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PL Thomas EdD
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P. L. Thomas, Professor, Furman University. Teacher/Writer/Poet. Social media is not my classroom. Posts represent me only and no organization linktr.ee/plthomas

Literacy (reading and composition) and education policy, comic book scholarship
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October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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They put up chainlink fences underneath the biggest bridges They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all the children They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face So they don’t have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them The South will not rise again Til it’s paid for every sin Strange fruit, hard bargain Till the roots, Southern Gotham
October 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Free speech and academic freedom on a college campus should not mean that everyone or anyone deserves to be platformed. And if someone isn't platformed by the college, that is not censorship A college is a unique setting that should model that claims and the agents of those claims must be valid and credible Otherwise, college is just indirectly reinforcing the bad lessons of public discourse that often requires no evidence or credibility for claims or those making claims College is not a person's family, their church, the Internet, or a collection of celebrities ... If we in colleges demand that students use only credible evidence, we are being negligent to platform anyone or everyone just to prove that we aren't a bunch of liberal indoctrinators (a false claim that can easily being discredited with evidence BTW)
September 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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gods and kings and men of all kinds have counted on absolution contrition and good intentions it is the stuff of wars and tidal waves that leaves children and women smoldering among the wreckage yes the sins of heedless fathers are taxing borne like chain mail or rusting armor by soldiers in servitude indentured betrothed cloistered anchoritic because it is their lot subsumed by billowing exothermic passion
June 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Protests in US should include only US flag
January 6 protests with multiple flags not US
June 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Matt Berninger I’ll start fucking around with stuff I stole that from Jonathan Ames I do think songwriting is a very specific kind of thing It’s not—there’s poetry and there’s songwriting And I think they’re as different as like swimming and ice skating It’s like it’s still just words or just water but they’re totally different things
May 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Motherhood should be a choice
May 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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MAGA snake
April 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Too all that celebrate!
Happy 420
April 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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More bad journalism helping manufacture a reading crisis @bostonglobe.com

NAEP Serves Manufactured Education Crisis, Not Teaching and Learning

radicalscholarship.com/2025/02/02/n...
Lawmakers once again seek to overhaul reading instruction
April 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Coming Fall 2025 on FOX: Hank Tough: Economy Killer
April 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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New American Dream: Bankrupt Musk!
April 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Link here radicalscholarship.com/2024/06/12/s...
Join us for a timely and vital conversation on April 16 at 6:30 p.m. ET with Dr. P.L. Thomas, Professor of Education at Furman University. For decades, media and policymakers have pushed a narrative that America’s public schools are “failing.” But who benefits from this story, and who is harmed by it? Dr. Thomas will expose how the education reform industry has fueled a false crisis, undermining trust in public schools while advancing corporate-driven reforms. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, scholar, and national award-winning writer, Dr. Thomas will offer critical insights into how we can challenge disinformation and reclaim a narrative rooted in equity, democracy, and community empowerment.
April 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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It’s Impossible to Have Second Thoughts When You Never Had First Thoughts - MAGA
April 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Schedule: Fall 2024 - Winter/Spring 2025 radicalscholarship.com/2024/06/12/s...
Join us for a timely and vital conversation on April 16 at 6:30 p.m. ET with Dr. P.L. Thomas, Professor of Education at Furman University. For decades, media and policymakers have pushed a narrative that America’s public schools are “failing.” But who benefits from this story, and who is harmed by it? Dr. Thomas will expose how the education reform industry has fueled a false crisis, undermining trust in public schools while advancing corporate-driven reforms. Drawing on his experience as a teacher, scholar, and national award-winning writer, Dr. Thomas will offer critical insights into how we can challenge disinformation and reclaim a narrative rooted in equity, democracy, and community empowerment.
March 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Everyone is welcome here
March 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Since MAGA is so offended by this, we should adopt

EIWH as resistance

#everyoneiswelcomehere
Everyone is welcome here
March 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Draft cover of in-press book on Black Widow (Marvel)
Draft cover of in-press book on Black Widow (Marvel)
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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DOGE is a scam. But there is real corruption and waste, but by Rs and scams like school choice
South Carolina’s school choice program gave ineligible students $1.5 million. That’s bad, right? | Opinion Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article301673704.html#storylink=cpy
March 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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New book out on Republicans but I will pass
Book: Sex Lives of Animals without Backbones
March 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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About 61 years apart
Daredevil 1 (1964) beside 2025 facsimile
February 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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BEWARE educational rankings!

Top 10 high schools in SC? See something overlapping?

www.heraldonline.com/news/state/s...
#1 South Carolina Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics – PI 21.7 #2 Academic Magnet High School 15.1 #3 Spring Hill High School 32.7 #4 Mayo High School for Math, Science & Technology 47.6 #5 SC Governor’s School for Arts & Humanities – PI 22.5 #6 HCS Early College High School 80.2 #7 Catawba Ridge High School 18.2 #8 Greenville Technical Charter High School – PI 29.5 #9 Berkeley County Middle College High School 27.4 #10 River Bluff High School 31.7 Top 30 lowest poverty index high schools in SC
February 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Bizarro NAEP logic from SOR advocates

[L] When NAEP was flat for decades, declare a false reading crisis and blame reading programs/BL + poverty is an excuse!

[R] When NAEP drops, reject that SOR has failed + Covid learning loss caused it!
Flat NAEP reading scores since 1992 NAEP reading scores decline since 2019
February 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Standard statistical rule: when you compare or rank data on populations populations should be relatively equal

US public school populations =/= Catholic school populations

Better comparison? DoDEA

More = public and 3/4 > Catholic
2024 NAEP data by public schools, Catholic schools, and DoDEA schools
February 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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When your keynote is canceled and you were speaking FOR teacher autonomy and AGAINST scripted curriculum

And these are the sponsors for the conference
Publisher sponsors Publisher sponsors
February 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM