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It's incredibly important that adults act in solidarity with students to resist the surveillance, militarization, and policing of our schools, as these technologies will always have predictable outcomes: harming those who are always-already harmed by surveillance, militarization, and policing.

I directed a writing center for 11 years with almost no support from my school or district leaders. Being able to point to and partner with university writing centers often saved our program from being cut or consolidated. This is a very bad omen for those across the writing center community.

What makes talking about crime and surveillance difficult is that the biggest surveillance zealots are those who either believe a) they don't commit crimes or b) their crimes are fundamentally different from the crimes other people commit and shouldn't be prosecuted.

My kingdom for a political movement able to stand up to this nonsense. Dems have spent 20 years peddling "jobs and money" as the primary purpose of education and propping up all sorts of dodgy charter schools as "innovative," so when this muppetry comes around there's not a leg to stand on.

While I'm not in higher ed, NCTE's decision to shutter CCCC is another example of institutional and organization failure at a time when unwavering strength is necessary. It's also a bad omen for the future of our professional organization and another reason for K-20 solidarity moving forward.

The Hanford Class is full of non-readers who hijacked control over reading in schools. What has followed is a cheap, technical view of reading that has only served to create a K-3 school system for all, full of constant remediation and devoid of close, critical, and beautiful encounters with text.

Progressives who dismiss the classical learning movement, including their growing charter network, do so perilously. They have done well at selling a story about traditional public education, and, unfortunately, there's no cogent counternarrative or alternative vision from the left.

Brother, every student should have the opportunity to drive a truck like Doug Lemov. It's preparation for being a charlatan who thinks they can tell everyone else what to do and what to read because they wrote a book and sell curriculum.

The fundamental argument of the CogSci crowd is that students lack durable knowledge, so embodied processes won't work. Learning can only occur when students are explicitly given dots in a systemic, replicable way. The important knowledge students have from other contexts doesn't count.

This is basically my entire educational philosophy in six words.