Nichole Ruggles

Gr 5/6 teacher of English and Social Studies.

[Fernand R. Amandi @AmandiOnAir]

I hope it’s slowly dawning on the MAGA Republicans that Joe Biden is now a President with total immunity and legal protections for official presidential actions as granted to him by the Supreme Court — and unencumbered without the electoral concerns of seeking re-election.

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@SnowBuniCO Almost all of us

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@tracyrenee70 It will never happen in MA

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@160Farms The quiet. Sleep. Time to prepare for the week. Time to move slower and breathe deeper.

[BMB Empower Network @Bmbempower]

"Putting Kamala Harris as VP into perspective. See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved. Blue box? Until then, she couldn’t vote. Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school. The green one? Until then she couldn’t have her own bank account."
#MVP #VP #VPOTUS #kamalaharris #vicepresident

[Write Droid @zatachimaru]

@LadyJayPersists Gen X — the first kids to be 30 years old 10 years after they were born, and to still be 30 years old four decades after that.

[@judgeluttig @judgeluttig]

Prophetic words from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington in 1792 — as apt and timely today as they were over 230 years ago.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Students learn from the guidance provided by teachers, but also from the behaviors that are allowed to occur in the learning environment.

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@alicekeeler @edtechmathteach Yes. Ours is five pages. Have you seen a good example you can recommend?

[160 FARMS @160Farms]

Public school, as a whole, isn't failing our kids. Society is failing to remember what public school was designed for.

We've been expecting more and more from public schools that have well exceeded the funding provided.

Understand this Prius was never meant to be a Ferrari.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

I’m amazed at teacher contracts…specifically what little time (prep) is provided for teachers to actually get stuff done.

If teachers ONLY worked contractual hours, 90% of the needed work wouldn’t happen even for the most efficient ones. 🤔

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@Linda_Fenner @HelenProulx2 I’ve had years of success for all my learners, including my own LD son, with UOS in gr 5/6. Years. I’ve also been in ed long enough to know that in ten years the pendulum will swing back. In the meantime it’s a shame what has happened to LC and her work .

[Mrs. K @MelK_Edu]

Lost in that score is the whole child. The love of reading a novel. The experience of laughing and discussing and dissecting an entire book with your peers. Because all we seem to care about is a score.

[Mrs. K @MelK_Edu]

(6/ )So- especially to the media- I beg you as we move forward through this (this being the majority of the country chose 1 curriculum because of the short lists) think about why it was chosen

It’s a direct reflection of the only thing society seems to value. A score on a test.

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@DustiBowling Bag pipes . Kilt and all .

[Gretchen @offgridteacher]

Teacher retirement systems should be like military pensions: make it to 20 years, and you’re set.

[Nichole Ruggles @MrsRugglesPCS]

@MetMikeWCVB Move on over to Threads!

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

Now is the time of year when teachers say that class size affects the quality of education…

…while the powers & naysayers gaslight us & proclaim that a good teacher can work magic no matter what.