The general public do not understand what it takes to be a high school English teacher (smile and nod enthusiastically when an at-risk student requests you to review their 12:22 death metal song and you are so happy they’re engaging with you and the world but WHY, GOD?? WHY??)

putting a cheap air filter in a classroom leads to roughly the same increase in student test outcomes as the best charter schools in the country ($18k/y)

Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen, I think it’s a good time to remind everyone or tell for the first time that ChatGPT and other forms for AI are contributing to the rapid warming of our planet.

Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp

“Simple acts of courage early on will save you impossible acts of courage later” Clarity.

in case my politics weren’t clear: abortion on demand. there are more than two genders. protect trans people—esp. kids—at all costs. legalize sex work. no one is illegal, borders are made up. free speech includes Palestine / student protests. Black people are owed reparations.

your password must contain a character... with a tragic backstory

I can respect how far current gen AI has come from a purely technological point of view—credit to the researchers & scientists—but genuinely, what do we need this so badly for, that it would outweigh all the humanity, stories, and history being stripped from our lives?

I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

hi, pre-k teacher here. no need to worry nancy, it’s in our curriculum to cover all the letters eventually. this week we’re working on S-T-F-U

Hello, this is precursor to genocide

Increasing class size, class complexity, wage stagnation, AI, threats or outright disbandment of GSAs, and now book banning. Teaching MATTERS. Public education MATTERS. But so do educators… and this is becoming untenable… I think by design.

Duncan Kinney Where is the answer "let librarians determine appropriate shelving/access because that's their job" (I know I know)

We should have one publicly funded, public school system. Any school that is not a public school should not be publicly funded.

I’m so ready for this next chapter (having those ceramic holiday village scenes set up around my house)

I think the #1 question that Danielle Smith must be asked is, "Teachers have been working without a contract since August 2024. Wouldn't your government be in a stronger bargaining position today if you'd used those 14 months to make real progress on class size and complexity?"

Sweden's former PM Stefan Löfven: “It's fascism that we're seeing in the United States. It's sad, but we must call it by its proper name”.

One of the many dangers of AI is to make us doubt what we see in the circulating videos and images of state terrorism

“Fascism is colonialism turned inward”

This is genuinely one of the most disgusting statements I have ever seen issued by an American official. It should not stop shocking us that the Republican Party openly embraces this. Fine should be censured & stripped of committees. To ignore this is to accept and normalize it.