Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is a time to reflect what we are grateful for.
What are you grateful for?
I am grateful for life. Last year, I had open heart surgery, and for the first five days after surgery, my life hung in the balance. Yet here I am, reading, writing, thinking, alive.
I am grateful for my dear family: My wife, Mary. My children, my grandchildren. I am blessed to be with and near people I love who love me.
I am grateful to live in America. Despite all the challenges our country faces, it’s still a wonderful place to live, where communities come together in bad times, and strangers act to help others.
I am grateful to live in a country where I can speak and write what I wish without fear of punishment.
I am grateful for the rise of a young generation whose idealism and vision will change our country for the better.
I am grateful for the dear friends at the Network for Public Education, whose advocacy and passion on behalf of democracy, public schools, their teachers and their teachers inspires me every day.
I am grateful for the educators who put students first, who work tirelessly for one of the nation’s most important and vital institutions.
I am grateful for the readers of this blog, many of whom have become good friends, without our having met in person. I am grateful too for what I learn every day from you.
If you have read this far, I want you to know that I don’t intend to post much this weekend. Maybe nothing at all.
Hello Diane: I am grateful for you and your presence here, no doubt. However, after 75 years of life, I am also grateful just for being here, and I hope I can live up to whatever comes my way in what I have left of it. Stay healthy, all. CBK
CBK,
I feel the same. Use whatever time is left to us to be true.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Diane, and to all the people who make comments at this precious and invaluable blog. I am so impressed by your ability to make so many entries in one day which must involve a massive amount of reading and cogitation on your part. Thanks, much appreciated.
Happy Thanksgiving to you Diane!
Thanks for your leader ship, clarity, and refusal to compromise. Have a wonderful holiday! Sincerely, Lauren
Happy Thanksgiving, Diane. Thanks for all your tireless efforts on behalf of our valued public institution, public education. You continue to be an important scholar and voice that enlightens, enriches and inspires.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Diane, and everyone here.
A very happy Thanksgiving to you, Diane, and to all the readers of this blog!
xoxoxoxxo!!!
Happy Thanksgiving Diane.
Happy Thanksgiving to the “regulars” and all.
Thank you all for your persistence, optimism amidst all odds, and inspiration.
As a classroom teacher since 1962 in Peru, to California in 1964, to Palau in 1967, to California in 1971, to Hawaii in 1985 and back to California in 2015 until today, I am forever thankful for the students who have brightened every day of my working life and the mentors, both near and far who have supported my efforts these past 60 years. Your influence has kept my head above the political effluent that seeks to drown us all!!
I started reading your blog when I was an angsty teenager. I’m now a teacher and I have a PHD. I don’t comment very often but I’m glad you’re here.
Wow! Thank you! Hang in there.
Oh how I wish was were an angsty teenager today. I’d kill it.
Thanks for the laugh, Greg.
I agree with all of the statements of appreciation directed to Diane.
Happy Thanksgiving, Diane Ravitch! I am grateful for all public educators who do soooooo much for their students and the communities they serve.
I am grateful not to be a tech CEO or so-called philanthropist and that my username on this important blog is not TestCoastDataBreacher.
Thanks for letting us go to your place and talk all the time
Thank you for your tireless efforts to educate and inform Americans about issues vital to the future of our children and our country.
Happy Thanksgiving to Diane and all
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And may you have a wonderful year.
I am thankful for your presence in my life.
We are certainly grateful for all you have done & will do. You inspire so many!
Thank you and so thankful for contributions!
I’m thankful that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Peter Thiel’s anti-woke bank, Glori-fi, is closing after 3 mos. Toby Neubauer (Trump supporter) and, Pence’s former chief of staff heaped praise on the firm during its brief existence.
The none-too-bright, Candace Owens and Kelly Loeffler were fans of the bank. They didn’t get Thiel’s memo, “women voting in a capitalistic democracy is an oxymoron.”
Thank you for giving so many of we teachers who cannot speak out a voice, Diane. Much love and respect.
TOW,
That’s my goal and hope.
I am gratefull that America is not yet Great-full — did not become Great again again in 2022.
IE, I am grateful that MAGAA is not yet a reality.
If Trump is indicted and DeSantis gets beaten in 2024 (or DeSantis gets indicted and Trump gets beaten. Either one works for me) we will have something to really be grateful for.
Make America Grateful Again!!
Make America Grateful Again (in 2024)
If Trump was “Great”
I’d hate to see
A poorer state
For you and me
So make us Grateful
Once again
And dump the faithful
MAGA kin
Thank you for YOU, Diane. Though we’ve never met, I think of you as a mentor, and a friend I’m grateful to talk with and listen to often, for a dozen years now. Your incisive mind—that ability to cut to the chase– is particularly appreciated. Along with countless other characteristics too numerous to mention, but I’ll try: your heart, your intellect, your courage, your radar for bullshit, and that special teacher-feature you employ daily, lobbing out topic after topic for us to dig our teeth into. Hope your day with family was special– now: feet up! Relax for a couple of days already!
Thank you, Bethree. You made my day!