J Taylor Choate

Husband. Father. Friend. Servant. Teacher. Lead Pastor of Harvest Church. M.A. Organizational Leadership. #TX #Leadership #Ministry

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

Dear @Popeyes,

Y’all are good. Like really good.

But if I can’t get a “just cheese” option, I’m gonna keep driving to Mont Belvieu for @ChickfilA.

Don’t make me do that to my gas tank.
Signed, Dayton, TX (cheese-dependent)

#Chicken #PostChristmasLunch

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@elonmusk My biggest difficulty is that as a public school teacher with student loan debt that grows because of the interest, with two kids (one on the way), I cannot afford a Tesla. Though, I would totally drive the a tesla car for more efficient mpg if I had one.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

One thing for sure @wingstop always gonna take their time, your time, and probably your tomorrow’s time too. Are their boneless wings worth it? Yeah, but still.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@MrBeast How can we connect to help with our quarterly food drive in Daisetta, TX. I pastor a small church out there and would love to partner with you.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

While we coddle loud, disruptive students, entire cohorts of resilient, hardworking young people are quietly enduring, their potential systematically undermined by an educational culture that rewards dysfunction.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@brianeharrison I trust Austin about as much as I trust Washington - hardly at all. I want a clean slate of Texas leadership. I’m refusing to vote for any current leader in our next election cycle. This is crazy.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@tombennett71 I think you misspelled “Texas” it doesn’t even sound like Scotland, but never the less personalization for every child is not the way of public education in Texas.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Not every kid deserves to stay in the classroom. Some students have earned their way out of it.

It is not cruel to admit this. What's cruel is forcing 25 other students to sit in the room while one kid makes learning impossible.

And every teacher knows what kid I mean!

Some are experts in low-level disruption, but others constantly talk, make noises, refuse to do work, roam the room or hallways, etc.

Worse, there are kids in school who regularly pick fights, bully others, and make threats to the safety of students and staff. Yet, we keep them in.

In these situations, schools are held hostage by their worst students. When that happens, we're no longer in an instructional environment; we're in the business of crisis management, with the kids who actually want to learn getting ignored while teachers put out a thousand little fires.

This results, de facto, in the removal of kids from education, just not the ones who deserve it. We essentially force the good kids out of the education they deserve by making them to sit in chaotic classrooms, wasting day after day.

It also results in teacher burnout because they are tasked with tolerating failure instead of being supported to fix it. We're forcing good people out of the profession, people who may, under different circumstances, raise reading and math scores and help prepare our students for a useful and fulfilling citizenship.

"Every child has a right to an education"?

Yes. But no child has a right to steal one out from under everyone else. Maybe it's time we consider what it takes to lose that right.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

America should:
- stop resourcing wars. (We can help bring peace, but not our responsibility to defend)
- close borders to non-visa holders for four years. (We have to reset.)
- deport illegal immigrants. (Humanely and with respect)
- term limits on congress.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@DrBradJohnson Differentiation does not work effectively in a classroom of more than 10 students at best. The lowest number I have out of seven periods is 24 students. At one point this year two of my classes had 30+. IEP’s are a false hope.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

I don’t care that he didn’t wear a suit. I don’t care that the convo got tense. I don’t care that a deal wasn’t made. I don’t care that @VP got a little loud. I care that we are funding a war we have no business in. End the payments.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@GovAbbottPress @GregAbbott_TX Because we push kids through a broken system and allow them to take an online class that is notnup to standard so that districts get their points in order that they TEA Grade doesn’t come back poorly.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

2015
We hate teachers.

April, 2020
Teachers are heroes!
They deserve more money!

2021
Teachers are lazy, always whining and are indoctrinators.

2018-2024
Record number of teachers left the profession

Present
Why are teachers leaving? 🤔🙄

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@KellyRasti @BradBuckleyDVM I feel like that is settling to have 6 stitches put in my arm while not addressing the fact that my lower leg has been totally severed. Both are needed. I don’t want to have to pick one or the other. The person who CAN fix both SHOULD fix both. If they cannot I want a new doctor

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@KellyRasti Listen to me closely. I LOVE every student. I believe every student deserves an education. But the special education accommodations, meetings, and paperwork is going to cripple public education when the teacher of record has to do it all.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@KellyRasti @BradBuckleyDVM Texas had $60 Billion in surplus over the past two years. $220 increase per student is laughable at best and offensive at worst. TX could afford $1,000 per student and still have billions in surplus. Don’t be fooled, us in public education are watching and taking note.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Education isn’t broken because of teachers. It’s broken because we ask teachers to be counselors, social workers, parents, and miracle workers—while still demanding perfect test scores. Fix the system, not the people holding it together.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@LtGovTX If this is true @DanPatrick then get teachers the increase they (yes, we) deserve. It’s shameful that the state aka @teainfo puts so many demands on the classroom teacher yet under funds us severely. Special Education will cripple public education.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@GregAbbott_TX Education could sure use of that.

[J Taylor Choate @jtaylorchoate]

@JamesAFurey Other professions don’t have to play politics with politicians and the general public and their own bosses.