Not pro bono - paid by the ACLU, with costs factored into settlements.

Rights are only as good as the people enforcing them.

As the saying goes, regulations are written in blood. The anti-regulation Republican agenda just made more ink.

@etfoeducators.bsky.social We need to start making this a contract issue. Three-way splits should either be banned, or come with a significant salary top up, or some combination of the two - limited numbers of them are allowed but the teacher gets paid more or must have an EA.

For the teacher, a split grade class is about 1.5x the work of a straight grade class, but that fluctuates based on the actual kids in front of you. I have kids this year ranging from learning alphabet and numbers to ten, right up to fluently reading early chapter books.

So, yes, my small group reading lessons involve kids from both grades 1&2 based on needs, not grade. But I still have to divide them up by grade for those content-area subjects, and I still have to be aware of the differences in expectations for grade two's because I have to report on them.

Everything he said about meeting the needs of diverse learners is true, but here's the catch: the Ontario curriculum requires that specific topics be covered in specific grades regardless of the students' academic level. That means triple the social studies, science, and health expectations.

We're way past the point where impeachment can be accomplished, if it ever could. He's got a Gestapo now.

The doctors who perform the riskiest surgeries and take on the most complex patients are going to have the most negative outcomes too, not because they're bad at their jobs but because their patients were in really bad shape to begin with.

You don't get good performance out of people whose pay is tied to performance. What you get is risk avoidance, where the worker refuses to take on tasks where they aren't certain of success. In medicine and teaching, those tasks are people with problems that require specialists.

Maybe the Nazis should stop doing fascist things like having masked officers kidnapping people off the street?

Your mistake is in thinking it has to be legal for them to do it. Legality only matters if it can be enforced.

I would say that I was missing something, but I'm not. This didn't make sense and there's no way to make it make sense because fascism is inherently nonsensical to rational people.

It's still their mantra for everybody else.

You know he actually said that, right? This is a direct quote.