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???
When will children be a priority?
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 🙏🏼💜🪄💫☀️🌻✨☮️🌍
In the many years of my teaching… I realized October was one of those favorite months for children…We had our daily routine down; teaching those essential, required learning activities…And now by October, I could add those creatively fun activities through art, writing and play, centered around this glorious sceason…
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” ...
~ L. M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
Art by S. Hee…
In the challenges of Today, our precious children are dealing with so very much…I must acknowledge and admire the teachers and essential staff that are still providing them those creative activities that are characteristic of October’s Magic…🎃
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...
We need leaders with the courage to act — and that's exactly what our Administration is doing.@POTUS and I are proud to establish the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. pic.twitter.com/wvMz4hjCDz
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!!!
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...
ABC News’ Victor Oquendo reports from Florida as parents and educators take on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “War on Wokeness,” fighting to make sure African American history is not erased from the curriculum.
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…
The Miami Center for Racial Justice leads a rally against Florida’s new history curriculum has held historical tours across Florida. ABC News
“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…
Reflecting on my teaching career, as I do quite often…
It’s been almost 10 years now since I was that first grade teacher, and my heart breaks for all the extremely difficult challenges teachers of today are dealing with…And I am frustrated that we are allowing this to happen….
Yet, I do still hold onto hope…For that better day to come… I so believe the reelection of President Biden and Vice President Harris will make that difference…And here in Florida we elect a governor that supports our public schools…
Then ..Whenever I am out and about in our community, and I have an opportunity to interact with one of our precious children…
I always let them know I was a teacher…And they definitely still check me out ..I am so delighted to realize…They are still that innocent.. I still do have that special connection with them heart to heart… Their parents close by, are there for them…
Just recently having had a conversation with a second grade, little girl, asking her how her school year was going, and her telling me she liked second grade…
Then wishing them a “Happy Halloween 🎃”
It so warms my heart…
Children are still children… Parents are still wanting the best for their children…
Because we in Florida have an authorization government .. School has just begun and are dealing with book bans, lack of inclusion …
We definitely are living with an alternate reality…And our precious children are paying the price…
And now without the scientific data...nor caring about our precious children, teachers and essential staff...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is criticizing efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking
ByThe Associated Press September 7, 2023…
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel, Aug. 23, 2023
September 7, 2023, 12:08 PM
Gov. DeSantis and Florida surgeon general warn against new COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is criticizing efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking
ByThe Associated Press September 7, 2023, 12:08 PM FILE – Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX News Channel, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee…
DeSantis says he got a $1 million cash bump after Wednesday night’s presidential debate. His campaign says that amount came in over the first 24 hours after DeSantis and seven other contenders met in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday criticized recent efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking, and his state surgeon general warned against getting the latest COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to be available this month.
The criticism from DeSantis at news conference in Jacksonville, Florida, arrived the same day that his campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination sent out an email to supporters vowing to “fight back against every bogus attempt the Left makes to expand government control” when it comes to COVID-19 precautions.
At the Jacksonville news conference in an Irish pub, DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo promised Florida won’t be joining states, cities or school districts across the U.S. in temporarily closing schools or mandating mask-wearing because of the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases.
“People are lurching toward this insanity again,” DeSantis said. “As we see these things being orchestrated … there needs to be pushback.”
Lapado said there were no arguments for getting the latest vaccine. “There are a lot of red flags,” he said.
Ladapo’s previous warnings against COVID-19 vaccines merited a public letter from federal health agencies saying his claims were harmful to the public. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent the letter in March to Ladapo, a DeSantis appointee who has attracted national scrutiny over his close alignment with the governor in opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other health policies embraced by the federal government.
Ladapo last year released guidance recommending against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children, contradicting federal public health leaders whose advice says all children should get the shots.
“It is the job of public health officials around the country to protect the lives of the populations they serve, particularly the vulnerable. Fueling vaccine hesitancy undermines this effort,” said the letter signed by FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
DeSantis’ news conference in Jacksonville came almost two weeks after three Black people were fatally shot by a 21-year-old white supremacist who authorities say left behind ramblings that read like “the diary of a madman.” At a vigil the day after the shootings, DeSantis was booed by the crowd during his speech.
This year, DeSantis signed a bill allowing people to carry guns without getting a state permit. He has antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness.”
During a question-and-answer period at Thursday’s news conference, an unidentified man suggested the governor’s policies contributed to the shootings. The governor responded angrily, saying he shouldn’t be blamed for the actions of “some madman.”
“I’m not going to allow you to accuse me of committing criminal activity,” DeSantis said. “I’m not going to take that…
When I began teaching in 1972…My voice was strong and hopeful…We were making strong strides in educating all children… We were now integrated, making our schools inclusive; federal programs…
I was even traveling 90 miles a day, just to teach at what was once an “all black school”…And even involved in Head Start and an Early Childhood Preventative Curriculum Program…for high risk first graders…We had opportunities and hope …
Then, as years went by, and politics was influencing our public schools with a republican agenda, that by the 90s, there was an emphasis on privatization, developmentally inappropriate curriculum and over testing…
My teacher voice was becoming extremely frustrated… I always did what I was supposed to do…Most of my colleagues, and I being apolitical…
Still trying to teach, and giving my all, in spite of the consequential slow dismantling of our public schools, especially over these years since the millennium…My voice became loud… always doing what was expected…
However, since my retirement…My voice is strong…
I must speak out for our precious children and my dear former colleagues and wonderful support staff…
We must not accept this divisive political agenda as the norm… Our precious children…are definitely not getting the best education and we have a teacher shortage!!
Janis Sexton...Teacher...Advocate 