The vast majority of Americans have no idea what the Department of Education does. There are a number of things that fall under DOE’s umbrella, but I’m going to take a few minutes to tell you about a *small* part of what DOE does that has an enormous impact on millions of students nationwide - Title 1 funding.
Title 1 provides federal funding to schools with a high percentage of low income students. Approximately 45% of schools in the US are Title 1 schools and receive additional funding for students. There’s a high likelihood that your child’s school receives Title 1 funds.
Let me tell you some of the ways those extra funds helped my school this year.
Those funds paid for half of a reading interventionist’s salary and paid for a full-time reading tutor. Together these two staff provided small group reading instruction to our most struggling readers.
Those funds allowed us to purchase decodable book sets aligned to our reading program so that I could create leveled take home reading bags for families. So when students were practicing reading at home, the books in their hands had words and phonics skills they had already learned. Many of our families don’t have books at home or don’t have books that early readers can actually read.
Those funds gave our 5th graders the opportunity to travel to a nearby coastal town to learn about local habitats and marine biology. They participated in hands-on learning activities and followed up by writing research reports using what they had learned.
Those funds provided each family in my school with a copy of the same book so that everyone could participate in One School One Book. Families all followed the same reading schedule, and kids answered questions and earned prizes at school. 94% of our students participated.
Those funds paid for the newer teachers in my building to attend a multi-day conference one weekend to receive professional development in the Science of Reading.
Those funds will feed each student in grades 3-6 a small snack each day during our state testing window coming up in April.
Those funds allowed us to purchase craft supplies so that all families had materials to work together on a craft and writing project when we hosted a family day at our school.
Those funds gave our 4th-6th graders the opportunity to have an after school Robotics club when we used the monies to purchase LEGO robotics kits.
Those funds purchased books at all grade levels so our students could pick out a book of their own to take home in the fall and spring.
Those funds provide classrooms with books, supplies, resources, materials, and subscriptions that we wouldn’t be able to afford otherwise.
Title 1 funding is critical for so many students in our country. And chances are high that your own child benefits from Title 1 funding. Cutting the DOE’s workforce by nearly half - and openly declaring that the end goal is to eliminate the department entirely - should scare all parents.
Title 1 is just one tiny piece of what DOE does for our nation’s students. Dismantling it would be disastrous. I haven’t even touched on what that would mean for students with IEPs or 504s (IDEA). I haven’t mentioned how it would impact migrant families (also Title I) or Indigenous students (Title VII). Don’t even get me started on protecting students from discrimination based on race (Title VI) or gender (Title IX).
This is an exhausting time to be in education. This is a depressing time to be a parent. This is a horrifying time to be an American.
Always,doesn’t matter if we are falling back or springing forward.
We have had some preseason baseball practice these past couple of days but I also have to do a t groceries pick up and I have to stop by my mom’s to help with her hair, she is losing movement in her arm due to a build up of calcium, she’s going for a consultation this week to find out how it’s going to be treated whether that be break it up with a needle or surgery I wish someone told me how hard it is watching your parents getting older 😔😣.
Sooo, my sister called and told me that my lil brother is having another baby and she told me his wife is really big and pregnant like 5 months pregnant.
I talked to him the night before this conversation with my sister and he never mentioned anything about it. I sent him a text saying he may had forgotten to inform me about something. He texted back no I didn’t.
I told him our sister told me he was having another baby. Poor guy said I told her not to tell nobody because I want to want until she was in her second trimester. Since it been difficult for them to have another baby ( his wife miscarriage a month before I got pregnant). He was so upset because he tell our mother and his wife side.
Come to find out his wife is 7 weeks pregnant and my sister just messed up their surprise. He ended up telling mom before sis got to her so there wouldn’t be a war.
