Melsebourn

Mom to 4 incredible girls. Lover of books, people, truth, nature, tech, & chocolate chip cookies. MS ELA teacher. BJJ 💜 belt.

[Melsebourn @MelissaSebourn]

Books are for everyone, but not every book is for everyone. Talk with your children about which books are appropriate for them. Be a parent. Stop vilifying teachers and librarians. And for the love, #stopbanningbooks #elateacher

[katemessner @KateMessner]

Teachers & librarians are facing a slew of book challenges lately, so I'm sharing a resource that I created during my years teaching middle school:

Books for All Kids (Not Just Yours) - An Open Letter for Educators & Librarians to Share with Families.

https://t.co/kd3Ansz8q2

[- @Carl_Hiaasen]

Florida bill would ban young girls from discussing periods in school https://t.co/YdNXRwGEhZ
Here's Ron DeSantis Universe, with GOP lawmakers nosing into your children's most private matters. Welcome to "free" Florida, right? What a farce.

[TXFReadomFighters @FReadomFighters]

Absurdity - if libraries were really trying to "indoctrinate" students, would they really buy a few books and make them voluntary reading and then put them within a collection of 15,000 other books? Most inefficient method ever.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

If you live in a state where books are being banned, the Brooklyn Public Library offers a free eCard nationwide to those aged 13 to 21 to access their entire digital catalog for one year in an effort to combat this terrible act. Link here:

https://t.co/KQkeQXbA4d

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

Bro, if we actually had access to all this “dark money” you talk about, we could afford an office or a secret PO Box. 🤣 We’re literally just a group of parents fighting against the far right wing takeover of our school board. And we want to support educators & students.

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

The GOP political strategist who doxxed me had his account suspended until he deleted the tweet. TY everyone who reported it! Wonder which of his clients paid him to do it? @rbarnesGOP @NateSchatzline @PatriotMobile @tarrantgop @TexasGOP or maybe a trustee from @KellerISD?

[Dr. Tasslyn Magnusson @TasslynM]

Listen. Now. This is censorship.

[Melsebourn @MelissaSebourn]

https://t.co/xmffgQQVfz

[UFC @ufc]

"Anything is possible!"

Jamahal Hill overcome with emotion after achieving his dream 🏆 #UFC283

[UFC @ufc]

🏆✌️🇲🇽 #UFC283

[Amanda Bigbee @ambigbee]

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS ONE! THIS WILL HELP PUBLIC SCHOOLS! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 And we as parents won’t stop shining a light on the atrocities our school board commits months after month. We want @KellerISD to be next on the list of districts to be investigated by the OCR.

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

BREAKING NEWS: We recognize the librarians, booksellers, authors, publishers, and allies standing tall in the face of unprecedented attacks on the freedom to read. PW’s 2022 People of the Year are...the Defenders. https://t.co/0AO6c262Rg

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

Continuing to make headlines here in @KellerISD for all the wrong reasons.

[Melsebourn @MelissaSebourn]

Thanks Puscifer for spending 1,873 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to The Humbling River. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/h3oW4dsMyp

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

Here’s the clip where our school board trustee Joni Shaw explains that the school board really wants to trust district librarians but they can’t, because they keep finding books the librarians are trying to order that are a part of the lgbtq+ community. https://t.co/fyrkq8rQf3

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

“You can draw a straight line from the false and vile rhetoric about LGBTQ people spread by extremists and amplified across social media, to the nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced this year, to the dozens of attacks on our community like this one.” https://t.co/QufDidDgrm

[📓Tenille Shade✏️☮️ @tenilleshade]

Thinking deeply about these TEKS (Texas state standards) as I peruse the dumpster fire 🔥 that is Twitter tonight.

[Paul Thomas @plthomasEdD]

Adults lack critical thinking skills ... SOR and SL are a story being sold to people screaming about being sold a story ... it is rather embarrassing the lack of self-awareness in jumping out a frying pan into a fire

[Melsebourn @MelissaSebourn]

@davidhogg111 @mfoltx @AMarch4OurLives Have you seen this? @kellerisd's school board is voting to arm teachers.

[Laney Hawes @LaneyHawes]

As if the banning of all books that contain nonbinary & trans characters isn’t bad enough, the @KellerISD school board is also voting Monday for teachers to carry loaded guns into our kids classrooms. @MomsDemand @Everytown @NEAToday @valeriestrauss @McGeeReports @TexasStandard

[UFC @ufc]

GIVE HER THE BELT BACK 🏆

@MMAWeili recaptures gold at #UFC281!!