Memorable not necessarily likeable Math Teacher | Curriculum Director & Math Specialist @WAEthnicStudies
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Shraddha Shirude retweeted
White friends, especially white women who did not have an undergraduate sorority experience:
In the coming months you’ll likely see a great deal of content about VP Harris’ sorority affiliation and the support from its members. We 🩷 it. Some info & tips for us: 🧵
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Kamala Harris incarceration record as District Attorney
Domestic abusers, child molesters, rapists, and murderers - 1200+
Mothers of truant children - 0
Black men for simple marijuana possession - 0
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
“Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union plan to turn up the heat on state lawmakers Wednesday, with more than 600 staff being given the day away from classrooms to go to Springfield to rally for more revenue.”
wbez.org/stories/chicago-tea…
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Imagine you go to the Dr. for a routine check up. A week later, you get a phone call from the doctors office. “Dr. Smith said he’d like to see you in the next day or two to discuss your physical exam.”
That “punched in the gut” feeling is immediate, and your thoughts are bouncing back & forth like a high speed tennis match.
The next day, you’re waiting on the doctor in his office. He comes in behind you, closes the door…and walks around behind his desk, pulling out his creaky chair. He gets right to the point. “You have a tumor. It’s cancerous.”
You feared hearing those words, but, didn’t really think you would. “I mean, this can’t be happening to me, right?!” you say to yourself.
As you sit there, in silence, with your hands starting to tremble and your lower eyelids beginning to reach their threshold on how many tears they can hold back before the dam breaks, your doctor pierces the quiet. “It is operable. If we could get it out, now, you might be fine. No guarantee…but…maybe.”
The tears come pouring, and you begin to sob. These are happy tears….tears of relief. For a moment you thought you were looking at a death sentence.
The doctor speaks again “But, I am so sorry to tell you…we won’t be able to operate. The tumor will have to stay”
“What?!” you say with the sharp punch of a Marine Corp drill instructor. “What the hell do you mean ‘it will have to stay?’”
“It’s against the law. If I did this operation, I’d likely go to prison. Even if it was successful, and we saved you from metastasis, you’d likely go to prison as well. I can’t do it. No other doctor will do it. I’m sorry.”
You collapse to the floor. Angry. Horrified. Confused. Stunned…….hopeless.
This unthinkable scenario is one that is now happening every day…somewhere.
This is what women across the country are now facing when it comes to having an abortion that would save their life. Situations like this are not rare. They are not.
What women are confronted with, now…is barbaric. This is supposed to be 2023. Why aren’t we acting like it’s 2023 in this critical area of need for women from coast to coast? Why? We know why. The answer is fucking unacceptable.
#Abortion
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
After six years, it's easy to take for granted the fact that I know my authentic self, that I don't have to spend my life in hiding, mired in fear and self-hatred, forced to perform the gender identity that society assigned to me. But it is, in fact, a miracle. 1/
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Today, the #SupremeCourt hyper-partisan majority ruled to strike down #AffirmativeAction policies at Harvard and UNC, flouting nearly 50 years of legal precedent and our country’s long history and current reality of racial inequity. But our fight isn’t over.
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
My heart goes out to #TamirRice’s family, especially to his mother, Samaria Rice, on today, Tamir’s birthday.
He should be celebrating 21 years.
It is a grave injustice that he’s not.
And I just can’t imagine how devastating that is for Ms. Rice…I’m sorry.
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Aadhaar mismatch | A missing letter means no work for MGNREGS workers.
Kashipur Block, which has a huge Adivasi population, has reported one of the highest MGNREGA deletion rates in the country. And 61 lakh workers have been deleted in 2023 alone.
This Govt is so anti-poor.
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
When we assume that clinical struggles are caused by a lack of studying, effort, or discipline…
… we are forgetting that the physicians we teach are humans.
With real lives. Real concerns. And real problems.
This is where the Doctrine of Charity proves helpful.
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Shraddha Shirude retweeted
We have NEA members at headquarters today preparing to run for public office and learning more about how best to leverage their passion and experience to improve public education on a larger scale.
Together, we will protect the freedom to learn and teach truth. #FreedomToLearn
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Think about this next time @GovAbbott offers any praise for Texas public school teachers...
Consider your most stressful day/week as a public school educator, then reflect on the following:
(1) Texas public school employees are tired, burned out, underappreciated, and many work in underresourced schools.
(2) Texas teachers busted their rears and sacrificed their own families by helping our students and communities endure a global pandemic.
THEN...
(3) Texas teachers were used as fodder as the Governor told voters they were "woke" and that they teach kids to "hate America."
AND...
(4) Texas ranks in the bottom 10 states in per-student funding.
(5) Texas' $32.7 billion surplus is the size of the budget of South Carolina.
FINALLY...
(6) Policymakers could not find it within themselves to provide teachers with any raise, nor could they find it within themselves to increase school funding...due to their insistence on tying funding to vouchers.
These people MUST be held accountable. The 2023/24 school year should not start until we: (a) increase teacher pay; and (b) increase school funding.
PERIOD.
#txlege
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
forget everything i ever said about voting, i will be the first at the polls to prevent this monster from becoming president
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
I was talking with a coworker who bragged about having covid +5 times, says it's mild.
But the entire team is so frustrated with his code quality, we've started holding weekly code reviews.
And he forgets to check in code.
He will reply to emails and they're blank.
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
PSA:
Your period should not
🩸last longer than 7 days
🩸interfere with your life
🩸happen more than monthly
🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours
🩸have clots larger than a quarter
🩸cause debilitating pain
🩸require double product coverage
🩸make you anemic
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Statistician here. I see some rookie data science mistakes so let's get into it.
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
Oh shit.
Council members and tenants just burnished the stage to demand a rent decrease!
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
When parents are all “why aren’t they teaching math the same way I was taught as a kid?” I’m like, because name one other thing you think should be done the same way it was THIRTY YEARS AGO?! #mathchat – at Wasaga Beach, Ontario
Shraddha Shirude retweeted
• Death penalty gets the ax
• Abortion pill decision should come today
• #waleg gives orcas a little more space
Find more news at The Stranger:
thestranger.com/slog-am/2023…