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Pretty mind boggling from here too. We appreciate the support.

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🧵/5 significant areas for growth and development in US voters, members of the current US administration, congress, and USSJC. 👍👩‍🎓

🧵/4 flexible thinking. The ability to question oneself and others, to change one's perspective when new information is available, and to integrate varying perspectives into one's world view are critical skills to all members of a functioning democratic society. These capacities appear to be in 👇

🧵/3 viewpoints, projects, debate, reflection, group work, or many other valuable avenues to learning. When children are taught to retain and regurgitate "facts" without reflection, debate, or questioning, they are robbed of opportunities to develop independence, critical thinking skills and 👇

🧵/2 regurgitate facts for annual group standardized testing designed to evaluate the performance of schools and teachers rather than students thinking and learning. This created an education system in which teachers often delivered information without engaging students in discussion of differing, 👇