Retired teacher, public education supporter, Democrat with both kids and dogs, proud mom of strong young women. Astros every day. GenX so don't come for me.
As of today, after 14 years, I am no longer employed by
@HoustonISD
. This is bittersweet. I have loved teaching in this beautiful, diverse district. My own children attended excellent HISD schools from K-12. But
@HISDSupe
Mike Miles has
I have no doubt that
@GregAbbott_TX
and
@MikeMorath
sent Miles here specially to destroy public schools in the bluest city in TX, partly for political revenge and partly to try to gin up support for their voucher scam. Miles and Abbott both need to be removed.
Miles is one of the worst examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect Iโve had the misfortune to see. He is systematically destroying the largest district in Texas, leaving almost 200K students without a viable public school option.
brought a special level of incompetence and arrogance as our state-appointed leader. His harmful โreformsโare destroying all campuses, both the high performing ones and the ones he says he wants to help.
Teaching and learning conditions in the district are unsustainable.
Miles apparently recognizes this, as heโs made the districtโs pay scale de-incentivize teacher certification or more than 5 years of service. This model flies in the face of everything we know about what works at successful schools.
@drunkenny1
Me, and my conservative husband. Can somebody please ask Bill Gates when the microchip will take effect? Husband persists in thinking Ted Cruz is misunderstood.
@JoannBreitling
@1SnoozyQ
@HoustonISD
@HISDSupe
Thanks. Iโm going to be just fine. But there are hundreds of excellent HISD teachers who perhaps canโt afford a commute to the suburbs or make one work with their parenting schedule who are well and truly stuck.
@ask_aubry
His problem isn't that no women will go out with him. His problem is that he thinks every man is owed a thin, blonde bangmaid to call him master. Get out there and engage honestly with regular women as equals.
@lurking2472
@jasmartinez76
@abbygov
Rich people donโt, but middle class people do. Running an AirBnB so we could stay in it once a year was the worst part time job I ever had and the day we sold that house was the happiest of my life.
@honeybee62966
@lurking2472
@jasmartinez76
@abbygov
Some do. Middle class is a wide range, and vacation home doesnโt necessarily mean mansion in the Hamptons. Think of it more as a small business - something lots of middle class people own and operate.
@WhatTheHail4
@ericswalwell
Because we're not Christian fundamentalists who believe that life begins at conception. What kind of monster do you have to be to insist a 10 year old go through pregnancy and birth? You people disgust me.
I think what frustrates me most these days is how ignorant many Texans are about how public schools are funded and what our financial reality is. For the record:
- We do not have bargaining unions.
- We do not get a pension. We pay into TRS, which is like SS.
I retired from teaching a couple of weeks ago but I still love buying school supplies. Itโs so fun to help
#clearthelist
for teachers still in the trenches. I encourage everyone to help a teacher out today.
@Jessicam6946
Our legislators wonโt make the drunk driving laws stronger because they and their families are too often the perpetrators. I lost both of my parents to a selfish drunk driver who spent only 7 years in prison for killing two people.
@SpaceCityWX
Unprepared for a major hurricane, unprepared to deal with a pandemic (including how to resume educating our kids safely and effectively). Much of this is on our state GOP leadership, which prefers to spend its time on potty bills and abortion laws.
@ccrunner456
@HoustonISD
@HISDSupe
Youโre a financial advisor. Iโm an experienced teacher. Which of us do you think is better qualified to evaluate Milesโ system?
The state stepped in because of one school out of 273. Heโs destroying all 273 with his incompetence and arrogance.
@RightWingCope
At least they're admitting that when they say woke, what they really mean is democracy. These four men will dismantle western democracy is an accurate statement.
As of today, after 14 years, I am no longer employed by
@HoustonISD
. This is bittersweet. I have loved teaching in this beautiful, diverse district. My own children attended excellent HISD schools from K-12. But
@HISDSupe
Mike Miles has
The reaction to the
@Olympics
opening just underscores why the arts and humanities must be included in a well-rounded education. STEM is not enough. Kids need to know the history of their culture and other cultures - at least enough to make them curious instead of judgemental.
@PastorBenMarsh
One only needs to look at the ugliness and harassment rugby player Ilhona Mayer has endured online to see that this has far more to do with policing women's bodies and looks than with "protecting" them.
@ThoughtLarceny
@_celia_bedelia_
@_parasocial
I had fibroids and suffered for years. Never once did I find it necessary to subject others to the sight of me washing out blood in the bathroom sink. Please don't act like this is something that women do on the regular.
@lu_freak4health
@DonaldJTrumpJr
These stats Hannity posted are provably false. Lies. Like so much of his โreporting.โ
This Texan is voting for Beto. Ted Cruz and his hate donโt represent our values.
