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19 years ago today @Xtina released “Slow Down Baby” as the 4th single from her ‘Back To Basics’ album (4th and final Australian single / Not released as a single in Europe or North America) #ChristinaAguilera #Xtina #BackToBasics 💿 #SlowDownBaby July 24, 2007

RaulVsRalph's tweet photo. 19 years ago today @Xtina released “Slow Down Baby” as the 4th single from her ‘Back To Basics’ album (4th and final Australian single / Not released as a single in Europe or North America)
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2 days ago

Return to Textbooks-speechify #EverythingSolution #HumanAI #Philosophy #LoveRespectfulAppreciationWorth #PersonalGrowth #Satisfaction #Handwriting #ScreenTime #DigitalEducation #EdTech #Reading #BackToBasics #PrintedBooks #DeepReading https://t.co/RRRo6JrQvX https://t.co/dABqtfdkaG 📷 Based onMassimo @Rainmaker1973 · 9h Sweden is reintroducing printed books and handwriting into its classrooms. Once celebrated as a leader in digital education, the country is now directing significant resources toward traditional textbooks while limiting the use of tablets and screens, particularly for young students. Swedish authorities attribute this policy shift to mounting evidence that excessive screen time may have harmed reading proficiency and basic skill development. The government has also announced plans to ban digital learning tools for children under six years old. Scientific research on handwriting provides insight into the rationale. When children write by hand, they engage multiple brain areas responsible for motor control, visual processing, memory, focus, and language. Unlike typing, this process demands precise coordination of fine movements alongside letter recognition and word formation. Studies indicate that such multisensory engagement enhances letter knowledge, spelling, reading acquisition, and memory retention. Printed books may similarly promote stronger comprehension. Research shows that people often retain information more effectively from physical pages than from digital displays. The tangible nature of paper offers spatial references that aid memory organization. In contrast, screen based reading, especially when interrupted by notifications or hyperlinks, can fragment attention and reduce deep focus. This approach does not reject technology entirely. Computers and tablets continue to serve important roles in research, group projects, accessibility features, and interactive exercises. Education specialists emphasize the need for thoughtful integration, applying digital resources where they prove most effective while safeguarding core practices such as handwriting, printed materials, and direct teacher instruction. Sweden's policy change mirrors growing international discussions about optimal screen time in schools. As educators worldwide evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of digital tools, many are reconsidering when traditional methods may better support fundamental learning. Daniel Sweden is effectively pulling the plug on the digital-first classroom, and it's sending shockwaves through the global education community. For years, the country was held up as the gold standard for integrating tablets and laptops into every corner of the curriculum, from preschool to graduation. Now, the Swedish government is redirecting hundreds of millions of kronor away from screens and back into physical textbooks, pens, and pencils. It's a dramatic pivot that suggests the all-out embrace of technology might have actually been a massive, unproven experiment on an entire generation of students. William It’s a fascinating reversal because it’s not just a change in preference; it’s a policy driven by a sense of urgency. The Swedish Schools Minister, Lotta Edholm, has been quite vocal, even calling the hyper-digitalization of schools an experiment that lacked solid scientific backing. The catalyst for this was really the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, or PIRLS. While Swedish fourth graders still perform better than many of their European peers, their average scores dropped significantly—from 555 in 2016 down to 544 in 2021. That decline, coupled with warnings from the Karolinska Institute, a prestigious medical university, convinced officials that digital tools were impairing rather than enhancing the acquisition of basic knowledge. 📷Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug. 📷Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools 📷Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools | AP News Daniel But isn't it a bit reductive to blame screens for a drop in test scores? There were a lot of things happening between 2016 and 2021—most notably a global pandemic that disrupted every aspect of life. If we're looking at a ten-point drop in reading scores, how do we know it wasn't just the stress of the era or the shift to remote learning, rather than the devices themselves? William That's exactly what the Swedish National Agency for Education argued. They pointed to the pandemic's impact on vulnerable students and the increasing socio-economic gap as the primary culprits. But the government’s stance, backed by neuroscientists, is that the issue is structural and biological. They’re looking at how the brain actually processes information. A 2024 study by Audrey van der Meer at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology used high-density EEG to track brain activity and found that handwriting activates much more complex and connected patterns across the parietal and central brain regions than typing does. When you write by hand, you're engaging motor control, visual processing, and sensory feedback in a way that creates much deeper neural pathways for memory. 