Wayne Cabbage

GCO, ⚾️ Stay humble, work hard, be kind. Vols

[Wayne Cabbage @Drencab]

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[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Yogi Berra. 3 MVP Awards, 13 World Series rings. Machine gunner at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

I’m waiting 😏!

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

Members of Congress decide their own benefits and compensation through the legislative process, meaning they vote on their own laws and compensation rules, subject to constitutional and statutory limits.

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

If public schools were able to require a parent to come to the school every time their child misbehaved, the issue would be solved in a week. I’d love a policy where if the child is disrupting, the parent comes and must spend minimum 30 minutes with their child (somewhere private) and regulates their child or takes them home for the day. No punishment, just parental restoration instead of making the school do it.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #5: Stop treating teachers like they are the problem.

Let me break down Fix #5.
When test scores drop, we look at teachers. When a student falls behind, we look at the teachers. When parents are unhappy, when the data looks bad, when the system fails to deliver what it promised, we look at teachers. The teacher is the most visible person in the building and the least protected. She is also the one who had no vote on the curriculum, no seat at the table when the policy was written, no voice in the decision to socially promote the kid who arrived in her room two years behind. She inherited every decision made above her, and she is held responsible for every outcome below her.

What does it mean in practice?
It means stop blaming the person in the room for the decisions made in the office. It means when a student cannot read in eighth grade, the conversation should start with every adult who passed that child along, not with the teacher who finally said something. It means when test scores are low, the first question should be what the system did or did not provide, not what the teacher did or did not do. It means recognizing that a teacher working with thirty-two kids, an outdated curriculum, no aide, and a phone policy nobody enforces is not failing. She is surviving a system that was not built to support her.

How does this help kids?
A teacher who is constantly defending herself cannot focus on the kids in front of her. A teacher who knows that one bad data point could end her career teaches to the test instead of to the child. A teacher who is blamed for outcomes she cannot control eventually stops trying to control them. When we make teachers the scapegoats for systemic failures, we do not fix the system. We drive the best people out of it and leave the kids with whoever stayed.

How do we make this happen?
We need evaluations that account for what a teacher was given to work with, not just what her students produced. We need administrators who stand between their teachers and unfair blame instead of passing it down the chain. We need policymakers who spend time in actual classrooms before writing the rules that govern them. We need parents who ask what the system did before they ask what the teacher did. And we need to stop treating teacher accountability as the only accountability that matters in a system full of people making decisions that never touch a single child.

The goal is not to protect bad teachers. The goal is to stop treating every teacher as the problem, while the decisions that created the problem go unexamined above her.

#YouWantToFixEducation

[Jen @jenteach13]

Nobody talks about the student who came ready to learn, sat through the disruption, said nothing, and fell further behind while every adult in the building focused on the one who made the most noise. She is still waiting for someone to notice she was there, too.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Property tax is theft too.

[Retro Coast @RetroCoast]

End SNAP

Replace it with monthly distributions of dried beans, powdered milk and rice.

See how quickly people go back to work.

[Tee Rickey @OCRichardP]

"Life is hard...but it's harder when you're stupid."
~Sen. John Kennedy

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Want to attract NEW teachers?
Want to retain CURRENT teachers?

—Make smaller class sizes happen
—Increase planning time
—Improve salaries
—Make parental accountability a thing
—Require virtual school for students with continued behavior issues

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

Sounds about right.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

The middle class is the most expensive place to live, and no one talks about it. Lower income households get assistance. The wealthy use tax strategies and loopholes. But the middle class pays full taxes, full tuition, full healthcare, full everything. So you work 50 hours a week just to stay in the same place and fund everyone’s life except yours.

[Rose Smith @itsrosesm]

Children Should Be Required To Say the Pledge of Allegiance
Every Morning at School Once Again!

[Wayne Cabbage @Drencab]

@realJStratman @Royals Lane is a Knoxville guy. Bearden HS

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

At this point, Americans are no longer taxpayers.
We are fraud victims.
And we want our money back.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Teach kids how to fail and try again. Resilience is not built by removing every obstacle. It is built by hitting the wall and figuring out what comes next.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Unpopular opinion: Schools are dealing with the consequences of failed parenting.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Build more Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. Welding. Culinary arts. Auto mechanics. Construction Trades. Medical Sciences. Cosmetology. Not every kid is headed to a four-year university.