Mike LaTorre

Music teacher.

MEd Curriculum and Instruction.

Pronouns: he, him, his
On the land of the Warm Springs, Wasco, Tenino, and Paiute peoples

[Mike LaTorre @TchrLT]

Putting children in danger for the sake of the stock market is a perpetuation of the system that is crushing people into the necessary movement in which we find ourselves.

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

Addressing the teacher shortage shouldn't involve lowering criteria to be a teacher--it should involve supporting teachers, paying them, and providing the resources needed to best serve students.

[Students Against Oppression @StudentsAgain18]

After stating in previous meetings that @greshamschools wanted to hear the voices of students and the impact of the SRO program before renewing the contract
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[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Here's an idea- How about instead of regulating gay kids, women, and books about slavery, you fucking regulate the gun that killed 17 at my high school and over 20 little kids at sandy hook.

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

Now this is a game
#Heardle #8

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[Beth Morton @beth_morton]

Mask fatigue is not a thing. Giving people a break to improve compliance during the next mutation/wave is not a thing.

Politicizing masks is a thing and now we're* screwed.

*The very young, disabled, and immune compromised, especially.

[Rebecca Wang, MD @rebeccaxwang]

A patient of mine last week was intubated due to severe COVID-19 pneumonia. She did not mount an immune response despite vaccination x3 due to being on Rituxan. She had not received Evusheld. I will continue to mask indoors to protect the immunocompromised patients around me.

[this mortal kyle @TheRoarOf1984]

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[GMG Union @gmgunion]

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[Dr. Jada Watson @data_jada]

Quia is doing incredibly important work to capture the truth about Linda Martell’s experience in the country music industry. This short clip shows us why it’s critical that this story be told be Linda herself.

If you can, please support this critically important work.⬇️

[Alexandra Petri @petridishes]

I like to imagine a third gang in west side story where the only unifying factor is that the members failed the dance audition for the other two

every so often the camera pans past this sad group all snapping at different times and getting frustrated

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

Two pieces of advice for music majors:

1. The music world is a small one; don’t burn bridges unnecessarily.

2. Your emotional state will be better if you can avoid thinking of your colleagues as direct competition, and instead sincerely root for them to succeed.

[mAki🐚 @barefootchic]

My 17yr old daughter just said “if one person dies from a prop gun in a movie set, everyone talks about its safety relentlessly but when kids die from mass shootings in schools, it’s not a big deal. It’s unbelievable💔” - how about no one should die from gun violence?

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

Percussionists are the chillest of all musicians because they are never more than a few hours away from an opportunity to hit things with sticks

[Mike LaTorre @TchrLT]

"When you musically express a catastrophy, the catastrophy doesn't have the last word; music does."

-Dr. @CornelWest

[Draw For Turn Podcast @drawforturn]

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[Mike LaTorre @TchrLT]

~"If the electorate is a choir of sopranos, that gets harsh on the ears in a quick minute. When we have an electorate of a full choir, we get a richness of sound."
via @throughlineNPR

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

Helping others brings deep satisfaction. No matter how powerful we may seem to be, our survival depends on the community. Clearly the community is crucial to individual happiness, so if we make others happy, we too derive benefit.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

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