Brian Huskie

White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War and School

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@CognitiveD3 @Riley_Gaines_ My understanding is that the girl didn't know she was wrestling a boy. If she knew, and consented, and "awkward hand placement" happened, then fine. She didn't know and so never consented.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

Eh.

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

I’ve asked teachers before to do this and I’ll ask again - teachers if you go back to school next year and only work contract hours, working conditions will change by the end of the year. Even if just tenured teachers did this. Our refusal to challenge free labor and just complain about it online, keeps us right where our employers like it.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

A great example of "directionally correct, but technically wrong."

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Can we honestly call someone “educated” if they’ve never read Homer or Shakespeare?

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@ZillennialApple I'd say "directionally correct, literally wrong."

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

*I should add, tier to tier.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

I won't comment on all of this, but teacher pay is a funny thing. It's wildly uneven from state to state, district to district, private to public. If I left at 23 years, I'd be leaving a huge retirement benefit on the table. The equivalent 401k might have a balance of $1.5m.

[Adam Taylor @2footgiraffe]

After 23 years of teaching I resigned yesterday.
Here are some of the reasons why...

1. Pay - but I never complained while I was a teacher because I knew the history.

2. Time required to be effective - 2-3 hours after school - 4-8 hours on the weekend. Planning and grading

3. Student behavior during class. Most students are reasonable but many are not. Constantly waking kids up, dealing with cell phones....

4. Dress code enforcement. I'm glad we have a dresscode but it is a pain when so many kids push the envelope

5. The need for differentiated instruction. Preparing a main lesson with possibly 5-6 versions of the same lesson for different IEP needs or language barriers.

@jenteach13

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

If this is true, then I have so many questions.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

This is insane. A student’s 30-page senior thesis was apparently flagged as “AI-generated” by an automated plagiarism tool. He’s facing an automatic failing grade, academic suspension, and potentially losing a $45,000 scholarship. He even offered to show his Google Docs version history to prove the paper was written manually.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@PCSnow1604 How about "(general academic ability + trait conscientiousness) * time measured in years" dwarfs effect sizes of interventions, making measuring interventions difficult, if not impossible? And interpretations of measurements even more tricky?

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@BretWeinstein @SwipeWright From here, it's either (1) diversify his content to include Israel & covid stuff, etc., and hope to build his brand out organically, or (2) is being paid to do the same.

All of this is speculation. Am I close?

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@BretWeinstein @SwipeWright showed uncommon courage in the face of gender ideologues. He was debanked, but fought back & won. Now that gender madness is largely fading, he once again finds himself in a financial bind. He can't go back to academia, but he does still have a platform. Am I warm?

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

It's the opposite. Kids read fewer books due to modern distractions, and it's easier for @ncte (and English departments) to abdicate their responsibilities, than it is to hold the line.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

You want to know why kids aren’t reading books anymore? Here is an actual statement from the National Council of Teachers of English.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

Eww.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Fully naked in direct view of a playground. The intention is and always has been the same. They're not even hiding it.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

Perfectly valid opinion if you're 12 years old and have no adult in your corner impressing upon you the value of emotional stability.

As an adult and a Dr. of some sort, significantly less valid.

[🩺 Dr. Napervillain Bunny🐰 @Type07Safety]

I know this might not be popular but I'm okay with this.

Be ready to take the knockout swing from behind if you shove somebody's head into the mat after the whistle.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@theatomicmom We've been using CLRC and really like it!

https://t.co/pY5nmdpptU

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

My 8th grade homeschool son's ELA class:

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Chosen
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Light Princess
Frankenstein
A Tale of Two Cities
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

8th grade public school:

Inside out & Back Again
1 free choice

[Mother of Hooligans ☕️ @Katherine111594]

Homeschooling is fun and cute when your kids are little, however as my kids get older I’m more and more thankful that we’ve chosen to homeschool. At first you just want all that extra time with them and it’s easy and fun and they just get to play a lot. But as my kids get older I see how high of an impact homeschooling has. In every area. How they interact socially with friends, how they integrate into our family, how they process events in life and in media, how they view themselves, and how they take in what they are actually learning in school. The side conversations we have when I’m folding laundry and they wander in with a seemingly random question that actually reveals a much deeper thought. What if they asked their teacher instead of me and she gave a weak or wrong answer? How would that settle into their soul in a way I would never know about? The longer I raise these kids and the more time we spend homeschooling the more I can’t imagine letting them go out into the storm of public school.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@amandadeibert @CreditFlex I would guess stellar public schools. They do exist.

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@measureduntil @akamoderate The full context of my point is here.

https://t.co/ZIfLOW4j9T

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@MrsJLovesJesus We've been using CLRC for the past few years and are very happy with it:

https://t.co/pY5nmdpptU

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@RafeAtreus I love OMAM and have taught it in 9th grade (public school) for years. My longest substack was on how I interpret that book (I think many teachers get it wrong).

https://t.co/ZcQ6ouscty

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@LouiseCulmer1 We use CLRC for ELA and are happy with it. But to each their own!

https://t.co/pY5nmdpptU

[Brian Huskie @HuskiesEduBlog]

@measureduntil @akamoderate I didn't. But also, I didn't have kids at 18 years old. Do you think a person's entire education, and therefore their justification to homeschool, comes from whatever they learned k-12?