How nice would it have been to have woken up today with an alternative President instead?

If the American public school system was flush with cash, he never would have been elected.

I agree and just want to emphasize that Career educators deserve SO much respect. It is a specialized, much in demand and (in this county) far under compensated field. As a college-level educator I want to say that while some of us are fantastic educators others are not (I’m probably below average), but that’s not…

Plus, summers aren’t “off”. Teachers get (meager) nine-month salaries and it is the very rare public schoolteacher who can afford not to supplement that salary during those three months. Certainly not if they’re the wage-earner in the family.

Oh, don’t worry, we are very disrespected at the college-prof level, too! With the added benefit that everyone incorrectly thinks we are also rich and overpaid, rather than adjuncts getting paid less than our teaching assistants.

Yes, Betsy would be one of those parents. My daughter, who is a high school teacher, spent the first 9 years of her teaching career in a very upper-middle class, white, wealthy district. She shit she got from entitled parents and kids was mind-boggling. For the past 3 years, she’s been teaching at an inner-city school…

Teaching as a profession is *extremely* disrespected in this country (unless you are at the college-prof level). Teachers are often thought of as being stupid (there has been a lot of jabber about how education majors are exceptionally dumb), so, instead of being admired for educating the next generation, they are…

There is this weird schism with public views on education/education professionals. The public bitches they are overpaid, lazy, etc. and need to have their funding cut but at the same time they would be cutting education funding for their own children.

Trump’s comment about schools awash in cash is his opening salvo for this charter school scam he plans to enact with Miss DeVos. He will tweet that all educations are solved because we are going to have great cheap charter schools nationwide. We are in dangerous waters.

When has being unprepared and stupid ever stopped the Trump team?

“Pre-born” is post-fact.

They say “feminists” when what they mean is just “women”

My argument has always been that pro-life is your choice. The choice of others is none of your damn business. If you want the right to choose life, you have to be prepared to let others make their own choice.

“We’re feminists, just ones that don’t agree with feminism.”

You don’t give stuff to the slutty mcsults, you punish them. It is getting to the point they only care about the moment of conception. Married, white, upper class, ultra Christian, fine, screwing a married Republican and get knocked up, fine, daughter of any above, who made a “mistake” that would embarrass the family,…

the “pre-born” literally do not exist.

The abortion rate is currently at its lowest point since Roe v Wade passed. Because we had Planned Parenthood and access for free birth control.

This “preborn women’s rights” line is the newest argument the anti-abortion crowd is pulling out of their asses. I just had a guy try and pull it on me this morning. This along with the “okay, we’re gonna be feminists now, only pro-life ones” (oxymoron much?), is obviously the latest strategy coming down from the…

They were there to reclaim feminism for the anti-abortion movement, to use the language of feminism, but to recenter on “pre-born” women and the abortion industry. “We’re marching for the pre-born,” Lori told Jezebel. Both of them were unhappy about the unapologetically pro-choice stance of the Women’s March.

Actually, Sheila, the vast majority of fetuses are aborted before there is any observable sex.