Beau Dickerson

Believer and follower of The Christ Jesus of Nazareth. Husband to a fantastic, proverbs 31, wife. Father to 4 kids who drive me crazy and I love it. #Gohoos

[Beau Dickerson @BWD51]

Amen! Encouragement and positive reinforcement carry the most weight after they accomplish something they once thought was “impossible”.

[Deepak Patel @x_deepakpatel]

Kids don't get confident from being told they're great. They get confident from doing hard things and finding out they can.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

In 1970, Tom Seaver set an MLB record by striking out 10 consecutive batters against the Padres. His record has been matched twice this decade but I still give Seaver the advantage because it was the LAST 10 batters of the game. Let’s see some starting pitcher today do that.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

Ah yes, the Soviet Union. Famous for cutting taxes and protecting private property rights.

[Jen @jenteach13]

Your child's school has an assistant superintendent for curriculum, an assistant superintendent for instruction, a director of teaching and learning, and a coordinator of academic services. Your child's teacher has thirty-two kids and no copy paper. This is not a funding problem. It is a priority problem.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2010. President Obama shoots down the idea of stopping deportations and allowing those living in the country illegally to continue to live without facing the law.

The left now calls this mindset fascism and claims anyone who supports it is evil.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

What was with our society’s obsession with quicksand when we were kids? At the time I genuinely believed it was one of the world’s leading causes of death. Every birthday marked another 365 days of somehow avoiding quicksand,

[Robert Anderson @ProfRobAnderson]

If you think human nature is basically good, try being a Little League umpire for a few games.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

I’m so thankful these weren’t around when I was in school. I feel like I won the education lottery. Putting laptops, tablets and apps, etc. in the classroom will go down as one of the worst educational mistakes in modern US history.

[Beau Dickerson @BWD51]

Hahahah!

[Bo @Bodittle]

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, believes this.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

84% of 11-year-olds aren't allowed to leave their street.

53% can't leave their front yard.

92% of 14-year-olds can't leave their neighborhood.

We built a culture obsessed with safety. The result? A generation that's measurably more anxious: https://t.co/oygf4qk5yW

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Is this $200+ billion dollar “high-speed” rail a policy failure? Of course.

But if the goal was simply to commandeer tax dollars for distribution to politically-connected constituencies then I’d imagine those with that goal are probably quite pleased.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

In one of baseball’s greatest achievements, Steve Garvey hit .316 with 21 HR and 113 RBI in 1978 and played all 162 regular season games despite having the diet of a divorced forklift driver named Otis.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.

In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year.

Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve.

Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads.

They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.

The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week.

These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Clemson is $1.5B in debt. Syracuse is closing or pausing 93 programs, UNC-Chapel Hill plans to cut spending by $89M over 3 years. Duke recently let 600 employees go in a $350M budget cut. Indiana public colleges announced a plan to eliminate or merge 580 programs statewide.

[Beau Dickerson @BWD51]

This was so great!

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Jimmy Connors won 109 tournaments including 8 grand slams, but this one point at age 39 late in the New York night is the defining moment of his entire career. Enjoy.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Lemme get this straight…

Newsom REJECTED a proposal to require insurance cover hearing aids for kids and instead created a gov program…

That spent $23 MILLION tax dollars…

and only gave out 300 hearing aids in 5 years?! While thousands of kids are waiting for hearing aids?!

[Jarred Geller @jarredgeller]

There is no “funding issue” in public education.

The US has the most well-funded educational system in the world (with nothing to show for it)

$18,000 per pupil/yr

Some states it’s $30,000+

There are cave classrooms in China that outperform us.

Where’s it all going?

[TRUMP SUPPORTER @_Postive_Vibes]

SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."

[Mike Dabbelt @MikeDabbelt]

$16 per person to attend a HS baseball playoff game. Then we wonder why kids don’t attend - the association has priced kids and families out of going to these games ! HS kids should never pay more than $5 for any event at their HS and they should NOT have to use a stupid APP!

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The Department of Education began in 1979.

In 1978, America was ranked #1 in education.

Today, America is ranked 28th in Education.

The Department of Education is a FAILED experiment.

SHUT IT DOWN.