📷Full article: Constructions of a reading crisis – representation of PIRLS 2021 in public discourses 📷Handwriting vs. Typing: What the Brain Research Actually Shows (and Doesn't) – buckleyPLANET 📷Printed vs. Digital: Comprehension | Holmen Board & Paper 📷Screen vs. Paper: Which One Boosts Reading Comprehension? - Oxford Learning+1 Daniel So it's not just about the content, it's the physical act of formation. If I type a letter 'A', it’s the same mechanical movement as typing a 'Z'—just a different coordinate on a keyboard. But when a child draws an 'A', the physical exertion and the visual shape are uniquely linked. I can see how that would help with letter recognition, but how does that translate to something as broad as reading comprehension William It’s about cognitive load. When you’re reading on a screen, your brain is doing a lot of 'extra' work that has nothing to do with the text. You’re managing the scrolling, the backlit glare, and the constant threat of notifications or hyperlinks. Researchers refer to this as the 'screen inferiority effect.' A meta-analysis published in the Review of Educational Research, which looked at nearly 470,000 participants, suggested that reading on paper can boost comprehension by six to eight times more than digital reading. The physical page provides what they call 'spatial anchors.' You remember that a certain fact was near the bottom-left corner of the page, or you feel how much of the book is left in your right hand. These tactile cues build a mental map of the information that scrolling simply destroys. 📷Screen vs. Paper: Which One Boosts Reading Comprehension? - Oxford Learning 📷The value of print in education: Boosting reading comprehension and memory | UPM Communication Papers Daniel I’ve definitely experienced that—that feeling of being 'lost' in a long PDF because there’s no physical beginning or end. But let’s play devil's advocate for a second. We live in a digital world. If we remove screens from schools, aren't we just failing to prepare kids for the reality of the modern workplace? No one is going to be writing 20-page reports by hand in a corporate office ten years from now. 📷Sweden's Education System Reverts from Digital to Traditiona 📷Sweden Brings Books, Handwriting Back to School 📷Printed books are proven to improve reader comprehension 📷Why Sweden is spending €100 million to cut screens in schools – Futura-Sciences+5 William That’s the core tension in this debate. Critics of the Swedish pivot argue that we're moving backward. However, the Swedish Ministry of Education’s logic is that digital competence isn't about how many hours you spend on a tablet; it's about having the foundational literacy and critical thinking skills to use that tablet effectively later on. They've pointed to data from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study showing that four out of ten Swedish students actually lacked basic digital competence despite the hyper-digitalized environment. The idea is that you can't build a digital skyscraper on a foundation of sand. If you can't read deeply or write a coherent argument on paper, your ability to 'use technology' is limited to superficial tasks. Daniel It sounds like they’re trying to distinguish between 'using technology' and 'learning through technolo gy.' But is this a total ban? Is Sweden literally throwing every iPad into a dumpster? William Not at all. It's more of a selective re-balancing. The new guidelines specifically target the youngest learners. For children under six, the government wants to eliminate digital learning tools entirely. They’re investing about 685 million kronor annually through 2025 specifically to ensure there is one physical textbook per student per subject. Digital tools will still exist for things where they have a proven added value—like interactive simulations in science, or accessibility features for students with dyslexia. But for the core act of learning to read, write, and do arithmetic, they're returning to what they call 'analog fundamentals.' 📷Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools 📷Sweden Brings Books, Handwriting Back to School 📷Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools | AP News 📷Switching off: Sweden says back-to-basics schooling works on paper | Sweden | The Guardian+1 Daniel There's also a socio-economic angle here that I think is overlooked. Often, technology is sold to schools as the 'great equalizer.' If every kid has a laptop, they all have the same access. But the PIRLS data you mentioned suggested that the gap actually widened in Sweden during the digital push. Why would more technology lead to less equity? \ William It’s a paradox, but it makes sense when you look at the 'home environment' factor. Students from resource-rich homes often have parents who can curate their digital use or provide physical books at home. Students from less-advantaged