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Reflections on the short yet deep book of Timothy Snyder. Defend Institutions. It is institutions that help us preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after another unless each is…
9.3.2025 23:09On Tyranny: Lessons for Educators 2Reflections on the short yet deep book of Timothy Snyder. Do Not Obey In Advance. (Yes, unless you spend no time on the internet and social media, you are well aware of this sentence. But if you are not, then you can’t possibly be reading this.) Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.…
9.3.2025 15:14On Tyranny: Lessons for EducatorsWhen there’s a change in power on a school board, the hope of the electorate is that they have chosen serious people who will focus on issues of importance, the ones on which they based their vote. Sometimes, it doesn’t work out that way. In the latest news from Duval County, FL, the school district…
11.2.2025 00:58Catfight[…] Update #2: Six Central Florida school districts have issued their own policies. […]
9.2.2025 20:03Comment on Cold As Ice: Update #2 by Cold As Ice – Grumpy Old Teacher[…] Update #1: Duval County School Board attorney explains his rationale. […]
9.2.2025 20:03Comment on Cold As Ice: Update by Cold As Ice – Grumpy Old Teacher[…] story goes on. Read Update #2 for the policies six Central Florida school districts have issued to their schools and […]
9.2.2025 20:00Comment on Cold As Ice: Update #2 by Cold As Ice: Update – Grumpy Old Teacher[…] County (FL) Public Schools should do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows up at the door. Then, the School Board’s attorney explained his reasoning for issuing his memo establishing th… But it seems this will be the never-ending story and thus, a never-ending […]
9.2.2025 19:56Comment on Cold As Ice: Update by Cold As Ice: Update #2 – Grumpy Old Teacher[…] contagion spreads. Last week, I described a new policy issued on a pre-emptive basis for what Duval County (FL) Public …Then, the School Board’s attorney explained his reasoning for issuing his memo establishing […]
9.2.2025 19:56Comment on Cold As Ice by Cold As Ice: Update #2 – Grumpy Old TeacherThe contagion spreads. Last week, I described a new policy issued on a pre-emptive basis for what Duval County (FL) Public Schools should do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows up at the door. Then, the School Board’s attorney explained his reasoning for issuing his memo establishing the new policy, which resulted in an update.…
9.2.2025 19:56Cold As Ice: Update #2February is Black History Month. If your first instinct is to snarl, whine, or otherwise complain that there’s no white history month, you can skip this post. Every month is white history month. Others need a point of emphasis once a year to remind us that their history is our history, too. The accomplishments, triumphs,…
8.2.2025 20:51Teaching the Full and Complete History of a Nation[…] my last post, Cold As Ice, I reported on a memo sent to my school district’s principals about what to do if Immigration […]
6.2.2025 20:46Comment on Cold As Ice by Cold As Ice: Update – Grumpy Old TeacherIn my last post, Cold As Ice, I reported on a memo sent to my school district’s principals about what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at the door. At Tuesday’s February 4th Board meeting, the General Counsel who issued the memo, Ray Poole, Esq., gave an explanation for why he…
6.2.2025 20:46Cold As Ice: UpdateLong before ‘Ice, Ice, Baby,’ this was the quintessential song: What a field day we could have with the lyrics! But this piece is about the legal advice recently given to principals in my local school district, Duval County Public Schools (FL), and while this post may embarrass them, which the Board is turning into…
4.2.2025 19:23Cold As IceAs we move into the third (or is it fourth) decade of school degradation and the end goal comes in sight, the charter wars have transmogrified into the voucher wars. Neither option is good for the preservation of a free and appropriate education for all children, but this is where we are as the second…
28.1.2025 23:43Burn! (as That 70s Show Used to Say)One for all and all for one … and in a modern update, One in Five, a Texas-based foundation that grew out of the Uvalde tragedy to help patrol schools and head off problems that show up on the sidewalk outside. Musketeers without muskets, they want to patrol the perimeter of schools to stop violence.…
5.1.2025 16:49The Five Musketeers<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Is there any teacher who hasn't told a parent, "Yes, we agree what needs to happen with your child, but let me suggest that you call the office to request it, because they are far more likely to listen to you than to me."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
4.1.2025 14:35Comment on Blatherskites by PeterIf you’re a C-Span junkie like me, you have been watching the Speaker vote in the House of Representatives, in which Mike Johnson fell short of election by two votes in the first round of voting, the official tally was delayed for about 45 minutes, two votes then switched, and the result was announced: Mike…
3.1.2025 20:56Blatherskites<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Too much deep thinking at Christmas. However, I’m sure this will cross my mind for all time hereafter</strong>!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
15.12.2024 17:20Comment on Schrödinger’s Cat by Jane Sheppard[…] Follow-up piece: https://grumpyoldteacher.com/2024/07/03/correction-to-last-nights-post/ […]
3.7.2024 15:01Comment on Correction to Last Night’s Post by Who the Hell Thought This Was a Good Idea? – Grumpy Old Teacher[…] piece about the scheduled school board meeting and swearing-in ceremony for the new superintendent: Who the Hell Thought This Was a Good Idea? I was home trying to stream the meeting. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback that I got some […]
3.7.2024 14:57Comment on Who the Hell Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Correction to Last Night’s Post – Grumpy Old Teacher