I'm not nostalgic for the '90s. In certain corporate sectors, that was when the Jack Welch mentality really took hold, with the notion that you had to make a hard choice between family life or your job.

Yeah. The last of us brought up by Depression-era parents are now seniors--and in some cases instead of becoming frugal, the impact has been overspending (side-eying my Silent Generation siblings, all who spend pretty wildly).

We've always lived tight, so...just preparing here.

And it's "sight words," not "site words." Phonics is essentially all about memorization.

Darlin, I taught middle school special ed for ten years. Phonics is not the end-all, be-all because guess what? It doesn't teach comprehension. I had students who could decode up a storm but couldn't tell you what it meant.
You need BOTH.

BUNNEH!!!

Husband picked up an amazing deal on turkey today...something wild like 35 cents a pound. Yeah. Time to stock up, if you can.

I’m currently in a situation where a class is over enrolled by a handful. But the sweet spot for this class is 15 so 20 was already a stretch. 25 is just a totally different kind of class, one that will be bad for student learning.

My experience is that 15 is a sweet spot. Maybe lower in classes that require more differentiation. For many schools, 15 would require having at least one more entire school, b/c caps are 30. But there are classes with even more than 30.

Smaller classes *behave* differently, like organisms. A class of 6 is a different organism than 15 or 30 or 100 or 300. But in classes under 20 it’s easier to create safety, get kids to focus, and create community. But we wouldn’t want that!

Right here. Three weeks ago.

He was on a friendly podcast, where the host was giving him a chance to boost his campaign, with no pushback. And he chose to lead off with "I'm not racist, I just genuinely want to know why Black people never tip."

Three weeks ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMnc...

W.T.F.

so got dumped when they realized after one semester that this was just not gonna work. Needed more time than they were willing to pay me.

Oh ghod yes. My impression of edtech (I taught online for two years using Edgenuity several years before the pandemic) has never been the best. It started falling apart when the district got the so-called brilliant idea to make all freshman Health classes online. I was a long-term sub,

Yeah. We're still somewhat cruising on the husband's travel accounts points status, plus dedicated credit card bonus nights.

Nope.

and small town schools, but it's also a factor in urban schools as well.

he even started. The other lasted one and a half years, and had a retiree fill in the rest of the year (she was excellent! like the other fill-in!). And the fourth one--left after two years (I was only there for one of those years).

And community resource...you see it most prominently in rural

over the course of ten years and eight principals. Four of those eight actively worked at making kids, families, and teachers feel safe and welcome at school. The other four? Well. One didn't last the school year. His predecessor filled in the rest of the year. One got fired for misconduct before

Exactly. I reskeeted this with the comment that an oldtimer at the school I taught at said he could predict problems with an upcoming cohort based on one simple number...the student/teacher ratio in kindergarten.

I personally saw how making kids and families feel safe/welcome at school mattered