It is dehumanizing. One day it may even be viewed as a slur. The AP style book has removed it. Hopefully you will avoid it. 😔 www.ap.org/the-definiti...

Mike, please refer to “undocumented persons” not “illegal” people — that is racist language we’ve got to remove from our conversations. I shared this because the topic was 💯 then realized the problematic language. Thanks for listening.

made a minor tweak to this to make the text more legible, that I doubt anyone else will care about or notice, but if you want the cleanest version, here you go

Are you on Substack yet? That’s where others are moving to from FB/X. Someone shared your Kevin Roberts video in The Contrarian chat, so there seems to be some interest in following you.

That’s such an excellent point.

Many of us left the Xitter Oct 8th, thankfully.

I was wondering if you got any snow! How far south in FL did the snow go?

I’m glad Lorraine fixed her golf cart! Nice to see the pics. 💕

That’s the sharing link. The better link to sign is this is this: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

@jp226kcmo.bsky.social thought this would hit home for you

Is Bluesky the family friendly version of your account?

When the NYT posts (11/15/24) an opinion piece to “end the criminal cases against Trump”, it’s time to bail if you haven’t already.

…and parents/students/society supported and respected education more, THEN we might be doing better in the USA.

Anyone else terrified?

Maybe if we didn’t spend so much money on excessive standardized testing we could do better. Maybe if teachers were paid more, class sizes were smaller, teachers were trusted as the professionals that they are ….

At the end he reiterates abolishing the DeptEd and sending educational control back to the states. So if you live in a red state, good luck! They hate education. He says states can’t do any worse than DofE has done and claims we spend 3x more $$ per student than many other more successful nations.

9 & 10. These are very similar. They talk about having more internships and work experience access so as to better ensure student success after high school. They also discuss ensuring job/career counseling being available in schools. THESE PROGRAMS ALREADY EXIST!!