NIMBYs in posh Highgate, London. F them kids. My single family house comes first. #london #a2council #a2schools

It’s game day in Ann Arbor and already the police are helping look for two different little kids that their families have lost in the stadium crowd. Unpopular opinion, but it is actually smart & necessary to put a child leash on little kids in situations like this. They can disappear in an instant.

News | The AADL is acquiring the Observer, promising to continue to distribute it for free to all Ann Arbor residents. To find out how residents are reacting, we interviewed the owner of a failed downtown plant shop, who blamed the sale on the William Street bike lane. #a2council

Grateful to Gov Whitmer for this letter to Superintendents but feeling embarrassed that @a2schools-mirror.bsky.social wasn't one of the districts that "operated as normal, and fed every child who walked through their doors." AAPS only reverse course at 3 p.m. content.govdelivery.com/attachments/...

Today, free school lunch ends in #a2schools for anyone not qualified due to low income. Students can run up a debt if their families haven’t put money in their lunch accounts. But will that debt be erased if the state gov passes a budget with school lunch for all? I’m guessing no. #a2schoolboard

Blue state Rhode Island and Red state Montana are both increasing taxes on vacation homes that are neither lived in or rented out. When you take out Chicago, Michigan leads the midwest in luxury homes held by billionaires. Is this a tax we could do here too? www.cnbc.com/2025/08/31/t...

#a2schools superintendent message on ICE picking up people dropping off their kids at school.

If you follow school cell phone ban policies in Michigan, this is the second year of the Skyline High School test project within Ann Arbor Public Schools. Here's the 2025-2026 school year policy. Go Skyline Eagles. 🦅 #a2schools docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#a2schoolboard adjourns at 7:55 pm after a meeting of about 50 minutes in length. Nothing particularly new or unusual, but they did note that they are continuing looking at a cell-phone ban in the district and will be evaluating data from the Skyline High School pilot test of a ban last year.

Log on for the Taylor Swift announcement. Stay for #a2schoolboard. 😆

😮OMG! Taylor Swift has set a countdown for #a2schoolboard meeting tonight. Watch on CTN or Zoom at 7 pm ET. What else could it mean? 😆

🚨#a2schoolboard meeting tonight (8/13/25) at 3700 Earhart Rd, A2. To speak to the board, you have to sign up by 3 pm here: forms.gle/yN8tvpMxQRij... Agenda➡️ a2schools.community.highbond.com/Portal/Meeti... 📺Zoom link ➡️ a2schools.zoom.us/j/81573210846 Notable things at meeting 🧵1/4 ⤵️

Today's distribution of MacBooks to #a2schools high schoolers was a little rough with kids at one school waiting in line over 2 hours. Parents asked how much it all cost. Answer: over $6 1/4 million. All $ from local bond. #a2schoolboard link: a2schools.community.highbond.com/document/d54...

You are so right! We still live with the ghosts of NIMBYs-past. In Ann Arbor, we can’t build taller than 267ft because decades ago someone disliked tall buildings. They’re gone, but we still live with their fears and limits. Our community suffers because cities aren’t meant to be museums. #a2council

"Like a lot of private and faith-based schools, its enrollment increased during the rise of COVID-19, as parents sought alternatives to the isolation of prolonged virtual learning in larger public school districts." #a2schools #a2schoolboard www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:

A and B win, or are more absentee votes coming? #a2council

Are these all the absentee votes or are more coming?

😲 Am I reading this right? Are the people who want to keep the downtown parking lot a parking lot “in perpetuity” hoping Trump will crash the economy so developers will stop developing new housing?

Despite what some may say, low turnout elections favor those with extreme views. Don’t assume a new downtown library is a no brainer and you don’t need to show up to vote yes on A and B in #annarbor. There is still 3 more hours to get your vote in!

I voted early at the Westgate library branch on Saturday, but if you haven’t voted yet #annarbor make sure you get out there and vote today! #a2council #a2votes

Let’s go #annarbor. Vote for a new downtown @aadl.org library. People over parking lots! #a2council #a2schoolboard

Be like Shannon! Vote yes on A and B. ❤️

Not buying the male loneliness epidemic. Picked up daughter and friends from Lollapalooza last night. Chicago closed Michigan Ave as a thousand beautiful dressed up young women streamed down it. Men were outnumbered 2 to 1 and they didn't even dress up. Guys, you gotta leave the house to meet girls.

I wish I could tackle the world with the confidence of a "pot activist" Townie in their 70s.

