@JDVance When donโt you actually read the federal officers policies?? There is only 1 legal reason he could shoot her and thatโs if she had a weapon (NOT the vehicle) and was threatening! Get out of politics!
@CamillemKt@AndrewJRParker@SohrabAhmari She was told to move while being told to get out of her car AND 3 masked men were approaching her while 1 had his hands in her vehicle! Her response is called fight or flight! She chose flight! She did nothing wrong!
@Stalfos23@AndrewJRParker@SohrabAhmari It is against federal officers own rules! Even if a car is driving towards an officer, they are NOT allowed to shoot! Take a wild stab as to why!!
Hitting a driver with their foot on the gas increases the risk to other citizens! ๐ฑ
@H86253Houston@meiselasb Itโs โaffectedโ his job performance! The effects of his health are destroying the US for its citizens and making you a laughing stock on the world stage! Get it?
@FredErnsting@OccupyDemocrats Genuine question: why was it not ok for Biden but itโs ok for this fool to need to hold a hand to walk or trips up stairs or throws wild tantrums on the internet or falls asleep in an Oval Office meeting?
@dubsndoo Iโm going to make sure I speak either French or Italian when Iโm out in public in yyc in case you are around! I was born and raised here. My mom is from QC and dad came from Italy 45 years ago. wtf you gonna do about it??? Close our French school too?
@KatKanada_TM That means your child is not sick to the point of deterioration. You could also call 811 to talk to a nurse that can triage your kid and give you next steps! Also, we are loosing drs and nurses BECAUSE of conservative gov!
@BearsMom73@EastEndJoe You understand the money that was given to Argentina will help their soybean farmers and grow their sales while taking away from American soybean farmers and the trades they rely on right?? Thatโs not America first but whoโs keeping track?!
A message from a Kindergarten teacher:
After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:
โMy dad says people like you donโt matter anymore.โ
No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty โ the kind that cuts deeper because itโs innocent. He blinked, then added, โYou donโt even have a TikTok.โ
My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.
When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise โ a shared belief that what we did mattered. We werenโt rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didnโt quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.
But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I canโt quite describe.
My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now theyโre spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. Iโve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children โ one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.
And the kidsโฆ theyโve changed too. Not by choice.
They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some canโt make eye contact or wait in line. Weโre expected to fix all of it โ to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move โ in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.
The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and โlearning metrics.โ A young principal once told me, โClara, maybe youโre too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.โ
As if kindness were a weakness.
Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure โ
a whisper of, โYou remind me of my grandma.โ
a shaky note that read, โI feel safe here.โ
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, โI read the whole page.โ
Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.
But this last year broke something in me.
The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers โ my friends โ vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.
I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board thatโs been wiped one too many times.
So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:
โThank you for loving me when I was hard to love.โ
I sat on the floor and cried.
No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me โMaโamโ while checking his notifications.
I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories โ the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That canโt be uploaded. It canโt be measured. It canโt be replaced.
I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.
So if you know a teacher โ any teacher โ thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.
Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.