Sam Klein-Laufer

Because the oligarchs enable them because they provide the most important thing, an audience. You can self publish to 10s of people or you can be oligarch puppet and be read by millions. Pretty simple equation. The problem, like with everything, is oligarchy and capitalism.

ultimately who has more power? This comes down to a class thing. The problem is the oligarchal class who controls the means and modes of journalistic production.

It is a feedback loop. big newspaper hires journalists who fall in line. journalists who fall in line get access to bigger audiences because they work for bigger outlets.

stop blaming journalists. It is not their fault. It is the investors and hedge funds who own the papers that publish their work that are obfuscating the erosion of democracy and support the entrenching of the oligarchy.

exactly, which is why the power + prejudice definition of racism doesn't work. If people are not treating each other well and using race to excuse it, they are racist, simple, and racism is only the way people excuse their assholishness anyway.

I mean...non-white people can be racist too?

Which is still a better argument for STV because it allows for both the exercise of agency and ability to disconnect from the party as well as improve the voting experience.

What will people do when negligent and malicious employers kill workers? What will people do when their children can't learn to read and write? what will people do when voter registration rolls are purged on election day? Or when once strong unions are reduced rubble?

No one is talking about repealing the voter registration act or the bill that proposes the elimination of the department of education, or the bill that will get rid of OSHA. tariffs and increased costs should be the least of people's worries.

Everyone is talking about tariffs. No one is talking about how Elon Musk and his cronies have control the personal information, including medical records and SSNs, of 340 million people. No one is talking about Utah making collective bargaining illegal,

How about funding a school nurse or school counsellor as a safety plan?
I’m really disgusted with this gross #bcndp over reach and contempt for a democratically elected board.

Victoria police disproportionately using force against Indigenous and Black people, data shows | CBC News New data from VicPD, released following an order from the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner, shows Indigenous and Black people were overrepresented in police use-of-force incidents between 2018 and 2023.

2. What is the @davidebybc.bsky.social govt doing to address this? Should the VicPD be free to roam school hallways without appropriate oversight? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Board is democratically elected. This seems completely related because the police threw a tantrum. The province has no right to require police be in school, especially with all the negatives that result from police in school as identified by many many sources. #bcpoli #bced

Cybebullying may impact students, but it is not an education issue the same way physical bullying is. It is more of an issue about the inability of children to unplug and the fact that we allow cyberbullies(like certain politicians) to get away with it.

YouTube video by Teachers On Fire CYBERBULLYING in OUR SCHOOLS: How to Support Our Students with Director of Technology EVA HARVELL

With cyberbullying on the rise, what can we do to support our students? Join me and Director of Technology Eva Harvell as we consider this and other critical questions. youtu.be/y4VVk638OUg

Ken Sim's idea that we should invest and develop a bitcoin reserve is insane. We should instead invest and build a reserve of Alpha and Beta Magic: The Gathering cards as they show considerably less market volatility.

Assad has been replaced by what is essentially Al Qaeda. Democracy and good governance aren’t coming to Syria any time soon. We shouldn’t be cheering because women, Kurds, Yazidi, and other minorities are in danger. Assad is gone, yay but that’s what we said about the Shah. Not really an improvement

Which is why teacher training needs to be less lecture hall and more worksite. Apprenticeship for teaching is seeming to em to be the better model.

Very little in education is mutually exclusive. But we need less pontification which is what the indigenous principles and anti-racism stuff often feels like and more practical framing. We are told to use the tools but we are only given an empty tool box.

I would disagree with that. I would say there are things we learn about far less, effective preparation, classroom management, assessment, lesson design, that are far more important for ALL teachers to have. It is also less that we don't learn about them, but we don't learn how to apply them

When Trudeau and Singh step down and let someone who isn't tainted by the last decade of failure come around.

They also have very little reason to be good at their jobs. Good police, less crime, less money for police. Bad police, more crime, more money for police.

Land is becoming an unfortunate point in conversations about education. BC's urban centres are so light in land facing the demand for housing, amenities, education, industrial, and commercial spaces. we need to up our urban planning game for the sake of cities and 20th century sprawl is not it.

It needs to be both though. I have an ELL student in English 12 who has not demonstrated an ability to read or write in English. Without modifying the goals of the course how is this student supposed to succeed? There is a basal level of language needed for any course.

I would say that this article applies to a subsection of MLs. What we are seeing in the ELL population is a lot of students who have not formal schooling or do not have age expected literacy in L1. There has to be some level of remediation there for those students.

I know this is a student safety thing, but it could very easily be a teacher or staff having a cardiac event. there is no reason to not have an AED on a site with a good amount of people and it feels like this is a health and safety grievance waiting to happen.

I will die on the hill that you can’t beat Rutger McGroaty in a best name contest.

all the talk of dystopian novels, usually around 1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale, seem to ignore what is evidently becoming the most prophetic of all 20th century dystopian in Vonnegut's Player Piano.

It is a good thing the US hasn't fought a war that has put them in debt recently.

Apprenticeships Are the New Frontier of Teacher Preparation. Here's How They Work States are using federal labor funding to support the hands-on approach to teacher training and remove cost barriers for would-be teachers.

Seems that many states have moved in that direction. seems that many of these are paid apprenticeships as well, so instead of paying to train, you're paid to train which could help with shortages.