We need a general tweet of the day thread
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The party of science!LoneStarDawg said: -
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Love the "Do Not Murder" sign. That and some tough tweets should clean up Portland. Also, people are "agonizing" over how to respond. Geezus. It's only "agonizing" if you have a hard time putting violent felons in jail. Giuliani showed you how to do it and saved thousands of black lives, but like Trump, Rudy is the devil. Lots of political ads on local TV and lots of coverage of the violence in Portland. Not one is saying lock up the violent and repeat offenders.
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Just need more tim to get the social workers in there.WestlinnDuck said:Love the "Do Not Murder" sign. That and some tough tweets should clean up Portland. Also, people are "agonizing" over how to respond. Geezus. It's only "agonizing" if you have a hard time putting violent felons in jail. Giuliani showed you how to do it and saved thousands of black lives, but like Trump, Rudy is the devil. Lots of political ads on local TV and lots of coverage of the violence in Portland. Not one is saying lock up the violent and repeat offenders.
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Do not murder? Wow, I didn't know that was wrong. I'm so glad there's a yard sign to inform everyone.WestlinnDuck said:Love the "Do Not Murder" sign. That and some tough tweets should clean up Portland. Also, people are "agonizing" over how to respond. Geezus. It's only "agonizing" if you have a hard time putting violent felons in jail. Giuliani showed you how to do it and saved thousands of black lives, but like Trump, Rudy is the devil. Lots of political ads on local TV and lots of coverage of the violence in Portland. Not one is saying lock up the violent and repeat offenders.
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Might be nice if the thugs knew how to read. If we only funded our public school systems, they could read the "Do Not Murder" signs.
https://instapundit.com/
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read.
As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked for the students, but not so much for the teachers. “For seven years in a row, Oakland was the fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading,” recalls Weaver. “And we hated it.”
The teachers felt like curriculum robots—and pushed back. “This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,” says Weaver, describing their response to the approach. “So we fought tooth and nail as a teacher group to throw that out.” It was replaced in 2015 by a curriculum that emphasized rich literary experiences. “Those who wanted to fight for social justice, they figured that this new progressive way of teaching reading was the way,” he says.
Now Weaver is heading up a campaign to get his old school district to reinstate many of the methods that teachers resisted so strongly: specifically, systematic and consistent instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics. “In Oakland, when you have 19% of Black kids reading—that can’t be maintained in the society,” says Weaver, who received an early and vivid lesson in the value of literacy in 1984 after his cousin got out of prison and told him the other inmates stopped harassing him when they realized he could read their mail to them. “It has been an unmitigated disaster.” In January 2021, the local branch of the NAACP filed an administrative petition with the Oakland unified school district (OUSD) to ask it to include “explicit instruction for phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension” in its curriculum.
Exit quote: “We abandoned what worked because we didn’t like how it felt to us as adults, when actually, the social-justice thing to do is to teach them explicitly how to read.”
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Your feel good story of the day. Owners need to turn ownership over to the workers or else. They got "else".
