Melanie Rhoads

Retired public school educator

[Melanie Rhoads @mjrhoads1]

@DrJustinC90 Congratulations Justin!!!! You’ll do impactful things for students and teachers, no doubt 🥳

[Melanie Rhoads @mjrhoads1]

@StephFiedler @WCPSSTeam @FollettLibrary @WCPSS @DDEDolphins Congratulations Stephanie! Very well deserved!!

[Melanie Rhoads @mjrhoads1]

US Deaf National Team Olympic Gold in Brazil.!!!!! Ani Khachadourian
May, 2022. Awesomely amazing!!!! ⁦@ABC11_WTVD⁩ ⁦@WRAL⁩ ⁦@SpecNews1CLT⁩

[Dr. Justin Carrington @DrJustinC90]

One day, I hope that certain politicians in our nation will value the lives of living beings as much as they value the 2nd Amendment or the desire to control women's bodies or pretty much anything else. When will this stop!?!

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Absolutely heartbroken. And angry. Very angry. This should not be acceptable. Ever. Do we choose a different path? How can we not? These children. So many children.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

We cannot allow a world where our daughters have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg once said, “women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception.”

Well, now her statue will be in the halls of Congress too.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

If the American people could vote directly on common sense gun laws I suspect we would be in a very different place from where we are now.

[Dr. Clinton L. Robinson, Jr. @crobinson0893]

At some point in our lives, we all experience situations when we get knocked down by people and/or circumstances when we least expect it. However, how you react speaks volumes to your character, resiliency, and resolve.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

There’s so much on the ballot this year: voting rights, a woman’s fundamental right to make her own health care decisions and much more. So in five months on November 8, we’ve got to get mad and get to the polls.

[Melanie Rhoads @mjrhoads1]

@mltucker78 Such a beautiful family!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Corporate greed is Tyson Foods raising the price of beef by 35% while its owner became $1.6 billion richer during the pandemic, its profits skyrocketed by 140% last quarter to $1.12 billion and its CEO got a 22% raise last year to $14 million. It’s not inflation. It's greed.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I pray for all those in harm’s way. I pray for all who desperately yearn for peace. I pray for some way out with a minimal loss of life. I pray for hope, and the wisdom of our leaders in a time of peril.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

This Senate has confirmed 46 federal judges under President Biden. 3/4 have been women. 2/3 have been people of color.

And they’ve all been highly qualified. Public defenders. Civil rights and election lawyers. People with public-service experience.

We’re going to keep going.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I just saw this and it blew my mind!

[Dr. Clinton L. Robinson, Jr. @crobinson0893]

Quote of the Day: 21 Feb 22 "We did not come to fear the future.  We came here to shape it." @Southernarea1
                                                                                          Barack Obama

Happy Presidents’ Day!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

John Lewis knew that change could not wait for some other person or some other time. His life was a lesson in the fierce urgency of now. On his birthday, let’s honor his legacy by taking action and creating the change we hope to see in our own communities.

[Spencer W. McBride @SpencerWMcBride]

Do you remember covering your school textbooks with brown paper (often from shopping bags) and then doodling on them in class?

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Rep. Val Demings on the House floor: "Many people call themselves patriots. But true patriots don't lie, they don't steal, they don't cheat, they aren't cowards. They don't push lies for political or financial gain."

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

Today I'm thinking of the janitors, the cafeteria workers, the cooks, and all the service people who were also inside of the Capitol building on January 6th. I cannot imagine what a frightening time it was for them and their families. They deserve so much better than that.