Show threadNonilex2d ago

While #Utah requires that #PublicSchool students have 2 doses of the measles, mumps & rubella #vaccine [#MMR], parents can opt out of those requirements for personal, religious or medical reasons. In the 2024-25 school year, about 11% of kindergartners had exemptions or were missing documentation to show they were vaccinated against #measles, up from about 7% before the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccination rates need to be above about 95% to stem the spread of the #virus.

#PublicHealth #disease

Drink of Jesus5d ago

Former Miami-Dade high school teacher charged with multiple counts of battery, placed on house arrest

A former Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher is facing serious criminal charges after authorities say he was accused of multiple counts of battery involving students. According to court records, 53-year-old Rudolph Infante, a teacher at Miami Southridge Senior High School, has been charged with four counts of battery and one count of an offense against students by an authority figure.  Details surrounding the alleged incidents remain limited, but Infante appeared in bond court, where a […]

https://drinkofjesus.com/2026/04/13/former-miami-dade-high-school-teacher-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-battery-placed-on-house-arrest/

Marshall MayerApr 1

"Ownership of Time Is Learned Early"

With the advent of neoliberalism in the 1980s, the mission of public education has become more about preparing for life in the workforce rather than preparing for life fulfilled by freedom and happiness. The state shapes working class consciousness rather than the other way around. It's time to change that.

Source: https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/ownership-of-time-is-learned-early/view

#authenticphotography #education #elementaryschool #lifelonglearning #ownership #publicschool #workingclass

Show threadDaniel M. ReckMar 28

We lost a great one today. 105th birthday was earlier this month.

#PublicSchool #teacher for decades. Artist. Learner of languages.

#GirlGeek before it was cool. Her first #tech was a Compaq luggable followed by an IBM PS/2. Was still active on her computer at 100 years old.

Mother. Grandmother. And 39 days ago, great grandmother.

Fitting for a lifelong #educator, her final act in #hospice was to help train a nurse on ultrasound-visualized IV placement.

We will miss you. Love always. #Peace

Daniel M. ReckMar 26

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116292195440386555

Meanwhile... I sit here in the #USA arguing with family about the cost of #hospice care for a woman who gave decades of her life as a #PublicSchool #teacher.

#UniversalHealth #Healthcare #affordability #ConceptsOfAPlan

The Wild Hunt NewsMar 24

The Department of Education’s new guidance affirms protected religious expression in public schools, while raising questions about how neutrality, enforcement, and the absence of non-Abrahamic examples may shape its real-world application.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/new-doe-guidance-on-school-prayer-affirms-rights-leaves-questions-for-minority-faiths.html

#pagan #DepartmentOfEducation #schoolprayer #prayerinschool #kennedyvbremertonschooldistrict #religiousfreedom #publicschool

New DOE Guidance on School Prayer Affirms Rights, Leaves Questions for Minority Faiths

The Department of Education’s new guidance affirms protected religious expression in public schools, while raising questions about how neutrality, enforcement, and the absence of non-Abrahamic examples may shape its real-world application.

The Wild Hunt
Gay CurmudgeonMar 20
A student at his Little League game. 1977. I hope for a future in which gay people are accepted as teachers, and homophobes are not. #education #publiceducation #homophobia #bigotry #bigotryiswrong #endbigotry #student #students #littleleague #school #publicschool #publicschools #sports #exercise #goodhealth #1970s #twentiethcentury #civilrights
Gay CurmudgeonMar 19
One of my public school students in 1977 at his Little League game. I hope some day gay people are more accepted as teachers. Sadly, it has not improved during my lifetime. #civilrights #equalrights #gayrights #endbigotry #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #1970s #littleleague #littleleagues #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #softball #softballplayer #softballplayers #tribe #tribes #monkeytribe #monkeytribes #monkeytribalism #tribalism
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 5
The first proposal for a US #PublicSchool system was published on #ThisDayInHistory in 1791 during George Washington's first term. #RobertCoram was motivated by a need to close the #WealthGap, as no representative form of government will work if power and wealth are concentrated.
Gay CurmudgeonMar 2
Art by my late mother-in-law, Jo Ann Smith, shown at New York's Pleasant Valley Library in February. #art #artist #arting #makingart #creating #creativity #motherinlaw #mother #mothers #class #classroom #school #publicschool #publicschools #teacher #teaching #taught #color #colorful #pleasantvalley #newyork #newyorkstate #poughkeepsie #hometown #husband #desk #desks #schooldesk #schooldesks