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3 Dec 2021
Irami: If you want racial justice, you are going to have to reconceive the White family.
Crowd: How can you SAY THAT!
Meanwhile, White moms acting out of the entitlements of motherhood:
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29 Nov 2021
A Tennessee chapter of "Moms for Liberty" filed a complaint with the Tennessee Department of Education alleging that assigning 2nd Graders a book about MLK Jr's March on Washington violated the state's new law banning Critical Race Theory
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How is it that Ashley Zukerman and BJ Novak haven't worked together. I mean, I find it impossible to believe that BJ Novak hasn't written anything about Ashley Zukerman auditioning to play BJ Novak.
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Jun 12
Zionists are nakedly using feminism to hit Platner, when their real grievance is that he isn’t a Zionist. This is why Big Woman is a problem for progressive politics.
It won’t be enough to take out Platner, but the problem remains. Big Woman is an effective anti-progressive strategy to neuter all manners of progressive politics.
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Jun 12
People need to understand that “career and college ready” doesn’t mean what it used to mean, when you can use AI to get through college and your career without thinking.
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Jun 12
Since AI can give productive directions, but it can’t take on liability, the growth industry is being the human face of Ai. And that’s what we are training people to do, when AI does your writing and thinking, and all you do is press send and turn it in.
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Irami Osei-Frimpong retweeted
Go ask a normal American student why school matters and you will hear something about college, career, or money.
Go ask a classically educated student the same question and you will hear words like wisdom, virtue, truth, beauty, or God.
That is the difference between education as workforce preparation and education as human formation.
America has spent generations funding the first vision while wondering why the second kind of person disappeared.
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Jun 8
In this world of AI, I'm doubling down on teaching my kids grammar and writing mechanics. My kids already do a few things better than I do. By high school, I want them to write better than I do, also.
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Jun 7
There is going to be a difference between this generation of kids who spent their time trying to become elite athletes at a skill sport vs. their peers.
It's not going to be the sport; it's going to be the way those kids got through their childhood without frying their brains on tech because they were too busy at some ball practice.
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WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper @AC360
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Jun 7
AI is a kind of like mechanical dishwashers. I don't think dishwashers work. Maybe some are better than others, but for the most part, dishes should be hand washed, regardless of how much we REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE that dishwashers work.
Nevertheless, there is an enormous dishwasher industry, even if all of their products leave a bit of crud on your cup.
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Jun 7
"Bubbles build infrastructure."
Jun 7
Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left, and the consequences could be even more disastrous.
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Jun 6
Teaching is about teaching kids WHO DON'T WANT TO BE THERE. That's the job. It's about developing skills in young people who would, by nature and culture, rather be doing something else.
If your excuse for poor teaching is some version of, "The kids don't want to learn," then you are confused about the nature of your job.
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Jun 5
The culture of participation awards starts at the top.
The teacher's paycheck is a participation award, because the teacher gets paid regardless of whether the students learn.
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Jun 6
I'm really impressed by all of the educators in the comments, fighting for the right to be babysitters, while being paid like teachers.
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I feel you. But to me nothing will ever trump the private vs public school Black Twitter debate. You had people actually arguing that prolonged exposure to poverty was better for Black children than prolonged exposure to white people.
Jun 4
It pissed me off so bad when Trump brought up black jobs that one time during a debate and niggas pretended like they didn’t know what he was talking about
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Jun 4
When less than half of the kids can read and do math at grade level, it's really hard for me to believe that there is a technological solution to what's going wrong at the school.
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Jun 4
When did White women start taking up Mahjong as a class signifier?
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May 31
I just saw that Will Clark isn't in the baseball hall of fame.
I'm not going to lie. I'm impressed that Cooperstown is so picky.
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May 28
With my oldest, I didn't closely monitor pre-school and kindergarten. They taught her how to read using sight words. I had my worries, but I didn't launch a full intervention until first grade.
They taught her guessing as a way of life, and my last 7 years has been a war against guessing: guessing in reading, guessing in math, guessing in music, and guessing in sports. I've done rather well in the battle, but it's been a battle. Honestly, if I had to do it again, I may start with teaching Attic Greek at 3 or 4 because since it's all foreign, there is no illusion of effective guessing or using context clues.
I got to my younger two before they got infected in kindergarten, but MAN, this long war against guessing has been one extraneous struggle in my life.
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May 28
For the record, my kids read well. All of them. I stamped out the reading problem rather early and effectively. So the damage wasn't done to her literacy; the damage was done because it introduced guessing as a way of life. And that's a weed that's hard to kill.
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