Devocki moy rebenok ne znayu otkuda i zacem nacal udaryat menya, otca 😑uje nedelyu kak zamecayu. Xotya na neye nikto nikoqda ruku ne podnimaet.(naverno multiki portyat ee) Naprimer ona zlitsya ili ey ne nravitsya cto to koqda ey zaprewayut i td. ona v otvet udaryaet menya, ili papu. Vrode obyasnyayu cto vzroslix bit nelza,. V prowliy raz ya bila itak zlaya sporim s ney iz za ee vewey, i ona udaryaet menya na cto ya ey zlaya otvecayu ne sderjavwis uje cto A esli ya udaryu tebya ti prilipniw kuda nibud😡. Ona mne v otvet zadayet vppros kuda? Na stenku? Qovryu cto Da!. I ona opat sprawivaet prilipnu kak Nakleyka 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣?
When do you start letting your kids make their own plans?
I know like 95% of the friends that my oldest hangs out with (especially the ones that she sees outside of school). She's almost 10.5 and I recently told her that if she wanted to start doing things on the weekends with her friends that was fine. Just try to make plans by Wednesday or Thursday so I can reach out to the parents and confirm. She's been sitting at home with nothing to do and I just feel bad but at the same time I want her to get confident to make her own plans since middle school is around the corner. Maybe ten is too young though and I still need to schedule "playdates" for her.
So my kids father filed for divorce and put that it’s a mutual agreement. I don’t sign the papers but he has been mentally abusing me and financial abuse to me he took all my money I have zero dollars I never worked because he didn’t want me to I don’t know what to do at this point please I need some advice
I don’t have money for a lawyer and he is refusing me to work because I have to care for my daughter
I was in New Mexico and he kept on begging me to come back so I came back to get abused again I don’t know what to do at this point I give up on everything
This is my 18th year working in public education. In the first 12ish years of my career, I never ever encountered students saying deeply offensive and racist remarks about a group of people or directly to a student who is a part of a marginalized group.
Despite growing up in an extremely progressive and diverse area, I have mostly worked in schools/areas that are predominantly white since I’ve spent all of my career in rural areas. I’ve now lived in my community for 14 years.
Sadly, things started shifting slowly over the course of the last 6+ years to the point where I am now dealing with racist remarks on a semi-regular basis. The fact that this shift occurred during the first few years of the first Trump administration and has ramped up significantly since then is not lost on me or my colleagues.
Children learn through observation. And the adults in our country are leading our children down a deeply disturbing path. It’s so incredibly disheartening to watch this behavior in our children. I’m thankful for my upbringing because it helped shaped me into someone who has zero time for overtly or thinly veiled racism. Not happening on my watch. Period.
Schools are not perfect, but do you know what they are? They are a reflection of our society as a whole. And what is being reflected is abhorrent.
Our children deserve better than this. If you’re not alarmed then you’re not paying attention.
If you’re not paying attention then shame. on. you.
Yaaay we have a virtual evaluation with early intervention later this afternoon to see if my son qualifies for speech therapy. Wish me luck on getting him to sit in one area for an hour and a half so people can watch him play over the interwebs! 😂🫣
UPDATE: It went pretty good! They said he’s only at about 12 month age range for communication, so he qualifies for that, and he also qualifies for social emotional therapies (which doesnt really surprise me since he’s never around other kids), and for some fine motor therapies which I had no idea he’s a bit behind in. So now we play the waiting game of waiting for a call about starting all of this.
