Beachside Learning Lab

dedicated to supporting differently wired learning, including dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autism via hybrid OT/tutoring practice, ND family, POTS

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@Magadogmommy @AOC Did a US congressman do that to those women?

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@MattWalshBlog I’m pretty sure that “I came to make money and have a better quality of life, not the culture” is true for most people who have ever immigrated to the US, which is why the US has had centuries of first generation ethnic enclaves from many cultures around the world.

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@genericavevo @ChadThurman10 @OtsukimiOtsu @lachancenaomi27 You can absolutely study for an IQ test.

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@lucas_mccarten @lachancenaomi27 That’s the character limit for the text box in which you write your response, not the score.

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@skaggsspaz @LeadingReport Yeah the something going on here is the lie by omission to twist the story to fit a political narrative. Notice there’s zero mention of the other student who was killed:

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@LeadingReport So are we just pretending there was only one shooting victim because that’s more convenient to political story telling? Why is this student less worthy of being remembered?

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@KiritDawda @kingkrabbyp Why would you assume that women would never object? They object all the time, and I’m gonna bet you also complain when women do reject and report such behavior, a phenomenon known as sexual harassment…

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@juliew38138 @BradWilcoxIFS Men’s problems are because women are bad - well, that’s certainly something we’ve never heard before…After all, everyone knows it’s the man’s job to be the controlling, narcissistic one. /s

If U R comfy stereotyping like this, wonder how much of this your sons picked up from U

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews More context in article below. Also important to note that the grassroots movements nationally pushing for reform of how we teach reading did not arise in conservative states or as a reaction to “wokeness”; they predate that term by a lot…

https://t.co/K0tOMLfgXx

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews I appreciate you have your passionate views on this. My career is helping kids who have become educational casualties gain skills, I have spent a lot of time studying this, live in CA just 20 miles from UCSD, and I’m a parent of 3 school age kids. Things are not that simple.

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews There absolutely are some bad actors out there with an ideological bent - Jo Boaler is a great example. But she’s also of a kind with Lucy Calkins, but her approach to reading was _not_ coming from any sort of liberal bias, in fact it was more the opposite! 3/3

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews One of the intents of a federal department of Ed was to help with separating the wheat from the chaff when it comes to educational best practices - eg IES is a great resource. What works clearinghouse has flaws, but could have been fixed. But that department has been gutted. 2/3

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@evrythngmachne @BangorRocks2 @51stnews So, you think the federal govt is choosing the middle school ELA curriculum in DC? So this was Trump’s idea?

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews So, what you are saying is U don’t want to talk about real problems like the perverse incentives in the business of Ed curriculum development or how misunderstandings of how reading comprehension develops are affecting kids in all states, but 2 ignore that & stick w/mud-flinging

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@Alicia_Bittle_ 1) “No Child Left Behind” was a George W Bush era initiative that graded public schools’ performance based upon test scores and threatened to close poor performing schools. It has absolutely nothing to do with inclusion and it’s not a special ed policy at all.

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews I can’t possibly know the political leanings of individual people who live 1000s of miles from me other than relying upon stereotypes of DC. I can tell you is that these curriculums have a large market share nationally but not for the reason you just gave. Read Karen’s free link!

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@dottie4820 @51stnews The whole idea began with the false premise that reading comprehension is a set of discrete skills that can be taught in isolation…

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@sharounporat @51stnews There has been a huge movement towards adopting “passage-only” ELA curriculums in the US for elementary and middle school. See the piece Karen Vaites linked to in her comment for some excellent reporting on this.

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@BangorRocks2 @51stnews I strongly recommend reading the linked piece in Karen Vaites comment on this thread, she’s done some fantastic reporting on this.