I wish everyone who reads this blog a happy, healthy New Year.
May 2025 be a year in which we feel strong resolve to stand up for our democracy, our values, our families, our communities, ourselves.
Don’t let anyone push you around.
Stand up for what is right.
Be kind to others, especially strangers.
Seek common ground to solve common problems.
Take long walks.
Hug those you love.
Read books.
Visit a museum.
Take care of yourself and others.
Take care of your mind, body, and spirit.
Be good to yourself.
Diane
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Happy New Year..
Now to take a deep breath and take in the good, tolerate the bad, and look towards the future you control.
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Ralph, exactly right. This will be a test of Zen attitude these next four years.
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likewise to you, you hard-working journalist (and classmate)
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Happy New Year to you…thank you for all you do to continue to keep the promise of public education alive and well. 2025 is going to be a rocky ride!
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Happy New Year to you and NPE. Thank you so much for all you do for our public schools.
This year everyone has to find a way to find their own “peace on earth” despite what is swirling around them. Try to be the calm in the middle of the storm.
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Be zen but not FRO-Zen.
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Good one.
Buon Anno (Italian) and hoping for the best in MMXXV.
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Retired: When I read “swirling around them,” my first thought was, “swirling around” is what happens when one is standing in a political ‘”bowl,” that is difficult to distinguish from an operating toilet. CBK
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Backatcha, Diane. I have lots of wishes, but high on the list is that at least some of the MAGA people will realize that,
(1) when a person running for president stands before a crowd and says out loud that he doesn’t care about voters, he just wants their vote, and
(2) when it gets reported all over the place, and
(3) those same people STILL vote for him, then,
(4) I hope these same people will realize why so many on the other side of the ticket, so to speak, would NOT be correct to think variations on, “these people are cult-nuts,” “have actually lost their otherwise critical minds,” or are just plain “stupid.”
I wish for a remission for what is plainly a national psychosis of some kind which, along with the severe irresponsibility that comes with political ignorance, is influencing a large portion of the people who are also citizens of the United States. CBK
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Well said.
And, let’s hope there’s some surprise, GOOD news for everyone in 2025.
Take care all!
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Happy New Year, and a hearty illegitimi non carburundum to all!
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Happy New Year to you Diane and everyone here! In support of all your wonderful words of wisdom, here’s a song to remind us that we are really going to have to be Brave now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4&list=RDEMwLfrTxd4GhO7mFIiaGGmbA&start_radio=1
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As we undertake this daunting journey, it would also be expedient for us to remember about the ominous guy we’re facing that nobody died and made him King of Anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7-AUmiNcA&list=RDEMwLfrTxd4GhO7mFIiaGGmbA&index=2
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Thank you for your positivity.
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Thank you. For it all; I find you inspiring. In this time when I for one need some inspiration.
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Best wishes to our hostess and all who visit her livingroom!
Repeating something seen online:
May 2025 prove far better than the expectations you have today.
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Amen, Christine!
I think the good thing about having to face the impending venture that lies ahead is that it’s not new, we’ve all been through it before –and together. Not that we can or should develop a thick skin to our nation being led by an ignorant, self-centered, amoral, heartless criminal with no impulse control, who regularly puts our country and the rest of the planet at risk, but that we have all been through it before right here. And, though we may experience that in spades the next time around, at least we have a support group to help each other through it again. Thanks sooo much to Diane for this!!!
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Thank you Dr. Ravitch for your New Year wishes!
It feels that you have said all we need to hear as a nation. I will add, let us never lose our faith in our Democracy and values, and of course always stand up to honor them!
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Thank you!
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