Chad Nash

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

@DamonBruce Game 7 of the NBA Finals was scheduled for Friday night. I’d assume they didn’t want to take a chance on going head-to-head with that.

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

@GuruFantasyWrld What I read: Kyler has gotten worse each of the past four years.

[Christine @clharrington024]

We need to completely revise how we group students in elementary schools.

Grade levels should be replaced with ability groupings.

A 4th grader who is reading at a kindergarten level does not benefit from being in a fourth grade ELA class.

Similarly, a student reading at a 6th grade level should not be in a 4th grade ELA class.

Both of these students suffer because our system decided to implement the most stupid way of grouping students to learn. And now no one wants to change it. They’d rather let public education die.

Insane.

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

I've said this before too

We're about to see a tech divide in schools

Poor kids will be lobotomized by screens and give low-quality, "personalized," tech-driven learning

Affluent parents will pay a pretty penny for low-tech, paper-and-pencil schools

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Here's a real simple shift for schools to make:

If a student can't read by the end of 2nd grade, they don't go to 3rd grade.

If a student turns in no homework for the entirety of 9th grade, they don't go to tenth grade

If a senior is chronically absent, they don't graduate

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

@SleeperHQ Expanded options for playoff formats, especially with Byes now in Week 14. For example, we now do a 3-week total for our championship (Weeks 15-17).

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

So as I see it, there are two principles for reforming higher education policy

1) Tighter definitions

We don’t need every student who feels anxious sometimes or “struggles to focus” with time and a half on tests

2) Restricted accommodations

What kids truly need, provide. But SPED cannot be an excuse for any behavior or SPED teachers essentially doing the work for students with only a minor learning disability

[GModo61 @GModo61]

@Beanie0597 This is 100% correct. I’ve been a teacher for 20 years. Teachers are encouraged to help students pass so they can graduate, not learn so they can graduate. And for students that don’t pass, there are multiple programs that help them get credit for a class regardless of learning.

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

Dear @BurgerKing corporate, please reinstall a frozen coke machine at the Lufkin, TX location. Many thanks.

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

Passing a student along who has not yet actually mastered the subject only sets them up for failure in the future.

4/4

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

Two of the most important things they did:

1) They increased teacher standards to make sure that instructors were actually proficient in the subject that they were expected to be teaching.

1/4

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

Mississippi has leapfrogged nearly 40 states in 4th grade reading.

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

We should be applying these ideas almost universally in the education system, but especially in core subjects.
Teacher should be competent in their subject area, and students should have to prove mastery.

3/4

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

Mississippi has leapfrogged nearly 40 states in 4th grade reading.

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

Dear Mr. @elonmusk … I saw where you became the first person to hit a net worth of $500 billion, which deserves many kudos.

If you happen to have an extra 1 to 2 million laying around that you don’t need at the moment, I could really use it. Thanks in advance. 💚

[Chad Nash @chadnash31]

*The Eagles are 4-0.

[Eagles Nation @PHLEaglesNation]

AJ Brown: “I think it’s fair to want the ball to get us going. Last week against the Rams, I caught a sluggo, got us going, next play it opened up Dallas Goedert when the safety came to my side and opened him up.. It’s not just for targets or putting numbers up. No. I see us struggling and I’m a guy that wants the ball in those times. When we can’t find a way, give the ball to me. Game on the line? Give the ball to me. I want that pressure. I work hard for it.. If that’s the misconstrued way you wanna take my frustration, I don’t care. My teammates know. And I want everybody in the stadium to know.”

🎥: @Tim_McManus

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

So here’s the thing. We know how to run a successful school

Rigorous curriculum. Lots of practice. Clear routines and rules. Exacting behavioral standards. Direct instruction. No excuses for poor quality work

Any school that does that will blow the rest out of the water

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The key to fixing public education is to bring back something we’ve lost: standards. If you can’t read by the end of 3rd grade, you shouldn’t move on to 4th grade. Make algebra competence the default before high school. Knowledge of U.S. civics should be a condition for graduation.