Teaching what has become one of my favorite lectures to teach on Urban Demography... every time I teach it, something hits me a little differently... moves me to stress something in class a little differently.
Hopefully my students are equally moved💯
It is really wild (and sad) how testing has drastically reduced the teaching of writing in schools.
Testing has done such damage to education… and for what? To what helpful end? What students benefitted from two decades of endless testing?
@EgorKotkin
@FilmThePoliceLA
When you’re in someone else’s land, respect their customs and way of life.
For most people, it’s not that difficult.
It’s called: not being an asshole.
@Malcolm5XL
In all my years of teaching, I’ve NE-VER saw a student, Black or Latino bullied for being smart. ACTUALLY other kids respected them similar to they way folks did star athletes. Bottom line, our kids respect excellence no matter how it’s exemplified…that other 💩 is a myth💯
@flotisserie
This thread shows that some people have NO earthly idea of what being poor is or what it feels like. Like NONE.
The other drawback is that few lawmakers have that point of reference either, all but assuring not much will ever change for folks at the economic margins.
NOTHING makes a teacher feel as good as seeing a former student they battled with daily, and invested heavily in, doing well for themselves.
Had that blessing this morning and I am thankful🙏🏾💯
@prinsus4eva
@MoniseLSeward
... and that it is my mission to do everything in my power to out-live her so that I can make good on my commitment to her.
She believes me. And that makes me all the more determined to never leave her lonely, or feeling alone. 💯💯
@shomaristone
Worrrrrrrrd?
Why every time Trump has some explaining to do, something happens to take the focus away.
Yall not noting the pattern?
@realDonaldTrump
is flying Epstein airlines… noteworthy right??
@TamanishaJohn
@davenewworld_2
I’ve always said: How do we know the crabs in the bucket are not holding on to the other crab as an effort to protect that crab from being victimized?
Why do we automatically assume or correlate ill will?
@prinsus4eva
@MoniseLSeward
Lemme add to it: my wife has been a blessing to me in everyway. She’s taught me love...showed me that I am, enough...the self-confidence and self-esteem she’s given me is the first time I’ve ever felt that I am sufficient, all while battling her own inner struggles...
@BrettPransky
@Grtseeker
Unmentioned in the article:
The KILLER was White
The VICTIM was Black
Also Unmentioned:
Stand Your Ground does not apply to Black ppl as evidenced by the Black Woman who shot a gun IN HER HOUSE wounding no one, bc of an abusive husband... sent away for YEARS💯🤔🤔
@vanillaopinions
Apparently you didn’t know Mitch McConnell would have held that spot vacant just like he did when Scalia died.
Rules and norms mean nothing to “conservatives”.
The only thing they care about is maximizing and concentrating power… so here we are.
@prinsus4eva
@MoniseLSeward
Literally, sometimes I think about how much I love her, how blessed I am the Lord placed her in my life,and my eyes water. 💯
I told her the other day,that as long as she is alive, she will never be lonely. She’ll never have to worry about someone being there to take care of her
@EgorKotkin
@MotorHome_Music
@FilmThePoliceLA
Their reasons, whatever they are, need to be respected. Funny how certain people have a hard time recognizing that very simple concept.
Which… incidentally, is why that guy got whacked with the stick. He learned a lesson that day.
@WonderKing82
Brother, you’re from NYC… you know Florida (Cubans) are faaaaar far different from Latinos up here.
They’ve always voted for Republicans and aren’t representative of “Latinos” at all.
THEY are the outliers.
@davenewworld_2
Why are police trained to protect property (which is already insured) over the lives of human beings so much?
I suppose this kinda stuff makes perfect sense to the
#BlueLivesMatter
crowd.
@VoiceOfOurAnces
💯🎯
Crazy thing is, for as much traction as it get on here, I’ve never met a black person in real life who calls themselves a member or adherent of ADOS or FBA.
So either these things are regional and we up here are outta the loop,OR its a Twitter/Social Media generated thing.
@Rules23Jordan
@chicagobulls
@Jumpman23
I HATED Jordan back then cuz he kept beating teams I wanted to win.
But while I was hatin, Jordan can doing stuff like that and I had to relent and just marvel at his greatness.
ANYONE who says there’s been a basketball player is a liar.
