Jamie Long

Teacher. Activist. Bleeding heart.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@saguarolasagna This is an event that simultaneously feels like it should not be happening yet and also happened a million years ago. Congrats!!

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@djmoudy28 @sammmreid Regardless, if you can’t see how helping the middle class escape crippling debt (that was the product of a society telling literal teenagers that if they didn’t take this debt, they would never be successful) helps the country as a whole, I can’t help you.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@djmoudy28 @sammmreid $46k is the median, meaning half make less than that (generally the newer ones who are also in the most debt). That is not a substantial salary to support a family and repay loans.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@djmoudy28 @sammmreid 😂😂😂 I think you need to look up those salaries my friend. I can promise you they do *not* pay “very well”

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@djmoudy28 @sammmreid I don’t understand where the notion came that everyone who is receiving debt forgiveness studied something “useless”. What about teachers, nurses, social worker, public defenders etc who all are required to have a degree (often multiple) but who’s salaries are inadequate?

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@rossko_9 @CmputrBlu @GeelongCats73 @davramdavram @AlanTudyk Seems like it got them in the door to being a fisherman, which sounds like a solid career to me! Maybe, just maybe, getting a degree makes you a more rounded, educated individual and can help you get hired even in jobs that have “no bearing” to said degree.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@Bangtan6_10_22 @midstar01 @JayWamsted Except that not how it actually works. A teacher’s salary doesn’t decrease just cause five kid left her class to go to a private school. The public school’s expenditures don’t decrease much but their funds do.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@RossN53774808 @popowendel @deonteleologist Since you’re too lazy to look it up yourself, I got a link for you. TLDR, in the 60s, the Republican party started recruiting white southern democrats by telling them they were being replaced by African Americans. https://t.co/w46W6khdZd

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@tkiramadden Lili’s Restaurant in Amherst for amazing authentic Chinese!

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

It’s really beyond stupid that paying off loans caused your credit score to go *down*. It really is just one giant scam, isn’t it?

[Miss Nolan @Miss_Nolan_Prim]

I think teaching is the only job you have to work, before you get to work, so you have work to do at work. Then because I had no time at work to do work, I have to work after work to catch up on the work I didn’t do while at work.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@blackhawkscott @kavithadavidson Not only was the decision the best one for the team, in a sport where a mistake could end in paralyzation, you have to put your safety first.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@TumbleBug4 Ok I need updates!

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@TumbleBug4 Somerville’s is currently an even probability of everything from less than 4 to over 14. 🙄

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

Soooo...Senate Majority Leader Warren anyone?

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@TumbleBug4 My district cancelled snow days this year. So my assignment for tomorrow is “go play in the snow and take some measurements”

[Aya M. Waller-Bey, Ph.D. @Aya__Marie]

Your child doesn’t deserve a better education than someone else’s child.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@saguarolasagna DiffEqs is actually super fun! Unless you’re majoring in math or physics, you won’t have to take it though, and even if you are, it might not be a requirement.

[Jamie Long @jamielee822]

@TumbleBug4 Holy crap Sarah! I’m sorry things at your new school aren’t as peachy as they first seemed! But here’s hoping you fall in love with your third graders! You’re gonna rock it!