Has anyone ever taught the Greek 3rd declension first?

Choose joy. Choose Doobies.

authoritarian patriarchy undergirds their whole project of classical Christian education. The whole thing is connected to masculinity because men get to have authority, in education, in knowledge, in government, in the home, and in the church. Questioning that authority jeopardizes your salvation.

Texas can surprise you.

authoritarian patriarchy undergirds their whole project of classical Christian education. The whole thing is connected to masculinity because men get to have authority, in education, in knowledge, in government, in the home, and in the church. Questioning that authority jeopardizes your salvation.

been trying to articulate problems at the core of classical philology to myself for years, Adorno and Horkheimer get to it in a footnote

JWT has shown his hand here: it was never about reading old books well. It was, and is, about money and power.

The other Tball team has quite the spread on offer for parents

Spiderman was in the streets tonight

I just called the san antonio office of Ted Cruz and the chad who answered tried to cut me off mid-sentence and then hung up on me when I said "I wasn't finished" I was reading the script from 5 calls about SNAP I wasn't even bullying him (yet)

LET'S GOOOOOO www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Re: the alpha school Teachers are actual professionals and their knowledge is more than "facilitation" and SEL

Billionaires are the ones on strike. Billionaires are the revolutionaries overtaking a government and abdicating all responsibility for their fellow human beings. They are violently hoarding wealth and preventing others from having capacity to meet basic needs.

Starbucks has protein coffee so you don't have to eat food and LLMs exist so you don't have to write or teach or learn authentically. pretty soon we will abandon everything that makes life worth living

do we really need teens doing this at scale

Maybe its not really theft because they needed them to train their AI

Come to think of it--you know who WAS like this in 2004? Moscow, Idaho theobros. They were the ones manufacturing nostalgia for the confederacy and for isolationist nationalism.

I was friends with the college republicans in a very small west Texas town and they may have been under-the-radar racist but they were not at all like this

this is, in fact, what's happening

No one forced Marvin Olasky to recruit Doug Wilson for a book series that ultimately made Wilson the kingpin of classical Christian education—a movement worth approximately $10 billion today with over 677,500 children enrolled.

Giving a sword to a king, very American, real tough guy stuff there

the land of "come and take it" just rolls over and lets the governor take their university classrooms. I went to Angelo State and I remember one of my professors ranting every single class about the slippery slope of our freedoms after the FLDS raid Wish he were alive to roast these fools

meanwhile k12 teachers have to fundraise for their classes and have side hustles to pay their bills

I need help getting this CRAZY censorship story out! Last week, admins in Leander ISD emailed teachers telling them to “pause” use of 40 books relating to “DEI” that had previously been curriculum or choice reading activities. Included on the list? To Kill a Mockingbird. #bookbans #booksky

Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation on the counterfactual in Sophoclean tragedy! Succinctly, my dissertation looks at different types of "unreal" expressions and what they tell us about how characters build their inner worlds

Rage Against the Machine Learning

Truly, this man has shaped our digital lives in important ways far out of our CTRL.

I dont really get into these things but Jeff Hiller deserves to win everything and this makes me happy

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

seeing nice people who helped raise you and old friends you used to party with call for you to meet the business end of a holy war does something to you, man.

On MWF, I teach ancient Greek for 4 hours, only 1 of those hours is on load teaching. For a dept that supposedly is destroying the discipline because our major isn’t language-centered, we sure do teach the languages a lot.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

In Coddling the American Mind, Haidt and Lukianoff equate student actions at Middlebury (Charles Murray) and Yale (Halloween) with Mao's Red Guard. Wondering if they have any thoughts about what went down at Texas A&M. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/an-academi...

I really, really hope we all start to appreciate the almost always combined dangers of Christian patriarchy and Christian nationallism, personified by Wilson.

"We live in an upside-down world now where books are dangerous items to be locked away from children except in special cases, and only put in front of them with special approval from literally the highest authorities in any given school district." open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

Philology is protean back to its first coining as a word. It combines with other methodologies and knowledges to respond to different needs and interpretive goals

Look if ted cruz is going to go around bullying people we have no choice but to continue bullying him until he returns to the pit of hell he emerged from

Honest review: these aren't good but it is a tiny bit fun to eat little gummies shaped like Shaq.

More than 60,000 students in North East ISD in San Antonio will walk into classrooms on Tuesday with NO BOOKS or with “library closed” signs blocking access to classroom libraries as a result of Senate Bill 13.

I was in the library stacks and some kid asked me where the PAs were "Those are my friends" I say After I drop him off "Best of luck on your quest" I will ride this high the rest of the day, maybe my life. For a moment, I was Athena.

I love the paper tiger

"Read the syllabus" to the tune of "deliver us" from Prince of egypt

The damage done by this man in creating familial environments of force, control, and coercion has contributed to the evangelicals encouragement and acceptance of the brutality of ICE and police. Control and force undergirded his disciplinary approach.

the overdue ILL walk of shame is so intense for how low the stakes are

In the hopes that he will be cooking full meals by next year

A new patient appointment at the children's dentist here is $467 without insurance $467

There is, as I see it, one person at the center of the popularity of the classical Christian education movement in the US and its subsequent forays into charter and public schools. His name is D*ug Wils*n (his fanbase is unpleasant, hence the **s)

So... Who Killed Homer, again?

H, watching a video of Aretha for the first time: "I love her!!! Is she real!?!?! Is she in TEXAS!!!!??"