It wasn't the vote outcome I wanted on Monday, but I'm so glad I knocked doors and supported #a2council member Cornell in 2022. It was brave to vote no on revising the plan, and if Jenn runs again, I will happily knock twice as many doors next time as I did in 2022. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Every teen seems to want Mom™️ to stop being a parent and instead become their full-time 24/7 personal assistant.

A very good and well researched thread. 🧵

A2 Art Fair shut down the kids’ art tent early yesterday before the last group of kids had even had a chance to set up and sell over fears of possible severe weather. No adult exhibitors had to shut their tents. No rain came. Screwing the kids out of an abundance of caution is so Ann Arbor.

Ann Arbor Tappan Middle school call to police for an electrical hazard. Caller reports wire down, sparking from the wire in the cafeteria.

Today is the 5 year anniversary of the Ann Arbor Education Association announcing teachers wanted "14 days with no new [COVID] cases in the county [366,473 people] before we consider going back to face-to-face instruction." www.facebook.com/share/p/1BgA...

I think it’s time to retire the term “cannabis activist.” It’s been legal for a long time now and very little activism is happening anymore. This seems like just a dressing up of the more accurate term “aging pot head.” www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Mother at the library showing her young son how to hold a stack of books flat on his arms so they don't fall. Son: "Oh, like how we hold our computers at school."

Very confusing when someone has an @aadl.org summer game sign in their yard but are firmly no on building a new downtown library at no cost to tax payers. 🤔

A spot of good news. :)

We did a follow-up to our factual episode about proposals A&B to give the library lot to the @aadl.org. This one is all about the technically subjective but obviously correct opinion that you should vote yes on A&B. Bigger lot, better library. Plus housing! #a2council annarboraf.com/episode-80-l...

This is helpful. I asked my teen who go downtown way more than an old person like me and she likes the second option. So I’m voting yes on A and B. Thanks Library Green Conservancy.

🤮 If you don’t like Bernie, AOC and Mamdani getting more popular, maybe be a little discreet and don’t do shit like this. Idiots both of them.

@washtenawdems.bsky.social please save the date. First day of @a2schools-mirror.bsky.social 2026 will be 8/31/2026, so let's not schedule the nomination meeting for #a2schoolboard candidates right next to or on this date. Let parents/teachers/students participate. www.a2schools.org/about-aaps/c...

Here's the story about the firing of Community High School English Teacher Emma Hamstra at last night's #a2schoolboard meeting. Hamstras had the students read poems by @fannychoir with writes on mature themes around sexism and racism. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

David Nacht, the lawyer for Emma Hamstra, the Community HS teacher being firing for a poem she had the students read, is amazing. If you can, go watch him on video when posted by CTN tomorrow. But only Trustee Mohammad votes to save Emma's job. Boos and yelling from audience. #a2schoolboard

The budget slide show from tonight's #a2schoolboard meeting is a must read. For the first time, real honesty and detailed figures showing the drivers of the district's budget woes. a2schools.community.highbond.com/document/3f3... cc: #a2council

Yay! Ann Arbor Education Association VP Tamala Bell just announced a two-year calendar agreement with #a2schools. Like surrounding districts, we will now have full school year calendars before the 1st day of school so families and staff can plan for when schools will be closed. #a2schoolboard

Best part for me of the LWV event last night on props A&B was when Alan Haber tried to grab my husband by his shirt to scold him and was told “get your hands off me, you old fart.” #a2council My husband is a very calm man, especially compared to me, but he’d had enough!

New reporting out from @undark.org finds that the Trump administration seems to be using a novel interpretation of the False Claims Act to make it very risky for universities to accept NIH funding, even when that funding is finally released to them. 1/3 undark.org/2025/06/17/n...

😬 I’d forgotten what the British press is like. Poor Prime Minister Meloni. This is gross. Bringing a copy home to @liliacortina.bsky.social for her students to react to.

We closed the schools with no real plan for how to deal with the repercussions. Just magical thinking that online learning would be as good as in-person teachers. “Michigan 44th in 4th-grade reading, among bottom 10 for COVID learning loss, report finds” www.mlive.com/news/2025/05...

It’s not funny, but considering the issues that have been seen with schools’ over reliance on Ed Tech and Chromebooks, I can’t be mad about kids figuring out how to set these boring devices on fire. www.wfsb.com/2025/05/05/d... #a2schoolboard #a2schools

#a2schools is inviting police officers to come visit campuses. Below is the message to Skyline HS parents. The same text was sent to Pioneer HS parents.

Leapfrog spring hospital safety scores are out today and once again @umich.edu medicine scores just a B. But @trinityhealth.bsky.social Ann Arbor (St. Joe's) scores an A. cc: @bcbsm.bsky.social @umichmedicalschool.bsky.social