Wee$naw

@juliamahaka.bsky.social

Education Specialist, MLIS graduate student, writer, lifelong learner, & Tia from NELA, CA🌻

What’s the worst thing about catching a cold on a Friday, you ask? Well, instead of enjoying what seems to be the only Fall days in sight, I was inside bundled up & sneezing; had to cancel plans to attend my only Halloween party this month; will likely be feeling better enough to work tomorrow

Last week, my colleague and I had to break up a fist fight in class. One of the students had the other in a choke hold. We literally had to tell the student to let him go so he wouldn’t ruin his life. Both students were not suspended. They were put on a “behavior tracker.”

I cannot stop thinking about Xavier Amaya, the 17 year old high school student at Franklin High who was chronically bullied, beaten in class, and killed himself as he was chased by his bully. It's so horrible. And it is melding in my brain with the Cornell rape case.

Today’s mottos was “It’s not that deep” Particularly cause 2 kids got into a fist fight over one of em making a comment about the other’s score for a test 🫩

The literacy crisis in this country is so evident in the classroom when 10th graders can’t even internalize simple directions that are given both verbally and visually on the board/ paper The generation of COOKED AF