backgrounds might rely entirely on the school for their structured learning. If the school replaces structured, teacher-led instruction with 'independent digital research,' those who struggle with self-regulation or don't have support at home get left behind. A tablet in the hands of a struggling seven-year-old can very easily become a distraction machine rather than a learning tool. By returning to textbooks, the school provides a standardized, high-quality, distraction-free source of knowledge that doesn't depend on having high-speed internet or a quiet room at home. Daniel What about the teachers? I have to imagine that after years of being told to digitize everything, being told to go back to paper feels like a massive whiplash. Are they actually equipped to go back to 'basics'? William The reaction has been mixed. Some teachers, like those interviewed by the Associated Press in Stockholm, have welcomed it. They’ve noted that they were already being selective because they saw the impact on attention spans firsthand. They saw students 'skimming' instead of 'reading.' But others worry about the loss of autonomy. There’s a concern that this is a political move by a center-right coalition to signal 'traditional values' rather than a purely pedagogical decision. Some education experts argue that the 'science' isn't as settled as the government claims. They say that while some neuro-imaging shows differences in brain activity, we don't have enough long-term longitudinal studies to say that those differences definitively lead to better life outcomes. 📷De-digitisation of Swedish schools … what is Lotta Edholm hoping to prove? – Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY 📷Sweden Brings Books, Handwriting Back to School 📷Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools Daniel It’s also worth noting the sheer cost. Sweden is spending tens of millions of dollars to buy books that they already largely phased out. That’s a huge logistical undertaking. If other countries follow suit, we’re looking at a massive shift in the multi-billion dollar ed-tech industry. If the 'Swedish Experiment' proves that the digital classroom was a mistake, a lot of companies selling 'personalized learning platforms' are going to be in trouble. William Exactly. This is why the world is watching so closely. Countries like the Netherlands have already moved toward banning mobile phones in classrooms, citing similar concerns about distraction and performance. UNESCO even released a report in 2023 warning against the 'uncharted' use of technology in schools, stating that it should only be used when it supports learning, never as a replacement for human interaction. Sweden is just the first to put a massive price tag on that sentiment. They’re betting that the future of education looks more like the 19th century than the 22nd, at least for the first few years of a child's development. 📷Sweden: the unmet promises of the digital classroom | The UNESCO Courier 📷Printed books are proven to improve reader comprehension Daniel It really highlights a fundamental question about what we want for our kids. Do we want them to be efficient 'users' of systems, or do we want them to have the cognitive stamina to sit with a difficult text for an hour without a 'ping' pulling them away? The Swedish approach suggests that 'stamina' is a physical skill that you have to build with paper and ink. William And that stamina is exactly what's at risk. When we talk about 'deep reading,' we're talking about the ability to connect ideas, to empathize with characters, and to follow complex logic. Screen-based reading encourages 'F-shaped' scanning—looking for keywords and moving on. If we train children's brains to only scan, we might be losing the ability to think critically on a societal level. That's the 'reading crisis' that Minister Edholm is trying to prevent. It's an attempt to save the very concept of deep thought by protecting the physical tools that facilitate it. Daniel It’s a bold move, especially for a country that prides itself on being a tech hub. It’s almost an admission that we jumped the gun—that we were so enamored with the 'new' that we forgot why the 'old' worked in the first place. Whether this actually reverses the decline in scores remains to be seen, but it’s definitely forced a global conversation about the hidden costs of our digital lives. William The results of the next PIRLS and PISA cycles will be the real test. If Sweden's scores bounce back as they move away from screens, it’s going to be very hard for other nations to justify their own digital-first policies. We might be witnessing the beginning of a global 'Great De-programming' in education. Daniel It certainly feels like we're at a turning point. If the Swedish strategy works, the classroom of the future might look surprisingly like the classroom of the past—full of the smell of paper and the scratching of pencils. This shift reminds us that while technology can change at lightning speed, the human brain still develops at its own ancient, rhythmic pace, and maybe we shouldn't be trying to force it to keep up with our processors. If you found this discussion about the future—or the past—of education thought-provoking, share this episode with a friend or an educator who's navigating these same questions. https://t.co/dABqtfdkaG

