Due to the the Omicron surge of COVID, the Network for Public Education and NPE Action has again rescheduled our in-person conference. It will now be April 30-May 1.
Still in Philadelphia. Still a star-studded roster of parents, educators, and friends of public schools.
Certainties: Great speakers. Terrific panels. Ample time to discuss your concerns. Wonderful opportunity to meet your favorite bloggers. Guaranteed: excitement about joining with old and new friends to learn from one another and to plan for the future.
Please register now. All the details are here.
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The Conference will energize, lay out paths forward, and enable us to witness the naturally great and the hardworking exceptional. It will be an opportunity to take pride in NPE’s commitment for the future.
Send A Giant Lifeline To Virginia Educators. They will be in desperate need by end of April 2022. It is Fight Back Time in Youngkin Land and across the USA.
I wish you well, won’t be able to attend. Based on the one time I went, I have one suggestion for attendees: every time you go to a session, sit with people you don’t know and learn from each other. Never congregate with friends. If you can’t get outside of your comfort zone among like-minded people, how are you going to affect change with people who aren’t? You’ll have time to reconnect with your friends in the social hours.
My mother just sent me a text message saying that it was so cold in Indiana that she was thinking of going to one of the book burnings to warm up.
Students are starting to go to school board meetings to protest against the book bannings. Here, a comment made by a high-school student to the Granbury ISD school board:
“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book that I checked out from my school’s library that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government–and public school is an extension of government–has ever banned books and . . . been remembered in history as the good guys.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/school-board-bans-pulitzer-winning-graphic-novel-about-the-holocaust/ar-AATboep?ocid=msedgntp
And this just in: Famed virologist and epidemiologist Ron DeSantis, who studied infomercial medicine under stable genius Donald J. Trump, is fighting with the FDA over the efficacy of monoclonal antibody treatments. DeSantis had pushed to open clinics offering the treatments, but the FDA pulled the plug on these clinics, saying that the monoclonal antibody drugs are ineffective against the Omicron variant, which accounts for 99 percent of cases in the U.S. now. DeSantis disagrees, and Flor-uh-duh Man, contacted by this intrepid reporter, stands behind the governor. “Flor-uh-duh must ensure that it continues to offer the most ineffective treatments,” said Flor-uh-duh Man, proudly pointing to his supply of horse tranquilizer and injectable bleach.