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Middle school US history teacher, lover of public schools, proud union member, expert in Real Housewives and the extended 90 Day Universe and also I do like some other stuff I just don’t talk about it as much.
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Today after the kids left, me and a bunch of colleagues gathered in the media center to read books with LGBTQ representation and eat cupcakes and talk about how much we love libraries and reading and share ideas of books we’re going to read for the summer Rainbow Book Club and it was a delight.

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GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

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The end of the school year is always weird and filled with a wide range of emotions, but a kid gave me a drawing of all the red headed cartoon characters and its stuff like that that reminds me that at least maybe I did a little something right so I probably should come back next year.

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1. Tech companies push AI into everything with no guardrails. 2. Schools decide they have to “get ahead” and give students the AI access and force everyone to use it. 3. Everyone cheats and no one can define cheating anymore. 4. Educators are told to be more engaging so students won’t cheat. 🤔

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I need more StoryGraph friends.

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Really excited to start our summer Rainbow book club today (even though we aren’t out of school yet 😩) because it combines all of my favorite things- reading, non-physical competition, and libraries!

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I was just thinking about AI & how I'd describe one of my objections as, "I don't want to outsource my thinking to anyone, even if my thinking is often very stressful," and I think I also inadvertently summed up a large part of my personality.

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Am I the only one who thinks it’s hilarious (not funny haha but funny in the everything is absurd and every day feels insane way) that the Warped Tour is *also* happening in DC today?

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Would have been embarrassed if I didn’t get that blue connections category immediately.

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She deserves so much better than to be scapegoated and disrespected by people who literally don’t understand what the Library of Congress is.

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“Ms. What kind of white are you?” “I’m Jewish.” “But isn’t that your religion?” (Proceeds to explain the concept of ethnoreligion and how it’s my ethnicity and my religion) “Woah. I learned something new today!” Glad I could still teach someone something on the 9 millionth day of school!

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AI is bad and it’s wrong and it lies and I cannot wrap my head around all of these schools and educational institutions deciding they have to train students to use something that absolutely no one has decided a purpose for or value of yet. Like actually what are we doing?

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One fun thing about being a teacher is telling the kids that you’re significantly older than you actually are and then they shower you with compliments. You’re right, I do look *amazing* for 60!

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I don’t know what Pluto is but it appears to have a dedicated Beverly Hills 90210 channel?

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I can’t stop watching David Byrne and Olivia Rodrigo, they’re so freaking cute together.

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Volunteering at the tie dye booth at Pride today. A little rain won’t stop us!

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While we’re bringing back Rachel Zoe, can someone find Tabitha?

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They left off the last part: parents and students decide to cut out the middle man, get their “education” from chatbots, and universities collapse.

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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."

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“This finding suggests that LLMs are learning from the data they are trained on, which includes a history of racial disparities in mortgage lending, and potentially incorporating triggers for racial bias from other contexts,”

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I need everyone to stop making Real Housewives of DC jokes because first that it is some housewives history erasure and second it is messing up my actual housewives feed.

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I’m watching this week’s Top Chef and I have a question. Why is it always the Olympics?

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One way to get me to turn off your podcast real fast is to proudly announce that the next part was done with ai. I’m good, that’s not what I’m listening to a podcast for.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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I guess a lot happened today but I was really busy at work and can’t/don’t want to catch up, but I will say Go O’s! Another win!!!!!

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Feeling like a literal rockstar after taking my middle schoolers to see the high school. So many hugs from former students, it’s so nice to see them thriving ❤️

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Um whoever put Elmo on Trackstar is a genius that was adorable.

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