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Based onMassimo @Rainmaker1973 · 9h

Sweden is reintroducing printed books and handwriting into its classrooms. Once celebrated as a leader in digital education, the country is now directing significant resources toward traditional textbooks while limiting the use of tablets and screens, particularly for young students. Swedish authorities attribute this policy shift to mounting evidence that excessive screen time may have harmed reading proficiency and basic skill development.

The government has also announced plans to ban digital learning tools for children under six years old. Scientific research on handwriting provides insight into the rationale. When children write by hand, they engage multiple brain areas responsible for motor control, visual processing, memory, focus, and language.

Unlike typing, this process demands precise coordination of fine movements alongside letter recognition and word formation. Studies indicate that such multisensory engagement enhances letter knowledge, spelling, reading acquisition, and memory retention. Printed books may similarly promote stronger comprehension. Research shows that people often retain information more effectively from physical pages than from digital displays.

The tangible nature of paper offers spatial references that aid memory organization. In contrast, screen based reading, especially when interrupted by notifications or hyperlinks, can fragment attention and reduce deep focus. This approach does not reject technology entirely.

Computers and tablets continue to serve important roles in research, group projects, accessibility features, and interactive exercises. Education specialists emphasize the need for thoughtful integration, applying digital resources where they prove most effective while safeguarding core practices such as handwriting, printed materials, and direct teacher instruction. Sweden's policy change mirrors growing international discussions about optimal screen time in schools. As educators worldwide evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of digital tools, many are reconsidering when traditional methods may better support fundamental learning.
Daniel

Sweden is effectively pulling the plug on the digital-first classroom, and it's sending shockwaves through the global education community. For years, the country was held up as the gold standard for integrating tablets and laptops into every corner of the curriculum, from preschool to graduation. Now, the Swedish government is redirecting hundreds of millions of kronor away from screens and back into physical textbooks, pens, and pencils. It's a dramatic pivot that suggests the all-out embrace of technology might have actually been a massive, unproven experiment on an entire generation of students.

William
It’s a fascinating reversal because it’s not just a change in preference; it’s a policy driven by a sense of urgency. The Swedish Schools Minister, Lotta Edholm, has been quite vocal, even calling the hyper-digitalization of schools an experiment that lacked solid scientific backing. The catalyst for this was really the 2021 Progress in International

Reading Literacy Study, or PIRLS. While Swedish fourth graders still perform better than many of their European peers, their average scores dropped significantly—from 555 in 2016 down to 544 in 2021. That decline, coupled with warnings from the Karolinska Institute, a prestigious medical university, convinced officials that digital tools were impairing rather than enhancing the acquisition of basic knowledge.

📷Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug.
📷Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools
📷Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools | AP News

Daniel
But isn't it a bit reductive to blame screens for a drop in test scores? There were a lot of things happening between 2016 and 2021—most notably a global pandemic that disrupted every aspect of life. If we're looking at a ten-point drop in reading scores, how do we know it wasn't just the stress of the era or the shift to remote learning, rather than the devices themselves?

William
That's exactly what the Swedish National Agency for Education argued. They pointed to the pandemic's impact on vulnerable students and the increasing socio-economic gap as the primary culprits. But the government’s stance, backed by neuroscientists, is that the issue is structural and biological. They’re looking at how the brain actually processes information. A 2024 study by Audrey van der Meer at the Norwegian

University of Science and Technology used high-density EEG to track brain activity and found that handwriting activates much more complex and connected patterns across the parietal and central brain regions than typing does.

When you write by hand, you're engaging motor control, visual processing, and sensory feedback in a way that creates much deeper neural pathways for memory.
📷Full article: Constructions of a reading crisis – representation of PIRLS 2021 in public discourses
📷Handwriting vs. Typing: What the Brain Research Actually Shows (and Doesn't) – buckleyPLANET
📷Printed vs. Digital: Comprehension | Holmen Board & Paper
📷Screen vs. Paper: Which One Boosts Reading Comprehension? - Oxford Learning+1
Daniel

So it's not just about the content, it's the physical act of formation. If I type a letter 'A', it’s the same mechanical movement as typing a 'Z'—just a different coordinate on a keyboard. But when a child draws an 'A', the physical exertion and the visual shape are uniquely linked. I can see how that would help with letter recognition, but how does that translate to something as broad as reading comprehension

William
It’s about cognitive load. When you’re reading on a screen, your brain is doing a lot of 'extra' work that has nothing to do with the text. You’re managing the scrolling, the backlit glare, and the constant threat of notifications or hyperlinks. Researchers refer to this as the 'screen inferiority effect.' A meta-analysis published in the Review of Educational Research, which looked at nearly 470,000 participants, suggested that reading on paper can boost comprehension by six to eight times more than digital reading.

The physical page provides what they call 'spatial anchors.' You remember that a certain fact was near the bottom-left corner of the page, or you feel how much of the book is left in your right hand. These tactile cues build a mental map of the information that scrolling simply destroys.

📷Screen vs. Paper: Which One Boosts Reading Comprehension? - Oxford Learning
📷The value of print in education: Boosting reading comprehension and memory | UPM Communication Papers

Daniel
I’ve definitely experienced that—that feeling of being 'lost' in a long PDF because there’s no physical beginning or end. But let’s play devil's advocate for a second. We live in a digital world. If we remove screens from schools, aren't we just failing to prepare kids for the reality of the modern workplace? No one is going to be writing 20-page reports by hand in a corporate office ten years from now.

📷Sweden's Education System Reverts from Digital to Traditiona
📷Sweden Brings Books, Handwriting Back to School
📷Printed books are proven to improve reader comprehension
📷Why Sweden is spending €100 million to cut screens in schools – Futura-Sciences+5

William
That’s the core tension in this debate. Critics of the Swedish pivot argue that we're moving backward. However, the Swedish Ministry of Education’s logic is that digital competence isn't about how many hours you spend on a tablet; it's about having the foundational literacy and critical thinking skills to use that tablet effectively later on.

They've pointed to data from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study showing that four out of ten Swedish students actually lacked basic digital competence despite the hyper-digitalized environment.

The idea is that you can't build a digital skyscraper on a foundation of sand. If you can't read deeply or write a coherent argument on paper, your ability to 'use technology' is limited to superficial tasks.

Daniel
It sounds like they’re trying to distinguish between 'using technology' and 'learning through technolo
gy.' But is this a total ban? Is Sweden literally throwing every iPad into a dumpster?

William
Not at all. It's more of a selective re-balancing. The new guidelines specifically target the youngest learners. For children under six, the government wants to eliminate digital learning tools entirely. They’re investing about 685 million kronor annually through 2025 specifically to ensure there is one physical textbook per student per subject.

Digital tools will still exist for things where they have a proven added value—like interactive simulations in science, or accessibility features for students with dyslexia. But for the core act of learning to read, write, and do arithmetic, they're returning to what they call 'analog fundamentals.'

📷Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools

📷Sweden Brings Books, Handwriting Back to School
📷Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools | AP News
📷Switching off: Sweden says back-to-basics schooling works on paper | Sweden | The Guardian+1

Daniel
There's also a socio-economic angle here that I think is overlooked. Often, technology is sold to schools as the 'great equalizer.' If every kid has a laptop, they all have the same access. But the PIRLS data you mentioned suggested that the gap actually widened in Sweden during the digital push. Why would more technology lead to less equity?
\
William
It’s a paradox, but it makes sense when you look at the 'home environment' factor. Students from resource-rich homes often have parents who can curate their digital use or provide physical books at home. Students from less-advantaged backgrounds might rely entirely on the school for their structured learning.

If the school replaces structured, teacher-led instruction with 'independent digital research,' those who struggle with self-regulation or don't have support at home get left behind. A tablet in the hands of a struggling seven-year-old can very easily become a distraction machine rather than a learning tool. By returning to textbooks, the school provides a standardized, high-quality, distraction-free source of knowledge that doesn't depend on having high-speed internet or a quiet room at home.

Daniel
What about the teachers? I have to imagine that after years of being told to digitize everything, being told to go back to paper feels like a massive whiplash. Are they actually equipped to go back to 'basics'?

William
The reaction has been mixed. Some teachers, like those interviewed by the Associated Press in Stockholm, have welcomed it. They’ve noted that they were already being selective because they saw the impact on attention spans firsthand. They saw students 'skimming' instead of 'reading.' But others worry about the loss of autonomy.

There’s a concern that this is a political move by a center-right coalition to signal 'traditional values' rather than a purely pedagogical decision. Some education experts argue that the 'science' isn't as settled as the government claims. They say that while some neuro-imaging shows differences in brain activity, we don't have enough long-term longitudinal studies to say that those differences definitively lead to better life outcomes.

📷De-digitisation of Swedish schools … what is Lotta Edholm hoping to prove? – Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY
📷Sweden Brings Books, Handwriting Back to School

📷Sweden Brings More Books, Handwriting Practice Back to Its Tech-Heavy Schools

Daniel
It’s also worth noting the sheer cost. Sweden is spending tens of millions of dollars to buy books that they already largely phased out. That’s a huge logistical undertaking. If other countries follow suit, we’re looking at a massive shift in the multi-billion dollar ed-tech industry. If the 'Swedish Experiment' proves that the digital classroom was a mistake, a lot of companies selling 'personalized learning platforms' are going to be in trouble.

William
Exactly. This is why the world is watching so closely. Countries like the Netherlands have already moved toward banning mobile phones in classrooms, citing similar concerns about distraction and performance. UNESCO even released a report in 2023 warning against the 'uncharted' use of technology in schools, stating that it should only be used when it supports learning, never as a replacement for human interaction.
Sweden is just the first to put a massive price tag on that sentiment. They’re betting that the future of education looks more like the 19th century than the 22nd, at least for the first few years of a child's development.
📷Sweden: the unmet promises of the digital classroom | The UNESCO Courier
📷Printed books are proven to improve reader comprehension

Daniel
It really highlights a fundamental question about what we want for our kids. Do we want them to be efficient 'users' of systems, or do we want them to have the cognitive stamina to sit with a difficult text for an hour without a 'ping' pulling them away? The Swedish approach suggests that 'stamina' is a physical skill that you have to build with paper and ink.

William
And that stamina is exactly what's at risk. When we talk about 'deep reading,' we're talking about the ability to connect ideas, to empathize with characters, and to follow complex logic. Screen-based reading encourages 'F-shaped' scanning—looking for keywords and moving on. If we train children's brains to only scan, we might be losing the ability to think critically on a societal level. That's the 'reading crisis' that Minister Edholm is trying to prevent. It's an attempt to save the very concept of deep thought by protecting the physical tools that facilitate it.

Daniel
It’s a bold move, especially for a country that prides itself on being a tech hub. It’s almost an admission that we jumped the gun—that we were so enamored with the 'new' that we forgot why the 'old' worked in the first place. Whether this actually reverses the decline in scores remains to be seen, but it’s definitely forced a global conversation about the hidden costs of our digital lives.

William
The results of the next PIRLS and PISA cycles will be the real test. If Sweden's scores bounce back as they move away from screens, it’s going to be very hard for other nations to justify their own digital-first policies. We might be witnessing the beginning of a global 'Great De-programming' in education.

Daniel
It certainly feels like we're at a turning point. If the Swedish strategy works, the classroom of the future might look surprisingly like the classroom of the past—full of the smell of paper and the scratching of pencils.

