jason

Principal, eAchieve Academy & Former Grading for Learning Coordinator, School District of Waukesha, Wisconsin Volleyball Conference Commissioner

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@firstroundmock Depends on the rest of the division. If everyone is 3-2 or 2-3, they might hold out hope. If - or when - there are 1-2 teams at 4-1 or 5-0 and they are 1-4 or 0-5, they pull the plug. So I say week 6. Maybe they really panic at that point and trade for Russ!

[Grace Price @travelingenes]

General Mills and Pepsi Co. are both forum members of The American Heart Association.

You can’t make this stuff up.

We are fighting a war against an agency sworn to protect us.

By opposing SB 379- The AHA has chosen to side with corporations over American children.

[Jay Black @jayblackisfunny]

Get the word out to Nevada. Tweet this like crazy.

Nevadans: PICK UP YOUR PHONE

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Harris’s game changing proposal to allow Medicare to pay for at home heath aides for the elderly received almost no media coverage.

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@BrettFavre A red flag law would also have prevented it, AND the 2A folks could still have guns. Its time to start having real conversations and finding common ground rather than deflecting the reality that its about the guns. Can conservatives agree its enough killing of kids and teachers?

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@BrettFavre But it’s still about the guns. Take the access to guns away from this situation, and four people don’t die. I respect your opinion on the parental piece, but again, without weapons in the home, this tragedy doesn’t happen.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

What a strange thing we do to our young people in this culture and time.

We make them spend several years learning things which they often have no interest in, which they have not chosen and which they will in many cases never use again. We tell them that these things are vitally important.

Then we sit them in rows and make them write about the things they can remember for an intense few hours. We compare what they have written down with everyone else of the same age, and then we rank them.

We make them wait a couple of months and then we tell some that they are the successes, and others that they are the failures. We encourage them to hang their self-worth on how they performed. Newspapers publish pictures of the delighted, whilst the disappointed hide their heads in shame.

We tell them that these results will determine the rest of their lives – and then we set up systems that make this true. We provide fewer opportunities for those who did not succeed. Those who did well can take their pick of courses, whilst those who did not are made to take the same tests again and again, just to hammer it home.

We make sure that young people spend the majority of their adolescence focused on exams and pressure. Every summer, they sit in rows and try to remember. Each year, they’re told that their whole future rests on this.

Many of them inevitably cave in under the pressure. They become anxious and depressed. They show signs of burnout by the age of 16. They lose their spark, and just go through the motions. Some of them retreat altogether.

Then we pathologise them, say that they need mental health treatment or to become more resilient. We send them for therapy or give them medication. We say that they are the problem, whilst the system carries on unchanged.

What if instead we stopped to think about what we are doing to our young people?

Adolescence is a time of opportunity and vulnerability. It’s a one-off stage of life. What if we asked ourselves, should our young people really spend these years on a conveyor belt of high stakes exams?

Imagine we allowed ourselves to look beyond this time and place, and to see just how strange this really is. What would we offer our young people then?

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@rebelEducator Maybe, but how would you replace the free day care/child care function that schools provide (and for some is the primary purpose of accessing public schooling)? Im not calling it that, simply posing the question.

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@radioinsight Congratulations!

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@MarkJacob16 They just said “the corruption in the swamp and the FBI runs deep”. I just had to see how they would spin in. Unreal.

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@WinksThinks

Why won’t they run the offense through Brook?

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@WinksThinks

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@JoJoFromJerz WKRP in Cincinnati

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

The time for only thoughts and prayers is over. We are in a unique position to take action and save lives. And that’s exactly what we are going to do in the weeks ahead.

We're going to get this done for Arielle, Alexandria, and Brian. We’re going to get this done for Michigan.

[jason @jsmithwvc]

@JoJoFromJerz Tommy Boy

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

A day after of the Taliban BANNED female university education, women & girls have come out on the streets of Kabul protesting against the decree.

They chant —“Either for everyone or for no one. One for all, all for one”

Amplify their voices.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Hillary was right.
About everything.

[Rep. Ilhan Omar @Ilhan]

Full statement on Kevin McCarthy threat:

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Let's keep up pressure to pass a voting rights law that makes it easy to vote, ends partisan gerrymandering, and stops the flood of dark money into elections. That, right there, would go a long way toward helping us keep our democracy.