If I had magical powers, I would bless you all with happiness and good health.
May you find answers to your problems, may all your days have time for laughter, may you set aside time to read and reflect.
May art and humor conquer the darkness that we inevitably encounter.
May you find hope, joy, and love in your life.
May the good guys win and the bad guys lose, just like in all the wonderful movies of olden times.
May all of us, working together, repair this world we live in so it will be better for those live in it now and for those who follow us.
Diane
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Thank you, Diane. I NEEDED this post. Appreciate it.
Beautifully written and, the same thoughts are sent back to you.
YES,YES, YES. A lovely new year message.
Thanks for the kind message. May this year be a happy and healthy one for you as well.
OK, Diane. This is a bit disingenuous. We are all perfectly aware of your magical powers!
Art and humor. Pretty formidable tools. Thanks for the lift, Diane, and an extraordinarily Happy New Year to you.
Beautiful. Be Happy and be well. Thank you for your tremendous, sustaining work.
Thank you, Diane, and all the wonderful people who contribute their thoughts and ideas to this blog. This will be a year of vigilance and commitment. And I hope you will enjoy this story about your hometown:
https://www.gq.com/story/houston-restaurants-capital-of-southern-cool
Thanks, Diane, for the kind and encouraging thoughts/vibes for the new year. By maintaining this incredible blog you give us all hope that things can change for the better. Wishing all the best to you and all the commenters for 2019 and beyond.
For those of you who don’t want to watch football today and have Amazon Prime, I think many of you would like the Russian movie “I Am A Teacher”, a story about how a teacher learns what it really means to answer his calling.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07BR771C6/ref=pd_cbs_318_12
Happy New Year!!!
🎈 🥳 happy New Year 🎆🎊
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Happy New Year!!!
🎈 🥳 2019 🎆🎊
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Thank you, dear friend
May your voice ring out so all can hear the truth!
YES.
Dearest Dr. Ravitch:
I really treasure and love your wisdom. The best of all your wishes is:
“May all of us, working together, repair this world we live in so it will be better for those live in it now and for those who follow us.”
It is so difficult to have your best wish come true, especially in this chaos times of this specific era.
Happy New Year to you, your loved ones and your wonderful supporters.
I sincerely pray God to bless you and all of your conscientious supporters plus all of your loved ones with health, happiness and success in whatever you do.
Lots of love and respect to you,
May, your faithful and secret admirer forever.
Happy new year to you as well, Diane. Many thoughts and prayers for all of us on the earth this year. May we find peace, or at least more peace.
Or some peace. Less chaos. Less violence. More respect for each and every person. More caring. Less power for the oligarchs in this and every country.
Diane, will you cast a spell on the reformies and their billionaire accounts. This way Betsy wakes up one morning and realizes she is broke so then maybe she can understand the current state of our public schools. Happy New Year.
Or, alternatively, we can ask our in-house poet to spell out a nice witchy spell against Mrs DeVostation.
Amen. Thanks, and especially for not mentioning wealth.