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Coming back and off private to furrow my brow at you for still being here and to share there's a #SoldAStory subreddit if you want to discuss the podcast off here when the new episodes drop.
reddit.com/r/SoldAStory/
A really interesting conversation between some political scientists about the "words Dems shouldn't use" and how it's not really about words; discussion of a new study that suggests BS has surpassed X when it comes to sharing books and articles; I suspect sports stuff, too.
Every once in a while, I share some of the EduTwitter discourse over on BlueSky.
In case you're curious what's happening over there, lots of great conversations about the latest article on how people need to stay on Twitter (people dug into how blue checks and links work here);
I love the idea that first-year teachers have so much power, they'll be fine if take what they learned in a single class in college and COMPLETELY overhaul the entire curriculum their principal/curriculum director gives them.
AP: The first benchmark math test is Tuesday. How do you feel about it?
FY: They've got queer theory down cold. No problem.
AP: ...
What's fantastic about this tweet is that someone provides a source and I'm fairly confident Mr. Buck will never click the link to see how wrong he is.
(FWIW, there are lots of ways of being sexist. This is one of them.)
There is, I would offer a relationship between the first tweet and this tweet.
It's always compelling to observe how schoolmen position teachers - as thinkers, as workers, as people. So often their vague abstracts, denied self or reflection.
xitter.cf/Doug_Lemov/status/1949…
And the sexism directed at teachers extends to those who teach them.
xitter.cf/Dale_Chu/status/195020…
Educators may say they focus on how students learn differently - but they don't design 30 different lesson plans for their class. They speak to learning differences because it's a way to recognize each little kid is a kid unto themselves, a whole world.
This exchange gets at the difference between what's left of X culture versus BlueSky. Here, there's a lot of, "see? we were right to be transphobic. It's a good thing to make life harder for trans kids and their families." There? Here's how to help trans kids and their families.
I have no idea why - but I have an inkling - @benryanwriter is asking this question, given Hobbes answered it in a skeet that Ryan snipped from the screenshots.
I have no idea why - but I have an inkling - @benryanwriter is asking this question, given Hobbes answered it in a skeet that Ryan snipped from the screenshots.
If, for the sake of argument, no one can prove that pediatric gender-transition treatment prevents suicide death only because such deaths are so rare, then why has this treatment been sold, first and foremost, as “lifesaving”?
Why have people who have called that claim into question been savagely attacked and sidelined?
Marci Bowers, former head of WPATH, herself told me last year that suicide death has never been a good metric of the success of this treatment.
Hobbes wrote: "In any other field, no one would bat an eye at doctors describing a treatment that reduces depression, suicidal ideation and self-harm as "life saving."