You punish schools for teaching equity, but stay silent on underfunding, burnout, and broken systems.
This was never about protecting kids.
It’s about protecting power.
And teachers?
We’re done playing quiet.
The exodus is coming. And we’re bringing the truth with us.
05.04.2025 23:09 — 👍 63 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0
• The Dept. of Ed? It enforces civil rights, funds underprivileged schools, and collects data—states already control curriculum.
This isn’t about shrinking gov’t. It’s about shrinking opportunity.
Ask for data. They won’t have it. Now you do.
31.03.2025 22:41 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
• We were never “#1” (no rankings existed).
• 31st? That’s a systems ranking, not student performance.
• We spend more—because our system is a decentralized mess.
• The 28% stat? Made up.
31.03.2025 22:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“The U.S. was #1 before the Dept. of Ed! Now we rank 31st! We spend more than anyone, and 28% of grads can’t read!”
Sounds bold, right? Too bad it’s mostly false.
Let’s break it down: 👇🏼
31.03.2025 22:41 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Too many Americans seem to be more and more comfortable with inhumanity. Choose not to become jaded. Choose to be impressed by kindness. Choose to make a big deal about decency. Choose not to normalize fascist cruelty. Speak honestly about the evil we’re witnessing. Choose.
29.03.2025 19:14 — 👍 61 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 5
Indeed, this is where we are.
21.12.2024 20:39 — 👍 34997 🔁 8384 💬 585 📌 288
Amen
07.12.2024 03:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dane County judge strikes down Act 10, restoring public employee union bargaining rights
Public employee collective bargaining rights have been restored by a Dane County judge, who ruled that several sections of Wisconsin's controversial law known as Act 10 are unconstitutional.
In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law.
The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights.
This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.
06.12.2024 23:30 — 👍 28411 🔁 6240 💬 400 📌 288
This is a class war, act accordingly.
07.12.2024 03:35 — 👍 58 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.”
Rubbish.
Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?
03.12.2024 01:30 — 👍 5720 🔁 880 💬 317 📌 61
Not having the instant ability to stop our Congress and White House from relentlessly committing genocide with Netanyahu bludgeons and wounds the soul in such a permanent way. Stay connected, decent souls that are left.
25.11.2024 22:40 — 👍 37 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Too many with power will not do that which is vital to our collective survival. No shock. Drugged up with self-interest. Clearly shortening our time here as a species with their personal gain disease. Such a horrific place to be: a massive concentration of wealth death camp.
20.11.2024 01:24 — 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Project 2025 would require all public high school students take the military entrance exam.
Private school students would be exempt.
The peasants would fight for the king.
20.11.2024 00:34 — 👍 1222 🔁 484 💬 78 📌 33
This took my breath away.
Or (little) kids who take the bus home and find an empty home?
I live and teach in a neighborhood that’s majority immigrant families.
What will we do, indeed?
19.11.2024 01:58 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Americans: the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING you can do for Gaza right now is call your Senators every single day until November 21 and ask them to co-sign Senate Joint Resolutions 111-116, which would block the 11 BILLION DOLLARS of military aid we’re about to send Israel. USCPR has scripts.
10.11.2024 14:25 — 👍 730 🔁 815 💬 11 📌 7
One of the most brazen lies ever told in history was Elon Musk claiming to be a free speech absolutist.
17.11.2024 22:09 — 👍 42 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Pay attention to how coverage of Trump is changing. Pay attention to how entertainment changes.
There are lessons to learn here about how capitalism works and what is real and what isn’t.
17.11.2024 15:23 — 👍 623 🔁 151 💬 10 📌 14
music is really loud math
16.11.2024 20:28 — 👍 4646 🔁 642 💬 152 📌 82
Trump’s plan to end discussions on race, gender, and history in schools while pushing for patriotic education is another step toward fascism. It denies future generations the ability to think critically, understand diverse perspectives, and navigate the world. Education should empower, not silence.
18.11.2024 01:10 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Trump wants to end 'wokeness' in education. He has vowed to use federal money as leverage
President-elect Donald Trump has a vision for education that revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination.”
"Trump also wants a say in school curriculum, vowing to fight for 'patriotic' education. He promised to reinstate his 1776 Commission, which he created in 2021 to promote patriotic education."
This has nothing to do with teaching history. It's indoctrination. 🗃️ apnews.com/article/trum...
15.11.2024 12:04 — 👍 248 🔁 90 💬 16 📌 15
Imagine the start of every dystopian/apocalyptic film you’ve watched where the world goes to shit… it basically starts like this
17.11.2024 22:07 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
I could not agree more!
17.11.2024 22:57 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Wisconsin Farmer Calls Election Results a Disaster for Agriculture
Lincoln County Farmer Hans Breitenmoser sounds an alarm about the new administration’s pending impact on agriculture and rural communities.
“Trump criticized immigration policies that overall target essential farm workers, many of whom come from outside the U.S. Our dairy and meat industries rely heavily on these workers and sending them home or restricting immigration threatens to collapse Wisconsin’s agricultural economy.”
17.11.2024 00:26 — 👍 18 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 2
Excerpt from yahoo.com:
MSNBC primetime viewership plunged 54% in the days after Donald Trump won the White House as the network’s audience tuned away from its left-leaning coverage, according to a report.
The Comcast-owned cable news channel — which drew a daily average of 1.1 million viewers throughout October – saw its audience shrink to a daily average of 736,000 on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after Election Day, according to Nielsen Media Research data reported by Fox News.
That amounted to a 31% drop following Trump’s decisive victory, in which he swept the popular vote and all seven key swing states. Meanwhile, Fox News ratings surged a whopping 61% during the same period, according to Nielsen data reported by Fox.
Don't watch any cable news anymore. They are the Great Gaslighters of our time. Boycott them and make them all irrelevant.
17.11.2024 07:53 — 👍 350 🔁 59 💬 33 📌 3
If we don’t find a way to effectively mobilize a truly progressive coalition of people willing to stand up to the corporate rape of our nation by both parties, humanity certainly won’t survive this ongoing horror of grift, greed, and genocide.
17.11.2024 17:16 — 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
In the next few years, more teachers will walk away, and the impact will be felt far beyond the classroom.
17.11.2024 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Michele Morrow is supposedly being considered for the Department of Education and aided by RFKjr’s team. But also…where the fuck are we to have a woman who called for the public lynching of a black man to be considered as part of children’s education??
17.11.2024 14:35 — 👍 1002 🔁 246 💬 66 📌 14
Public school teachers shouldn’t be teaching religion any more than priests should be teaching algebra.
17.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 2523 🔁 450 💬 105 📌 16
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