PASSIVE VERBS DON’T TAKE AN ACCUSATIVE OBJECT BUT CERTAIN DEPONENT VERBS TAKE THE ABLATIVE, WHICH WHEN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, FUNCTION LIKE AN ORDINARY DIRECT OBJECT.

Michael J. Maguire How bout 40 min of recess for elementary school kids, rather than 20? It's insane how little unstructured time kids have with each other now.

Opinion | Making a single teacher do two distinctly separate jobs simultaneously is both unrealistic and grossly improper. trib.al/GLpghwQ

"At the end of the day, the teachers’ working conditions are the students’ learning conditions." Boston educators and students deserve better Boston Public Schools. bostonherald.com/2024/11/27/mag…

Fianna Fáil edges ahead in latest opinion poll ahead of general election buff.ly/3V88UxV

Opinion | An expansive bilingual program would both improve our students' lives and attract more families to the district. trib.al/YQoEqoe

People forget that most parts of the City of Boston would not exist without landfills.

Trump reversed an EO that eliminated DOJ private prison contracts. He's about to sign a bill expanding migrant detention, further enriching the private prison industry. And his AG pick is an ex-lobbyist for GEO Group, the largest private prison company. Follow the money.

I loathe “safe mode drills” (the euphemism for active shooter drills) and call upon the BostonPublicSchools to end the practice. I was notified that we will hold another horrific drill later this month. BostonTeachersUnion Abbey Niezgoda NBC10 Boston wgbh.org/news/commentar…

Take a moment to read the letters of Mary Battenfeld and Michael J. Maguire. Spot on. We need a return to an elected Boston School Committee now more than ever! bostonglobe.com/2025/02/25/opi…

The ramifications of misogyny in education. AFT AFT Massachusetts #WomensHistoryMonth bostonherald.com/2025/03/17/mag…

The case to free a Tufts PhD student and vocally pro-Palestine Turkish national after she was detained last week took a step forward in court Thursday, with the defense and government contesting the state jurisdiction of the case. trib.al/cf8Dvhe

Congratulations to BostonTeachersUnion for raising the wages of our paraprofessionals

Opinion | Teaching is instructive, intuitive, and repetitive. We can call the newest technology “intelligence” all we want, but its epithet is still “artificial.” trib.al/9oUy9St

Opinion | I love teaching and wish I did not have to leave the classroom. But the ever-increasing demands and ever-shrinking spending power have driven too many teachers out of the profession. trib.al/MKpGQNd

I’m willing to leave the classroom (to run for union office) so that other teachers won’t fell compelled to leave the profession.

FranciscoTNG Remember when each Pixar movie looked different and visually distinct from each other? Yeah, good times. Now all we get is the corpo play it safe art style that no one likes

Looping could give students a stronger connection either to the specific teacher or to the school itself. AFT BostonTeachersUnion AFT Massachusetts 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 Nicholas Ferroni Michelle Wu 吳弭