Passionate about providing pathways of success for all. Believes that quality schools provide the academic and life skills for one to reach maximum potential.
@1in5advocacy Hybrid/homeschool for us next year. Even the reading specialist at his school said the dyslexia intervention program in a blue ribbon school in a highly sought out school district is where children go to never learn to read. She said he has a better chance going undiagnosed!
@CCPISASSH0E It's actually required by a lot of leagues. However, I will say that this demonstrates a difference between boys and girls. My 6yr boy cracks balls to the outfield and none of them wear masks. My 9yr girl, they are required and frankly needed bc they can't catch well yet.
She did it AGAIN!! @Jennifersey just put together another video that has me in tears.
Wait for it.
Sound on.
They block these videos on other platforms bc they don’t want you seeing them. But you can see them here!!
At the ball fields, my 6yo and 9yo run wild while one another is playing with friends (no watches or
Phones)...parents brought up the need for a public phone in big parks, etc. After bringing back the "landline" we need the "pay phone!"
@JonHaidt@FreeRangeKids@Catherine_Price
@ClassicLearner Previous public school teacher and administrator here and I'm pulling 4th and 1st grader next year to be home schooled. They aren't being offered a product I can't refuse and I'm a great teacher - my kids should be the first to benefit from that!
Dumpster Fire 300!!!!!!!!!!!
Drops at 8:30 CST!!!
A block - commie Coachella
B block - Afroman is a national hero
See you in the chat!! I’ll be there to celebrate this momentous occasion.
https://t.co/0BiGq2MAqw
I wanna be gay for a minute because 300 episodes has me feeling emotional and thank all of you for showing up for Dumpster Fire over the years. There have been so many times when I’ve thought I should stop it--or wasn't sure we could afford to keep it going. Or felt fat. Or unfunny. Or the world was just too dark. It’s the most labor intensive of any of my projects — we have 4 people and no budget. And every time I consider ending it—every time—I get a letter from a viewer telling me how much the show means to them, or how it's created a bond between them and someone they love, or how it saved them in a dark time. And I'm reminded why I do it.
It's been an insanely slow crawl on YouTube and we are constantly trying to learn and grow and make it better and I basically do everything wrong--because for years I chose the funny title over the one that would make people click because I'm not great at capitalism or SEO optimization or really any of that stuff. All of it has made me appreciate just how hard creators work to make content and how hard it is to break through and as always, I'm just happy to be on @YouTube because they truly have the best analytics in the entire world, even though I'm pretty sure the algorithm has no idea what to do with me.
But it's so insane. You can just make stuff. Dumpster Fire was born in a garage. We had two lights and an iphone. Now it's in my media room. And we have a few more lights. Someday I dream of having my own studio where I can replicate that garage vibe and have all the hilarious comedians I know come through and a person who knows how to do make-up because I don't. Hopefully we will make it to that point but honestly, it's a miracle we've made it this far and I'm so grateful. So thank you. Thank you for watching. For telling your friends. For buying stuff from our advertisers and our merch. And for being an audience that I adore. You are so kind and funny to each other in the chat and in our Substack and you constantly remind me that most people are chill and wise.
Thanks for letting me work out how I feel about things imperfectly, publicly. Thanks for letting me be wrong all the time. And disagreeing with me and each other and still being civil. Thank you for being hilarious. You guys are what make this show worth every single minute I spend on it and I'll never take your time or attention for granted.
I love you all so much.
Bridge
Reading every note you send me. ❤️Really overwhelming and unexpected response to this piece. So many heartbreaking stories of losing friends or family for normie beliefs like thinking men & women are different or supporting Israel(!?) or voting the wrong way. Tragic.
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it together while the world loses its collective mind.
(link below)
Excited to turn my rant mocking podcasters for bitching about the feminization of the culture and then becoming what they hate into a piece for @realDailyWire.
Grateful to @DanHollaway for the beautiful, haunting quote about masculinity.
https://t.co/eWmSUgUnR1
Imagine having to choose between your own hell or your family being put through hell. This is the choice these women faced. Fuck the Islamic Regime. These women are the faces of bravery.
Still more evidence that EdTech harmed American education: Across states, the year that the state imposed mandates requiring computers/tablets, that's the year that test scores stopped rising and in most cases started falling.
From Jared Cooney Horvath
https://t.co/TSH1bfp8lA
Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩
This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September:
"I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better with books and paper"
Haidt drove the cell phone ban legislation. What are the odds his words carry in a similar fashion?
Are we doing enough to signal this shift to districts?
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My daughter (5th grade) says to me,
"Hey dad, out of 60 kids I'm one of only 2 in my grade WITHOUT a phone!"
Me: "I'm glad to know there's 1 other set of great, intentional parents besides your mom & I!!"
My daughter: uhhhh daaaaaaad!!.........
HOLD THE LINE PARENTS.
Young kids don't need access to EVERYTHING in the world.
Loving your kids isn't GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY WANT.
Loving your kids is teaching them:
•DISCIPLINE.
•DELAYING GRATIFICATION.
•SETTING HEALTHY BOUNDARIES.
It is absurd so many CHILDREN have phones.
Most adults can't use them responsibly.
You're setting your child up for failure handing them unrestricted access to everything so young.
She won't have one in 6th grade either!
When did you allow your kid a cell phone?!
How many children in the US are victims of poor reading instruction?
They don't learn how to read not because they are incapable, but because they are not taught using research-based, effective methods of instruction.
Only 10-15% of K-12 students have a certified educational disability impeding their educational progress yet 60-70% of students at most schools fail to read at a proficient level.
Let that sink in.