I liked Left Shark.

My idea for a superbowl halftime show: James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken, and Dame Judy Dench all give dramatic readings of what five year olds say they want for dinner and why.   

If facts still mattered, someone could point to Michigan’s plummet in public education thanks to Betsy DeVos and pals and she would be laughed out of the room. Now all that matters is she donated to the GOP and Cheetolini “won” the election.

Or the actual game.....but whatever, right?

A recovering Michigander and the daughter of a teacher in the public schools (42 years) I will third it.

Does...anyone in Michigan actually like her? I know some Michigan transplants where I live and they all make a noise like they’re being forced to drink orange juice after brushing their teeth whenever her name is mentioned. It’s a little surprising to me because those same Michigan transplants are themselves fairly…

Everyone forgets Maroon 5.

I find that not baiting your traps with small children helps tremendously.

Oops, yes. Definitely sarcasm.

I’m hoping you’re being sarcastic. I teach in Florida and they don’t want to pay for anything, except to create standardized tests.

It must hurt so much that but for the electoral collage he would have been picking out a better Education Secretary who would be looking after these issues and not leaving it up to the states.

I think we finally identified the period when America was “great”: 1776, when the states were largely autonomous and the federal government didn’t even have the power to issue a national currency. They’re sticking a paper clip in America and forcing a hard reset. This time without pesky Thomas Jefferson and his…

As the daughter of two Connecticut public school teachers and a current resident of Michigan let me just say, fuck you Betsy.

Tim Kaine touched on the possibility that parents would shop around for a system that was friendlier to their children with disabilities, and BDV seemed to think that that, too, was also best left to the states to hash out. I think this has the potential to create sender-states and receiver-states, personally, and a…

I was walking past my living room while my mother has this exchange streaming on her phone. She cracked up, and I literally reversed course and asked her to replay it. When she did, I just shook my head and said I’d rather have the grizzly bear running the country.

As a public school teacher, I love this. We are unable to be trusted to do our job and should probably be fired, but it’s a-ok for us to have guns with us all the time at work.

On the education of kids with special needs:

hence that fascination with bears, right?

Betsy Devos and her family are hilariously evil