Once again, I am reminding you that fascists have their own rich traditions of literature, art, philosophy, and music. The Humanities are not an automatic good and are just as likely to harm as to help.
2. Gifted education is quite popular and progressives do themselves zero favors electorally when they go after it.
I suspect a lot if New Yorkers voted for Eric Adams because of his support for gifted education. This demomstrates 2 things:
1. Gifted education policy probably shouldn’t be the deciding factor in how you vote (Adams pretty much always had “disaster” tattooed on his forehead).
Every time I renew my teaching license, I feel a small burst of pride even though all I did was pay the Texas Education Agency 22 dollars.
Happy #NAEP Scores Discourse Day to all who celebrate.
Wherever you’re going, I hope they have damn fine coffee. #DavidLynch
Oh… wow.
I count myself as a fan of both Obama and Clinton, but #JimmyCarter was just built different. I truly believe that he was selfless and that we will probably never see his like again.
Posted with three heavy qualifiers:
1. I HAVE NOT seen Nosferatu yet.
2. I HAVE seen Wicked and have gone on many rants about how it is, in fact, not a good film.
3. Bolded means I watched it this week and heavy recency bias is at play.
Mother Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum and Mother Suspiriorum. Darkness, tears, and sighs.
This also means that I, fool that I am, must recreate my reaction to the current discourse that is a bizarro recreation of the original discourse. One imagines Sisyphus happy.
Well… it’s actually slightly different. The culture warriors who decamped here have their own unique flavor absent a moderating antithesis.
It’s literally the same discourse.
Just realized that joining Bluesky means that I will now have to rewade through all of the #gifted discourse I already waded through on twitter for a decade. I suppose the second time will be farce?
Cynically, part of me thinks that eliminating the Dept. of Ed and returning all that money to the states might actually help gifted ed.
A lot of people seem to think the Feds have a lot to say about gifted ed (they don’t).
The author lives in Evergreen, CO, where the median household income is ~150K. slate.com/life/2024/12...
What does the second Trump administration mean for #gifted education advocacy? Maybe not as much as you think. By Me. giftededucationfamilynetwork.org/2024/12/11/w...
Normally I’m fine with celebrating Christmas in schools….
Here is a list of films from this year that are objectively better than #Wicked.
Shakira… Shakira….