@Dale_Chu
@HoustonISD
Teacher burnout is real, and reducing it will require a fundamental change in culture, but I suspect that's not what you're talking about.
@nytimes
@nytopinion
@NickKristof
Why is this advice never directed at Trump voters? We've been trying to "understand" them since 2015. Zero reciprocal effort. Most of us are done.
Tales from occupied
#hisd
. Wonder who got a kickback on all this equipment purchased? Wonder how many of the fired custodians could have kept their jobs, and how many real and needed resources could have been purchased, with this money. I hope
@HoustonChron
will investigate.
@BryanforHD2
What did you file to prevent kids from being shot in their classrooms? Nothing? Stop pretending like you care about Texas kids, you hypocrite.
@ChudsOfTikTok
Wow, I didn't realize there were women who style themselves to look exactly like the stereotypical graphics of conservative white women.
@MattGertz
As an elementary school teacher, I am pretty dang tired of this crap. How are they allowed to make accusations about an entire profession this way without repercussions?
@TexasTribune
Greg needs to give it up and pass the public school funding bill without vouchers, instead of wasting our tax dollars with endless special sessions doomed to failure. No means no, Greg.
Here's a little voucher story for those who don't understand math. The average school tax bill in Texas is about $2k. The vouchers being proposed are about $8K. Many people have more than one child in school. So yes, you are asking for a subsidy from other taxpayers.
@douglasritz
@catpoopburglar
@JustinWolfers
But also, nice attempt to deflect the conversation to the reasons why women have abortions, when the fact remains that none of them are any of your business.
@piper4missouri
Why would anyone be attracted to follow Christianity when this is the example we see online? Guys like these drive good people away from churches in droves.
@TexasTribune
Is the thermostat in the governorโs mansion set to 78? How about the homes of ERCOT managers and all the power company owners that made millions with jacked up prices in 2021?
#houstonisd
taxpayers need to ask questions. Smartboards and desks being delivered to new NES schools that already have perfectly good ones. Keyboards but no music teacher - just a Dyad โconsultantโ off the street.
Is someone getting a kickback from these purchases?
@ATPE_MarkW
@TXSBOE
And yet he installed
@HISDSupe
, who prefers untrained, uncertified teachers. And he supports giving public money to private schools, which also hire untrained, uncertified teachers.
@SarahisCensored
@conomo
@JoJoFromJerz
I hope you end up regretting that stance. Yโall are infamous for supporting anti-choice laws until you have a complicated pregnancy, and then itโs all, โbut I didnโt think these laws would affect meeeeeee.โ Disgusting.
What the Bible says about immigrants vs. what โpro-life Christianโ Greg Abbott says about them. Apparently the only thing preventing him from shooting them is the Biden administration.
@CarrieIsaac
Of the schools where an armed guard was present or arrived immediately after the shooting began, not a single one of them was able to prevent the carnage. This is nonsensical.
@WalkerBragman
The families don't need to hear that. Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, and the TX lege, however, should all be required to view and hear it in its entirety.
@lourdesgnavarro
As a teacher of children with Spanish, Indian, Chinese, Norwegian, Ethiopian, and Portuguese names, among others, I work to pronounce their names correctly. Using correct pronunciations shows we care about others and their origins/viewpoints. Thanks for what you do on air.
@TechNinjaTodd
Letโs talk about admin who push out good, experienced teachers because weโre more expensive and tend to have opinions. Cheaper first-years who can be more easily bullied are so much nicer for them.
Absolute lying propaganda. This man wouldnโt know the truth or know how to be reflective if his life depended on it. His lies and arrogance are destroying everything that is good in our district.
#firemikemiles
#freehisd
@inthepinesart
@LEBassett
Hilarious to watch Republican women slowly realize the horror they've helped unleash on the country. Or it would be hilarious, if it seemed any of them had even an ounce of self-awareness about this.
@noodlestiff1052
@Taniel
I was born within days of the Roe decision. Iโve never known a US without Roe. I can assure you, I did not vote for the people who took this right away.
@theshirarose
Why is the person being shamed never a tall guy with huge muscles? Those guys made a decision to get that big and they are just as uncomfortable to sit next to on a plane.
@Mike_Hixenbaugh
It seems this would violate the religious freedom of both students and teachers. But they've never actually been concerned about religious freedom. They just want their religion enshrined in law.
@TheEconomist
The problem is that girls/women are taught that their value as a person is tied to a number on the scale or on the size tag. Let's separate positive messages about healthy behaviors from body size and a person's value. Plenty of perfectly healthy people aren't stick-thin.
@shagbark_hick
@TexasPharmD
Condemning people for declining to spend 3 hours of their life in the car each day is not the winning argument you think it is. Plus you have to factor the cost of gas and wear and tear on your vehicle on that "affordable" house.