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the emperor has no clothes

[The Grade @thegrade_]

"Sometimes, panics are overblown. Sometimes, older generations are just freaking out about the youngs, as they have since time immemorial. That’s not the case, unfortunately, with kids’ learning right now..."

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[LP @write2laura]

Just when I think I can let go of my anger...

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[Bhamini makwana @habitchamps]

@MrZachG Math is not hard. It’s perceived hard because we don’t focus on building good math foundations in kids. Without a good foundation in calculation skills, it will be hard to do any math.

[LP @write2laura]

@karenvaites Another factor that contributed to the audience for critiques of balanced literacy was remote school. Before remote school, I had just trusted teachers as experts to teach my kids. It wasn't until their classes were in my living room that I realized how misplaced that trust was.

[LP @write2laura]

@ask_aubry Reading the comments, all I can think is that the bar for men is so low.

[LP @write2laura]

@Beanie0597 This was my kid's old school. Admin talked a lot about SEL & "centering joy." I moved him to a new school where SEL is being held accountable for your actions & centering joy is feeling safe because you know other kids will be held accountable too.

[LP @write2laura]

@stephmurrayyyy Is it revelatory that men don't trust men around their daughters? What about, "I have a shotgun to scare boys away from my daughter." Or religions (created by men) that force women to cover their entire bodies because men cannot be trusted.

[LP @write2laura]

@stephmurrayyyy Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh is the most perfect children's book ever written (I will die on this hill). It's great for 6 year olds and 7 year olds and 8 year olds and 48 year olds.

Also, I know you only asked for one, but The House on Pooh Corner is great for that age.

[LP @write2laura]

This article is nearly 10 years old. Nothing has changed. If anything it's gotten worse.

[LP @write2laura]

"The ratio of rich math whizzes to poor ones is 3 to 1 in South Korea and 3.7 to 1 in Canada...In the U.S., it is 8 to 1...By the end of high school, the percentage of low-income advanced-math learners rounds to zero."
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[LP @write2laura]

I've often wondered about the different attitudes to sports and academic standards in this country.

For example: we have no qualms about separating kids by athletic ability, but suggest we separate kids by academic ability and be prepared to be called all manner of names.

[LP @write2laura]

Theory: we accept that athletic success is the result of hard work, but we have this idea that if learning is hard, then we're doing it wrong. And if kids aren't "having fun" and "experiencing joy" then the teacher is teaching wrong.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Hollywood loves strict coaches. It loathes strict teachers.

Theories for why?

[LP @write2laura]

People w/o school-age children do not understand what is involved in helping young kids navigate zoom school even when everything works perfectly.

When parents woke up this morning to find that their kids couldn't log in on their DOE devices, it felt like a joke.

[Madina Touré @madinatoure]

Mayor Adams yesterday when asked about parents who struggle with remote learning: “Snow days, my mother had to walk us to school with her arthritic knees. If you are a parent and you are not willing to navigate a computer for your child, that's a sad commentary.”

[LP @write2laura]

I thought I had remembered how depressing remote school was.

I was wrong.

[Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific]

You know what children could really use right now?

Grown ups who keep their own fears and anxieties to themselves, reassure kids that all is well, and that whatever grown up problems exist, grown ups will handle them.

[LP @write2laura]

@NYC_essentialSW Is it satire?

[LP @write2laura]

@queens_parents All the empty office space in NYC, and schools are their best plan B? Leave the kids alone.

[LP @write2laura]

Why indeed?

[AZ Faust @azfaust]

While Jo Boaler has all the makings of a Lucy Calkins, this hyper-focus on one particular person sidesteps the bigger issue: why is the American educational system such a fertile ground for quack theories and practices?

[LP @write2laura]

@MrDanielBuck @Moms4Liberty My children (8th and 10th grade) have never had a grammar lesson at school.

[NYC Public Schools @NYCSchools]

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