Jack Johnson Pannell

Microschool Founder of Trinity Arch Prep School for Boys. Christian. Innovator. Learner. Rebel. School Choice Advocate.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

A great read about the quiet revolution happening among Black families. Urban public school systems are guilty of a moral failure to educate Black and brown children. Taking matters in their own hands, homeschooling is a good bet. Learn the reasons why. #BlackFAMILY

[Free Black Thought @FreeBlckThought]

"Perceived unintelligence manifests in well-intentioned woke ideology. Black parents are faced w/ schools that are lowering standards for their children. Efforts to lower standards to achieve equity are based, broadly speaking, in CRT."

—@conniemmorgan
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https://t.co/uYuq6I0Ty6

[Peter Sellis @petersellis]

I’m joining the team at @X to lead Product.

I am a huge believer in @SpaceX's mission to extend human consciousness to the stars, so it’s time to make shitposting multiplanetary.

X is the best way to find out what’s happening in the world right now and talk about it. The team has been working tirelessly to make X a better place and product for the people who love it, and many have noticed the recent momentum. My goal is to help accelerate that momentum for our community, new users, and businesses globally by continuing to make this product beautiful and useful.

We are twenty years in, but it truly feels like X’s next chapter will be our greatest. I look forward to your ideas and feedback; I’m sure the replies will be measured and magnanimous.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

Cynical but perhaps true. Every kid knows how much their parents pay for school and parents remind them to be grateful or else?

[aquinas heard @aquinasheard23]

@Lyncaeus @rpondiscio Kids who want to be in school.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

There are ways to help students use Ai to improve and master the art of writing. No doom and gloom here.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Sobering article. Teachers feel they must limit writing assignments to classroom time, to combat AI cheating.

The downstream cost: students aren't being asked to do longer-form writing anywhere.

"Now she limits essay writing to the classroom, by hand, where students have little opportunity to develop longer, more complex arguments. The result, she admits, is that they may be unprepared for college-level writing.

Even her best students’ “eyes would fall out of their head,” she said, if she asked them to write an eight-page paper.

Her solution ensures that kids do their own work, but it may come at a cost. They lose the long, messy practice of learning how to compose at length and, some argue, how to think."

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

Will @GovernorHobbs see the light and give AZ kids and families the opportunities they deserve?

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@rpondiscio Also, I’m curious what the public school version of Alpha is missing.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@rpondiscio @rpondiscio If the NYT reporting is true: why do struggling students wait days for live tutoring support and what’s the logic for incentivizing motivation with prizes, which does little to build self-leadership.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

There’s no there there. I don’t understand why the school can’t deploy live tutors during the academic block. It’s a simple solution. #alphaschool

[Dana Goldstein @DanaGoldstein]

My deep dive on the "A.I.-driven" Alpha School, revealing their internal learning and enrollment data for the first time, just as the network expands into public education.

There is a big gap between the marketing and reality.

https://t.co/2U4aJrm04v

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

I hope folks grasp the subtleties here. Well said.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

I am not bullish on homeschooling at all.

I know that someone like me is "supposed to" be, but I just can't muster any enthusiasm for it.

As an "emergency measure" when local public schools are awful, and when solid Catholic schools are either absent or unaffordable? OK -- it's a valid survival strategy in those cases. It's one way to cope, but I could never affirm homeschooling as the "ideal" way to educate children.

That's because I believe in civilization. Hiding out in the woods and attempting to reproduce basic public goods is not really my cup of tea. I'd much rather see the basic infrastructure of producing a virtuous citizenry exist again, and if that's not in the public schools -- OK, I'll find a way to earn enough to pay for an ICLE or Newman certified Catholic school, where there are teachers who speak Greek and Latin, are Canon lawyers, and so on. I'd be thrilled to support such schools where they exist, and will even move far away to be near one if I must.

Where some look at homeschooling and see freedom and security, I see a kind of longhoused, burnout-inducing, inadequate, cloistered, and basically anti-civilizational affair. And by what I've seen of the results, "hiding in the woods with mommy" in this fashion seems to make for poorly-socialized kids, feminized boys, and a neurotic, paranoiac attitude. There are exceptions, but the exceptions are not the rule.

Exhausted moms who are nursing babies, perhaps have morning sickness, teenager needs help with the math, 8-year-old with the reading, 5-year-old needs a snack, 2-year-old just hit his head on the table and is crying, the house needs cleaned, the goat just got loose, call-dad-the-fridge-is-broken -- it's chaos. Yes, some people manage it if they have a sufficiently workaholic mother in the home. But of course, if you do not believe in birth control, eventually you will have so many kids that even superhuman moms cannot handle it -- and the kids' education will be the first thing to suffer. If there are smartphones or video games in the house -- it's all downhill from there.

