cw: pregnancy loss
I live in Alabama, a state with a total abortion ban, and was so overjoyed when I found out I was pregnant last month. I’ve been doing everything right. Stopped caffeine, took my prenatal vitamins, followed every rec. But I started bleeding on Tuesday.🧵
I'm not a large enough account to make a difference but I wanted to share our "school choice" experience in AZ. Our neighborhood public school failed last year. No gifted services, no teacher for half the year, etc. So I pulled her and signed her up for a charter.
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.
Alexandria "Alex" Bell, 15, a sophomore, was shot to death today in her classroom in St. Louis. One of nine children, Alex loved to dance and was on the Junior Dance Team at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. She would have turned 16 in two weeks.
I had a guy friend with a Ph.D in engineering ask me last week how women pee with a tampon in and this is why men shouldn’t be passing laws about women’s bodies.
More facts coming out about Gov. Parson’s Plan to stick it to the Middle Class so the top 1% can get a HUGE payday.
If you’re a single filer, would you rather have a $500 check AND fully funded schools? Or …. $11 and a permanent revenue cut putting classroom funds at risk?
The “just teach” crowd has no idea what teachers actually do, because, if they did, they would know that schools would not be able to function if all teachers did was just teach.
When your response to teachers leaving the profession is to make it easier to become a teacher but not stay a teacher, you’re part of the reason why teachers are leaving in the first place.
If you don’t believe in gay marriage, don’t marry someone who’s the same sex.
If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one.
Don’t like books about transgender kids, slavery or the Holocaust, don’t read them.
Don’t do any of that shit.
But stop trying to decide if OTHERS can.