May this be the Year of Our Precious Children…
The time is Now…We must make this happen…Our precious children’s future is depending on a Strong Public School Education… Accepting of the Truth of Knowledge… Diversity…Loved and Safe
#FloridaTeacher🍎
#VoteBlueForKids
#TakeBackFl
#BidenHarris2024
Tis the Season of Giving…Yet, my heart is grieving…My many years of teaching young children of diversity…
Just a few of the myriad of issues of today affecting our precious children:
Divisiveness in the Leadership in government affecting their education and safety…book bans, prejudices…gun safety…
Conflicts in the Middle East… World Hunger and Peace….
I Will Hold Onto Hope For Their Future...
First Posted December 2019…
Had so hoped for President Biden, Vice President Harris first term…
Along with Secretary of Education…Dr. Miguel Cardona would have all had a better opportunity to provide those much needed resources and programs with implementing policy changes necessary…to provide a strong education for our precious children…
With frustration, we are still waiting, today …
Many of those same issues from many years prior, especially these last four years since, caused by of all the divisiveness and lack of giving , our precious children are still dealing with gun safety, curriculum issues, teacher shortages; may have even gotten worse…
My Holiday Wishes…Our Precious Children…
Tis the Season of Giving… There is still the Magic of Hope…
And may. still have another opportunity to continue… making it all happen…
#VoteBidenHarris2024
#VoteBlueForKids
#FloridaTeacher🍎
All this chaos…
Our precious children have been watching, and have definitely been negatively impacted these last few years…
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And then we wonder why….
We teachers need support and resources…
WHAT CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED FROM TRUMP:
Mocking the disabled is cool…
Never apologize…
Never admit you are wrong…
Name-calling is cool…
Science is stupid…
Empathy is for losers…
Be afraid of anyone not white…
Cheating is acceptable…
Bullying people is good…
Stealing from charities is ok.
Reading is a waste of time…
Attacking dead people is fine…
Distorting the truth is normal…
Always blame others…
Always take credit when no credit is due…
When will our precious children be a priority???
Our young precious children start out with Love and Inclusion…
Very disappointing…
Yet, with all the divisiveness in our Country…
Our precious children do reflect what they experience…
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I So Believe in that Hope…
If we can emphasize the practice inclusivity with Love and Acceptance of those who are different... Especially in homes and our schools...Our precious children will grow up with that Love in their Hearts...
My years of teaching and dedication to our precious children… has given me the opportunity to advocate for their lives…
My heart is breaking for our precious children who are currently being affected by the unrest between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas who is occupying the Gaza region…Where innocent Palestinian and Israeli children are being killed… injured…
And now because of this unrest and uncertainty in our World….
Our precious children are being killed in their respective countries… Because of a certain group wanting to eliminate another certain group of people, who they believe do not belong in our World…
And right here in our Country…Many of our schools are not able to keep our children safe at school…due to a lack of gun control… Causing many of our children anxious and frightened in coming to school…
Where do we go from here???
I Declare World Peace 🕊️
#IDWP
FOR, IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, OUR MOST BASIC COMMON LINK IS THAT WE ALL INHABIT THIS SMALL PLANET. WE ALL BREATHE THE SAME AIR. WE ALL CHERISH OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE. AND WE ARE ALL MORTAL
💜JFK
#IsrealPalestineconflict
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We will now have a federal office that will address gun reform…
Our precious children must feel safe at school… Arming teachers, definitely is an extremely dangerous solution… School resource officers do help, however, this solution has proven to be not enough…
These are the definite times, we must reform, including a ban on assault weapons… Along with providing the must needed mental health resources…
Our precious children learn best when they feel safe,fed, and loved when they are at school...
The way we treat our children directly impacts what they believe about themselves…
Ariadne Brill
Positive Parenting Connection
How very true… These are most challenging of times… Directly impacting how our precious children deal with their lives…They are not insulated…
With such a divisive government, the critical funding of essential programs with the necessary teachers required to provide children with an education to keep up, is lacking…
Schools being controlled by authoritarianism…Gun reform is extremely necessary to keep our precious children safe…
They are so filled with anxiety about going to school… Thus causing, many of our precious children dealing with mental health issues…
We are have opportunities and are extremely fortunate to have a president who cares… However Congress’ gridlocked is causing the chaos…
We must do better for our precious children…We have opportunities coming, and we must do much better!!!
#VoteBidenHarris24
#TakeBackFl
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I am feeling hopeful that this extremely restrictive, authorian government will be pushed back!!!
Our precious children deserve so much better…
By Cydney Tucker and Ivan Pereira
September 13, 2023, 8:24 AM
People need to walk in the places where these things happened...
After Florida’s governor and education department rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many students, parents, educators and elected officials raised their voices over how slavery was being presented.
The new curriculum included instruction for middle school students that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, can be applied for their personal benefit.”
“That’s mean,” Marvin Dunn, a professor at Florida International University, told ABC News. “That’s mean to say that to Black people that there was some advantage, some positive benefit to being enslaved. They weren’t even considered to be persons. So how could they have personal benefits?”
Dunn and other educators have banded together with parents and students and formed a non-profit coalition, the Miami Center for Racial Justice, to protest Florida’s new curriculum and raise awareness for the Black history that they say is being erased from classrooms…
The group has held rallies and teaching tours at Florida’s historical sites to counter some of the misconceptions they say are now being taught.
One of the tours was in Rosewood, Florida, where a Black community once prospered until a white mob destroyed it in 1923…
“People need to walk in the places where these things happened so that they become meaningful to them, so that you carry the experience beyond just the academic histories, not just facts,” Dunn said. “If you only teach history as facts, you’re really teaching a catalog, not really emotion.”
They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into things later in life,” DeSantis said during a news conference in July.
The governor further defended the curriculum changes in an interview with Fox News in August contending the curriculum’s wording lets teachers show “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
“That particular passage wasn’t saying that slavery was a benefit. It was saying there was resourcefulness, and people acquired skills in spite of slavery, not because of it,” he said.
Juana Jones, a Miami middle school teacher and parent, however, told ABC News she was concerned about this major change to teaching slavery.
“I do believe that kids should know the truth about how this nation came about, and then they can form their own opinions afterwards,” Jones said. “There’s a level of trauma, and I do believe that everyone should know the truth in middle school [and] high school.”
Dunn warned that the country is not far away from a period of severe anti-race violence, and the only way to solve this problem is to educate people about the truth.
“It’s important to know history, to not repeat history. It’s important to note so that we don’t do it again,” he said…
Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 