Christopher Candy

So you're a recent PhD interested in teaching at Independent Schools - a thread of threads This is a collection of threads I've posted on moving to k12 independent schools and the process involved. New threads added occasionally. #AcademicSky #PhDSky #Academia #HigherEd #HigherEdSky #EduSky

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

You'd think certain people would realize that public executions just contribute to the martyrdom of the executed, right? Historically, expanding what crimes receive the death penalty and the publicizing executions both result in anything but deterrence as it is.

If you wonder why I haven't been posting much, it is because I've dived into a new experience: public school teaching. Definitely the deep end, but I'll post about differences between public and private schools in the near future. If you have questions you want me to hit, let me know. #edusky

Yeah, that moment when you find out the dental surgeon for your kid's teeth never bothered submitting the preauthorization to the insurance and told you for two months they were just waiting to hear back...

I shared last week how I pair short primary source excerpts from American Yawp Reading & others with short secondary sources from places like We're History or @jstordaily.bsky.social Several peeps asked for my pairings, so I've added pairings from 1st & 2nd half U.S. history to my website 🗃️ #sschat

History colleagues: for those of you who still have jobs (😢) & are updating your teaching notes/syllabi for the Fall, a reminder that free, open-access materials on teaching the Black Death are already available. Your students are pandemic survivors. Give them the narratives they need. Links ⬇️.

man I cannot overemphasize how many people I know fell into some form of madness because they could not accept that their kid got an autism diagnosis and that maybe that was just how life was going to be

Can we just make it illegal for anything to be named after a living current or former president other than their library until 20 years after their death?

The DOE claimed the rules and scoring of a contest about the government “of the people” was “proprietary “ - not to be seen by the people. How screwed up is that? But it is oh so reflective of the current administration.

Seen a few 'you can't accept growth in people!' takes on Platner. I'm all for people outgrowing their younger stupidities, but if you expect votes, that process should be concluded before your run. We have enough problems with Sinemas and Fettermans, we don't need those bad from the get-go.

A friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding at the Great American State Fair bc he knows no one is there.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

So, because my insanity in always taking on new classes is continuing, I've agreed to teach pre-law this coming year for 11th-12th grade. So far the impression is that Streetlaw's material and books are the gold standards - any other recommendations on approaching this class?

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

I wonder what it says about a school that they have decided to have faculty who retired years and years ago come back to make videos telling people to send their kids to that school now. As opposed to the 40% of their total faculty they RIF'd this year.

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

Anyone else have a problem that legislature driven redistricting goes through fine but voters voting to redistrict is never fine?

In a landscape where the political parties are defined by their stances towards ethnic and racial minorities, there is no such thing as separating partisan and racial gerrymandering. Stating that action can only be taken on the racial if there is no partisan component is absurdism on its face.

I have to admit, I did not have OPEC imploding on my bingo card.

Given the petty love of theatre by the current administration, I would have expected their announcement on reclassifying marijuana to have come this last Monday. Wasted opportunity.

Let's all use this occasion to take a look at the many ways Tennessee Republicans have shown how much they value and respect the Traditional Nuclear Family™

In medieval England, the Feet of Fines was a set of legal documents that among other things recorded fictitious legal disputes in order to publicly register money or asset transfers between two parties. No dispute actually existed - it was just a vehicle to justify payments. Sound familiar?

There's nothing like a friggin' spam filter rerouting an important email that looks nothing like any actual spam you ever receive to ruin your day. And with so many spam emails now clogging the internet, finding that needle in the haystack again is one hell of a chore.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

The biggest problem people will have convincing Americans that bombing civilian infrastructure is evil is the mythic place World War II has in the American mind. Slagging the infrastructure of our enemies was a key strategy then, and so it must be acceptable, no? That is what you have to overcome.

If Federal agents from any agency can just be effectively transferred around to do anyone else's job at will, then arguing about which agency gets what funding is meaningless. The boondoggle of last year's mass funding of ICE simply created a huge police state regardless of on-paper boundaries.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)

Watching all sorts of institutions this year make deliberate choices to destroy the very things that make them viable, sustainable, and in many cases profitable has been something else. This year really is full of groups having utter self-delusions about what they are and what makes them successful.

Sometimes, even in the darkest of moments, you find out that your students learned your lessons well. Have faith in your students, and they will have faith in you. #edusky

So much for dignity. Not that I am surprised, mind.

This just sets my hair on fire.

The Trump Administration's foreign policy boys skipped everything in their history classes from 1890 to 1945, didn't they?

This is the reality the ‘just do it legally!’ people blind themselves to avoid seeing..

Oh, the cognitive dissonance. "Lectures suck! Have your students watch this TED Talk instead!"

One of these is not like the others.

Fighting that stupid urge to post about workplace related pettiness yet again.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Or a historian, or a government/civics teacher... I teach US Government to high schoolers. Imagine how that class is going to be once we're back from the winter storm closures.

Huh. My facebook feed had been relentless for months about throwing right-wing politics at me, and now suddenly it's wall-to-wall opposition to what happened in Minneapolis this week. That seems like something worth noticing.

Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones." MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.

Again, when Bill effin' Kristol gets this and Congresscritters don't...