Britta Love

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Thanks for your clarity on this. I'm getting so tired of this becoming the dogma across the spectrum. Yes there's intense special interest groups here determined to maintain the dynamic, but you just need a basic understanding of power dynamics to see what Israel is to the US imperialist project.

Perhaps the guests could include former enlisted military members pointing out the bullshit. Perhaps folks trapped in countries across the world because the State Dept cannot plan could be asked to call in... Perhaps Iranians who oppose the war could be featured...

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

I also came here assuming it was Goddard (RIP). Bless, if they only knew!

Gave me so much life today! Feels magickal like an omen for the era to come far beyond figure skating. ✨

The magic of a young woman who knows and trusts her self and does things for her self and her joy and pleasure. Felt blessed watching it, may her spell reach far and wide. ✨

Been thinking about "banality of evil" a lot too. Some of the more wild conspiracy stuff feels driven by folks not being able to sit with both how horrific it is that this was happening with impunity and at scale - and the fact that it isn't all that different from what's happening all around us.

Figure skating was so big for me but I also fell off for many many years. Came back to it this year for some reason and Alyssa Liu is giving me life! Her story (controlling dad, retiring at 16- then coming back for the joy of it, doing it entirely her way) and the magic that comes through now... <3

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Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

As for odd, Goddard was an odd place but it taught me a lot and gave me the ability to envision different ways parents and communities could support learning. I understand that public education is under attack but I don't think that responding this way to people exploring alternatives is the way.

I re-shared part of what I said in a different part of the thread to clarify my perspective here too. I'm really sorry that you're walking away with the idea that I'm trying to diminish teachers - although it seems like that was your chip on your shoulder from the first exchange.

I feel similarly around how we learn to work alongside and outside of allopathic medicine, governance, and more. When systems are failing due to structural issues, there's got to be moves from both within the systems and outside of them simultaneously.

To be clear I want teachers to be well‑paid, unionized, and valued—and I also want the role of ‘who counts as an educator’ expanded so communities can build their own democratic schools, including home‑ and community‑based models. I think they can co-exist, I really do.

I’m not arguing that teaching isn’t skilled labor; I’m arguing that the skill is democratic facilitation, care work, and co‑learning, which doesn’t have to only live inside institutions.

We're working from completely different places here. My pedagogy comes from democratic schooling, where the process of learning is understood as something everyone participates in.

Yes please and @andreapitzer.bsky.social would be an excellent person for @jaketapper.bsky.social to interview on this one.

My pedagogy comes from democratic schooling, where learning is understood as something everyone participates in. I’m not arguing that teaching isn’t skilled labor; I’m arguing that the skill is democratic facilitation, care work, and co‑learning, which doesn’t have to only live inside institutions.

To be clear I want teachers to be well‑paid, unionized, and powerful—and I also want the role of ‘who counts as an educator’ expanded so communities can build their own democratic schools, including home‑ and community‑based models. I think they can co-exist, I really do.

My pedagogy comes from democratic schooling, where learning is understood as something everyone participates in. I’m not arguing that teaching isn’t skilled labor; I’m arguing that the skill is democratic facilitation, care work, and co‑learning, which doesn’t have to only live inside institutions.

I'm for de-professionalizing many professions. It's not a devaluing of the skills of educators it's building a culture where these skills are valued so much that they are honed and become more common in communities building alternative structures of support.

Oh please please please we need this

..system and what we learn in experiments outside of it. I think that is the case for so many things, for example with abolition, governance, health... I think the current systems are collapsing and whatever emerges next will be a mix of what we preserve from before and what we build outside of it.

I mean I think society is bifurcating in such a way that I'm not going to make decisions based on the potential of validating people who are doing what they're doing anyway and at scale. I think there has to be a symbiotic relationship between what changes we try to create from within the existing..

And the reason I haven't had a kid yet is I haven't been sure I'd have the right supports in place (community) for that - and won't if I don't find it. But it's just very deep in me.

The thing is, after going to do a degree at a democratic school, and knowing in my body what learning/education should feel like... I just can't in good conscience create a whole new being and tell them the best I can do is 13 years in our local school made to prepare them for a factory line.

My number one choice would be sending my kid to a democratic school. If there was one close enough to me I'd do it in a heartbeat.

It's not, that's true. But there's a real somatics/shaping of a body in an institution like that so many hours every day. The rigidity of that structure, I feel like it's shaped me for life, personally. And can be a form of trauma in itself that's normalized.