once again, it was a little different for Ms. Rafferty

🧵 - Hit a nerve when I made the connection between current curricular reform efforts and eugenics. I understand it's troubling for the mavens and evangelists out there to consider how even 'HQIM' are not neutral.

This thread connects some of the dots.
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My biggest problem with the “kids these days” rhetoric is that a lot of the loudest voices talking about how horrible kids are voted for a lying, fraudulent, racist bully to be the president of the United States and they’re planning to vote for him again.

Divinity ☀️🌕
Life list accomplished!! Able to get an eclipse picture in Mexico!!! I am humbled and in awe!!! #ForYouDaddy

Jennifer Berkshire shows why current reading policy is NOT ABOUT READING.

It's part of a wave of privatization that 'clears the way for legal activists to impose their conservative Christian social vision upon formerly public institutions'

read&share🙏

thebaffler.com/outbursts/naug…

Hell yes!

Reading this <again> while in Mexico is salve for my soul.
#bellhooks #love

Yehhhhussss
#livingwell #SanMiguel #goodlife

Leadership 101

30 years. ♥️
30 years of witnessing our fierce, passionate, adventurous, full-on silly, damn good girl make her own way in this world with a snack in one hand and a ball in the other. HAPPY DAY OF BIRTH,
Coach Cooper!!!
♥️🫶♥️🤟♥️
#StayFierce 💪 #StaySilly 🥸 #StayYou 🥰

As I’m moving through the interview process for a different position, I’m realizing that a lot to folks want out of the classroom to be further away from Black and brown children, but simultaneously want greater authority to make decisions for/about Black and brown children.

Congratulations, Donald. Quite the accomplishment.

This thread!!! ✅✅✅

I'm definitely on the right track 😉

Truth 👇

And ... It's up! The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2024 School Board elections is live. I've started with 9 districts, including North East ISD, Eanes, Keller, Katy, GCISD. Please use this to organize & mobilize--and check back! More will be added! docs.google.com/document/d/13V…

Jimmy Kimmel just read this post by Trump and then asked “isn’t it past your jail time?”

Sen. Katie Britt delivers the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address

In his State of the Union address, President Biden said, “those bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women.” nyti.ms/43aCe9H

♥️American ideal of equality. “We’ve never fully lived up to it, but we’ve never walked away from it either” — Joe Biden SOTU