Tom Sheppard

Dad, Veteran, Community Organizer, Education Advocate

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@Pink The truly sad part is being placed in a position where you needed to defend yourself by writing this.

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@ForOurBabies76 😢

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@MzGibson @PeopleforInteg1 @RitaJosephNYC @ruxdanika @SalAlbaneseNYC @NYSComptroller @deb_kross @placenyc_org @GholdyM @BLoveSoulPower That and I'm still trying to figure out when and how Black Panther and Wakanda Forever became symbols for “Anti-Whiteness”. 👀

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@PeopleforInteg1 @MzGibson @RitaJosephNYC @ruxdanika @SalAlbaneseNYC @NYSComptroller @deb_kross @placenyc_org We’re spending too much energy trying to debate Twitter trolls with their slides and dog whistle rants who probably haven’t even read @GholdyM @BLoveSoulPower. I invite people instead to read their work and make up your own mind...

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@PeopleforInteg1 @MzGibson @RitaJosephNYC @ruxdanika @SalAlbaneseNYC @NYSComptroller @deb_kross @placenyc_org Ditto what @MzGibson said. Please leave me out of this foolishness.

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@PeopleforInteg1 @MzGibson @NYSComp @NYC_DOI @USEEOC @placenyc_org @VickieforNYC @NYC_SCI Do we really?

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@MzGibson @PeopleforInteg1 @NYSComp @NYC_DOI @USEEOC @placenyc_org @VickieforNYC @NYC_SCI They got plenty of slides y’all…

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@NaomiPenaNYC And equally disturbing is public school systems knowing that students are struggling while cutting funding to schools instead of giving them the additional support they need.

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

Last year, we all watched in horror as this administration did nothing to prevent 150K students & staff @NYCSchools from getting sick in 3 weeks. It seems the only lesson learned was figuring out how to turn off the reporting system so we have no idea how many get sick this time.

[Sarah Allen @Mssarahmssarah]

Dispatch from a Manhattan Elementary School:

8 kids in class of 22 get covid.

No note goes home to families because NYC DOE close contact letters have ended (1 covid test was sent). 2 parents run into each other at drugstore & start to put together how bad the situation is. 1/

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@Mssarahmssarah Bless you for doing God’s work. I appreciate you and the all teachers who care about the wellbeing of our children as well as their education. It’s hard and emotionally exhausting. I wanted to say THANK YOU!!!

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

I’m sorry Daniel. Please get well soon. And there were 1,041 students and staff out yesterday and 56,944 out since the 1st day of school. Data provided by: Soon to be cancelled during a Tridemic @NYCSchools Situation Room.

[Daniel Alicea @DanielAlicea]

My partner and I tested positive for COVID-19, today. I know other colleagues are under the weather and out. And lots of students out, yesterday. So why on earth is DOE closing the SITUATION ROOM?

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

@paultrust @NYCSchools @Kristin4Harlem @OsseChi @alexaforcouncil @tiffany_caban @SandyforCouncil @CMbarron2 In my humble opinion, holding them accountable means voting them out of office and replacing them with CMs that will not sell out our students and families for a handshake.

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

If you’re opposed to cuts to @NYCSchools budget, it’s important to support those CMs who also opposed the cuts with their “NO” votes. @Kristin4Harlem @OsseChi @alexaforcouncil @tiffany_caban @SandyforCouncil @CMbarron2. It’s also important to hold CMs who voted YES accountable.

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

This is such a violation of basic human rights. First homelessness & now criminalizing mental illness. Completely unacceptable & any CM that doesn’t fight to protect the rights of New Yorkers, especially our most vulnerable & marginalized, should be voted out of office ASAP.

[NY Working Families Party @NYWFP]

“We have deep concerns about Mayor Eric Adams’s involuntary commitment policy, which ignores well-established norms about effective mental health care and represents a clear violation of people’s basic freedoms." (1/6) 🧵

[Tom Sheppard @Sheppard4NYC]

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