Dear Life: WTF, Shooting Teachers as PD, Children are Trying to Save the Planet, Intelligence: Not a Plus for Presidential Candidates
WTF! Some days are like that.
DEAR LIFE: WTF
A lifelong teacher
Everyone who knows me or reads this blog knows by now that our BFD of NEIFPE, Phyllis Bush, passed away last week. Last year Phyllis gave me a tee shirt that said, "DEAR LIFE: WTF."
I agree. The children of Indiana have lost a champion in the fight to save public education.
You can read some of the many tributes to Phyllis HERE.
“Whether it is taking a kid to the zoo or to Zesto for ice cream, whether it is writing a letter to your legislators, whether it is running for office, whether it is supporting your favorite charity, DO IT! Monday morning quarterbacks are of little use to anyone. Whatever you do, live your life to the fullest. Do what matters to you.”
Godspeed, Phyllis. You were a teacher. You did what matters.
SHOOTING TEACHERS AS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: WTF
Teachers were ‘shot’ with fake bullets ‘execution style’ during active shooter training, ISTA says
There aren't enough WTF's for this news. The idea that teachers need to "learn" how terrifying it is to be in an active shooter situation is just WTF insane.
The problem is not that teachers (and students) don't know how to react in an "active shooter" situation...the problem is that there are too many f#%@ing weapons in the hands of lunatics.
During active shooter training, some Indiana teachers were “shot execution style” with “projectiles” that caused welts and blood, according to the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA).
The ISTA addressed their concerns about these drills in a series of tweets on Wednesday as members of the association testified in front of the Senate Education Committee.
“The teachers were terrified but were told not to tell anyone what happened. Teachers waiting outside that heard the screaming were brought into the room four at a time, and the shooting process was repeated,” the ISTA said.
Teachers Union: No Teacher Should Be Shot at As Part of Training
This comment should not have to be said...WTF is wrong with people?
"Our view is that no teacher, no educator should be put in a small room and shot at as part of a training process for active shooter training," said Dan Holub, executive director of the ISTA, talking to WISH-TV.
THE CURRENT WORLDWIDE EXTINCTION: WTF
Let the children strike as a lesson to all who live on this planet
Instead of ignoring nearly all the scientists in the world and continuing to do damage to the only home in the universe humans can inhabit, one would think that an entire species of intelligent beings would understand that fouling your own home is simply stupid.
The children who marched last week -- all over the world -- trying to get the adults in their lives to pay attention are the ones who are going to have to pay the price.
...young people enjoy similar rights and freedoms as we all do. Therefore, we should listen to children carefully when they speak to us about their lives. In fact, increased depression and anxiety that have led to dramatic erosion of children’s mental health and well-being around the world is, at least partly, due to their worries about the state of our planet. Active citizenship means having a voice about things that affect their lives.
Trump once again requests deep cuts in U.S. science spending
WTF!
At the Environmental Protection Agency, the administration is again proposing to take an ax to climate and research programs. Overall, the agency’s budget would shrink by nearly one-third, from about $8.8 billion to $6.1 billion. Its science and technology programs would be funded at about $440 million, nearly 40% below the current level of $718 million. The budget line for air and energy research, which includes climate change science, would drop by more than $60 million, from about $95 million to $32 million. Congress has repeatedly rejected such proposed cuts.
FYI
The Constitution of the United States
Article. I. Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts...
ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN ACTION
Pete Buttigieg is smart, but if you like him you won’t dwell on it
Ok...so when there is someone who is intelligent we need to pretend that he's not so smart because intelligence will lose him votes! WTF!
...I cringed a bit when I saw a tweet making the rounds talking about how he’d learned Norwegian to read more books by a Norwegian author for whom he could not find translations. I mean, that’s obviously very impressive, but talking about how smart he is doesn’t do him any political favors.
In a blog post about him I wrote about nine years ago when he was running for Treasurer, I mentioned, “we have an anti-intellectual streak a mile wide in this country where we want politicians to go with their gut and not any silly book-learnin’.”
...I suppose it’s some sort of progress that I think his educational achievements are likely to cost him more votes than the fact that he’s gay.
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