If you have served in public education for 20 years or more, this post is for you.
You are part of the roughly 28% who entered public-school teaching and were still in the profession two decades later.
So for the veteran teachers and staff who have served for 20 years, 25 years, 30 years, and beyond, this is to celebrate you!
You have endured some of the most difficult changes education has ever faced.
You witnessed standardized testing grow into an overwhelming system of high-stakes pressure, excessive data collection, and constant documentation.
You adapted to new standards, new technology, new programs, and an endless cycle of initiatives.
You carried students and families through COVID, even while facing your own fears, losses, and uncertainty.
You have watched respect for educators decline while expectations continued to rise.
You have been asked to do more with less, solve problems you did not create, and meet needs that extend far beyond the classroom.
And yet, you continued to show up.
You taught the lesson again.
You encouraged the struggling student.
You supported the overwhelmed colleague.
You welcomed the nervous parent.
You kept schools functioning during some of the toughest years education has ever experienced.
Most people will never fully understand what it takes to dedicate decades of your life to serving students, families, and communities. They will never know how many evenings, weekends, personal dollars, and pieces of your heart you have invested.
There are adults walking through the world today who are stronger, wiser, and more confident because you once believed in them.
To every teacher and staff member who has served for 20 years or more:
Thank you for your dedication.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
Thank you for your wisdom.
Thank you for caring for our children.
Thank you!
He’s gonna address the nation tonight, and he’s not gonna talk about you. He’s not gonna talk about you & your struggles with unemployment, rising prices, and access to healthcare. He’s gonna talk about himself. He’s gonna talk about an election he lost six years ago.
Just one more reminder for November.
The American president, who desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and brags about ending a bunch of wars, now thinks he can just kill you if he suspects you might have drugs on you.
Dear Parents—your child doesn’t need to be the smartest in the class, the best on the field, or the most talented in the room.
But they do need to be teachable.
We’ve raised a generation that can Google every answer, but too many are forgetting how to listen, respect, and learn.
Being teachable isn’t about grades or intelligence—it’s about humility. It’s about realizing you don’t know everything and being willing to grow when someone tries to help you.
As parents, we don’t need to raise perfect kids.
We need to raise kids who can take feedback without falling apart.
Who can apologize.
Who can show respect even when they disagree.
Who can be corrected without becoming combative.
Because teachability will take them further than talent ever will.
Trump is shredding the Constitution, defying the law, distorting reality, wreaking havoc on our streets, perverting the justice department, and harming people across the country and the world all to gratify his ignorant self. And half of America empowered him to do it all.
"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure — it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." @OfTheBraveUSA
A lot of people in my replies over the years are apparently unaware that the Constitution is the supreme law of the United States, and that when this president, or any president, violates the Constitution, he is breaking the law.
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