My high school classmates claiming on Facebook that covid isn’t real and masks don’t work have remarkably no skepticism when it comes to multilevel marketing schemes involving dubious weight loss products.
This is great but would be more realistic shot in a dirty McDonald's bathroom stall or in a small office mother's room that she had to kick a male coworker out of first
‘The crushing toll on working mothers’ mental health reflects a level of societal betrayal. “This isn’t burnout — this is societal choice,” she said. “It’s driving mothers to make decisions that nobody should ever have to make for their kids.”’
I dunno, I spent my whole childhood wanting to live in New York City, and I was lucky enough that my dream came true, and the city gave me basically everything I have. So I think I'm just gonna stop reading the leaving NYC pieces.
😬 “ His third wife had previously been married to his next-door neighbor. His fourth wife was the next-door neighbor’s second wife. His fifth wife, Friede Springer, had been the family’s nanny.”
"What really troubles me is that we are giving devices and products and apps that are designed to be addictive to children. And then we’re expecting them to self-regulate and getting upset when they do stupid things."
Wow -- GreatSchools will overhaul its school ratings months after a
@Chalkbeat
investigation found the scores steered families away from schools serving more Black, Hispanic, and low-income students.
Former Trump White House official Sebastian Gorka: "They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved."
😂😭😂😭🤦♂️
These are small things but I miss in-person parent teacher conferences. I miss being mystery reader in my sons’ classes. I miss seeing my kids’ little desks and artwork on the walls. I even miss taking sliced cantaloupe for parent breakfasts.
I read this, cried, then spent the evening doing whatever my 6yo son wanted.
Being needed, by everyone, all the time, has been so hard these past 16 months. But, as the piece so beautifully articulates, being needed is also everything.
“President-elect Joe Biden’s education secretary will face an immediate high-stakes test: whether to allow states to forgo their usual standardized testing again.”
So I wrote for
@washingtonpost
about saying goodbye to our final crib, and how we prepare for all the parenting firsts but not the parenting lasts.
As Bill de Blasio stands onstage at a presidential debate, his education department releases troubling data showing more than 900 elementary school classrooms need remediation for deteriorating lead paint.
“We’re equipped to deal with occasional doses of uncertainty. But chronic uncertainty leaves us no time to recuperate. As a result, we might feel tired or irritable, or find our memory isn’t as sharp.
‘Our bodies aren’t meant to endure this.’”
With vacation packages named things like “Teach from the Beach," and poolside cabanas outfitted with monitors and Wi-Fi, resorts are trying to attract families with remote-school children.
Five local principals just stood up in support of pursing an integration plan. “This is a move towards diversity, towards equity, and it’s a great thing... the choice is yours,” PS 84 principal Evelyn J. Lolis tells the crowd.
A mother in Queens said she spent three years trying to get her husband to do more before coming to terms with the fact that maybe it was never going to happen. “He notices the unfairness, but he just accepts it as something we have a disagreement about.”
One Brooklyn school is already telling families it's closed tomorrow due to staffing shortages, and the DOE is offering retired teachers $50 extra per day if they sub five days in January
“It’s especially important that kids get bored — and be allowed to stay bored — when they’re young. That it not be considered “a problem” to be avoided or eradicated by the higher-ups, but instead something kids grapple with on their own.”
Sixteen years ago, I spent the day outside of a Harlem apartment building with a tiger inside. I met the great
@ZHaberman
and
@wilcruz365
that day and had my first date with my now-husband that night. Now Ming is dead and I'm feeling a lot.
@emilynussbaum
Bought a bag of 20 pairs of the same gray gloves for my sons. No looking for matches as we rush out the door, not a big deal if any get lost.
Our first grade teacher is doing a magic trick over Zoom for school orientation and promised the kids, “We will still become a classroom family together.” 😢
The coronavirus has taken a vicious toll on paraprofessionals, who represent just 19% of the workforce but more than 44% of deaths. The statistics mirror a stark reality: that the virus has fallen disproportionately hard on low-income communities of color.