You don’t reject the trans community because you’re following Christ, you do it because you’re transphobic.
You don’t look sideways at People of Color because you’re following Christ, you do it because you’re racist.
Stop blaming Christ for your own bigotry and sin.
A parent told me that they asked their kid (who's in elementary school) how their day was.
The kid replied, "Not good. We had to practice dying today."
They had an active shooter drill.
It's doesn't have to be this way.
We can choose to protect kids instead of guns.
Do you know what's worse than teachers having to crowdfund online for school supplies?
A district prohibiting teachers from publicly crowdfunding for supplies they need because it “makes the district look bad,” and therefore forcing teachers to buy the supplies themselves.
Something that will always stay with me when I was assaulted by police a few years ago was them yelling "stop resisting" over and over as they manhandled me. I realized then that they are trained to yell certain things/phrases so they can justify their violence.
You don’t have to watch the video of #TyreNichols being beaten by police.
You don’t have to subject yourself to that trauma.
It should not require another video of a Black human being dehumanized for anyone to understand that police brutality is an urgent, devastating issue.
In education, we always talk about preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist. Apparently we think there will be a lot of standardized test taking jobs in the future.
"It sounds like the pain you feel isn't coming from the fact that you're considering leaving teaching, but rather that you've lost something you once loved tremendously and can't figure out how to find your way back."
On trying to love teaching again: https://t.co/Gv7u9yFRZ9
The average child asks 200-300 questions a day. So if an elementary school teacher has 20 students, they are asked a minimum of 4,000 questions a day… 4,000!
If your partner/spouse is an elementary school teacher, THIS is why they don’t want any questions when they get home.
The exploitation of Christ for worldly power in this era is unconscionable. Leave his name out of your evil. Non-Christian observers, please do not to look to cultural Christianity for what Jesus is like but to the Gospels, Acts & the NT epistles. Look to the sermon on the mount.
I just want to make a few things clear:
The Holocaust happened.
Hitler was a demonic figure.
And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides.
Silence is complicity.
The tragedy in #ColoradoSprings reminds us why we need our kids’ education to bolster empathy, connection, and respect for ALL lives and ALL identities.
The tragedy in #ColoradoSprings reminds us why we need to keep politicians’ spite and hateful ideologies away from the classrooms where our kids learn to see and understand each other.