nerd teacher / capriciously nerdy

From personal experience: Don't fucking out kids to their parents. They know better than you about what will happen.https://twitter.com/LastBehaviorist/status/1431962937413881860 …

Here's another thing: Did you *even try to organise* to fix anything? Did you try to work with your community, your students, their families, your colleagues to actually build something functional? No? Why?

Did you do anything to create learning spaces or did you try to shift "offline school" into "online space?" Because guess what. You can't do that. I know your school doesn't want to put work into doing more because "it's temporary," but you can't do that.

The fact is: Most poor families (especially poor families of colour) *value education*. Do their values match yours, oh learn-ed colleague? Sometimes not, no. Sometimes yes. But fuck, even *my* values of education don't match yours.

"Because of remote schooling, kids are coming in who can't read." "This is the parents' fault. If only they'd value education more." "Remote learning doesn't help anyone." Give me a fucking break. You're all looking for fucking excuses.

I always make the mistake of reading more. And honestly, I'm really tired of many other teachers. Full offense, but so many of you are beyond exhausting in your lack of creativity and your adherence to documentation that is largely irrelevant. Why? For what purpose?

If only buses existed. If only we stopped creating transportation that assumes cars are central and decided to focus on human beings. If only non-disabled people would stop building inherent ableism into everything and actually recognise that disabled people exist. If only...https://twitter.com/Jackstilgoe/status/1431510104428453897 …

Like, I get *why* and *how* this happens, but it's such a shame because some authors (see QT'd for an example) are so good at writing for different age groups. Which is such an immense skill. It also just feels like a failure on other avenues to do 'branding'? Genuinely curious.https://twitter.com/sharpegirl/status/1432037523140710402 …

I do disagree that "schools need to stick around forever," though. We can definitely find a much better solution to what schools currently are (one example could be utilising libraries in an extended form!). But overwhelmingly, we need more organising in those spaces.

Which is good! I want to hear more people promoting organisation (not just labour organising but *all* organising). I just find it amusing.

And lest someone thinks I'm making it up about the Red-Brown alliance, it was found that our "openly Marxist" MP in the Social Democrat party is basically working with the literal neo-Nazi party.https://twitter.com/whatanerd/status/1429827716170276867 …

I often feel this way, too. The "Facebook is Infrastructure" really hits home because most reporting in Slovakia refers to it as "the social media platform." For better or worse, a lot of news and information (and purchased anti-vax ads by a literal Red-Brown alliance) is there.https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1431968873541251073 …

You know what students and families (and teachers) don't want to read? A fucking book on a one-term course.

Love reading through curriculum that includes the phrase "various contexts and for different audiences" only to then immediately follow it with pages upon pages of those contexts and audiences. Just... we were fine with the former. We don't need to cover every single thing.