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A few points to share on my thinking on the Canada Games budgeted $$ from me, a very non-athlete:1. The City is providing a small percentage of the total costs
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1/12 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is upon us. So it’s time for my yearly rant to educators about the white-washing and co-opting of King’s “I Have A Dream”
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OK I am watching the latest LGB Alliance webinar on gender dysphoria. Guess how many trans people are on it. One not trans psychotherapist, one not trans documentarian, one not
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1. Best friend or lover? 2. Arranged marriage or Love marriage? 3. Do you believe in 'Falling in love' with a twitter friend? 4. Name the twitter friend you wished
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I've written a book! It's about what I feel most passionately about in education, and it's what will get me through the doors in the morning: closing the attainment gap
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THREADMary Tinney (born 1924 Scotland). Moved to Ireland with her Irish parents & initially settled in Louth, but following her father's early death, the family moved to Dublin, where her
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Just had a rather pathetic encounter w a Trumper in my local grocery store. I hope everyone understands how completely demented these folks are at this point, how the aggression
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A racist white man ignored a epidemic, fumbled debates, ruined the economy, lied constantly, defunded social programs, manipulated the media, ran on “law and order,” appealed to white supremacists, all
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In Mahabharata Arjuna fights against the injustice, only to be overcome by sorrow. He fights against his own cousins, teacher, classmates. The sorrow gets most out of him, and thus
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Can’t stop thinking about @cwknews and @BenjaminABoyce talking about what is the first step in transition. Parents can reflect on their role in promoting stereotypes, yes. But schools who socially
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There’s been a rash of unprincipled folks working behind the scenes to silence educators lately. It’s unfortunate that we have to deal with that on top of everything else that’s
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I am harkened back to a time on my college campus where a freshman went behind a dorm and burned a gay pride flag. This person was then put on
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#WalkAway "I moved to the US in 2000 from Brazil. I was 8 years old. On my first day of school in third grade (Long Island, NY) my teacher put
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***Ideology*** Conspiratorial thinking follows 3 axioms: 1) Nothing is as it seems. 2) Everything happens for a reason, and 3) Everything is connected. These are Venny with modern global yoga
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1. #GME has a problem recognising its exclusion of POC. Parents and teachers who are ethnic nationalists &/or who are native speakers of Gaelic don't want to acknowledge this. They
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Warning long thread...At the start of the year I always ask my students what period of history they would like to live in or person they would invite to dinner.
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