Sam Klein-Laufer
samkl.bsky.social
Sam Klein-Laufer
@samkl.bsky.social
Teacher/Rugby Referee. Historian, sport and food lover.
Everyone is talking about tariffs. No one is talking about how Elon Musk and his cronies have control the personal information, including medical records and SSNs, of 340 million people. No one is talking about Utah making collective bargaining illegal,
February 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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How about funding a school nurse or school counsellor as a safety plan?
I’m really disgusted with this gross #bcndp over reach and contempt for a democratically elected board.
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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2. What is the @davidebybc.bsky.social govt doing to address this? Should the VicPD be free to roam school hallways without appropriate oversight? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Victoria police disproportionately using force against Indigenous and Black people, data shows | CBC News
New data from VicPD, released following an order from the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner, shows Indigenous and Black people were overrepresented in police use-of-force incidents between 2018 and 2023.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Board is democratically elected. This seems completely related because the police threw a tantrum. The province has no right to require police be in school, especially with all the negatives that result from police in school as identified by many many sources. #bcpoli #bced
NEW - Education Minister Lisa Beare has fired the Greater Victoria school board trustees and announced an official trustee to School District No. 61 clearing the way for the completion and
implementation of a safety plan for the district. #bced #bcpoli
January 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Cybebullying may impact students, but it is not an education issue the same way physical bullying is. It is more of an issue about the inability of children to unplug and the fact that we allow cyberbullies(like certain politicians) to get away with it.
With cyberbullying on the rise, what can we do to support our students? Join me and Director of Technology Eva Harvell as we consider this and other critical questions. youtu.be/y4VVk638OUg
CYBERBULLYING in OUR SCHOOLS: How to Support Our Students with Director of Technology EVA HARVELL
YouTube video by Teachers On Fire
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December 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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With cyberbullying on the rise, what can we do to support our students? Join me and Director of Technology Eva Harvell as we consider this and other critical questions. youtu.be/y4VVk638OUg
CYBERBULLYING in OUR SCHOOLS: How to Support Our Students with Director of Technology EVA HARVELL
YouTube video by Teachers On Fire
youtu.be
December 22, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Ken Sim's idea that we should invest and develop a bitcoin reserve is insane. We should instead invest and build a reserve of Alpha and Beta Magic: The Gathering cards as they show considerably less market volatility.
December 9, 2024 at 7:33 PM
When Trudeau and Singh step down and let someone who isn't tainted by the last decade of failure come around.
When will Pierre Poilievre’s free ride with Canadians end as he cruises toward taking over the country with a large majority? Michael Harris writes. #cdnpoli
Poilievre’s Free Ride to Power Has to Stop | The Tyee
No more getting by with glib and shallow answers to these seven basic questions.
thetyee.ca
December 3, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Land is becoming an unfortunate point in conversations about education. BC's urban centres are so light in land facing the demand for housing, amenities, education, industrial, and commercial spaces. we need to up our urban planning game for the sake of cities and 20th century sprawl is not it.
December 2, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I know this is a student safety thing, but it could very easily be a teacher or staff having a cardiac event. there is no reason to not have an AED on a site with a good amount of people and it feels like this is a health and safety grievance waiting to happen.
November 28, 2024 at 7:03 PM
all the talk of dystopian novels, usually around 1984, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale, seem to ignore what is evidently becoming the most prophetic of all 20th century dystopian in Vonnegut's Player Piano.
November 26, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Today we welcome another school into ours because the district decided that paying for an alt-ed space wasn’t a good use of funds. Alt-ed spaces are important and must be accessible. Districts and the ministry must do better to advocate for these spaces.
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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" #Neurodiverse people have long been unfairly accused of laziness or procrastination, but in reality they just have an atypical way of thinking — and it benefits both employees and the employer if neurodiversity can be accommodated." #Jobs #Employment

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November 22, 2024 at 4:45 PM
As a VSB graduate and Vancouver citizen this is sickening. Jennifer is an absolute gem of a human and it is shame that her reasonable ideas are being ignored. #savethevsb
Jenifer Reddy talking about VSB under ABC.
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November 21, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Jenifer Reddy talking about VSB under ABC.
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November 21, 2024 at 7:58 PM
It is the community of educators.
Besides, "the kids", the best part of teaching/education/school is ______________________________________ #edusky
November 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Besides, "the kids", the best part of teaching/education/school is ______________________________________ #edusky
November 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
1. Vonnegut
2. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
3. Douglas Adams
4. J.R.R Tolkien
5. Rick Riordan
1. Kurt Vonnegut
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. Chuck Palahniuk
4. Cormac McCarthy
5. Richard Wagamese
Douglas Adams
Kurt Vonnegut
Thomas King
David Sedaris
Gene Luen Yang
November 20, 2024 at 4:23 PM
I disagree with this take. Inclusive education makes too many assumptions about all students and the plan for inclusion needs to be individualised. There are students who simply cannot function without 1 on 1 support from EAs. The discourse on inclusion needs to change.
👥 A #student who is velcroed to a paraprofessional all day has not experienced inclusion. #LeadInclusion #Inclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #EduSky
November 20, 2024 at 2:09 AM
There's an interesting post on reddit(grain of salt) about people losing jobs to AI. It makes us wonder if we are asking for the wrong type of regulations on AI. Maybe it isn't controls on what it can do, rather controls on how it is used that are needed.
November 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM