Well y'all, this past week I have seen my first #cybertruck in the wild. And this morning I saw my second cybertruck in the wild.
Swell.
They look just as boxy, ugly, out-of-place, and pretentious in person as they do in pictures.
First in #OklahomaCity, second in #EdmondOK, which is separated from #OKC by one street. So there is the chance it was the same vehicle. I sincerely hope so. It just pains me to think that there might be two such complete, unadulterated fools in this area.
#OKCPS Superintendent Sean McDaniel tendered his resignation this morning, effective June 30.
Every news article I've read so far lauds McDaniel's performance during his 6yr stint, citing especially the #PathwayToGreatness project that closed 15 schools and restructured 19 others in 2019.
What I'd like someone to report on is how in Jan. 2019, McDaniel straight up lied to an auditorium packed with worried parents, faculty, and staff who voiced their legitimate concerns over #P2G...
...concerns which have all have come to pass since then. No teacher I've spoken to over the past few years has had anything positive to say about McDaniel's Pathway to "Greatness" -- which, as it happens, absolutely ruined my daughter's elementary school and made her 1st-grade year a shitshow we still haven't recovered from.
"There is so much we know tentatively or not at all that is important here. It can be agonizing not to leap to reasonable (& tempting) conclusions, conclusions about responsibility and blame. But the consequences of getting things wrong are too high.
"So let’s be clear about what we do not yet know...."
YES, AND:
"...Oklahoma is not neutral ground. #Oklahoma’s schools are certainly no more a bastion of acceptance than any other schools & may be less."
Apparently #SeanCummings, local businessman and vice-mayor of The Village in #OklahomaCity, participates in the state's board of education meetings FOR THE PURPOSE OF speaking out against #RyanWalters and his policies almost every month!
The following are some of Sean's latest diatribes, calling out Walters and #ChayaRaichik for #StochasticTerrorism. Y'all, these are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🔥🔥
8-year-old truant newsboy, who didn't know his name nor where he lived. Said he had just had the measles. Photographed during school hours. Location: #OklahomaCity, #Oklahoma
To anyone in #OklahomaCity who has been following the news ... do you know anything about what was happening this evening on SW 29th Street just a bit east of Penn? There looked to be around 20 police cars with lights flashing all around that area.
@hosford42@jeffowski There has been a tent with a makeshift table and awning set up at the edge of a park on our way to/from my daughter's school. The tent has been there about two weeks or so, and from what I can tell, no one has tried to move it. That gives me hope.
@straphanger 40+yrs ago in Germany, I walked or biked to school until we moved out of town. I didn't switch schools, so from then on I took public transportation.
Now, in #Oklahoma, I'd love for my daughter to have the same experience. But in our area of #OklahomaCity, there are no sidewalks. No bike lanes. Her school is more than 6 miles away. To catch the school bus she'd have to wake up 2hrs earlier than if I drive her. She still needs 11h of sleep, so she'd have to go to bed at 6pm. Nope.
I don't know why it still surprises me every time somebody in #OklahomaCity traffic is a complete asshole to me, but somehow it always still surprises me. Maybe I really am just the eternal optimist, but it really surprises me still. And it makes me so angry. And now I'm going to go work it out and leave it on the #Zumba floor. Fuck.
Why are the trees planted all over my city not fruit trees and nut trees? Why aren't all the decorative bushes berry bushes? With #homelessness & #FoodInsecurity being continual reality in #OklahomaCity, why aren't all the public trees & bushes food-bearing trees & bushes? Considering our yearly 100+°F temps, why aren't there free, well-maintained water stations on every block?
These are rhetorical questions. I know the answers. But they are not valid answers.