Keary Ryan

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[Keary Ryan @kearyryan]

@CoachTLJohnson Congratulations Coach Johnson!

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

As a teacher, this is what I want to say to SOME parents:

Stop making excuses for your kids. STOP IT. Teach them to earn things, not demand things. Hold them to a higher standard. Challenge them. That way, when I try to challenge them, they’ll know we both expect it.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Dear parents,
Your child does not need to be the smartest in the class, the best on the field, or the most talented in the room.
But they do need to be teachable.
We are raising a generation that can Google anything, yet too many are forgetting how to listen, how to respect, and how to learn.
Being teachable is not about grades or intelligence. It is about humility.
It is about knowing you do not have all the answers.
It is about being open when someone is trying to help you grow.
Our job is not to raise kids who always get it right.
It is to raise kids who can take feedback without shutting down.
Who can admit when they are wrong.
Who can disagree without being disrespectful.
Who can be corrected without becoming defensive.
Because in the long run, teachability will take them further than talent alone.

[Keary Ryan @kearyryan]

@DrBradJohnson While I agree with much of what you’ve said, I believe that we can measure critical thinking, not just memorization, in well written standardized tests.

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

Ma’am, your child isn’t misbehaving because he’s too smart and bored

I’ve had plenty of gifted kids who behaved just fine

He’s misbehaving because he’s never been told “no” at home and only ever treated as a wittle angel who can do no wrong

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Re: the institutional dishonesty of American schooling:

We’re graduating students who can’t write a paragraph or read a complex sentence. Report cards are full of inflated A’s and diplomas are handed out almost regardless of skill or effort. But, we call it academic success.

But it’s not. It’s fraud.

It’s a system wherein students succeed on paper but fail in reality, and we pat ourselves on the back for how much we care.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Special ed accommodations are too often just lowered expectations in disguise.

The emphasis on “meeting students where they’re at” misses the opportunity to discover where they could be if they were just taught properly.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.

Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.

It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

[Keary Ryan @kearyryan]

@Super70sSports Don “Welcome” Mattingly

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

[Keary Ryan @kearyryan]

@ThatEricAlper 1. Neil Young
2. Neil Young
3. Neil Young

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Share a quote you love. I’ll start:

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

- Bertrand Russell

[Keary Ryan @kearyryan]

@BexleyBaseball1 @BexleySchools @BexleyAthletics @Cap_Baseball @CBLComms Alex (Coach Clowson) was the best!

[Dissident Teacher @edudissenter]

School is about meeting students’ intellectual needs, not their emotional needs. We seem to have lost sight of this.

[Keary Ryan @kearyryan]

@Super70sSports Dire Straits - Dire Straits

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

We are teaching in an age where accountability has been shifted almost entirely from students/parents TO teachers.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

The first time Trump misspelled "stolen" as "stollen" it could have been brushed off as a simple typo.

The second time he did it, ehh, maybe his ring finger is a bit weak and it double-taps on the "l" from time to time.

The third time he did it: "Ok maybe he's just not so smart."

He did it yet again this morning, and I'm ready to declare that Trump really thinks that "stolen" is spelled with two Ls.

Not that there is anything wrong with that. Or is there?

For the record, my 6-year old son knows how to spell "stolen." Just saying.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Slavery was pure and unadulterated evil. There is no "other side to the story."

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

I wish parents would ‘indoctrinate’ their kids into being respectful and responsible students along with a splash of perseverance.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Teachers can only deduct $250 in school supplies on their taxes, but billionaire Harlon Crow can write off his super yacht.😐

Why? Because millionaire politicians funded by billionaires & corps write tax law for billionaires. We need a Congress for working people—not the .1%