She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.
Just visited the school I retired from four years ago to say hi and check out the new renovations.
Whiteboards everywhere!
(er, sorry, “vertical non-permanent surfaces“)
While I appreciate the philosophy of getting the kids up and working things out for themselves, I’m really wondering about the massive amounts of plastic waste in the form of depleted whiteboard markers. Personally, I hated whiteboards when it was mostly just me using one, because I was constantly running out of markers. I can’t imagine how they cope now that all the students are using them, as well.
This is clearly an “out of sight, out of mind” issue for most folks, and I’m sure the petroplastics industry is totally fine with finding new ways to make money. But it’s incredibly shortsighted.
I know all about the drawbacks of chalk, but those inconveniences seem pretty minimal compared to the waste generated by whiteboards.
Is there a third low-tech option out there that allows for fine detail (so no drawing in sand 😄) without the waste? Why did people stop using chalkboards? The dust?
Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.
The headline of Gaby Hinsliff's piece this morning in the Guardian says it all:
'if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children?'
The crisis in our schools is not just an immediate problem of education but will have impacts across the generations.
We needed to have sorted this out long ago, but the toxic impact of Tory education policy has undermined, disempowered & compromised the teaching profession to such an extent we're now in crisis
Republicans in Tennessee are out of their fucking minds. What kind of insanity is this?
The solution to school shootings isn’t to arm teachers!
America is a shit show beyond all logic. The unfathomable has become reality here. Nationalists like to say “these colors never run.” But they do. The color red plentifully runs through our streets.