notdavejohnson.bsky.social
Father. Educator. Maker of Things. Michigan Council for the Social Studies Past President. Viewpoints are my own.
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I agree :-). It’s actually a different department’s director but it was an interesting friend request to see.
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I now pledge to offer them all the help I can in return. The lesson here for all of us is we’re better together - so don’t forget that. (4/4)
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That said, while our org doesn’t rely on federal dollars for funding, the one in ? Does, and it is one of two that helped us in 2015 when we were on the brink of dissolution. I make sure all debts I incur are repaid, and as I asked for help all those years ago, (3/
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They received notification from Apartheid Clyde’s DOGE that their funding was cut immediately, including promised funds that had been allocated but not paid yet. Apparently civic education doesn’t fit the new administrations guidelines. That said (2/. That said…. (2/
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Our sponsors are going to be going through the same things as we are going forward and if we can help them as they’ve helped us we’ll do it because at the end of the day, MCSS can weather the next few years financially - but we won’t compromise our principles because of anyone at 1600 Pennsylvania.
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I’ve been asked by a few folks if I’d run again - right now I see no need. My successor is incredible, dynamic, and doing a great job. I’ve turned my focus fully to sponsorships and while we did have to raise conference prices a bit, my relationships with partners has kept those costs down.
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@bellmore.bsky.social - I have missed your face specifically sir!
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Lots of other hands here. :-). Suffice it to say, the US of the early aughts isn’t coming back. Nor is the US of the 80s and 90s. It’s a different US on any hand you want to count. Lots of opportunities to change for the better ahead - just after Felon 47’s reign I’m afraid.
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The Libberdy and freedumb folks are certainly on a trajectory to be going through some stuff soon.
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I do still feel confident that a few Gadsden flag sporters will be going through some stuff soon that may make this relevant again.
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Yes. I debated putting up 69 or 70 but felt too many people would take a line out of context as justification. Madison doesn’t pussyfoot around as much as Hamilton in my opinion.
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I love this one!
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Well thank you! 🙏. I needed a reminder today that I wasn’t alone in all of this - apparently a bunch of other theater goers needed the same reminder. What a great day to wear a shirt my wife rolled her eyes at!
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I stress ate an entire package of Aldi Specaloos last night so do what you need to, we’re all in this together.
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Before anyone ats me damnit, I’m well aware where the minority power in government right now, but all these two do is roll over and take it and my own newly elected us senator sends me daily fundraising emails. Fuck up and earn it instead of pretending this is all normal Elissa.
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Oh … we know.
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Exactly. And having applied for many federal grants over my many years in education, I don’t trust anyone without knowledge of the aims of an individual department to determine what is and isn’t fraud.
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Musk operates with no oversight and is already accepting contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars for his own companies while simultaneously cutting payments that help everyday Americans. Systems can change and be audited without harming people. Musk and Trump are what the founders feared.
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Been met with schools that moved that learning into the next grade and built plans for catching kids up over time, vs expecting everything to be normal a few months later, and wondering now, five years later, why so many kids are struggling. /End Rant.
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We’re failing our kids based on goalposts set before a global trauma event that were never realigned. I’m not saying dumb things down - but I am saying we should have acknowledged a Kindergartener who lost the back half of their “learn to read year” should have (10/11)
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They’ve been tested, interventioned, interviewed, tutored, and moved on because the systems never halted and reassessed where everyone and everything was. We basically treated it all like nothing happened (while still adding new legislative mandates) and that means (9/11)
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The consequences of that are far reaching. We’re seeing higher levels of depression, anxiety, and burn out from everyone who sets foot in a school, but most importantly, from the reasons the schools exist in the first place - the kids. (8/11)
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The end result - instead of taking the opportunity to assess where students were and revise those goal posts to get them caught back up over time, we just skipped testing for a year and kept the goalposts the same as if all these disruptions hadn’t happened. (7/11)