Melanie Murphy

Wife, mother of 3 and first grade teacher.

[Help A Teacher @HelpATeacher]

This.

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

As we get new students this year, always keep in mind that we never truly know what's happening at home.

[Sentinel Sports @LeMarsDSsports]

The Le Mars baseball team recognizes seniors Carter Baumgartner, Sy Bixenman, Keegan Gengler, Sebastian MacGregor and Tate Murphy on Senior Night.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools exist to support families, not replace parents.

That means parents need to actually parent, and the govt & communities need to stop treating schools as the fix for bad parenting.

If you’re an educator who thinks otherwise, you’ve watched too many teacher hero movies.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Reflecting on my 20+ years as a teacher, a recurring theme stands out…
American schools often take on too much.

Schools shouldn’t be considered the lone solution for society’s ills. And many who believe this are teachers!

And when you take on too much, failure is inevitable.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Public schools don’t just reflect the problems in our society—they absorb them. And then we act surprised when teachers can’t fix it all.

[KLEM Sports @KLEMSports]

.@lemarsboysbb’s Tate Murphy earns all-tournament team scoring 11 and 20 points in two all-star games today at DCG.

[Sentinel Sports @LeMarsDSsports]

Congratulations to @TateMurphy14 on being named to the All-Tournament Team at the IBCA All-Star Games! @BulldogPride14 @lemarsboysbb

[IowaBCA @IowaBCA]

Here is your 2025 IBCA @PizzaRanch All Star game all tournament team players. Congratulations boys, best wishes on your future endeavors! Thanks to Jordan @harmelink55 and @tom_betz for handling out awards.

[Melanie Murphy @mmmurphy6]

@LCSDBulldogs Well deserved!!! Congrats!!!

[KLEM Sports @KLEMSports]

Congratulations to @lemarsboysbb head coach Cody Dyhrkopp who will be coaching the Northwest Boys All-Stars. He will be coaching Tate Murphy as well as @RSMbasketball's Collin Homan.

@CoachGHSGBB's Rysaiah Sitzmann will also compete in the all-star games for the Northwest Girls.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Not every kid deserves to stay in the classroom. Some students have earned their way out of it.

It is not cruel to admit this. What's cruel is forcing 25 other students to sit in the room while one kid makes learning impossible.

And every teacher knows what kid I mean!

Some are experts in low-level disruption, but others constantly talk, make noises, refuse to do work, roam the room or hallways, etc.

Worse, there are kids in school who regularly pick fights, bully others, and make threats to the safety of students and staff. Yet, we keep them in.

In these situations, schools are held hostage by their worst students. When that happens, we're no longer in an instructional environment; we're in the business of crisis management, with the kids who actually want to learn getting ignored while teachers put out a thousand little fires.

This results, de facto, in the removal of kids from education, just not the ones who deserve it. We essentially force the good kids out of the education they deserve by making them to sit in chaotic classrooms, wasting day after day.

It also results in teacher burnout because they are tasked with tolerating failure instead of being supported to fix it. We're forcing good people out of the profession, people who may, under different circumstances, raise reading and math scores and help prepare our students for a useful and fulfilling citizenship.

"Every child has a right to an education"?

Yes. But no child has a right to steal one out from under everyone else. Maybe it's time we consider what it takes to lose that right.

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Every time we ask schools to solve another societal problem, we pull them further from their core mission: education.

The result? Kids can’t read or do math.

Schools can’t fix poverty, cure mental illness, or parent your kids. But the knowledge of how to teach math, reading, science, and history is freely available.

It’s time to eschew the nonsense and just get to work teaching.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Reflecting on my 20+ years as a teacher, a recurring theme stands out…
American schools often take on too much.

Schools shouldn’t be considered the lone solution for society’s ills. And many who believe this are teachers!

And when you take on too much, failure is inevitable.

[Logan Shanks @ShanksLogan]

Final
Le Mars: 80
Sioux City West: 47

Tate Murphy leads the Bulldogs with a game leading 26 points, which included five 3-pointers.

Le Mars finishes the game on a 42-17 run in the second half to take its first MRAC win.

#iahsbkn

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

This was real life. Happy healthy kids not requiring social media dopamine hits every 5 minutes.

Sadly it’s gone forever.