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@educatedtrouble

Educator; believes kids are entire human beings. My liberation is bound up with yours, she/her

Joined July 2022
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"The claim here is that we should do unpleasant and unnecessary things to children now in order to prepare them for the fact that just such things will be done to them later.  This justification ... continues to drive education policy." alfiekohn.org/article/case-g…

The Case Against Grades (##)

EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP November 2011 The Case Against Grades By Alfie Kohn [This is a slightly expanded version of the published article.] “I remember the first time that a grading rubric was...

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“…American society tends to equate inactivity with immorality, and productivity with worth. Faced with a condition that simply doesn’t allow people to move—even one whose deficits can be measured and explained—many doctors and loved ones default to disbelief.”
Ed Yong is not here (@edyong209) profile pictureEd Yong is not here
@edyong20927 Jul 2023
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized. (This piece also covers PEM.) 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Fatigue Can Shatter a Person

Fatigue Can Shatter a Person

Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.

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Mara Gay@MaraGay27 Jul 2023
spent months reporting on families across America who have lost children to drowning. What I found is that in America, swimming is a luxury rather than a public good. nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opini…
Opinion | When It Comes to Swimming, ‘Why Have Americans Been Left on Their Own?’ (Published 2023)

Opinion | When It Comes to Swimming, ‘Why Have Americans Been Left on Their Own?’ (Published 2023)

The biggest reason so many Americans can’t swim is that they have too few places to learn how.

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At New Mexico's biggest jail for children, kids from 12-17 are "routinely subjected to strip searches, held for weeks in cells without toilets, and left with only a thin plastic sheet to block out the glare of hallway lights that never turn off" searchlightnm.org/at-new-mex…
At New Mexico’s biggest jail for children, toilets and staff are lacking — but strip searches are...

At New Mexico’s biggest jail for children, toilets and staff are lacking — but strip searches are...

The décor inside the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center (YSC) is more in line with the children’s wing of your local library than a jail built for

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It's such an uphill battle when pushing for equitable systems! Putting barriers in place to recording extenuating circs or accessing extensions creates a non-compassionate systems...for what? Barriers do not uphold academic standards, they just reproduce inequitable experiences.
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as an introvert, I was exhausted after teaching 150 kids every day. as an introvert, I am exhausted after reading articles in silence every day. I think I might just be tired.
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If comments to this post are an indicator of how many clinicians view accommodating disabled colleagues… how could they *possibly* conceptualize or reimagine truly enabling & empowering their disabled patients? THIS is why inclusion matters. #DisabilityJustice h/t @jbullockruns
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One week ago, a court in California ruled that employers cannot be sued for spreading COVID to their workers due to lack of protections. This week, In-N-Out banned their employees from wearing masks. This is horrible.
Reuters Workers cannot sue over COVID spread to households, California court rules By Daniel Wiessner July 7, 20232:29 PM EDT

ALT Reuters Workers cannot sue over COVID spread to households, California court rules By Daniel Wiessner July 7, 20232:29 PM EDT

In-N-Out Burger: No masks shall be worn in the Store or Support facility unless an Associate has a valid medical note exempting him or her from this requirement. Associates who wear masks for medical reasons must wear a company-provided N-95 mask. Note: A different type of mask may only be worn with a valid medical note exempting the Associate from the N-95 mask requirement. This policy applies to all Store and Support Associates working in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah except Associates who are required to wear masks or other protective gear as part of their job duties (e.g., patty room Associates, lab technicians, painters, etc.).

ALT In-N-Out Burger: No masks shall be worn in the Store or Support facility unless an Associate has a valid medical note exempting him or her from this requirement. Associates who wear masks for medical reasons must wear a company-provided N-95 mask. Note: A different type of mask may only be worn with a valid medical note exempting the Associate from the N-95 mask requirement. This policy applies to all Store and Support Associates working in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah except Associates who are required to wear masks or other protective gear as part of their job duties (e.g., patty room Associates, lab technicians, painters, etc.).

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So politicians are proud of starving children to teach parents responsibility because this is a part of how the Empire has always operated. Children were put into institutions, transported, forcibly migrated, imprisoned in residential schools, to teach us all how to be British.
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This is from the site OSHA linked, under “standards” (the binding rules for employers). Note the word “was” here. If an issue already happened they can vaguely try to fine someone. Specific binding heat standards would make employers do specific things to PREVENT workers dying
an orange cat looking at a screenshot from OSHA/DOL’s link. Washington, Minnesota, and California have specific laws governing occupational heat exposure. Federal OSHA has a General Duty Clause (Section 5[a][1] of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) that requires employers to provide a place of employment that is “free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees.” The OSHA Technical Manual Chapter on Heat Stress establishes that OSHA uses WBGT to determine if a heat hazard was present.

ALT an orange cat looking at a screenshot from OSHA/DOL’s link. Washington, Minnesota, and California have specific laws governing occupational heat exposure. Federal OSHA has a General Duty Clause (Section 5[a][1] of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) that requires employers to provide a place of employment that is “free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees.” The OSHA Technical Manual Chapter on Heat Stress establishes that OSHA uses WBGT to determine if a heat hazard was present.

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@OSHA_DOL10 Jul 2023
Hi @JortsTheCat! Employers are required to provide workers a safe and healthy workplace. That includes protection from excessive heat and heat-related illnesses. Workers have rights. Learn more 👇 osha.gov/heat-exposure
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It’s #PrimeDay Amazon will have over a million plus workers working nearly 60 hrs this Week on Mandatory overtime to deliver a package Heat strokes and exhaustion will be unbearable if you are a Prime user consider shopping else where. #HotLaborSummer ✊🏽🔥
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I remember learning about citizenship as a kid and being confused. If we think we have the best ways of treating people, why wouldn't we treat everyone that way?
Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) profile pictureAlec Karakatsanis@equalityAlec11 Jul 2023
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I've done this several hundred times, and it's a fun exercise: I ask people in the U.S. who oppose open borders to explain a single reason for their views that does not boil down to believing that some people's lives are worth more than others. No one has done so yet.
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Ok so we need emergency heat rules for workers, right? Right
an orange cat is looking at a headline: 'We are in uncharted territory': World records hottest day ever for the third time in just four days

ALT an orange cat is looking at a headline: 'We are in uncharted territory': World records hottest day ever for the third time in just four days

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oh okay so they're just saying the quiet parts out loud now
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Still think it’s just paranoia? That’s fine. And may even be true. But you can’t tell that to my body. As soon as I saw it, I had a visceral reaction. A a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. A fast heartbeat. A cold sweat of fear and a deep sense of dread.
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Many good people work in broken systems.
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“Because, under capitalism, “peace” is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms. Organized efforts to disrupt those harms will always be characterized, by any necessary stretch of the imagination, as violent.” - Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba.
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