Mark Ureel
@thereelteacher.bsky.social
Middle School Social Studies Teacher
Builder of educational experiences
Following other educators
Learning more about education
Trying to be a better educator
#BeTheReason
Builder of educational experiences
Following other educators
Learning more about education
Trying to be a better educator
#BeTheReason
After reading an article on public education, I was curious where Oklahoma stood—and that led me down a rabbit hole into the bottom 20 rankings. Fascinating pattern: does anyone notice what nearly 90% of these states have in common?
www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...
www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...
July 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
After reading an article on public education, I was curious where Oklahoma stood—and that led me down a rabbit hole into the bottom 20 rankings. Fascinating pattern: does anyone notice what nearly 90% of these states have in common?
www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...
www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...
Of all forms of tyranny, the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Theodore Roosevelt
March 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Of all forms of tyranny, the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Theodore Roosevelt
Proverbs 14:31: "Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."
March 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Proverbs 14:31: "Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God."
"The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition."
-Theodore Roosevelt
From The Big Stick
-Theodore Roosevelt
From The Big Stick
March 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition."
-Theodore Roosevelt
From The Big Stick
-Theodore Roosevelt
From The Big Stick
James 1:27: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
March 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
James 1:27: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
Isaiah 1:17: "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
March 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Isaiah 1:17: "Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
March 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
So yeah, I'm a little skeptical of businessmen running our federal government and making cuts to services our tax money pays for without our consent. #Michigan
February 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
So yeah, I'm a little skeptical of businessmen running our federal government and making cuts to services our tax money pays for without our consent. #Michigan
I wish to make the rich man feel that I am not in the least against him because he is rich; that all I am striving to do is to protect him while he handles his wealth aright, and merely to prevent his using that wealth for sinister purposes.
Theodore Roosevelt
January 3, 1908
Theodore Roosevelt
January 3, 1908
February 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I wish to make the rich man feel that I am not in the least against him because he is rich; that all I am striving to do is to protect him while he handles his wealth aright, and merely to prevent his using that wealth for sinister purposes.
Theodore Roosevelt
January 3, 1908
Theodore Roosevelt
January 3, 1908
Whenever there is tyranny by the majority, I shall certainly fight it. But the tyrannies from which we have been suffering in this country have, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, been tyrannies by a minority; that is, tyranny by privilege.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
February 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Whenever there is tyranny by the majority, I shall certainly fight it. But the tyrannies from which we have been suffering in this country have, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, been tyrannies by a minority; that is, tyranny by privilege.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Google hasn't recognized it yet, so it's not true. 😁
January 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Google hasn't recognized it yet, so it's not true. 😁
I blame Ted Lasso for all our problems.
January 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I blame Ted Lasso for all our problems.
Google Maps is full of lies!
January 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Google Maps is full of lies!
Why do people get more upset at the increase of minimum wage than the increase of wealth by billionaires?
January 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Why do people get more upset at the increase of minimum wage than the increase of wealth by billionaires?
Today's: "Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
Why isn't the public aware that the curriculum in each grade level is now taught one or two years earlier than it used to be?
Why isn't the public aware that the curriculum in each grade level is now taught one or two years earlier than it used to be?
January 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Today's: "Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
Why isn't the public aware that the curriculum in each grade level is now taught one or two years earlier than it used to be?
Why isn't the public aware that the curriculum in each grade level is now taught one or two years earlier than it used to be?
Today's:
"Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
If it's proven that students learn better in smaller classes, why do we keep filling classrooms to capacity and then wonder why our results haven't improved?
"Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
If it's proven that students learn better in smaller classes, why do we keep filling classrooms to capacity and then wonder why our results haven't improved?
December 21, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Today's:
"Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
If it's proven that students learn better in smaller classes, why do we keep filling classrooms to capacity and then wonder why our results haven't improved?
"Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
If it's proven that students learn better in smaller classes, why do we keep filling classrooms to capacity and then wonder why our results haven't improved?
Today's "Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
December 20, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Today's "Things that I don't understand in the field of education."
Things that I don't understand in the field of education.
December 18, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Things that I don't understand in the field of education.