I do not think that this "trend" will be looked up on favorably in 20 years' time. We meet more and more families who, after many years of trying their best to homeschool, eventually decide to enroll their kids in school. They're often intensely guilty about this, and face an incredible amount of shame from the hardcore homeschoolers (who almost brag about how exhausted they are). But they shouldn't face shame. Part of living in a civilization means accepting a division of labor; and in education, this means finding sufficiently virtuous and scholarly teachers to teach your kids things that you are not at all equipped to teach.

Our situation with schooling in the USA is not a good one, but giving up on society is the wrong response. I thank God for the Catholic schools out there that actually teach the Faith, read the Classics, and do their best to keep tuition affordable. Come hell or high water -- our kids will be enrolled in such a school no matter what it costs me.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@eric_wearne @shagbark_hick I hope you will explore this topic at your next conference. My question: what problem for families does a hybrid school solve?

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@JohnsonEmma @IanVRowe Do you agree or disagree with the data that a two parent household makes a difference in a kid’s success at school and later in life?

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

So you guys still believe that a married mother and father doesn’t make a difference for a disciplined childhood and success later in life. @IanVRowe

[Emma Johnson @JohnsonEmma]

The poverty gap between children of married and unmarried mothers has narrowed from 20 points among those born in the 70s to 10 points among those born in the 90s.
For kids of college-educated moms, the poverty gap between those with married and unmarried moms nearly disappeared (94% vs. 96% not poor). https://t.co/TKmFWRaYjp

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

It’s “both/and”. Your opinion is not unpopular with legacy thinkers.

[Matt Beaudreau @MattBeaudreau]

Unpopular opinion.

Schools are trying to “innovate” by leaning more and more into AI.

The students who are most likely to be at peace and excited about life will lean into these three even more:

HI (Human Intelligence)
EQ (Emotional Quotient)
PE (Physical Education)

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@JohnsonEmma @IanVRowe I guess I failed to be clear. I think every major policy discussion reflects a deep divide in opinion and belief.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

Thank you. We are not saying this enough. Young people are armed to disrupt, disrupt, disrupt business as usual.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

I wish I were 18 today... If you ARE young and reading this, the most accomplished people alive envy your starting position. The tools are becoming free, the problems are enormous, and this time you don't need to ask for permission. 

Go change the world!

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

I think the military is also a good bet for many young men. In basic training they build diverse friendships, discover a skill and get college paid for.

[Richard V. Reeves @RichardvReeves]

A college degree is one of the best bets a young man can make, for his earnings, his stability, and his prospects.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@SenMarkKelly you are simply wrong and misguided to characterize the education freedom tax credit as a voucher draining resources from public schools. Why do you think the Governor of New York thinks every child deserves a fair shot at a great education?

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Every kid deserves a good public education. From kindergarten to college, public schools changed my life. Every kid deserves that shot regardless of their zip code or their parents’ income. That’s why Republicans’ national school voucher program is a bad idea. It drains resources from schools and benefits the wealthy. I'm fighting to stop it so we can keep improving our public schools.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

Interesting. How will technology drive a different economics in the emerging school choice market, which is largely unregulated?

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen reveals why housing, health care, and education keep getting more expensive while everything else gets cheaper

"There's basically three components to the American dream. A house near great job opportunities, great health care for you and your family, and sending your kids to good schools"

"If you disaggregate the economy over the last 25 years, everything that technology touches basically collapses in price. Television sets, computer games, anything with electronics in it. But if you chart housing, education, and health care, the prices of those things are skyrocketing"

"The government restricts supply, zoning laws and university certifications. And then the government responds to the political pressure caused by the rising prices by subsidizing demand. And of course, if you subsidize demand and a fixed supply, you get skyrocketing prices"

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

How do I tell parents to mail you a thank you note.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

We’ve continued to receive many very sweet notes from parent, grandparents, aunts, uncles and even some great grandparents 🥹🥰🇺🇸

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

I think you are saying that the use of phones for entertainment and the use of technology for learning are separate. Somehow they have been conflated. Kids are several steps ahead of adults. Bans only incite ingenuity.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

When it comes to kids and technology, I am sympathetic to @JonHaidt’s push for limits.

I’m absolutely for school-level limitations and family-level limitations. But there are some kids who are online learning all the time, building, being constructive. It’s fabulous, and so it would be unfortunate to kind of completely shut them off the internet as a whole.

I think we need to figure out something where we’re all on board about being intentional regarding limitations to access to certain things, and then we try to be as flexible as possible.

Once you move from family and school up to government, that’s where I get more cautious.

[Jack Johnson Pannell @Lyncaeus]

@RichardvReeves I think there is a clear moral agenda. Marriage, a steady job, buying into ownership, starting a business, striving toward one’s life purpose. These junctures in life separate men from boys. Beyond policy.

[Richard V. Reeves @RichardvReeves]

Young men are the new swing voters.

And I think what was missing in the 2024 election was a real policy agenda for boys and men, one that doesn’t turn back the clock on women. Now, that lane is wide open, and women and men have to figure this out together.