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A question for those a decade or two younger than me: When I was in school history stopped with the end of the Vietnam conflict. Everything after the fall of Saigon was still "current events." What I would like to know is what you learned in your history classes about the US involvement in the Middle East, and The September 11th attacks.

I know the history of these event as I live through them, and read the first draft of history in the news. I guess I wonder what the second draft looks like.

#history #sept11 #GulfWar #MiddleEast

Note the so called trillion dollar coin is found in Monetize the Debt. Trying to invoke the 14th amendment and having SCOTUS shoot it down as absurd is found under Default.

Debt ceiling pool round 2. Biden has said he will not negotiate on a debt ceiling increase, McCarthy has said he cannot pass one without spending cuts. What do you think will happen:

It is time to write this again. The *Five Paragraph Essay* saved my life.

While roundly hated by "true lovers of the written word," as a student who struggled with #LanguageArts, the #5PE let me break the daunting task of 1500 words into a task that could be taken one part at a time; one sentence at a time. It let me use the problem solving skills that made me successful on math and science to tackle academic writing. Most importantly it was good enough to get a C or better whenever I applied it and kept me from failing out of first high school then college. The grades were not stellar but sometimes C is for complete and even D can be for Done with that s**t.

If you are a hater of the 5PE, my challenge for you is to name an alternate tool that a poor writer - esp a poor writer with diagnosed cognitive challenges - a way to break a huge writing task down into bite sized pieces, very small bite sized pieces.

#edutooter #english #EnglishLanguage #writing #writingtips #pedagogy

Loneliness isolation and a lack of time spent with peers is quite literally killing teenagers in the US. Parents should be doing everything possible to ensure their teen spend time with their friend IN PERSON. This includes modeling this behavior themselves. Let's make this the summer we all get together again. #teens #lonliness #isolation #COVID19