Think about this next time @GovAbbott offers any praise for Texas public school teachers...
Consider your most stressful day/week as a public school educator, then reflect on the following:
(1) Texas public school employees are tired, burned out, underappreciated, and many work in underresourced schools.
(2) Texas teachers busted their rears and sacrificed their own families by helping our students and communities endure a global pandemic.
THEN...
(3) Texas teachers were used as fodder as the Governor told voters they were "woke" and that they teach kids to "hate America."
AND...
(4) Texas ranks in the bottom 10 states in per-student funding.
(5) Texas' $32.7 billion surplus is the size of the budget of South Carolina.
FINALLY...
(6) Policymakers could not find it within themselves to provide teachers with any raise, nor could they find it within themselves to increase school funding...due to their insistence on tying funding to vouchers.
These people MUST be held accountable. The 2023/24 school year should not start until we: (a) increase teacher pay; and (b) increase school funding.
PERIOD.
#txlege
Happy to celebrate the @RiderRaiders National Honor Society tonight at our 2023 induction ceremony and present a check for a record amount of $31,084 this year to @PETSWF and the Humane Society. #PaydayforPets
Today the @RiderRaiders Green Earth Society celebrated #EarthDay a little late with a tree planting ceremony! #greenearthsociety
Thanks to everyone who came out to support and for all those who contributed to our fundraiser! 🌳 🌎
Saianiruddh Chada representing Rider science this morning as he competed at the Red River Regional Science and Engineering Fair! Proud of his amazing work and rooting for a big win 🥇 #iamwfisd#MachineLearning
Is that flowering plant a monocot or eudicot? 🌸 Fun way to remember a few *general characteristics!
*with exceptions
#scicomm#sciart#sciencetwitter#biology
Tomorrow, an incredibly rare, once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event is happening! Jupiter will be its closest to Earth since 1963! Along with opposition, it’ll be SO bright, you’ll be able to see its bands and some moons just with binoculars!
This won’t happen again until 2129!
It’s #InternationalMoonDay! Today marks the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing – the first time that humans stepped on the surface of another world. This video from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the astronauts' tracks, still there after all this time.
Congrats to my student Maverick McKown on the State UIL Chemistry Championship (& getting the physics gold, silver individual, and Team Science Bronze, and a Poney Award from Orchestra this weekend too) GO ROHO! @RiderRaiders
So thankful that @sOSUhenderson has helped Barwise for so many years at our final review of Science and Social Studies before the STAAR. We know he'll enjoy retirement but we'll miss him in the classroom!