Last year, I had a conversation that changed my life.
It caused me to upend everything and move across the country.
The lesson from it may change yours:
@rachel_zemach Working at Deaf school isn’t sitting back and doing nothing. Deaf schools have hard time finding excellent teachers as well. Why make law like this where we can focus other area of law that will strengthen deaf schools?
So next time someone tells you
Oh, only "wealthy" New England states can achieve high vaccination rates
Remind them that the super star in America is not VT or CT or MA or RI
Its Puerto Rico
Doing a fabulous job vaccinating its people to keep everyone safe
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Remember:
1. Global crop failures by 2°C.
2. Most humans dead by 4°C.
3. Earth uninhabitable by 6°C.
4. We risk 2°C by 2035.
5. We risk 4°C by 2065.
6. We risk 6°C by 2095.
One tweet is worth a million newspaper front pages.
COVID learning gaps? Maybe.
But my 5th grade daughter can cook herself 3 meals a day, responsibly logs in remotely for her education, and has technology skills beyond anything I can comprehend. These are life skills that the past year created.
@LealaHolcomb No. I appreciated that I didn’t have interpreters with me during lunch time. It allowed students to truly interact with me as they sometimes freeze when there’s an interpreter with me. Who wants to gossip when there’s an adult interpreting?! Haha
If you can't find workers because they'd making more on unemployment than at your company, the problem isn't unemployment.
The problem is your poverty wages.
@LealaHolcomb When I mainstreamed, one classmate brought a white board for our lunch breaks. After lunch, we always had ink on our hands due to chatting so much on the board! She eventually learned basic sign.