He is, the ONE
#GOAT
@Imposter_Edits
I just can’t seem to point my finger on why ALOT of people don’t seem to like police that much these days.
I can’t seem to figure it out.
The digital divide is real. 😢Just came through... our kids man. Lets figure this out💯 For some folks pontificating out here, this topic is simply an abstract notion. Some kids are living this RIGHT NOW IN REAL LIFE. (NEWSFLASH: These kids have perserving LONG before COVID19)
@JustinTarnation
This would NEVER happen amongst my crew of homies. Never.
From the time we were young kids, we all split whatever we had: food, money, clothes… That was like a friendship commandment.
This is weird and corny.
@DerekWBlack
@RealRannMiller
Stuff like that, is precisely why I wrote this…There is a better way to protect schools and students WITHOUT POLICE IN OUR SCHOOLS.
@CamdenSchoolsNJ
is keeping schools safe w/o cops and has been for a long while. Police Oppression in schools is a choice and wholly unacceptable.
@zellieimani
These aren’t isolated occurrences. These aren’t “bad apples” the police THEMSELVES and as institution ARE THE PROBLEM.
Say it with me: 🗣the POLICE ARE THE PROBLEM,especially if your a person of color in an urban environment.
In 38 years,I NEVER remember calling the cops
@KevOnStage
@MeWeFree_
Actually, my wife always walked in front of me. Why? Bc I’m taller and wanted to be able to see potential danger and know where my wife was in relation to it. And I always carried my daughter bc I viewed it my responsibility to hold my lil baby cuz she was heavy❤️☺️n I love her.
@MelechThomas
🫡
Who you vote for tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about your values.
And certainly your values tells me EVERYTHING I need to know pertaining to whether or not I would want to, or would ever, "hang out" with you.
So if you would vote for Trump, "fuck you", sincerely.
School “choice” has to be the biggest myth in public education since “standardized testing” and the “Bell Curve”.
The sad part is, all of those myths yielded REAL and ACTUAL consequences as they were believed so readily. 🧵
@mindofbillcia
@ChuckModi1
Bc its a protest. Protests MUST be disruptive to normalcy. Protests in a field would simply be a gathering of like-minded individuals.
I am convinced that anyone who discusses student “outcomes” divorced of familial economics is a charlatan.
The districts that struggle the most in academic outcomes are the poorest. The places that do the best in outcomes, are the most affluent.
@jemelehill
I hate when our kids are used as props as
@GovChristie
did here.
Told my students what it was gonna be… sad thing is they told me they were forced to attend when I saw them next day in class.
@_SJPeace_
Balsonaro said he would tear down the Amazon and here we are.
Right wing leaders are all 💩💩
Capitalists are also 💩💩
Who care about nothing aside from consolidating power and corporate profits...they ALL are the scourge of the planet.
@CommunityMvt
… the twin legacies of Black people being denied access to homeownership and fair employment for GENERATIONS.
Has NOTHING to do with irresponsible spending…an aversion to education…an unwillingness to work - but everything to do with racism and white supremacy via policy.
@samswey
Plenty of research spells this out
AND the more policies benefit Black ppl, EVEN IF THE SAME POLICIES BENEFIT WHITE PPL, the more white ppl will begin to demonize those policies.
Student Aid Forgiveness
Lower Health Care Costs
Affordable Housing
Expanded SNAP benefits…
@Will_Bunch
But the “public good” was never understood to include our entire constituency to comprise “the public”.
As long as the “public good” embodied whiteness, things were all good. But as the public began to get more diverse post 1965, the critique around “big govt” emerges.
Crazy thing happened today (to me ay least):a professor reached out and explained that she’s finishing up my book and said she’d be assigning it to her class next semester (Sp22) 🤯and asked if I’d come talk to her class about it.
(Some of yall are used to it)
Me: Hell Yeah!😁
@msolurin
@BenjaminPDixon
The person who is commited to seeing
@NYCMayor
be a one term mayor is
@NYCMayor
.
His policies and his viewpoints SUCK💯 But he appeals to the city’s rich and pro-police white base, and so he likely thinks he’s doing a helluva job.
He’s not. Eric Adams is awful.
@davenewworld_2
He was in a documentary Bigorexia… those are injections that have since needed to be removed or he risked having his arms amputated or death.
@TendentiousG
🎯
Alls he kept saying:
“Im a Black man from the South…”
Like, Bro, WTF that have to do with anything? Clown behavior is clown behavior no matter where we reside.
