what you did and didn't know and walk away when something got too intense or whatever.

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The biggest misconception in public schools is that literary analysis is about proving you can be right or wrong about a book you read

Literary analysis isn’t about the book

It’s not even about being right

It’s about performing an investigation and presenting your case to the jury

It doesn’t matter if your defendant killed that guy or not. If you can convince the jury he didn’t, you’ve won

And the incredible life skill of spinning bulletproof bullshit out your ass with a handful of facts and a prayer is soooooooo much more valuable than anyone’s ever gonna tell you

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Displayed on the Old North Church in Boston, MA on April 18, 2025, the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride.

Photo source: silencedogoodboston, the group behind this idea

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John Green may be a little "cringe" but credit where credit is due at least he's a YA author who made his special interest trying to expand tuberculosis care instead of trying to make a living hell for trans women and other LGBTQ+s

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No children are allowed in the Library of Congress.

It's not that kind of library.

In other words...

You are being lied to

again

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anyone ever buy a replacement wheel for a plastic rolling cart? i’d hate to buy a new one but the one i got from my grandma had a wheel fall out and get… misplaced…

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The Creature: You made me, therefore you must bear the consequences of my creation.

Victor Frankenstein: Nuh-uh

The Creature: fym nuh-uh?

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i genuinely believe that schools need to immediately expel students for using gen AI & blacklist them from any other program for at least five years, because i don’t want to fucking deal with these useless twerps being credentialed in any field whatsoever. these fucking people are going to be your lawyers. your healthcare professionals. these people who are too fucking dumb to read, who would rather blindly trust a glorified predictive text generator than spend five minutes studying or thinking on their own.

at this point, if you didn’t receive your credentials before 2020, it is infinitely safer for me to assume that your degree is hollow, your work is fake, and your knowledge nonexistent unless & until proven otherwise.

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yes, this also applies to charter schools.

i attended a fantastic charter school — and then when i taught at one that was a scam, i got to watch them go out of their way to get kids to attend for “count week”. usually bribes of food/cook outs/other free stuff that my credit recovery kids benefited from.

i learned my high school experience was not the norm when i got to public education. charters and private schools don’t get held to the same standards. they don’t even have to pass standardized tests in many places. they send kids away for being too demanding, too difficult, too low. they don’t have the staff to support these kids, yet take the resources we need in order to hire it ourselves.

hey, just so we're all clear on the republican's private school voucher program:

these private schools are not obligated to accept students with disabilities, behavioral needs, learning differences, or complicated life circumstances

students can be kicked out of private schools for really stupid reasons and it often happens around testing season (as a way of excluding low performers from the school's data)

all of these students with diverse needs or low test scores get thrown back into the public system — while the private schools get to brag about their good outcomes and data

the public schools get stuck in a vicious cycle of underperforming because they're flooded with complex students and don't have the bandwidth to handle it, while also getting denied resources/funding because their data isn't good enough to merit support

private schools use this predicament to further their "public education is broken" agenda and steal more of the public schools' resources, funding, and top-performing students

signed, someone with experience in this sphere

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always great to hear my boss say "we're living through the collapse of the american library system" while I'm at my american library system job

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good morning to everyone except the Sunday scaries

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we’ve been reading the hunger games during homeroom. one of my kids told me that i have the “perfect katniss voice”. it’s probably a compliment, as one must have expression to do that. however, we just got through the interviews, in which haymitch describes her as being “hostile” and “surly”…

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im still losing it over the "how did high schoolers write 600 word essays before chatgpt" post. 600 words. that is nothing. that is so few words what do you mean you can't write 600 words. 600 words. this post right here is 45 words.

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my stylist always does the coolest trends but i, alas, do not understand how to style hair at all. this is it. this is the best it will ever look because she styled it.

i wonder at what point in time kids i don’t have will start assuming i’m over the age of 25. and also stop assuming i’m a sub or student teacher.