NYC public school parent. Advocate for civil rights, children’s health & wellbeing
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NYC Parent retweeted
I found this delightful lesson in the McGuffey's 2nd grade reader.
THE QUARREL.
One day John and Henry were playing in the woods. Under a tall tree they saw a fine, large nut, and both ran to get it.
Henry got to it first and picked it up. But John cried out, “Give me that nut! It is mine, for I was the first to see it.”
“No, it is not yours,” said Henry; “it is mine, for I picked it up.”
Then they began to quarrel about the nut. Each wanted it, and each tried to show that he had the best right to it.
Just then they saw Frank going by, and they asked him to stop a minute. “Isn’t this nut mine?” said Henry.
“No, it is not his; it is mine,” said John.
“Shall I tell you whose it is?” asked Frank.
“Yes, yes,” said both the little boys.
“Well, then,” said Frank, “who saw it first?”
“I did,” said John.
“Who picked it up?”
“I did,” said Henry.
“Very well,” said Frank. “I will now put an end to your little quarrel.”
He took the nut from Henry’s hand and broke the shell. When he had done this he took out the kernel.
“Here, John,” he said, “you shall have this half of the shell; for you were the first who saw the nut. And Henry, this other half is yours; for you picked the nut up.
But I shall keep the kernel as my pay for settling your quarrel.”
The little boys did not like this very well. But Frank said: “It is a good lesson for you. Most quarrels end just this way.”
NYC Parent retweeted
My kindergartener’s “remote school” is a 10 min Google Meet and a packet that we are supposed to complete throughout the day. This counts toward the mandatory 180 days of instruction.
This farce is a burden on families. Either remove Election Day as a day off if you need the day for instruction, or give the kids the day off and don’t pretend making my kid trace letters is equivalent to a day of school.
@nycschools students will learn remotely on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
Prepare by making sure your child has a working, internet-enabled device. Access their NYCPS Student Account: on.nyc.gov/4jGN5mb.
For help, visit SelfService.schools.nyc or connect with your school.
NYC Parent retweeted
We have a homelessness crisis in New York. The shelters aren’t safe. The mentally ill aren’t connected to care.
Our Attorney General could fix it but chooses not to.
It’s time for an AG who actually talks to the homeless, listens to their concerns, and helps them, and all of us.
NYC Parent retweeted
"All through middle school, my son was, at least on paper, a numbers whiz. His report cards consistently showed A’s — his lowest grade was a B plus. But when he slid down to a 78 on his first exam at a top high school in Queens this fall, I pulled up a chair to help him review for his next test.
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He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions."
This is happening all over the country, and parents often have no idea.
Thanks @nypost for sharing our story. My phone is blowing up in regards.Not alone yet @NYCSchools throws distractions so that parents will divert their attention from the real issues.Why doesn't anyone listen...care...or do something? @DOEChancellor nypost.com/2026/10/31/us-new…
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New: NYC will pay the teachers’ union $8.7 million for “building positive nurturing environments” during the COVID pandemic in 2020-2022 under a RETROACTIVE contract approved last night by the Panel for Educational Policy. The DOE refused to specify what labor the UFT provided, or explain why the city is funding it SIX YEARS LATER.
Agenda item #3:
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NY Voters: This is Important!
Vote NO on the Mamdani power grab charter revision amendments on your ballot and spread the word.
These amendments will take away community input and voices, as well as reasonable checks and balances and oversight, in so many areas—street sheds, tall towers, street usage, architectural preservation, contract review and so much more. It’s a power grab.
This is the first time a mayor convened a commission so quickly after taking office . Other mayors wait until they have the experience to see what we really need . Then he picked someone to head it who like him has no municipal government experience. The result is a gift to special interests and lobbyists.
The summary below is from the @OneCityRisingNY voter guide which was prepared by Independant, Dem and GOP volunteers who looked at the facts objectively.
Vote No!!!
@OneCityRisingNY @nyc_evsa @Shebbie4nyc @AFineBlogger @dylanypyen @gtjco @bronxilla @stick_dynamite @katiewr31413491
NYC Parent retweeted
Been here. I'm an investigative reporter by background and this process exceeded my capacities. @michelleinbklyn on the insane NYC public high school admissions process. nytimes.com/2026/10/19/opini…
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Tune in to America This Week on Election Night!
