isa cat

Educator; believes kids are entire human beings.

My liberation is bound up with yours,

she/her

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

"The claim here is that we should do unpleasant and unnecessary things to children now in order to prepare them for the fact that just such things will be done to them later.  This justification ... continues to drive education policy."

https://t.co/PIQiMYTFEV

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

“…American society tends to equate inactivity with immorality, and productivity with worth. Faced with a condition that simply doesn’t allow people to move—even one whose deficits can be measured and explained—many doctors and loved ones default to disbelief.”

[Mara Gay @MaraGay]

spent months reporting on families across America who have lost children to drowning.

What I found is that in America, swimming is a luxury rather than a public good.

https://t.co/rd0Mg5ZTsd

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

At New Mexico's biggest jail for children, kids from 12-17 are "routinely subjected to strip searches, held for weeks in cells without toilets, and left with only a thin plastic sheet to block out the glare of hallway lights that never turn off"

https://t.co/BCYZI2ebYQ

[Alison Romaine @alison_lettuce]

It's such an uphill battle when pushing for equitable systems! Putting barriers in place to recording extenuating circs or accessing extensions creates a non-compassionate systems...for what? Barriers do not uphold academic standards, they just reproduce inequitable experiences.

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

@sheathescholar What human potential is squandered by the unnecessary sleep deprivation forced on students and teachers

[swm @sheathescholar]

as an introvert, I was exhausted after teaching 150 kids every day. as an introvert, I am exhausted after reading articles in silence every day. I think I might just be tired.

[Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP (She/Her) @ErinSandersNP]

If comments to this post are an indicator of how many clinicians view accommodating disabled colleagues… how could they *possibly* conceptualize or reimagine truly enabling & empowering their disabled patients? THIS is why inclusion matters. #DisabilityJustice h/t @jbullockruns

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

One week ago, a court in California ruled that employers cannot be sued for spreading COVID to their workers due to lack of protections.

This week, In-N-Out banned their employees from wearing masks.

This is horrible.

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

@andujar571 @SenAlexPadilla Not exclusive of one another

[Catherine Sloan @cgsloan]

So politicians are proud of starving children to teach parents responsibility because this is a part of how the Empire has always operated. Children were put into institutions, transported, forcibly migrated, imprisoned in residential schools, to teach us all how to be British.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

This is from the site OSHA linked, under “standards” (the binding rules for employers).

Note the word “was” here. If an issue already happened they can vaguely try to fine someone. Specific binding heat standards would make employers do specific things to PREVENT workers dying

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

@Superteacher74 @heymrsbond That's where I am!

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

@heymrsbond I should note that we are a strong union state, and it has to be a very bad evaluation to have any impact.

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

@heymrsbond In my state, teachers in their first three years are evaluated "comprehensively" on all eight state criteria, but "focus" on one criterion a year after that, going back to comprehensive every five years.

[isa cat @educatedtrouble]

@senorhettler @heymrsbond By ignoring it

[Christian Smalls @Shut_downAmazon]

It’s #PrimeDay Amazon will have over a million plus workers working nearly 60 hrs this Week on Mandatory overtime to deliver a package Heat strokes and exhaustion will be unbearable if you are a Prime user consider shopping else where. #HotLaborSummer ✊🏽🔥