Kirk Mosley

K-5 physical education teacher

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) sets the bar really low for behavioral expectations. It rewards students for behavior that they should be doing simply because it is the general expectation of the school and because they live in a civilized society. It also presents those who don’t care about positive feedback with the option to behave in uncivilized ways and forgo any praise or reward if they feel like it.

Schools that set clear expectations when it comes to behavior, teach and practice the expected behaviors, and issue consistent negative consequences for not meeting the expectations don’t need PBIS.

It’s appropriate to occasionally thank students for being prepared for class or respectfully listening and responding to classmates, but schools shouldn’t be fawning over students for normal behavior as if it’s the exception rather than the rule.

PBIS benefits and rewards the few students who see rules and expectations as optional. Meanwhile, it sacrifices the safe, calm, orderly learning environments that the majority of students who follow and appreciate the rules deserve.

PBIS is another education acronym that needs to be ditched and schools need to return to high behavior expectations and consistent consequences.

[Jeremy Werner @JWerner247]

NEWS: Big Ten All-Freshman Team forward David Mirkovic announces he will return to #illini for his sophomore season

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[Muddy River Sports @MuddyRiverSport]

Eftink scored eight points in the first half and 10 overall by slashing and snaking his way to the basket. All 10 of Eftink’s points were scored in the paint, helping the Raiders to a 50-16 edge in overall points in the paint.

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

Why do teachers quit?

Maybe it’s the thrown chairs, the students screaming “fucking bitch,” biting them, disrespecting them, and refusing to follow the simplest commands like “please sit down”

I dunno. Maybe that has something to do with it

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[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

There is a belief that teachers should handle student disrespect with angelic patience. 

Wrong.

Respect is a two-way street, and teachers deserve dignity—not endless tolerance for bad behavior.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Teacher:
Plans a great hands-on, fun lesson!

Student:
Slept for 2 hours the night prior because they’re addicted to TikTok

Administrator:
Comes in and notices uninterested, tired student and comments ‘’What do you think you can do for that student to make them more interested?”

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

If the goal is 100% graduation regardless of effort, we should just hand the diplomas out at freshman orientation. At least then the kids who don't want to be there could leave, and the teachers could get back to the students who actually do.

[Muddy River Sports @MuddyRiverSport]

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

The “Southern Surge” is the education story of the year

An underreported aspect of it are the discipline bills that accompanied the literacy reforms

My co-author and I compared the state discipline laws between a handful of red and blue states

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[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

The cruel truth: a school that replaces discipline with restorative language merely redistributes suffering, from the chronically disruptive student to every quiet kid who has to live in the fallout.

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

The fundamental thing that restorative justice advocates overlook is human sin

It’s not always “know better, do better”

Kids don’t misbehave just because they have an unmet need or don’t know how to act

Often, they misbehave because they’re arrogant, it’s fun, simply: sin

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

If a student cusses out a teacher, they should be suspended out of school

I don’t care the reason

You let students do that to a teacher, and they can do anything

Good luck regaining order, respect, or control after that

[🫦 𝐂𝐢𝐂𝐢 @CiCi_Texas_45]

Biden: Fires federal workers for refusing the vaccine.

Democrats: Silent

President Trump: Fires federal workers for wasting taxpayer money.

Democrats: It’s the end of Democracy as we know it!

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

"Meet students where they are" always, always, always seems to mean "make things easier"

How about instead we set high standards and raise students to them?

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

Nothing ruins a school's culture more quickly, severely and assuredly than restorative justice

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Everyone is quick to talk about the need to bring back federal workers, but we need to ask ourselves a serious question: if entire departments and divisions are gone, yet nothing changes for the American people, were those government employees truly essential?

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[Blaine Wilhour @BlaineWilhour]

Today, in the Illinois General Assembly, the GOP honored Charlie Kirk.

The Democrats honored George Floyd.

We are not the same.