βI wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.β
β J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
But seriously, it's bonkers that new teachers (first year ever or first year at the school) are expected to do everything a veteran teacher does PLUS stuff like induction, etc. Absolute πππ.
Can we talk about how teachers are content creators and creative professionals?
Also how first year teachers at a new school should have zero additional responsibilities lol
(I'm fine, btw. At least partially bc I have given myself permission not to complete one of those additional responsibilities to the best of my ability. π€·π»ββοΈ)
Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. He served nine months before he was pardoned in the name of "unity and healing." And after that, as we all know, everything was fine.
Given yesterday's events, I want to talk about how woefully inadequate media literacy is for thinking about...violent fascism and the spread of a pandemic, + how focusing on this elides bigger problems about white supremacy / a fundamental epistemological rift in the US (1/n)
These all can easily lead to right wing conspiracies seeming to make sense.
How are we changing our teaching of media literacy?
"Diversity" isn't enough.
The fact that school could be a place where a student feels safest, when it's also where they practice active shooters in a pandemic, breaks me.
Here's a pic of Wednesday's sunrise.
This week, students have expressed they are scared, in disbelief and shock, that school is the only place they feel safe. I also lost a family member to covid pneumonia. We go back to hyflex Monday.
I'm OK, but my cognition, concentration, & focus are completely shot. I feel like a puddle of goo. Like I need to sleep for 12 hours. Like I need to eat half my body weight in chocolate and pasta. Like I need to just sit and stare at a wall for awhile.
Yes, it's about inequality of treatment of peaceful protestors vs these domestic terrorists. And I'm no expert. But not sure you can have it both ways. Things in thinking about.
Seeing lots of "they should all be arrested." But something tells me some of those tweets are coming from people who were all over prison abolition a few months ago?