11 Comments
User's avatar
Joan Friedman (MA, from NY)'s avatar

Supporting our schools has several very specific components, before we even look at curriculum. Feed schoolchildren: no one learns well when hungry. Pay teachers enough so they don't need a second job to make ends meet: it's harder to teach well when exhausted. Hire enough teachers and assistants so class sizes are manageable and students can get individual attention when they need it. Plan recess time at least once in the morning and once in the afternoon: all that sitting still is hard on kids, they need breaks to run around or just chill.

Curriculum: let it be planned by people who know and care about these children and know something about the learning process. The goal of schooling should be to open children's minds and teach them to think for themselves.

Expand full comment
Jennifer's avatar

🧮⚕️Great job Jeffries!

Expand full comment
Sarah Meredith's avatar

🧮⚕️

Expand full comment
bea's avatar

🧮 thank you

Expand full comment
AnnieHW's avatar

🧮⚕️

Expand full comment
Stephanie's Postcards's avatar

I love me some Alma Adams! Thanks for highlighting her work. And I look forward to watching Senator (!!) Kim.

Expand full comment
Kathy Tuchman's avatar

🧮⚕️

Expand full comment
MarshaS's avatar

My Chromebook doesn't let me add those emojis but I did read all of this post; I read all of yours. Thanks.

Expand full comment
Antoinette's avatar

🧮⚕️Good on Jeffries for getting the House Democrats in lock-step! That's not easy. And I love Jim McGovern. He's just tells it like it is and is not afraid to say what needs saying.

Expand full comment
Renée Guillory (she/her)'s avatar

🧮 thank you! Will check videos out in the morning.

Expand full comment
Eric Barcelon's avatar

🧮⚕ The DNC-Jeffries-Schumer-bashing happens frequently here on Substack. As a non-American, I suspect some people here on Substack probably wished Democrats got into ACTUAL physical brawls with the Republicans and treated them like the enemy which Newt Gingrich encouraged Republicans to do back in 90's. McGovern could've hit Comer with a chair and some people here would go wild.

Expand full comment