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Thanksgiving: Family, Friends, Teachers, HOPE, and Public Schools

November 22, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It involves family and friends and is rather unassuming, tucked between the shenanigans of Halloween and the solemn, yet frenetic, Christmas rush. We especially remember those suffering loss today. The tables that aren’t whole due to empty chairs. Loss is a burden on a day to give thanks. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Family, Friendships, hope, love, Peace, public education, public schools, Thanksgiving

If You Feel Like Grandma Who Got Run Over By a Reindeer—Don’t Despair!

December 21, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

If your child is doing well and you are happy about public school you probably don’t need to read any further. If your house is decorated well enough to win a Martha Stewart contest, and your Christmas dinner was cooked and frozen in neat Zip Lock bags and Rubbermaid containers weeks ago, then you can […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: children with disabilities, Christmas, Common Core, community, high-stakes testing, hope, opting out of the test, public schools, support, Teach for America

Don’t Sit Alone and Cry in Your Soup! Let’s All Advocate for Students!

October 9, 2013 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

One of the pleasures of starting a blog is to hear from parents and teachers. Some post. Some don’t want to put information online, but they want to be heard. Others comment on Facebook. The stories are often heart wrenching. Teachers recognize they can’t teach the way they know they should because they are pushed […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Special Education Tagged With: accountabilty, Advocacy, children with disabilites, Common Core, corporal punshment, discipline, hope, struggle, success

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"The current national privacy bill in Congress (which might-in other respects-actually be good) won’t do anything for most students either, as it excludes public institutions such as public schools & vendors that handle student data" #privacy #surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/

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"I wonder why all the folks yelling about 'learning loss' haven't made a peep about the teaching & learning time lost every year to standardized testing & test prep." ~Dr Robinson @mrobmused .@nancyflanagan .@NancyEBailey1 https://www.mitchellrobinsonforstateschoolboard.org/

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8 Aug

I understand not wanting to, being able to, or feeling it is a burden to buy your children school supplies.

I get it. Don’t blame the teachers though. They don’t want you to have to buy them and they sure as hell shouldn’t have to buy them all either.

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As many unsupported professional teachers leave the classroom, who will replace them? #teachertwitter https://nancyebailey.com/2022/08/07/whos-teaching-americas-students/

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