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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

17 days

My new school's cell phone policy: - Students are not to have them in class without teacher permission. - No phones in hallways, cafeteria, bathrooms, etc. - 1st violation is 2 half hour detentions. - 2nd violation is 3 day suspension. - 3rd violation the student faces expulsion

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Gentle reminder: There is a phone in every classroom and a front office in every school, just in case you need to get a hold of your kid in an "emergency." Using this excuse as a reason why YOUR kid *needs* to have their phone in school is just really ridiculous.

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Teacher inservice days are some of the most insulting experiences in my life. The only plausible reason everyone doesn’t riot in response is because they’re not paying attention.

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James A. Furey

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Can't remember the last time I had a conversation with a young person that wasn't filled with therapy language. People have become incredibly fluent in the language of trauma and anxiety etc., but it's done nothing to improve their emotional awareness or maturity. Mental

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James A. Furey

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State: Your kids have to go to school. Parent: Okay, can they go to this one? State: No, we’ll choose which one. Parent: Um, okay. Can we agree on what they learn? State: No, we’ll decide what they learn. 1/2

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

6 months

As a teacher, dressing down to the level of your students is a good way to send the message that you're not to be respected as an adult. It's a profession. Dress like a professional.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Most English teachers I know either don't read or only read fluff books. I'm often spoken to as if I'm an alien for reading serious literature. By English teachers.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

Every teacher knows, even if they won't admit it, that the same cohort of teens who are trans now were cutters ten years ago and anorexic fifteen years ago. They're trans now because it's the prestige position for those with mental health issues.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

4 months

Has everyone admitted that fidget toys were a stupid and ineffectual idea in the classroom?

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Too many students are excused from speeches and presentations for reason of anxiety. Being able to speak confidently is an important skill; everyone should practice it.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

I don’t know what happened. I grew up on the left and it was a good fit because it was the party of questioning authority. But now it’s the party of authority, the party of mandate, the party of just go along with it.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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I *cannot* believe how many people think that kids NEED to have phones in school because it is a high probability they will need them when a school shooter comes. Are they serious? This is a deranged level of disaster thinking.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

4 months

As a parent who would really like to limit my kids' time on screens, I'm more than a little annoyed with schools' overreliance on them.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

I endorse: - Less Chromebooks in the classroom. -More reading books in the classroom.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

4 months

Oh, really? 1 in 10 kids have been diagnosed with ADHD (nearly 15% of all boys)? How interesting? This is a school-driven phenomenon. Stop relying on strangers to tell you your kid needs to be drugged because they can't sit still 8 hours a day. This is a freaking travesty.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

Full inclusion leads to a sizeable number of students in classrooms frustrated by work they're incapable of doing. It's another example of something being done out of compassion that leads to hurting those it purports to help.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

Most schools do not have a budget problem. They have a budget allocation problem. The amount of waste in education is astounding.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Parent: Geez, can we at least agree you won’t expose them to things which go against my beliefs? State: You don’t seem to be getting it. Parent: Well, I don’t have to keep quiet about this. I have rights. State: Terrorist! 2/2

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

“I’m surprised there hasn’t been a national conversation” says man responsible for having national conversations.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

3 months

Teacher training taught me that I shouldn't arrange desks in rows, so when I first started, I didn't. It was a nightmare. Moving them back was one of the simplest, most effective classroom management moves I did as a beginning teacher.

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Every classroom needs desks in rows. The kids are happier and learning more. There is no social-emotional benefit to seating kids in groups facing each other, most without line of sight to the content and teacher. Quite the opposite.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

8 days

The craziest thing happened today--I didn't see a single cell phone all day in school. Didn't have to police it at all. It's almost like...if you have clear rules and consistent enforcement, problems go away...crazy, right?

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

17 days

When we were discussing this policy, we were told, "this is a fight we've decided to wage, and we're going to win." That's leadership.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

17 days

The students just, like...talk to each other. I honestly don't remember the last time I saw a group of kids without phones.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Teaching kids to read could be done very cheaply, and if we focused on that, even at the expense of other skills, we would be better off. The amount of money wasted in education is astounding.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Probably not great that pronouns are the only grammatical concept schools feel justified teaching anymore.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

7 months

This guy exposed one of the craziest PD programs I've ever heard of, and for doing so he's placed on leave.