I need to vent. I have a friend that has been my friend for about 13 years. My grandfather passed away last year and he left myself and sister a very large trust. He was a multi millionaire and put everything in a trust to be split. The day I found out about him passing and the money my friend was with me and was a part of the conversation so she knew. Life has changed some for me but honestly not a lot. I basically live the same way I was before, I’m still renting, I do plan to buy a home in the future but nothing crazy. I still work but not as much as I was m. Honestly I haven’t done much with my trust or even started investments yet because it’s just a lot to process. Anyways, my friend is constantly making comments like ohh how much did you pay for that?, or she’ll question me about how much money I have in an account because I told her I was broke. She’s constantly saying well you said you were broke how do you have money for this or that ? The other day she asked me where I was going and I said on the way to the store, she said ohh yea you go to the store every day. Mind you I go to the store for basic stuff like groceries or household items. I go to kroger and target. Nothing fancy. She asked me before did I plan to change or was I going to stay the same. I said of course I’m not going to change. The other day I said I wanted to do the 21 and me dna test. She asked me how much it was and I was like oh it’s not a lot like $89 or something. She said oh I’m starting to not like you, you’re bougie now. Ummm how ? I’m not splurging, Im
not out here swiping and being reckless. Idk it just makes me feel really uncomfortable and I purposefully try to not let her know any time I spend money because I don’t want her to treat me differently. I don’t even like talking about money. We have gone out to eat a few times and I’ve paid. One time she paid for us and another time we paid our own way. When her daughter made a comment about it she said I don’t need my friend to pay every time we go eat, I’m not that big of a bum I can’t afford my own food. That actually bothered me. Because Any other time I usually pay for us. I don’t know y’all, I don’t want this to affect our friendship but I feel like it is and in the end she’s going to treat me differently.
I don’t understand why people have kids if they can’t do the bare minimum of decent parenting - making sure they brush their teeth, spending some time reading or doing homework, eating dinner together most nights, talking to their kids and taking interest in them as humans.
I see far too many parents making lame ass excuses as to why they should sit in their bedrooms all day while their children are running amok or are glued to screens. What’s the point of having kids if your version of parenting is the equivalent of mediocre pet ownership?
🗣️Parenting is a verb, y’all. 🗣️
(Disclaimer: This post does not reference people who are working multiple jobs and/or shift work and may be relying on family /childcare to help them out. Those folks may not have the privilege of being home most evenings. This is aimed directly at the people who have the time and straight up choose not to.)
At what age did you start letting your kids watch Disney movies? Like the traditional princess cartoons( Cinderella, beauty and the mulan,moana,etc) and maybe even the pixar ones the toy story, finding nemo, or the incredibles,etc??
A friend of mine has a 3.5 year old that loves Belle (pretty sure it's mom that loves her) and hasn't seen any movies. My friend says they're too scary with the villian scenes and what not. With my oldest I honestly didn't give it second thought, she never had an crazy nightmares or was traumatized. I'm cautious about what my little watches but she has been exposed to Disney movies. She mainly doesn't have the attention span to sit through and watch to the "scary" parts yet.
To me even if it is scary expose the child to it as they seem interested. Fast forward or turn it off if it's too much but it teaches them to feel something other than happy or sad....but maybe I'm wrong and exposing my kids too damn early to these movies.
devocki u mena takaya situaciya.ya oplatila za kursi rebenka.no rebenok posle pervogo uroka skazala cto ey ne nravitsa ucitelnica usloviya i t d cto bolwe ne xocet.ya napisala upravlayiwey ctob vicla oplatu odnogo uroka a ostalnoe ctob otdali.a ona mne napisala cto ne mojet otdat cto vi j priwli posmotreli i dengi obratno ne otdast.est li kakie to pravila v takix situaciyax na kursax ?ya xocu razuznat utocnit potom potrebovat t k perviy raz v takoy situacii. ne lublu ssori i t d poetomu xocu obyasnit ey cto po pravu ona doljna vernut dengi
My biggest upset is when people talk over me and I have to wait to talk or yell over them to be heard…. I’m so sick of being talked over and patronized and treated like I’m so small. Mostly my kids, which I’ve tried correcting so much in the past, to no avail. Now my husband is doing it too…… I actually pulled out our suitcases tonight. Didn’t put anything in them, but it got my kids to sit still and quiet long enough to listen. Hopefully this time they heard because I’m so disrespected that it makes me feel so small and sad. I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up. Only place I could go to is my mom’s in another state, but she downplays everything.
