MNPS can do better

Advocate for better public schools. 1/10 economically disadvantaged 3rd graders in MNPS read on grade level. Less than 1/4 overall. It’s a crisis-talk about it!

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

Pro-tip: Don't EVER let your kids order from @SHEIN_Official

The WORST customer service. Seems cheap, but you end up losing 💵 bc your order "disappears" from the account, so no returns. Fast fashion at its worst!

Don't be tempted! Not worth it!! #shein #scam

[Anthony LaMesa @ajlamesa]

.@apoorva_nyc blocked replies so I have to quote tweet.

Covid did not close the nation's schools. Politicians, mayors, and school board members closed them.

In Europe and some of the U.S., different choices were made, despite old buildings.
https://t.co/VGxSCcrld5

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The implicit assumption that school closure decisions reflected some vaguely rational attempt at cost-beneift analysis, as opposed to a trolley problem governed by moral and political sentiment, seems extremely wrong.

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@TheEliKlein @KatePri14608408 So weird

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@MrDanielBuck 🎯

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

@FutureEdGU @dvmmum Every story an ed reporter produces about a red-state outrage is a story not produced about literacy, recovery, or participation. There aren't that many ed reporters!

[MB @morgan_615]

I’ve seen enough of this debate to reaffirm why @AliceRolli1 can be the education mayor. Freddie focused answers on facilities, partnerships, and more $. Alice focused on results for kids, choices for parents and stronger teaching and learning. @LetNashville #SchoolChoice

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@norinrad10 @MetroSchools does a terrible job with advanced and behind students (ask me how I know)

[Megan Lee Podsiedlik @MeganLeeWrites_]

Former mayoral candidate, @stephformayor, shares her thoughts on the mayoral runoff as a local Nashvillian, endorses @AliceRolli1, and encourages you to look closely at each candidate before voting in this fearlessly honest op-ed.

Worth a read and a share.

[The Pamphleteer, Nashville ✰ ✰ ✰ @realpamphleteer]

👏 Freddie 👏 O'Connell 👏 is 👏 the 👏 status 👏 quo 👏 candidate 👏

[Virgil Davis Hunt @vrgldh]

The entire time sentiment concerning the direction of the city has been sinking, @freddieoconnell has served on the Metro Council. At last week's forum, he claimed, "We've got a shelf full of good plans." O'Connell *is* the status quo that got us here in the first place.

[NashvilleEdReform @NashvEdReform]

Opportunity Nashville & Nashville Public Television (NPT) are hosting the only live @MetroNashville mayoral education-focused debate between candidates @freddieoconnell @AliceRolli1.

Thursday, Aug 17 at 7pm CT.
#NashEdDebate
https://t.co/lVBdTNJMWu
@SCORE4Schools @ScarlettFndt

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@LeightonLiles @nkornutick 👀

[Matt Malkus @malkusm]

Nashville school board vice-chair Rachael Anne Elrod tells parents "schools are open, buildings are not" in defense of subjecting their children to 10+ months of disastrous "virtual learning" programs which widened education gaps per state testing data.

Am I doing this right?

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@motherindie Yep—
The assumption that parents don’t WANT (& try REALLY hard) to utilize their neighborhood public schools is too prevalent

Many of my neighbors choose private (esp after elem). If not that, then charter/magnet. Nobody “wants” to. But all understand the necessity for most kids

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@LetNashville My eyes aren’t great. Took me a minute, but yes—bike people, bus people and train people 😂
So diverse!

Wish there was education people. Too much to ask for??

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@LetNashville 👀

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@Elex_Michaelson @TonyThurmond https://t.co/Lxk6yRgub6

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

No no no. It’s not “hard to say” if CA kept schools closed for too long. Unless you were part of the decision then maybe it’s “hard to say” because you wouldn’t want to own such a catastrophic policy choice.

PS— the issue isn’t/wasn’t kids not having computers.

[MNPS can do better @Patefor8]

@RuthJoy96960173 Looking forward to the podcast!

[Emily Evans @EmilyNEvans]

A defining moment for me was in Spring 2020. I received an email from Montgomery Belle Academy on Harding Rd. (Both my boys went there.) The school was asking for volunteers to staff a "camp" for the children of MBA employees that were students in MNPS. This arrangement allowed MBA to carry on, meeting all the critical requirements of the spring semester. The Mayor knew this, of course. His son was a student.