I would love to see our BSPAHS students organize something like this. #godutch

Just saw a grown man eating an ice cream cone outside of Stewart’s. 6:46am. And I’m just saying, I think he’s got the right idea.

This Friday, is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. #WearOrange to honor those lost or changed by gun violence and call for meaningful action. Text ORANGE to 48744 for a reminder. #ProtectOurSchools #EndGunViolence

“Social movements need 2 elements to be successful: narrative and tactics…Think of these as soft power and hard power, respectively. Activists need to tell a compelling story that brings people along to a new way of thinking and emboldens them to act.” theatlantic.com/family/archive…

I don’t own any orange, so: 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧#WearOrange #BanGunsNotBooks #EndGunViolence

James Patterson says "you don't see many 52-year-old white males" getting writing contracts these days. This was said in a USA Today interview. USA Today publishes a bestseller list with 150 entries. The day he was quoted, the following white men are on the bestseller list:

Ballston Spa graduate Luke Gold, the 2019 Times Union Large-School Baseball Player of the Year, has been selected in the fifth round (147th selection overall) by the Detroit Tigers.

At least happy to see ⁦Ballston Spa CSD⁩ condemn these views as harmful and outdated. 🏳️‍⚧️ cbs6albany.com/news/crisis-in…

Feeling like a genius today: Wordle in 2, Quordle in 6, and Heardle in 1. 🤓

By not teaching kids about racism, they can assume White people have more because they are more. Banning books on POC reinforces this assumption as it leads to kids seeing more White people in the curriculum. This isn’t protecting White kids. This is protecting racist education.

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Recommending this episode to everyone I know! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hea…

My star public speaking student! In all seriousness, my seniors gave awesome informative speeches this week!

When your teacher makes you pose with the class mascot on #InternationalSlothDay Ballston Spa CSD

⁦BSPAHS⁩ Wear PINK tomorrow 👚 instagram.com/p/Cj2x3itLDPg/…

Justice Sonia Sotomayor did a talk in Chicago tonight hosted by Roosevelt University. She was asked how she maintains relationships with judges she disagrees with — Clarence Thomas, in particular. Here’s what she said:

Plan to join the HS Troupe as they present “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” in the BSHS Auditorium at 7pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17, 18 and 19, 2022. There is also a matinee at 1pm on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022.  #BSCSD bscsd.org/Page/13471

"'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen,' and the powers in charge…have declared the State has unfettered authority to muzzle its professors in the name of 'freedom,'" the judge wrote. "This is positively dystopian." npr.org/2022/11/18/113…

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