Because it shows that women have been writing and publishing about their roles in war for centuries but because they were excluded from academia, they were ignored. IOW, their stories are *everywhere* if we know where to look and what to look for.

OTD, 2018, Michigan declared June 15 Women's Veteran's Day. Thank you, Michigan, for recognizing the women who answered the call to service.

A comic by Dave Coverly

Agreed. I cannot speak to k-12 kids, but the purpose of education is not to keep people in their little comfort bubble. It's to challenge, provoke thought, and introduce new worlds. And, if you keep your preferences/beliefs @ the end, you do so with a more informed perspective...

THIS!

Happy Flag Day!

An Australian government answers the essential question over childcare for war workers, reported OTD, 1943. From: The Advertiser Adelaide, South Australia, Australia • Mon, Jun 14, 1943 Page 5. Find here: newspapers.com/article/the-a…

Or publish books written in a genre-appropriate way and let the reader divide it how they'd like? You'll never build reading stamina if everything is short and chunky...and this is how the American literacy problem was born...🙄

Baltimores 'The Evening Sun' reports on the Maryland bill to support a home for war nurses. See the full report here: Will Aid War Nurses, The Evening Sun, Baltimore MD, Wednesday, 13 June 1917, pg. 16. newspapers.com/article/the-e…

The Gen Z stare is real.

I know good writing. I've read good (and excellent, great, temendous or what have you) writing. I've edited good writing. I've coached good writers. Ai, my dears, is *not* good writing.

Buddy, I didn’t need AI to do this. No professor who has interacted deeply with their students writing do—we always know. We just handle it better than ones who are insecure and incapable enough to need AI to accomplish it…

Women's Armed Services Intergration Act was passed OTD, 1948, granting women the right to serve as regular, permanent members of the armed services. Though not during a war/conflict, this came as a direct response to the need for servicewomen in WWII.

I’ve always been a very skilled reader. I can get through texts very fast with a sharp memory for what I’ve read. I read an incredibly diverse array of authors & genres, from canonical literature to any contemporary book that’s a cultural phenomenon. I’ve devoted my entire life, personal & professional, to reading. in times of pain & grief, I always find myself in bookstores because books are my church, my refuge. I believe in the power of reading to transform & heal people—& in turn the world. but it’s important to note that reading doesn’t make you a good person in & of itself. there is no inherent virtue in reading. it’s easy to be a reader who only spends time with perspectives & narratives that reinforce your own—or to warp what you read to fit your own agenda. this is why the formal study of literature is so important, why we need literature teachers to direct us to different kinds of books & help us to read them in different ways, to see different things.

It's funny how we make this assumption about academics, but would never say drs, lawyers, engineers etc who spend a lot of time in school never saw "the real world" and only know their bubble. Indeed, they're practising their profession. But academics? Nah, they're just lazy.🙄

Red pill

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE CERTAIN I AM THAT WE KNEW EXACTLY WHO WE WERE WHEN WE WERE LITTLE, AND THEN ADULTS TALKED US OUT OF IT

When I was in 5th grade, I did a project on lobsters. Had to hand-draw the anatomy, do a report. Still remember it, can picture it. And that was a *long* time ago. When I was in high school, I did a term paper on Shaw's play "Saint Joan," and the next year, a term paper on Bruno Bettelheim and fairy tales - this was not at any fancy school, but a mid diocesan Catholic HS in the south. I *remember.* No, I didn't have anything "interesting" to say about those things, but those were the moments when I actually learned in a deeper way - having to integrate and process the material *myself.*

Lucy Pickens was born OTD, 1832. She was the first lady of South Carolina from 1860-1862, her husband elected on the eve of its secession, and she held the prominent role in the early part of the war.

Teenagers can literally read anything, and older text are only difficult because we keep lowering standards. I read The Count of Monte Cristo and 1984 in middle school. We need to stop saying students can't do things or can't handle things. The race to the bottom is pure poison.

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