🧵Since August, #Missouri school districts have banned nearly 300 books, including works on Leonardo da Vinci, graphic novel adaptations of classics by Shakespeare and Mark Twain as well as The Gettysburg Address, the Pulitzer-prize winning Maus, and more. pen.org/press-release/…

Someone asked me if I was doing nanowrimo this year and as a first year teacher I just laughed

I need a movie to put on for my 8th graders tomorrow for the last school day before Thanksgiving break! I'm just gonna have them work on missing assignments because there's no point to teaching something new. I have Disney+ and Netflix so pls drop your recommendations below

I asked my five year old niece if she's excited for Santa to come on Christmas and she responded, "No, he died."

The insanity of these combinations

It's #SpotifyWrapped night so here I am

I'm physically incapable of teaching Walt Whitman without reading O Captain! My Captain! But I am also physically incapable of making it through that poem without crying

it is wednesday, my beans

I am thankful for many reasons that today is a snow day

In January I started going on Tumblr instead of Twitter whenever I felt like opening up the latter and that was an excellent decision for my mental health.

i think you should be required to look at this graph and explain what it shows before you can enter general society

John Parker Public education does not exist to benefit parents, or for that matter students. It exists to benefit the social order. As a social order, we pay experts to determine curricular and library content. The experts are not congresspeople or parents; they are teachers and librarians.

I haven't been on this app in ages but I am on Threads @ gracehouston_