Stacey Mc

Christian, teacher, coach

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

One reason teachers are driven out of the profession is the unrealistic, and sometimes fanciful, expectations pushed by educational “experts.”

It’s easy to promote beautiful theories about students, instruction, and classroom management when you don’t have to actually put those theories to practice every day.

The reality is that many teachers are doing an incredible job given the circumstances they’ve been handed.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Caitlin Clark did the Iowa Wave with kids from the Children’s Hospital

This is what it’s all about

[Aaron Blau @AaronBlau]

The WNBA viewership numbers may be at an all-time high, but those numbers will plummet if the officiating isn’t addressed by the new commissioner. The inconsistency and downright laughable decisions pull so much away from the on-court talent and it’s nearly unwatchable.

[United Soccer America @reformussoccer]

My dearest Abigail,

The Free Balogun campaign has succeeded.

After many hard marches through red tape, federation fog, and the cold stone walls of FIFA jail, young Balogun is at last liberated and marches under our colors.

The lads now ride for the Round of 16. One more victory, and they shall breach the quarterfinal frontier, a land our nation’s men have never conquered.

Tonight we feast on victory, orange slices, and dangerous levels of belief.

Yours in liberty,
Capt. Ream 🇺🇸⚽️

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.

That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.

The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.

American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.

Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.

We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.

So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.

And it worked. The Wall came down.

But here’s what no one accounted for.

When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.

And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.

An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.

And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.

So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.

Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.

Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.

Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.

Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.

Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.

What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.

For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.

Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.

Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”

We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.

Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.

You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.

What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.

It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.

That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.

Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”

Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.

[Amarillo Golden Sandstorm Football @sandiefootball]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We’ve got news.

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@auntlee @txsalth2o My brother and I have gone through this the past year and a half with my dad. His primary care doctor missed several things that could have improved my dad's quality. He is 83 and we are just trying to get him to where he can function on his own during the day.

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@FixingEducation Remember your why

[Nicole Griffith @nicolegriff_]

Trisha Ford has A&M softball sitting 3rd in the country.

Today she described a story she had with the freshmen about the difference of having fun and hard work.

Good stuff.

[The Winning Difference @thewinningdiff1]

Toughness isn’t something you’re born with — it’s something you build.
It’s not about talent; it’s about commitment.
It’s not a feeling.
It’s a decision.
Over and over again.
Toughness is the difference between the ones who talk about winning and the ones who actually do it.

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@JamesAFurey I agree. I had an 81% pass rate on the AP gov exam last year, and this year, I had the worst formal observation I have ever had in my 26 yr career. It's disheartening.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its people.

When the government relies on taxing individual income, it shifts from serving its citizens to exploiting them as a revenue source. This dynamic creates an inherent friction, where the government no longer answers to the people but to the system that extracts from them. And if you look around, it's clear—whatever our tax dollars are funding, it’s not serving us.

This is what modern economists fail to grasp when they dismiss tariffs, sales taxes, or luxury taxes as harmful. The structure of taxation matters, not just the amount collected. The income tax distorts governance itself—and it needs to go.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

LISTEN UP American Taxpayers 🚨

Former Federal Worker gives an inside look at Federal Workers

“When I was hired, my boss bragged that it was basically impossible to get fired from the federal government.And that in her entire time working for the government, she'd only seen one person fired”

“When I worked for the government, we were allowed to work 50% in the office and 50% from home, for the most part. In some cases, if you'd worked there, like, I think over 10 years or something, you could actually work from home three days a week and work from the office two days a week”

“One employee spent his time remote working, running his own farm.”

“Another employee bragged about drunk driving and going out to lunch with her friends for margaritas when she was supposed to be remote working. No one would log into their computers and you can see it because they're not on Teams and no one ever checked. Ever.”

“There's something called the 80-20 rule where 80% of the work in government is done by 20% of the people and this is very, very true”

“People who get a job in the government a lot of times find out that it's very difficult to fire them and they take advantage of this.”

“Another employee would take the government truck on an almost daily basis so that he could go out to lunch and then go and take a nap in his favorite park under a shady tree in the government truck.”

“Our government is filled with the most incompetent and most lazy people and an occasional hard worker. And those hard workers are severely punished every time they outwork their colleagues. Because then the colleagues realize people will see that they're lazy and they don't want to have to work more. They're just buying time until they retire in almost every case.”

[Jamy Bechler @jamybechler]

COST ASSOCIATED WITH LEADERSHIP

"Have to make hard decisions that'll negatively affect people you care about...

Be disliked despite your best attempt to do the best for the most...

Be misunderstood and not always have the opportunity to defend yourself."

~ Kirby Smart

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@teachergoals I wish... we have staff development tomorrow 🤔

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@AFPromotion2023 @mermdodson @JamesAFurey That's a good example, but to me, that's modifications/accommodations. And lowering standards. So we see things differently. That is why it's frustrating. I can see your situation, but in public ed, you should not have 2nd through college reading level students in one class.

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@AFPromotion2023 @mermdodson @JamesAFurey Once again, everything is blamed on the teachers and not the system.

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@AFPromotion2023 @mermdodson @JamesAFurey How would I have known. You never mentioned you were teaching in a juvenile detetion center, which is not the same as a public school classroom setting. You tried to pass off differentiation as easy and done by good teachers. I simply made a comment asking what it looks like.

[Stacey Mc @StaceyMc112]

@AFPromotion2023 @mermdodson @JamesAFurey So, did you do all the planning yourself? did you have help, maybe a plc team or staff development? Most can't give an exact answer on differentiation. Why not answer how many students and teachers are in a self enclosed class? Sounds like you blame teachers and not the system