Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes? That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood. Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.
There are books. And books. And books. On this.
June 2013
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In Spanish, we don’t really say “I love you” we say “traeme una cerveza” which roughly translates to “you are the light of my soul” & I think that’s beautiful.
Why A Public School Teacher is Choosing to Get Arrested →
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Today, June 17, 2013, North Carolinians gathered for the seventh “Moral Monday” protest at the North Carolina Legislative Building. Since late May, thousands have protested the General Assembly’s ultra-conservative agenda and over 450 people have been arrested as part of a growing wave of non-violent civil disobedience. Holly Marie Jordan is a public school teacher from Durham who was arrested as part of today’s protest. Her testimony is below:
As a public school teacher in North Carolina—not an “outsider” that Governer McCrory alleges is at the helm of the Moral Monday protests, but an educator grounded in and devoted to the community of Durham—I am ardent to stand up for the future of my students by getting arrested at Moral Monday.
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…”teaching was really about providing stability, respect, and compassion to teenagers desperate to learn in a system that was failing them. It was about talking to K about why he shouldn’t drop out. It was about visiting J in the hospital after her miscarriage. It was about tutoring 15-year-old T so he could move past a fifth grade reading level. Because that was what my students needed, that’s what teaching became for me. It is what teaching means for thousands of teachers, counselors, teaching assistants, and other public school workers across the state, as we prepare our students for successful futures, not just academically, but in every way. We work long past our salaried hours to create instruction that challenges our students to grow as critical thinkers. We advise clubs where our students can express themselves. We coach sports to promote health and self-discipline. We counsel the crying, laugh with the happy, protect the bullied, and motivate the discouraged. We are honest with our students about their struggles and successes, and about our own. We do all this not for professional gain but because we firmly believe that these children are worth everything we can give them. We do it because what we teachers want is no different than what our students need.”
which tv character do you most identify with?
I want to say someone cool, but to be honest someone like Mindy (Mindy Kaling;The Mindy Project) is more accurate, she’s smart, cute-ish, has big dreams, clumsy and a total mess.
but i do see you go to umd that's a pretty good school, collie park is probably one of the treasures of PG county, nay, of Maryland in general
I love the University of Maryland/College Park, but I have a problem with it being called the “treasure” of PG County, PG County has a population that’s 15% Latino, 65% Black while UMD has only 5% of their student population being Latinos, and 12% black, so why is the rich white school labeled the treasure of this county? These white kids don’t even come from there, they come, pay their out of state tuition and only see the reality of their campus not the neighborhoods beyond it, once in a while they bring in the kids from the schools & tutor them so they can put it on their resumes & applications. So, in the words of Forrest Gump “And that’s all I got to say about that”
“I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.”
—Sandra Cisneros (via erraticintrovert)
whose your favorite tv couple?
Hmm, I don’t watch a lot of tv series but
-Angela and Dwight from the Office, actually pretty much ALL the couples from the Office make me happy, Jim and Pam obviously, Michael and Holly, I love the Office
-Andy and April from Parks & Rec are super cute, I actually don’t like Leslie and Ben together, I liked her with Dave the cop
that pretty much sums it up
Have you been to the weird part of youtube? I have, and I am not the same...
I have indeed, and my nights haven’t been the same since either. I guess that’s what happens when pretty much anyone can post pretty much anything they want to. I think the most traumatizing one was that woman who ate her cats food.
Hey!
I’m not saying I’m bored, so ask me things, but I’m not NOT saying I’m bored, so ask me me things….
whats ur facebook?
Sorry, I don’t even add half my family on Facebook.
How To Create Powerful Student-Teacher Relationships - Edudemic →
edudemic.com
In this insightful essay, Annette Louise Brown examines how to build useful and powerful student-teacher relationships - and why it’s beyond important.
