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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 6h

I have been looking for a Reading Rainbow and Mr Roger’s shirt for years and would rather the money go to a good cause than some printer in China.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 6h

What about teachers?

Everyone seems to have an opinion on education but no one ever talks to us.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 9h

I feel so fortunate to live in teach in Minnesota.

For my teacher friends and parents of kids with disabilities in Red states I’m so sorry our government is making your lives more difficult.

lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 1d

Same with K-12 education. We hear about the failing of our education system from politicians but we never hear from educators.

Media should start interviewing teachers about what we need to make education better.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 1d

Raise marginal tax rates, capital gains tax rates, death tax rates, apply a wealth tax, and start taxing personal loans as income that wealthy people use to avoid taxes.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 1d

We need to reframe the way we look at STEM.

Science is under attack by the government.

Science education should be focused on teaching students how to think like a scientist, how scientists go about discovering new ideas, and the history of science including the sins in made in the past.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

Of what use are social studies, literature, civics, or any of the humanities curriculum in a system incentivized toward “job readiness”? Why does our Republican governor heap praise on STEM programs while banning those whose aims are DEI?

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 1d

This thread, but this skeet highlights one of the fights in education between teachers.

Grading practices are pushed by teachers to get students to "get them ready" for the workforce.

But our job as teachers should be to teach them critical thinking skills, empathy, and reasoning.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 2d

Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 2d

He’s still alive and doing public events?

Amazing how sexual harassment charges never cancel these people.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 3d

Is it the same guy that gave him the health advice to inject bleach to kill COVID?

lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 3d

They have to be showing him AI videos.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 3d

It's like Jesus said, "I will only save this person that looks like me. And after they are healed, they will pay me for services rendered."

lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 3d

Molecular Cages would be a great metal band.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 4d

Ok. But he once wore a tan suit and ate a burger with Grey Poupon.

Will you not think of the children that had to see this?

The horror.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 5d

Can't be any worse than the one we are already in.

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OBrienSci @obriensci.bsky.social · 5d

Friday afternoon email: Please review our procedures. ICE is targeting children.

Monday morning email: We have a social media threat to the shoot up the school. We're investigating. Please continue as normal.

WTFFFF is normal??

How do I give my kids a summative today? This is not okay.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 6d

The next Democratic presidential candidate needs to run on a 20% wealth tax.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 6d

Kids today are so bad at math.

lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 6d

The optics and contrast of his view of an American Pope with the Cristian National views on immigration shouldn’t be forgotten.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 8d

Really excited for the Supreme Court to end it on the shadow docket.

lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 9d

Can these comics that idolize Carlin go back and watch his interviews about how they should be punching up, not down?

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 9d

This is what it has always been and it works on the mindless racist MAGA every time.

A white billionaire with a plate of cookies trying to convince a white construction worker with one cookie that a brown skinned foreigner wants his cookie.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 9d

I did the same to ever Chad that wore google glasses back in the day.

Will do the same with these.

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lesterryan.bsky.social @lesterryan.bsky.social · 10d

Then blue states should stop sending money to the federal government to bail out red states.