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[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Here's my FULL interview with psychologist @jonhaidt. We discuss:

-The Anxious Generation.

-Kids' phone addiction

-Sextortionists online.

-Coddling of students.

-How kids flourish by being "anti-fragile.”

[LibbyintheCarolinas @LibbyMcMillan]

@toddstarnes @tatereeves @AndyGipsonforMS @MSDeptofAg As they should have!!!! Great job!!!!

[toddstarnes @toddstarnes]

Mississippi officially wins best pavilion at the Great American State Fair. Y'all just can't compete with homemade buttermilk biscuits! @tatereeves @AndyGipsonforMS @MSDeptofAg

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

One of the greatest living Americans.

[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

Decoy Effect, a cognitive bias where adding an inferior, "decoy" option to a choice set subtly manipulates you into choosing the marketer's preferred, usually more expensive, option. It skews your perception of value without you realizing it.

© marketingminds

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

Yep.

[Wendy @teachthemx3]

I used to work at a school with strong staff morale, many years ago. We had the same principal for 10ish years. She retired and was replaced with a younger first time principal. He came in and changed everything simply for the sake of changing it. Within one school year 98% of the staff left.

Word got out about how he was running the school so seasoned teachers didn't apply for the vacant positions. The new staff hired were mostly first year teachers. Test scores declined so much that district leadership brought in a support team to help the new principal. But the damage was already done.

That being said, just because the staff is happy, doesn't mean students are learning. In the school I left recently, most of the staff was happy. The work load was minimal. Admin didn't care how much effort you were putting in as long as test scores were okay and the kids were making 70's.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Big biz lobbies government to pass rules that hurt smaller competitors. It's always been that way.

100 years ago, Heinz found a way to make ketchup without a preservative. Then it pushed government to kill off its competitors by banning that preservative.

The sleaze continues:

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

New (brief) post.

#Outlander #Outlandercocktails

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[C. Walker @coltsaway]

Yep and when I repeatedly brought up this issue to the higher ups, I was felt to be the problem!!! Not fair to the kids who show up every day…and not fair when a senior misses 90 school days in a year and gets same diploma as my child who worked her tail off and showed up.

[Wendy @teachthemx3]

I have a senior on my roster who hasn’t attended my class a single day this semester. She showed up today for the first time.

We have 7 days left before grades are finalized for seniors.

My administrator just asked me to see what I can do to help her graduate.

In case anyone here is a new follower, this is why I’m leaving public education.

[bren 🧚 @itbgal]

12 years and i still will tell anybody who will listen that this is the best written and executed scene in the entirety of the series.

sam and caitríona — thank you for bringing to life this beautiful, heartbreaking, passionate, real, magical love story to our screens.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

The statistics show it:
Invest in a Marriage not in a wedding.

The wedding industry is a $60 billion machine built on convincing you that spending more means loving more.

The research says something different.
Emory University researchers surveyed over 3,000 couples and found that the more you spend on your wedding the more likely you are to end up divorced.
The data is consistent enough that it's hard to ignore.

Women who spent over $20,000 on their wedding were 3.5 times more likely to divorce than those who kept the budget between $5,000 and $10,000.

Couples who spent less than $1,000 on their wedding had the LOWEST divorce rates of all.

Now here's the nuance that matters.
The researchers don't believe an expensive wedding causes divorce.

They believe the financial behaviors and pressures that lead couples to overspend on a wedding create the conditions for marital strain down the road.

Financial stress is consistently the number one cause of divorce.
Starting a marriage with $30,000 in wedding debt on a combined $80,000 income is a fundamentally different situation than spending $30,000 when you earn $300,000.

There's also a finding in this study that almost never gets mentioned in the viral versions of this stat.

Couples with large guest lists but modest budgets had some of the strongest marriages of anyone in the study.

The researchers believe community support from friends and family matters far more to a marriage than what you spent on centerpieces.

The wedding industry spent decades convincing people that the size of the ring and the budget of the reception are expressions of love.

The data disagrees 💍 ♥️

Source: The Argent Group

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

https://t.co/fvUp0wx8tL

New post…

#outlander #northcarolina

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

https://t.co/fvUp0wx8tL

#outlander #bookstagram

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

Truth!!! But there is a reason people are flocking to Madison and surrounding areas!

[Chris Price @ChrisPrice454]

@DominicMcGregor This is the Taco Bell in Madison, Mississippi…

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

@jlpoober Before retiring last year, my last two years were “school shutdowns” for state testing. I wouldn’t see my kids for five days (but babysit other kids I didn’t teach if I wasn’t giving a test). This all before my AP Macro/Micro kids took their AP exam. Just stupid!

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Some people in America are really rich.

So some states plan to tax them more.

But don’t politicians realize that Americans can move?

@SteveForbesCEO explains why "tax the rich" always fails:

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

@nasonlollar @MSProfEd Also, sadly, that is true for social studies in general (across country). I’ve always said we don’t need more laws or testing. We need more principals to make teachers teach what the framework requires them to teach.

[C. Walker @coltsaway]

@nasonlollar @MSProfEd @nasonlollar Civics is a strand that is SUPPOSED to be incorporated in K-12 social studies framework (like economics) but sadly is not being taught to put focus on accountability testing. I’ve heard from many elementary teachers who forego social studies to teach what’s tested.

[Ligonier Ministries @Ligonier]

The land was plunged into darkness as the light of the world was slain.

Watch this biblical timeline of Good Friday and reflect on all that Jesus endured to atone for the sins of His people.

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

They do it different in StarkVegas 🤩🏟️ @HailStateBB