Good Morning Thinkers - Straight up... Your feelings are not my issue or my concern. If you don't like what I have to say, read something else or listen to NPR. They will tell you things that you want to hear in soothing tones that will make your tender heart feel good. Or in plain terms - GFY.
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Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
Something to keep in mind when you're sitting in an indoctrination meeting.
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A colleague from another state told me that all of her classes are going to be videorecorded and archived for students to rerwatch or watch if they missed that class session. Think about that. This gives the community the opportunity to armchair quarterback every single thing that you do every single day. What kind of chilling effect does that have on how you interact with your students and present instruction? And what about student privacy? If students are required to have their names and images present in remote classes and teachers are calling on them, how does this preserve their anonymity?
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"I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things."
MY LARGER EDUCATION,
Being Chapters from My Experience:.
Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915.
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Some school districts are banning students from wearing pajamas to class during online instruction. First of all, this seems like bureaucratic overreach and makework, but that aside... Is it now a teacher's job to police student attire in an online environment? If so, what happens if a student shows up in PJs? Is it the teacher's responsibility to tell them to change? That's awkward. Or kick them out of class? What if they are a POC - that flies right in the face of the diversity training, doesn't it? And what if a student takes the teacher literally and changes clothes on camera? That causes an entirely different set of problems doesn't it? There is no good answer to this....
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"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar. you are only telling the world that you fear what he might say." Author Unknown.
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