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[Christa @cricket_v4]

@maistomedia The sickening part is choosing to murder your child because it doesn’t meet your ideal standards, monetizing every step of the process and then blaming others for not sympathizing with your choice.

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Nowadays kids’ books have messages like “believe in yourself” and “you can do anything” but when I was a kid the messages were things like “a lady who has a candy house wants to cook and eat you” and “sometimes wolves can disguise themselves as old women”

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

The cost of having children is worth the presence of children.

Full stop.

I am dumbstruck at how our society thinks of children as a costly, time-consuming drag. What an impoverished way to think.

No vacation will hold your hand in the hospital. No amount of mimosas at brunch can walk with you through grief. Double incomes cannot replace empty seats around the dinner table.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Neuroscientist explains how the SAT is redefining education

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@NoticerNews This really is not a surprise to anyone with common sense.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@Symply_rhoda1 Wrong! It’s the kids not experiencing natural consequences to bad behavior that are the problem.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight. And usually, that is a sign that the true believers know, at some level, that they are on shaky ground.

@hoovlet

[Will Flanders @WillFlandersWI]

Important piece from a former MPS Superintendent. Charter schools in Milwaukee are among the highest performing public schools. But they are being forced out due to blind opposition on the left to families having any options beyond their zoned public school.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

I want our teachers fully supported when they are trying to maintain order in their classrooms. WILL Supports Teacher Bill of Rights https://t.co/vMNQLEPac7 via @wilawliberty

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

I have got update from inside Iran for those who are genuinely worried.

Mainstream media is spreading nonsense to exploit your worry and save the regime.

My mom called this morning, she had to call cause internet’s cut again (it is a war crime). Explosions are louder than the 12-day war, but everyone is calm: strikes are precise, mostly away from homes. For nearby targets (mosques, IRGC/Basij bases in neighborhoods), people get phone warnings to evacuate first,consistent with 12 day war.

Even near Persian new year holidays, families are staying home as President @realDonaldTrump and Prince @PahlaviReza advised, avoiding schools and public spots because the regime uses them as human shields.

That’s why we in exile thank @POTUS and @netanyahu : they go to great lengths to protect civilians while the regime deliberately hits crowded areas to cause maximum casualties, not just in Israel, but also in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Qatar.

Our only real worries: the regime itself, their faulty Chinese missiles, and their constant use of human shields.

Remember 2020: after striking the US base in Iraq, they shot down a civilian Iranian plane full of families and kids, hoping Trump would hit back so they could play victim (a Russian-style tactic). They miscalculated, Trump didn’t retaliate and we painfully saw what this regime is truly capable of.

Stay calm. No one wants war, but this cancer leaves no other option but surgery.

Be patient, stay hopeful, and pray for American & Israeli heroes and for Iranians to come through safely.

And please share this video with your friends. You shouldn’t trust MSM on this topic. My instagram id is @iranidaturan

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@Doug_Lemov Our school district just hosted a spirit week to boost attendance, allowing kids to wear pajamas to school 1day. Thinking if we focused on rigor, stamina and an education that challenges, kids would begin showing up! Make time spent in a classroom valuable again!

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@raqisright I had the same treatment @hm when asking for a printed receipt. She said “we can’t do that unless someone asks” I smiled and said “Ok, I’m asking please” She got visibly angry and then said “we just care about the environment” I smiled, took my receipt and left.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@_falsi1ke Not considering the “results” of prayer, there are plenty of examples of that, but with prayer comes an indescribable peace. A peace that can only come from God. Prayer with the study of God’s faithfulness throughout the Bible has solidified my faith more than anything else.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Dear Ed Week,

This is 100% wrong, “leave the canon to English majors” is exactly how we lose civilization.

Classical literature is not just harder content. It is liberation. It rips students out of the tiny prison of their own age, their own trends, their own slogans, their own shallow assumptions about what matters. It reminds them the world did not begin with them, and that their feelings are not the measure of truth.

Shakespeare doesn’t teach “skills.” He reveals ambition, lust, betrayal, guilt, and the cost of sin. Homer teaches courage and honor. Augustine exposes the restless heart. Dante shows that loves can be ordered rightly or twisted into ruin. These books give students a map of the soul.

The real enemy isn’t Crime and Punishment. The real enemy is a culture training kids to be bored by silence and incapable of deep thought.

So no, don’t abandon the canon because it’s hard.

It is their way out of the matrix.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@JamesAFurey Our Classical School was sliding into SEL, thankfully enough parents pushed back and they renewed focus on core virtues. Ex. Integrity…doing what’s right even when no one is watching. It’s so refreshing to focus on concrete behavior expectations vs. flighty feelings & excuses.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@SenatorBaldwin Obamacare destroyed our family’s healthcare coverage. You didn’t care until it became a “bargaining chip.” No one believes you.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

To be clear, about ed tech:

--I think teachers should have a computer in the classroom and way to show images and videos, if they choose to.

--I think @khanacademy has proven its worth, abundantly. I wish it could be offered on a dedicated device, with no distractions.

--In my several posts about ed tech, teachers often add comments. They rarely praise or defend ed tech.

--I think schools should have a computer room (as at the Waldorf schools that some tech execs seek out for the low-tech classrooms). Students need to learn to use computers and the internet.

--The most damaging mistake seems to have been the 1:1 devices -- putting a Chromebook or tablet on each student's desk. As a UNESCO report said in 2023, the distraction effects seem to exceed whatever benefits a few of the apps might have:
https://t.co/79LBBfxZen

--I don't doubt that some apps which gamify learning have been proven to produce faster or better learning than older methods. BUT: if you gamify a third of the school day, the dopamine effects would cause the other 2/3 to seem more boring. So the net effect in a real classroom may be negative even if some apps showed consistent benefits in controlled tests.

--The big question we need answered is: does giving each student their own device, to use during much of the school day, end up promoting or interfering with education over the course of a year? Horvath's graph suggests that in real classrooms, it interferes.

--Putting devices on every student's desk seems to be the second giant uncontrolled experiment that the tech giants ran on our children, without our informed consent. (Smartphones and social media was the first.) They are already starting up the next one: chatbots for kids, and these will be pushed into schools too despite the already obvious harms.

--We are gathering research on ed tech at https://t.co/0gyIphz5m7. Here is a link to all of our posts about "What Schools and Educators Can Do Now."
https://t.co/R7A6HFXetO
See especially this one, by Mark West:
https://t.co/AOjJ196POs

We will have more to say in future posts.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@BennieGThompson This is clickbait. No one is being denied anything. It protects nurses from predatory lending, encourages employers to support continuing education and keeps tuition from continuing to over inflate.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@Catlin_Tucker This is ridiculous. Teach the whole class, practice, repeat.

[Christa @cricket_v4]

@DrFrankTurek Ordering your Private World by Gordon MacDonald and it’s fantastic!