Join @walterkirn and me for an America This Week Reunion Special, as we watch returns and ponder the coming end of the world
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NYC Parent retweeted
The enemies of reading have never been stronger, but the reward for overcoming them has never been greater
NYC Parent retweeted
Spoke to a boy of 12. His first grade was essentially cancelled and replaced by Zoom, even gym classes. His second grade was marked entirely by compliance: forced masking, distancing, plexiglass, making all language lessons useless. His third grade was routinely interrupted by class quarantines and disease paranoia. By then, nearly everyone was academically behind, trust in authority shattered, and organic social networks only starting to form in halting ways as parent groups were wrecked by woke and trans political arguments.
This is the childhood he experienced, along with millions of others, an entire generation.
Smart parents have figured it out: they have to secede from the system to save their kids. Even if they use the schools, they no longer trust and do most real education on nights and weekends.
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Covid. My first child never got a college graduation ceremony after working her whole life for that day.
My father died in May '20 and never got a memorial service or a funeral.
I am white hot to the end abt this sinful robbery of our humanity & spirit.
I'll stay on it, Dad
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We need to dispel the notion that schools are underfunded and demand more accountability for what we already spend. With one-third the number of students, P.S. 307 gets more staff and nearly the same budget as P.S. 8.
PS 307's school budget is $9.5M
216 students
83% low-income
74 staff/teachers
ELA proficiency: 21.6%
PS 8's school budget is $10M
632 students
10% low-income
59 staff/teacher positions
ELA proficiency: 86.4
The Nikole Hannah-Jones is brave in some respects, and worth reading, but it still falls back on the claims that schools like PS 307 are underfunded and understaffed relative to other schools, which isn't true.
PS 307 has an average class size of 10 students and spends $52,349 per pupil. We don't know what school Hannah-Jones' daughter attends now, but Stuyvesant is a good example of the type. Stuyvesant spends $21,664 per pupil with an average class size of 29.
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Omg, I see this kind of thing all the time. We need laws and rules specific to e-vehicles. I also see parents transporting their kids around on e-scooters, barrelling down the road at 20+mph, not even wearing helmets. So dangerous.
@SpeakerMenin @nycmayor @NYCCouncil
We should never see 2 riders on 1 @CitiBikeNYC. We need @NYCCouncil to take action before more are kiIIed.
NYC Parent retweeted
Walking to the subway and crossing 2nd Ave. A Citi Bike rider with AirPods on blows the red at full speed while several of us step into the crosswalk to cross. Citi Bike riders routinely ride aggressively and run red lights. Enforcement is needed to avoid tragedy.
NYC Parent retweeted
No mention that "passenger" was in the basket of the @CitiBikeNYC , and then the quote from @TransAlt , which accepts generous funding from @lyft /@CitiBikeNYC and insists on more infrastructure for Citibike. No wonder this keeps happening. We need honest reporting of facts.
15-year-old girl dies after truck hits two teens in East Village
gothamist.com/news/15-year-o…
NYC Parent retweeted
Nearly 1/4th of students in NYC Public Schools attend a campus with no outdoor phys-ed space, @NYCComptroller reports. Students at some schools can't go outside for recess and "instead stay inside watching movies."
comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/…
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Our city is being run by man-children who can’t pay their own rent, have never run a business, and don’t have children. But they’re really good at Instagram!
Very interesting email just came our way about yet another superstar DSA rich kid who needs his parents to bail him out. Shocking, I know.
So it turns out that DSA strategist Morris Katz was, according to this very reliable source, renting a $5,700/month luxury apartment on Lorimer Street in Brooklyn and just stopped paying rent one day.
He apparently bounced several checks, dodged calls from the management company, super, and landlord, lied about being 'out of town', overstayed his lease, and then left all his belongings behind to be dealt with by the staff.
Ultimately his rich parents, of course, bailed him out with the landlord, presumably to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
Again, this is the DSA. A group of spoiled brats who cannot even manage their own lives, yet supposedly have all the answers for how our entire world should be run. An absolute joke.
Many more details to come on this. Stay tuned!
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The inability and unwillingness to recognize it is *the story*. Not one major outlet has gone back and audited its own NPI coverage. We put the reckoning on film instead, including @anya1anya @NPR 's own education reporter at the time.
It's all there, 15 DAYS...