@infamousbxdon
But to answer the question, which ever one is nicer and kinder who likes me for me.
Bunch of lonely, bitter dudes on these threads it seems🤦🏾♂️
@ericabuddington
@RobertCottoJr
Crazy thing is ppl STILL refuse to see the connection between the image we’re looking at of “Harlem” and the dismantling of public schools there...
@Imposter_Edits
This is why districts need to check out how
@CamdenSchoolsNJ
handles security. ALL district employees. ALL are from Camden or attended city schools. Mirrors or students demographically.
Avg. length of service is 20years.
NONE of these incidents.
Keep cops away from kids💯
@Sunnytwotethat
🙋🏾♂️
Talked to a fellow Black man (in his 50s) at the gym about it…he was like: “Damn man, that was crazy. Me and you woulda been put under the jail that night”… then we just sat there just looking off before him saying “Damn” one more time and walking off.
Damn.
@PastorDScott
I’d have to fight my own self to prevent me from throwing that MLK proclamation that demon signed and throwing it across the room. But some of our skin folks just looooooooove being in the presence of ppl who disrespect us
@AnnieWaldman
@schwartzapfel
@erinleinhorn
Many of us thought slavery was done and over with… a relic of a darker time.
Wrong. We have slavery just different packaging and tucked away out of public view… and again, laws to maintain it to protect its image of legitimacy.
@feliciasonmez
Who cares? He travels to the lil ass outposts where nothing’s going on and all the townspeople show up.
@realDonaldTrump
is a traveling carnival - which is why his base of support will ALWAYS stick by him, but also never grow.
#Kamala4President2024
@PatriotJ
@RichardStrocher
Life must be bad for you homie.
His “Niggas 4 Trump” shirt is referring to YOU. To him, YOU are “Niggas”. That white man is calling you the N word, and you’re thanking him.
Clowning you really wouldn’t mean anything at all at this point.
@Imposter_Edits
Guys that worry about threats to “masculinity” are exposing their own sense of insecurity and feelings of inadequacy… telling on themselves.
@brianschatz
@Grtseeker
This is called KIDNAPPING! Kidnapping is a crime against humanity..But bc demon
@realDonaldTrump
gave assent to his policy it becomes “legal” for
@CBP
and
@ICEgov
@SecNielsen
to kidnap minors?
What are laws really worth if this shit can “legally” continue?And ppl go unpunished?
Thank you so much
@NJEA
for this honor!💯
My heart is truly filled and overjoyed to accept this honor. Im super thankful for our
@CamdenEANJ
and the
@CamdenSchools
we serve. This is truly a blessing and one I will never forget and will remember for as long as I live.
A word RE: the “shortage of bus drivers”
🗣PAY THEM MORE! TREAT THEM BETTER! PROVIDE MORE BENEFITS!
… and viola, “shortage problem” solved.
Sincerely,
Your Friendly Socialist Teacher Union President🙋🏾♂️🙋🏾♂️
@thurgoodhamer
🗣Taking issue with the actions done by the Israeli government has nothing to do with disliking Jewish people…is something many of us know.
But the continued nonsense conflation is also nonsense.
I HATE what that government is doing (and has done) to Palestinian people.
@haynwow
@Carolinas_94
See how the dude the fought him dusted him off and helped him up at the end💯
As a kid I remember see people battle it out in a fair one … and then stop shake hands, and go right back to doing what they were doing with no lingering problems at all.
@shaneyyricch
By the left you mean, prosecutors? Using the “rule of law”? In efforts to restore “law and order”… so there is an “equal standard of justice under the law”?
That’s what you mean by “the Left”?
Just Checking: Has there EVER been a school considered “failing” (and needing closure or takeover) in a community that has NOT been divested from for generations?
(🗣It’s not the schools!... a reality Ed Reformers will NEVER tackle which why MOST are full of shit💯)
@Simply_Shamaria
This post was nonsense… and supremely counterproductive.
No one looks good with this… one party looks far worse - and it aint the parent.
@claycane
Hate the fact that these dudes
@KillerMike
@cthagod
are platformed when there are ppl who’ve dedicated their professional lives to understanding these issues inside and out and more than willing to break it down for folks.
But NO platform a rapper and radio personality instead🤨