Let us be thankful for life and health.
Let us be thankful that we live in a free and democratic society.
Let us be thankful for the parents who love and cherish their children.
Let us be thankful for the children, filled with dreams and hopes and the joy of childhood, and let us pledge to protect them.
Let us be thankful for the educators who help children and young people grow, develop, learn, and come to love learning.
Let us be thankful for those who are able and willing to defend the rights of children to have a childhood.
Let us be thankful for those who defend the right of all people to live a life free from want, free from fear, free from insecurity.
Let us be thankful for the parents and educators who fearlessly defend the children in their care against those who want to experiment on them.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who read these words.
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And a wonderful Thanksgiving to you and yours. Thank you for all that you do!
And let us be thankful for the astounding woman who wrote these words.
Gratefully,
From a very appreciative Educator and child and family advocate
Dr. Ravitch: Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Hanukkah! Thank you for all your support and inspiration!
Thank you so much Diane Ravitch for all you do for each and every one of us! My husband just finished your new book, Reign of Error, and now it’s all mine! We decided to buy many to give to others for the holiday season! It has provided much needed background information! Have a restful day with wishes of good health in the coming year. We certainly will need your strong voice!
Thank you!
Let us be thankful for the tireless work of brilliant bloggers such as Diane Ravitch who keep us informed and inspired everyday to keep public schools from the hands of the Billionaire Boys.
Thank you, Diane. And we are all thankful to you and your work on behald of public education. Enjoy the day.
Russ
I am thankful in all directions for Doctor Diane Ravitch . . . . . . .
Have a wonderful day and thank you for keeping it real! You are amazing!!!!!
Thank YOU Diane – a voice for all children and a playing field that works for ALL of them and a voice for all who teach, advocate, understand, think about, and uses common sense in and for our public schools.
I am especially thankful for you Diane! Thank you for leading the fight against all those who are trying to hurt our children. I appreciate that you give us so much information. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for being our voice…I doubt you’ll ever know just how many of us are grateful to you. Have a wonderful, restful Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, Diane! Thank you for standing up for public school children and parents!!
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You are one of the people for which I am very thankful.
I am also thankful for many of your readers and posters.
Happy thanksgiving !
Your blog has become an obsession, but an informative one. With your commentaries and insights I am able to stay in the loop even though I am retired.
Happy Thanksgiving. Have a joyous, but restful day.
Diane-
I am hoping you will rest up a bit and refill the well. You are deeply appreciated. Deeply.
Thanks for everything.
We are all blessed by your daily fight. But even more, your good health. Stay well. Happy Thanksgiving.
Let us be thankful for the courage, commitment and endless effort you make for the noble cause to safeguard our public education as the foundation of this great nation.
Let us be thankful for inspiring us to work together for this noble cause.
Salute!
Thank you for you powerful words… they have transformed my life. Happy Thanksgivvukah!
Thank you for your leadership and inspiration! Happy Holidays! Stay healthy.
“Diane Ravitch’s Blog A site to discuss better education for all”
From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
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Also much appreciated.
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And let us be thankful for YOU…. Our guiding light…
WE ARE ALSO THANKFUL FOR YOUR HARD WORK DIANE RAVITCH. TAKE CARE OF YOURS
ELF
Diane,
Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for all of the work you do in behalf of students, teachers and education.
Happy Thanksgiving to you! You are a true inspiration.
Ditto to every message of gratitude for your passion, leadership, humanity, that has been written here today. You are right up at the top of my gratitude list. Thank you for sharing your life with us!
Diane,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank YOU for all that you do. Thanks for bringing to light all that could have been swept under the carpet.
Your strong voice and courage is inspirational!
Best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving and continued recovery.
Happy Thanksgiving Diane! Thank you for sharing this with us all. I am very thankful for you and all the others who have made sure that the truth gets out and taught me so much.
A happy Thanksgiving to you all. I will share that my 87 year old father had triple bypass and valve replacement surgery last Friday. After being in a daze since then, he awoke and took his first steps this morning. Our family, gathered for Thanksgiving, is indeed thankful. He was a teacher for 34 years.
A big thank you to you!!!! Trust me, I was talking about you at the dinner table today! I really did! lol I had to straighten out some misconceptions and I wouldn’t be able to do that if I didn’t follow your work. xoxox
Thank you, Diane, for your encouragement and support of American educators and students. You help us keep fighting the good fight.
Let’s be thankful to the leadership and support of Diane! Happy Thanksgiving.
I love you Diane. Your inspire so many people who care about education, public education. Thank you!
Thank you Diane for keeping in the limelight the Innocent Precious Children whose futures depend on the sane judgement of the adults to guide them in the right direction…
I fear the Road at the Top at the End of this Race will result in the Demise of Individuality of each of these children…..
Thank you for your sincere effort to keep education from going down a One-Way Street ….all the children headed in the same direction …all the children trying to be fitted with the same size…and all of the children Failing to be able to Fit anywhere….
Diane is trying to Knock some Common Sense into the Greedy Grinches who refuse to Build the Branching Roads ….so that all children may succeed going in the direction suited to each individual and become proud of their accomplishments .
End Result….” Productive and Happy Citizens.”..
That Happy Productive Ending is what makes Diane’s efforts so important to the Educational Success in this country..
“Freedom from want and fear.”
Freedom of speech and religion.”
Straightforward. The Four Freedoms.
And a reminder we can never take them for granted, whether in 1863, 1944, or today.
There is a medal (the “Service Medal”) that millions earned during a time when the sacrifices for what we treasure were much greater.
On the front of the medal is Victory, holding the two pieces of a broken sword.
On the obverse is the “Four Freedoms.”
That medal was awarded to every person, man or woman, who served in the U.S. Armed Forces between 1941 and 1946. So when both my mother and father were dead, I received two of those and two American flags. “Worse” than anything we face for my father was the Winter of 1944 – 45 across Europe, from the Vosges Mountains to the Rhineland. For my mother, it was 1945 in a hell called Okinawa.
Sixty-eight years after that medal was struck, my family still treasures it as a reminder of how much “service” should be valued. I hope that my sons understand its meaning as well as they can. One of them sits this morning on my son’s bookcase. The other I gave to the leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union the day we began the Chicago Teachers Strike of 2012. We are standing for some serious values, which should be honored always.
But then there is today. For a nation to degenerate into a place where public service could be denigrated as it has been by many of “our” leaders of late should be more of a scandal than it so far has become.
But we are all slowly working on that project, so Happy Thanksgiving to everyone reading this. In the context of some of the histories we share with others now long gone…
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Happy Thankgiving!
Let us be thankful for Diane Ravtich! And for the many educators who read her thoughtful blog and, inspired by it, work to stop the deform juggernaut now rolling over kids and teachers.