Woke Kindergarten critic put on leave by Bay Area school district amid national backlash

The teacher who publicly questioned spending $250,000 on an anti-racist teaching training...

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

6 months

I don't teach in a school anymore, so I feel really comfortable saying this: We need to stop pretending that special ed teachers are helping students just because they're nice to them. Many of them are incredibly harmful to their academic and life success.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

If you honestly believe @Miss_Snuffy supports wife beating, and chose the occasion of Tina Turner's death to let everyone know, then you might want to take a look inward and ask yourself: "Am I a moron?" Because you might be a moron.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

17 days

This may sound harsh to some, but guess who doesn't have a lot of problems with cell phones in their schools? Guess who doesn't have students passing nudes of classmates to each other? Guess who doesn't face bullying via SM at school? Guess who doesn't have a cheating epidemic?

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

7 months

Full inclusion means mainstreaming kids into classes that they're incapable of succeeding in. It is not compassion; it is cruelty.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

The overidentification with mental diagnoses, coupled with the pathologizing of normal emotional responses is surely not a good thing.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

@wesyang @jk_rowling @Martina The real story of TRA violence, as with any trans issue, isn't that some of them preach violence but that they do so with the endorsement of the state.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

I would 100% prefer my kid to be able to read and understand Moby Dick, but hate it and read rarely, than to love reading Diary of a Wimpy kid and its like frequently. A love of reading is nice, but it's not the goal of literacy instruction.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

BREAKING: I am officially threatening to sue @elonmusk if he doesn’t pay off my mortgage.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

Maybe *some* stigma surrounding mental health issues would be a good thing? This thing we have now where we laud and celebrate mental illness is running roughshod on young people.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

I will never get over the bizarre unreality of the compassion coalition convincing nearly the entirety of the institutional power of America that morality requires hacking healthy body parts off young people who have been confused into believing they were somehow born in the

Chloe Cole ⭐️

@ChoooCole

1 year

“I thought that in the end I could become a man but all I became was a mutilated and abused version of myself” Detransitioner Katie Lennon who transitioned at 18, including hormones, a double mastectomy, and a full hysterectomy at 21 years old, testifies in Concord, NH in favor

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

7 months

To say you need to "build relationships" with students in order for them to learn is to say nothing. The teacher-student arrangement IS a relationship. What people mean when they say that is you should be FRIENDS with your students. It's a hard no for me.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

17 days

@genueny Go stare in a mirror and acknowledge that you're looking at the problem.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

7 months

"Kids can't learn from someone they don't have a relationship with." Cool, but can it be just a teacher-student relationship with no pretense I'm their friend, psychologist or "ally"? Can I just be the knowledgeable adult in the room without usurping parents and others' role?

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

This, which everyone paying attention knew was coming for two years, being spoken about as if a revelation, feels a little like gaslighting.

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"I basically got second graders," one fourth-grade teacher said after witnessing how disruptive the pandemic has been to students' development. "Academically, we're back to working miracles."

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

17 days

During professional development today, we had a conversation about how to approach the difficult topic of politics with your students. The conversation was very short. We were told not to do it, to teach your content, and to never let your kids know your political affiliation.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

30 days

I know veteran teachers might be unpersuadable on this point, but new teachers, listen up: The students listen to you better if they are in rows, facing you, the teacher.

James Tucker

@JtuckerJames

30 days

It really surprises me how worked up people get about children facing towards the teacher

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

I am deep into that phase men reach in their forties where they’re suddenly very interested in history.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

11 months

I see IEPs are trending, so I'll use this time to remind y'all that most are not individualized at all but rather a copy and paste job from a handful of accommodations which teachers already offer to all students. Functionally, what an IEP does is allow a special education

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

I don't care how "neurodivergent" you are; having music playing through the bud in your ear is going to distract you from what I'm saying. Ear buds have no place in a school.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

That schools are underfunded may be, in a strong field of competitors, the biggest lie in all of education. The problem is one of misallocation, not lack, of funds. You want to more effectively use this money? Fire the useless administrators, counselors, DEI consultants, and

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1 year

The pandemic revealed the severe consequences of decades of disinvestment in education. Blaming school closures aimed to keep children & educators safe for the sole reason of learning challenges is woefully inaccurate.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

If pilots landed planes at the proficiency rate that our nation’s youth reads, I think we’d look into the certification requirements, yes.

Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥

@rweingarten

2 years

Would we even be thinking about changing certification requirements for pilots, engineers or doctors? The disrespect that you can just put a body in front of students is part of what led to the teacher shortages we're dealing with today.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

5 months

If you pass every kid that comes in your door, no one will ever question you. If you fail even one, you'll be asked to justify it. This is called a perverse incentive.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

It’s weird to see the left throw so much weight behind the lifelong medicalization of children. If nothing else, where is the distrust of the trillion+ dollar pharmaceutical industry? Skepticism of systems and wariness about profit motive used to be the domain of the left.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

As a teacher who co-parents with my wife, another teacher, knowing exactly how bad public schools can be has driven us to send our kids to a religious private school despite leading secular lives ourselves. The anxiety is real.

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I don't really know how to describe how stressful it is to be a parent in this situation We are kind of used to off-loading the education part of our kids to gov't schools and when they so obviously fail us, they create a large amount of chaos

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James A. Furey

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6 months

In my first education course, the instructors had each of us rewrite the lyrics to a famous song and turn it into a song about education. Then, we each had to sing it acapella in front of class. I think that was my first indication teaching might not be for me.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think it’s a teacher’s responsibility to pass all students.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

9 months

@wesyang In gender medicine, the child diagnoses themselves, with the help of anonymous adult perverts on Reddit, or TikTok influencers, and then a practitioner takes their word for it and quickly moves to prescribe hormones or refer them to surgery.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

9 months

Over 20% of public school teachers send their kids to private schools, which is almost twice the rate for the general public. Why? Because they know what happens in the public schools.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

If your kid can't focus at school, dose him with methamphetamine. If this zaps his energy, give him an antidepressant. If the meth makes him anxious, give him antianxiety medication. If this cocktail of meds along with the 12 hours of screen time a day makes him fat, we got

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Childhood obesity rates continue to rise in the U.S., affecting nearly 1 in 5 kids and adolescents. To combat it, experts are calling for early and intensive treatment. For some children, that may include weight loss medications.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 month

While teaching my 4 y/o, I discovered his worst reading habit: It's guessing! So why do popular school programs actually encourage this disastrous practice? Why groom kids for failure by indulging their worst instincts? This isn't education; it's sabotage.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

Nothing has moved me more politically to the right than becoming a teacher. Nothing.

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@leamaric

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Reality is often disappointing.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

Probably not great to form friendships on the basis of perceived mental illness.

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1 year

@JasonJAnger Last night I heard someone say they “trauma bonded “ with someone. Never heard that before.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Schools are incentivized to care more about graduation rates than student achievement, so they graduate everyone and lie about achievement. It’s why so many want to get rid of standardized tests, which can’t be so easily gamed. Read. This. Article.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

An IEP, or "Individualized" Education Program is, in my experience, anything but. Whatever the condition it's meant to correct for--behavioral, emotional, cognitive, attentional, etc.--the accommodations are always the same: - extra time on tests and assignments - someone to

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

7 months

This is a real problem in education. If you want to go along and get along, then by all means talk about your practice. But if you want to be critical, then you have to either be extremely political in how you talk about it, cloak yourself in anonymity, or shut up.

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I promised anonymity to educators contributing to reports about the flaws in their curriculum for exactly this reason. It was honestly the only way to get a critical mass of participants, quickly.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

“Schools too politicized” says lead politicizer of schools.

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@rweingarten

2 years

Nearly 9 out of 10 respondents say schools have become too politicized, following a year of political attacks on teachers waged by politicians stoking culture wars and banning books for political gain.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

If we had this in Wisconsin, my family would have nearly $21,000 to homeschool our three kids. It would completely change our lives.

