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Let's get started. All right, so let's start with National Teacher Day. It's observed on the first Tuesday of the first full week of May every year. Now this year in particular is a special one because the world has been turned upside down on its head.
And teachers are like the shoulders. You know, they got hit right next. After the big stuff hit, then bam, on teachers. Because when schools shut down, they automatically went into panic mode, not so much the teachers, but the school districts.
All of the governing bodies over schools, they went into panic mode because it's like, oh my gosh, now we gotta figure out what to do. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh. And the teachers are probably sitting there waiting like, okay, what are we supposed to do? How do we handle this?
What's happening? Okay, let's sit and wait and see what happens. And so like, I've done both. I've done face to face classes and I've taught online.
I taught online on college level at the University of Phoenix. And that was a program that was set up already in place for online learning. And that thing was like OMG, just all of the working pieces. And that was a program that was set in place.
What we've got going on now is panic mode procedures. You know, my daughter's first grade teacher when they have their little sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays for an hour, she's talking to herself out loud like, okay, let's see if we can get this to work today. Because last time it didn't work, technology is a beast to start with. Because technology does not always work.
Murphy's Law kicks in quite regular. And so these teachers, they're out there, they're helping the kids in their classes, but they've also nine times out of 10 got a family of their own. And they got to get their own kids together. So teachers are hit with a double whammy.
Not only do they have to get your kid right, they got to get everybody else's ones right too. So for the people that are complaining like, oh my gosh, I can't believe they're not meeting every day or whatever, chill, chill with that. Because these teachers are, they are receiving the brunt of the whole issue of education. Because the bureaucrats aren't the one that's out there in the trenches teaching the kids.
It's the teachers, it all falls on the teachers. And so for this national teacher day, my challenge to you is reach out and find your child's teacher, send them a gift card by way of email. You don't have to know their home address to send them anything. Do her email and send her or him like a Starbucks gift card.
All you need is the email address to do that. You do not have to have a whole lot more. And there's other what you can cash app them. You can, I bet you nine times out of 10, everybody's got cash app or something close to a PayPal, whatever.
Put five on it. Think of it as a virtual high five, five dollars. Bam, just for you, just to let you know that I appreciate you. I was just listening to a program on SiriusXM.
And they had some educators, they were principals and teachers and success coaches on there. And they were talking about the various challenges and the way forward with education. And I don't know if any of you have thought about it or considered it, but when you think of education in America to start with, it was in a bad place before COVID-19. As far as the different states having their own standards and various schools with levels of performance, you've got your high performing schools, your low performing schools and the issues with all of that in between with your standardized testing.
Then you also think about the class sizes. If your child is so privileged enough to be in a class that's like an honors or an AP or CP type program, then nine times out of 10, they're gonna be in smaller classes. But then your general track education classes tend to have way more students in them. So you're thinking about a classroom.
I remember I taught, I was teaching eighth grade math one year in Virginia and my class. Now I had an upper level class because this is eighth grade. This is middle school and I was teaching a geometry class in this middle school. And we had probably 25 kids in that class.
Now I shared a room with another teacher and she had a general math class that met after mine. Her class after mine had 35 kids in it. We didn't have enough seats in that classroom for the kids. They were sitting in the window sill.
Yes. And so you think about this whole COVID-19 situation where you have the social distancing, classes are not made for that type of situation. You know, you think about it and you're like, wow, if I had to have my students arranged in such a way that social distancing was in play, you would need to have some mathematicians come into some classrooms and work some optimization problems out because when you just sit there and say, okay, I'm gonna start from this point here and let's go six feet this way and that way and that way and that way, you might get five to 10 kids in a classroom. And if you're like my daughter's first grade class, there are 26 of them in there.
So if we had to break their class up to do face-to-face lessons, it would kind of be like what they're getting now in the online version. So my challenge to you on this is start brainstorming and thinking of ways that education can still work, looking at it through this different lens because things are, things are gonna be different for a little while here. It'll eventually kind of get to a better place, but right now in the beginning stages, it's gonna get worse before it gets better. It's gonna be rough.
And the best thing in my opinion is to come with solutions and don't come with problems. Choo-choo-choo-choo-choo. While you're working on those solutions for the education system, have a seat, kick back, and enjoy Cinco de Mayo, you know? Get a margarita.
Maybe hopefully you have what you need on hand and if not, hopefully in your area, the liquor stores are still open where you can get a nice branded tequila and do it up real good. Maybe get a taco takeout, you know? I'm pretty sure Taco Bell is still open, even though that's not my preferred place to go for tacos. You know, push comes to shove, you do what you gotta do, right?
But I said all of that to say that I have seen some hilarious, when I say hilarious, I mean absolutely, like I hurt myself laughing, it was so funny. The tweets and memes out there about Cinco de Mayo for this year, basically it all revolves around the idea that Republicans do not get to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, so don't even think about it. If you have so much hatred and whatnot in your heart that you're talking about, building walls and caging people and everything and you're trying to find ways to make that okay, then you know what? This holiday is not for you, so don't even think about it.
Don't partake. You know, you should just completely stop drinking tequila, margaritas, anything that comes from the culture, you should just stop. That's no longer for you, you're not welcome, don't do it. So I'm definitely gonna share some of those cute tweets and memes that I've seen because they are absolutely hilarious and if you are in need of a laugh, I think you can get it there.
Unless you're a Republican and if that's the case, then you probably won't find it funny, but if you are, you probably don't listen to me either. So therefore, we're all good. That was today's episode of Tweety Trends. Thank you so much for joining me.
Hey, what I need you to do today? Enjoy yourself, enjoy Cinco de Mayo, reach out to a friend, a family member, whatnot, get on a Zoom and toast it up just for life and living. You're here, enjoy it. And as far as National Teacher Day, show some appreciation, reach out, put five on it, let your teachers know that you care, past, present, future, man, if you're trying to get in a particular teacher's class, you might even want to hit them.
I'd be like, you know, I heard you do great things and I appreciate you for being in the line to work that you're in. Just show some love, okay? And while you're showing love, you know, you can't leave me out. Head on over to Twitter and follow me at heve.
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