This shift reminds us that while technology can change at lightning speed, the human brain still develops at its own ancient, rhythmic pace, and maybe we shouldn't be trying to force it to keep up with our processors.

If you found this discussion about the future—or the past—of education thought-provoking, share this episode with a friend or an educator who's navigating these same questions.

https://t.co/dABqtfdkaG

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rin ✡️ @2Dsouled

3 days ago

@track044 a lot of the clips i see or shows ive tried to watch theres stuff like this where the girls are just wailing.. we need to bring back cute noises not AAAAAAAA TABETAAAAAAAUIIIIIII1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and flailing and wailing... #backtobasics #otakureductionism

Thomas Bowie

@EzejiSam86851

3 days ago

You love to see parents waking up and pulling their kids out of these failing, radicalized institutions. Defund the public school monopoly and let the free market fix the damage. 🦅💯 #SchoolChoice #ParentalRights #BackToBasics #PatriotNation #GetWrecked @storm1news

Time For Choice Alberta @TimeForChoiceAB

4 days ago

Parents are changing education. When enough people speak up, even the BC NDP has to listen. The message is clear: get back to the basics. 🔗 https://t.co/TO9lzAZYOo #BCTeachers #ParentsMatter #Education #SchoolChoice #BackToBasics

Karen Francis @karens_style

4 days ago

To My Future Son: 🤎 “I think that first & foremost, you should aspire to a level of personal excellence—to be the best you can be.” —Kimora Lee Simmons (pre-loved book) 👜: My handwritten “Go For It!”, with my handbag LED lamp #ModelMindset #BackToBasics

karens_style's tweet photo. To My Future Son:
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“I think that first & foremost, you should aspire to a level of personal excellence—to be the best you can be.” —Kimora Lee Simmons (pre-loved book)

👜: My handwritten “Go For It!”, with my handbag LED lamp

#ModelMindset #BackToBasics https://t.co/61hLQXLe4E

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Nyabongo @robertk24

4 days ago

This is against what the Bible teaches. Women SHOULD NOT be Bishops/Elders/Pastors/ Oberseers or Presbyters. Churches need to follow the example of Jesus (disciples were all men) and the biblical teachings. #BackToBasics

robertk24's tweet photo. This is against what the Bible teaches. Women SHOULD NOT be Bishops/Elders/Pastors/ Oberseers or Presbyters.
Churches need to follow the example of Jesus (disciples were all men) and the biblical teachings.
#BackToBasics https://t.co/15W1sokkAV

Gabriel Buule

@GabrielBuule

5 days ago

Pastor Patience Museveni Rwabwogo will be ordained as a Bishop next month. This means that she will be fully authorized to ordain new priests/pastors as per christian standards. To break it down, she will become an overseer/guardian of all churches that subscribe to her ministry. It should be noted that the title Bishop has for years been a preserve of major denominations such as the Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglicans. Bishops are considered the spiritual successors to the original apostles. Congs Woman of God.

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National School Boards Leadership Council

@nsblc4ed

4 days ago

Your job is to ensure students get a world-class education, not a political agenda. Access the NSBLC training modules today to learn how to stand firm for academic standards and parental rights in your district. https://t.co/fMpO9nXmiC #BackToBasics #EducationNotIndoctrination #SchoolBoardMember #ParentalRights #AcademicRigor #SchoolBoardMembers #SchoolBoardTraining #EducationLeaders #nsblc4ed

nsblc4ed's tweet photo. Your job is to ensure students get a world-class education, not a political agenda. Access the NSBLC training modules today to learn how to stand firm for academic standards and parental rights in your district.
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#BackToBasics #EducationNotIndoctrination #SchoolBoardMember #ParentalRights #AcademicRigor #SchoolBoardMembers #SchoolBoardTraining #EducationLeaders #nsblc4ed

Marc Guerrero @marc_guerrero

5 days ago

Amb el meu “ferro”. 100% cames. 0% elèctric. BTT en estat pur. #BackToBasics

Daniel Devine

@lambdevine

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