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2 years

BREAKING: Arizona Governor Doug Ducey just signed a bill to fund students instead of systems. This win is the biggest school choice victory in U.S. history. All families will be able to take their children's education dollars to the education providers of their choosing.

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My three month old daughter, who has been struggling with feeding and gaining weight, just calmly and happily ate her full bottle. This isn’t really a Twitter style post, but I’m so, so happy about it.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Throwing money at education has severely diminishing returns. It doesn’t matter how much you give, when the philosophy of running schools isn’t centered around student achievement, New York is what you get—an extremely expensive, bad education.

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@queens_parents

2 years

Maybe it's the spending? "New York is sending $34 billion to its schools this year between state and federal aid, a 6.7 percent increase from last school year and 89 percent above the national average on a per-pupil basis, a report out today found."

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

11 months

It should be obvious to everyone that *inside the classroom* a teacher's voice is more important than a student's voice. The teacher is the expert. That this is controversial to say in certain ed circles is astounding.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Too many people are so in love with the romantic ideal of what public education was meant to be that they aren’t seeing it for what it has become. We need a more effective system.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

We’re living in upside down world when people think slicing healthy organs off of children is how you “do no harm.”

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@rweingarten

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“One of the first principles [in the medical field] is to do no harm. So to be seeing the research we've done being utilized in this way—I was just dismayed by that.”

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

5 months

It was becoming a high school English teacher that convinced me I couldn't send my kids to public school.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

6 months

Of all the negatives of my teacher training--the political nature of the classes, the useless activities suggested, the lack of classroom management training--I think the most scandalous is the absolute lack of focus on the role memory plays in learning. It's almost everything.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

A teacher in @ehanford ’s Sold a Story: “If I had known it was wrong, I would have fixed it.” This is true of most teachers. And why people like Lucy Calkins, publishing companies like Heinemann, and schools of education should be held accountable.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

6 months

When student, administration, and parents passionately resist a teacher's high academic and behavioral standards, does this incentivize a teacher to persist in maintaining those standards or to lower them? You all know the answer. And it's a BIG problem.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

5 months

This is 100% true. I worked at one of the best schools in my area while my wife worked at one of the worst. Both school's policies and curriculum were nearly identical. The key difference was the fact that kids I taught were just better suited for school.

Wilfred Reilly

@wil_da_beast630

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The most obvious and unsayable thing in education is that the quality of a school almost totally - 80+% - depends on the human capital of the students who attend it.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

11 months

I kind of agree because a Master's degree in teaching hardly qualifies a person to do anything.

Jess Piper

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11 months

I am a certified teacher with a Master’s degree. I am not qualified to homeschool my daughter. I can’t teach upper level Science or Math. There may be folks out there who have no choice, but we have to state facts. I don’t know many who are experts in every subject.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

Re: school shootings: Nearly every teacher I've talked to can name at least one student they have who has been in repeated trouble over threatening statements made to students and staff, but are mysteriously still allowed in school. This matters.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

6 months

I'm using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann, *the* expert on direct instruction, with my four year old. We're 30 lessons in. He can read simple texts now. That people shun direct instruction as boring or whatever, is a damn shame. It works.

Zach Groshell

@MrZachG

6 months

Perhaps the coolest thing I have ever done as a podcaster is interview Linda Carnine, Susie Andrist, and Jerry Silbert, three educators who were in their 20s when Direct Instruction beat all the inquiry and self-esteem models in Project Follow Through.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

11 months

No such thing as a trans baby. Jesus.

Dr. Christine Mehigh

@cmehigh

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@JasonJAnger Actually they are born trans.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

Flexible seating is among the dumbest ideas in education and so many new teachers fall for it. Save yourselves the trouble--keep them in rows.

tetheredtoed

@tetheredtoed1

10 months

Desks in rows will improve teacher morale. Less kids goofing off, tuned out, bugging other kids.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

One result of school curriculum not being set according to sequenced knowledge is that upper level teachers are left constantly baffled by how much their students don’t know. Even the most basic information can’t be taken for granted.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

9 months

A lot of people don't seem to understand how awash in money a lot of schools are. One of the biggest problems in education spending isn't a lack of funds but a waste of funds.

rebelEducator

@rebelEducator

9 months

Public education funding keeps going up, while test scores remain the same. The funding is not the problem.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

I'm seeing a lot of the push back to this having to do with rows not best facilitating group work. That's fine with me because group work is also usually a bad idea.

