I think this is because the diagnostic is bad (sometimes bad faith), the prescriptions are worse, & the narrators are (mostly) unreliable.
As I reflect on the end of another school year, the insight that sticks most with me right now is about caring. What students remember and value most about their teachers how much they cared about them, as students and as human beings. That is ultimately what is irreplaceable about human teachers.
Every summer I am reminded that the only time I have the capacity to read as much as I feel like I should be reading as an English teacher is this summer stretch when, you know, I’m not teaching English.
The energy of this game feels like both teams are saving it for a Game 6—which, if you think about it, is a really odd choice for one of the teams.
And for the "graphic novels are evil" crowd, I've got a 6-year-old who has read for 2+ hours a day since summer started and the fact that those books have some pictures in them does not concern me at all as a parent.
"Next, we need to talk about something my English teacher and I don't agree on."
That moment when your 6-year-old brings you a book to read and you immediately have to accept that you're the villain. 🤷♂️
As always, read John on all things writing but especially in this moment as "writing" is particularly fragile in our classrooms and schools:
biblioracle.substack.com/p/feedback-h...
Because I could not stop for Claude —
He kindly stopped for me —
Matt Seybold
Utopian Incrementalist
Marcus Luther
Marcus Luther
Marcus Luther
Marcus Luther
Marcus Luther
Catherine Rampell
About a half-dozen of the writers I work with have confessed to feeling paranoid about their use of em-dashes (the long ones: "—") because they fear people will believe their stuff was written by an AI.
To which I say: Pfffft. Use as many dang dashes as you want. And let your human voice sing out.
it’s weird how many articles about students not being able to read have inspired outrage and panic and then just disappeared from memory over the past two or three years—it’s like there’s nothing cumulative about the public conversation
