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A week or so ago there was kind of a commotion in the Twitter education space over this PLC "evangelist" guy lamenting so many teachers not being all about his idealized teaching philosophy. He was going through the thread and blocking anyone who showed even the tiniest hint of criticism. People were just pointing out things like "hey, don't preach to us about not planning collaboratively, preach to our admins who don't give our team the same planning periods or give us other duties to do during our planning periods". Blocked. No rebuttal, no acknowledgement of the flaws with his ideas or potential solutions, just instant blocks. Then self-pitying follow-up tweets along the lines of "woooow, I can't believe so many horrible teachers don't agree with every word I say".

Fast forward to yesterday, and Google for Education announces that they will be adding the ability to lock Google Classroom assignments after the due date. I found out about it this morning when I saw one of the "ed-bro" accounts tweeting that they can't believe Google would take part in this "harmful practice".

These people usually try to put on the façade of being expert veteran teachers, but from the ideas they push it's painfully obvious that most of them are either:

  • lousy admin trying to spread their bullshit

  • influencers who taught like a year and really don't know what they're talking about

  • education professors with little to no K-12 experience

  • naïve first years or pre-service teachers

What gets me the most isn't these accounts pushing bullshit that clearly shows inexperience, it's the air of superiority for thinking they're "breaking down harmful traditional practices", and implying (or outright telling people) you're a terrible teacher/person if you dare to not drink their Kool-Aid 100%.

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