James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

10 months

Flexible seating is among the dumbest ideas in education and so many new teachers fall for it. Save yourselves the trouble--keep them in rows.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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Just accepted a position teaching High School English at a private Catholic school. I am more excited about this than any position I've ever accepted. Can't wait to teach for a school with consistent and solid values.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

Folks, I’ve done it. It is not unfathomably hard. This is self aggrandizing nonsense.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

What I love about, say, the restaurant industry, is that if I don’t like McDonalds, I can take my money to Pizza Hut. So yes, critics, open enrollment exists. But open enrollment is choosing between this McDonalds or the one down the street. Not much of a difference, really.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

The largest school district in my area (12,235 students) has a land acknowledgement before staff meetings while 76.5% of students read at basic or below basic levels (much worse for Black, Hispanic, or Native American students). This, in a nutshell, is modern American education.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

5 months

This is a drum I'll keep beating, I guess: Every special ed "professional" I've ever worked with, and most I've heard about second hand, seem to think the way you help kids is by passing them no matter what. The whole field is bunk.

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James A. Furey

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By the way, the school which teaches students to become competent readers is much more likely to foster a lifelong love of reading. Competence precedes joy, not the other way around. /END

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James A. Furey

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Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥

@rweingarten

2 years

Hate is now commonplace, particularly in social media…it finds us. Ironic memes embed this hateful content

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James A. Furey

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"Memorization" isn't a bad word and shouldn't be treated as such by teachers. It's the memorization of vocabulary and word knowledge which allows one to access everything one cares about in an education.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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Allowing students choice over what they read, rather than doing same-novel class readings, is one of the worst developments in English education.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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The pandemic didn't introduce a single new problem to public schools; rather, it exacerbated the myriad problems that already existed and put the whole mess on display for everyone to see. It was a wake up call for many parents but predictable for any teacher paying attention.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

2 years

One under-discussed factor in why teachers leave the profession: There is little room for advancement u less you want to get an administrative position, which isn’t at all the same as teaching. This results in little incentive to improve and it can begin to feel pointless.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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@nycexpatmom The Covington incident, wherein people doubled down long after it was obvious the boy did nothing wrong. The vitriol with which they continued, and continue, to discuss it showed a lack of regard for the truth.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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Going gradeless is a great idea if you want to ensure that half your students no longer care about your class.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

1 year

A lot of poor teacher practice is smuggled into the classroom in the name of "fostering a love of reading" and "providing student choice."

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James A. Furey

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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@glukianoff @RIKKISCHLOTT He's probably about to have his teaching and grading practices very closely examined, with the express purpose of finding cause to fire him.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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I find it very strange that “where my tax dollars go” is only brought up by democrats in conversations on school choice. My taxes go to a thousand things I disagree with. Take a number. Get in line.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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@CEJacksonLaw The entire ideology fails on this simple principle: a moral foundation is not sound if it is based on a lie. Men cannot be women, period. Whatever follows from the denial of that proposition is necessarily incorrect/harmful.

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James A. Furey

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@richseapear By allowing them to aspire to lower standards. By giving them answers. By pulling them away from lessons. By guilting the teacher into passing them. By assisting students in the rumination of bad feelings. By being their friend instead of an authority figure.

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James A. Furey

@JamesAFurey

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We'll look back on this period of time when students were allowed phones in school and see it for what it is: an abdication of responsibility on the part of teachers and administration. It is insane that it has gone on as long as it has. Smart phones ruin education. Period.

Governor Glenn Youngkin

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We’re establishing cell phone-free education in schools benefiting students, parents and educators across Virginia. This essential action will promote a healthier educational environment where every child is free to learn.

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