There has to be a space for people to change, to learn and to rehabilitate. We are so quick to judge and to jail. Criminals are running our country and good people, or people who want to become good people, are stuck in a system that the criminals control.
For a society that works it’s basic to be doing things for the greater good and Norway is such a clear demonstration of that. What they do would come as a shocker to most Americans, and it would be interesting to see what impact it would make if everyone knew about it. What great conversation it could provide.
Suzanne, I Loved your sentence: You could say an evolution to a next phase of consciousness where we act from our interconnection as one humanity. I am with you on this. www.selfandrelationshipmastery.link. Let us empower the children in a new paradigm.
Here's something from my post last week to include in educating children:
Teacher gives $20 to her students with one rule: Use it for kindness: “I told them the way we prevent our world from becoming like the world in Fahrenheit 451 was through empathy and kindness,” Ulmer said. “After I gave them the money, I told them I wanted them to perform an act of kindness with it, then record a little video about it.” See how this mushroomed! From https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/preparing-for-the-future
If we had listened to the called-to-teach teachers crying out since 2002, about how fascists had taken over education at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org, we wouldn’t have shifted towards cruelty. We were given teachers to keep us balanced and help people want to be citizens rather than opportunists but even the kindest among us still can’t bother to listen to those teachers, including Michael Moore, who ignored us too. I know. So many teachers asked for him to help but he too couldn’t hear us cry out about how the fascists were trashing us and replacing us with only those who’d go along to get along. He couldn’t hear us cry out that our unions were complicit with the fascists running education.
We need a leader who can hear how these fascists did this to us.
Was there any reason why you thought he would be your man? Let's pull for him to redeem himself now, given the unique position he is in where he appreciates what Norway does!
It wasn’t just me. I have an organization of teachers and so many of them wrote him. One sent my 2008 book to him. He seemed like the one but let us down. But I never give up on people so you’re right. Oprah’s researcher called me with my book in hand in 2010 and then did nothing so I get why no one wanted to open this can of worms. He and Oprah were on the top of our list for sure.
That’s what always happens when people face cover ups. They’re overwhelmed. They create loss for whoever fights them as the predators have so much power. And our administrators are great at public relations. They don’t act like Trump openly. Plus Randi Weingarten - union president - seems so caring yet she helped trashed some of the best teachers (I have proof of that on the website but people don’t look at what they don’t understand.) since she had no choice. That’s what people don’t understand. Good people are going along to
get along in education and won’t stop their complicity until this is exposed. They’re afraid. I’m sure Michael Moore knows Randi and has been fooled. He needs to know me but teachers like me were made intentionally powerless. That’s what fascists do.
This cover up is about as big as it gets. But the price we paid not having real teachers doing their thing is Trump and horrific so perhaps either of them will redeem themselves. We can hope.
Michael Moore is a hero that’s uninformed on this topic. But so many of us chose to reach out to
him because we thought if he became informed he’d blow it open. I do think he would.
If you read my book A Graver Danger, I do more than explain the cover up and solution. I explain why no one knows. So I really don’t blame him or even Oprah for not believing us. I understand why it happened and believe we had to learn that our schools would bring down democracy the hard way and we certainly are.
Meanwhile it’s people like you who care about democracy who will get this figured out. I love what the people on Substack are doing and feel confident they will learn that it was our schools that did this - Trump - to us.
This calls to mind what I find to be a good model: "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." With you and I frustratingly dealing with that first part, please god we get to the last part. With no deus ex machina in sight, maybe that's because it isn't supposed to be about great leaders now, but about the people rising up. That thought was behind my last paragraph acknowledging Michael Moore being more like us than like a Gandhi or a Roosevelt.
Your model makes sense. Maybe a higher power kept me at the ignore you level until Trump came along and gave me proof I was right that our schools made us morons. Most people continue to ignore me but very few ridicule because they know I'm right that the schools are a mess. They don't know I'm right that this is why democracy fell apart, but most are thinking maybe she is right. Competence is real just like truth. There is not alternative truth, only lies. There is no alternative competence, only failure. Few can defend these failed schools. I just have to be patient that people will put this together. I am patient. I am a teacher.
I have had sites up since 2002 blasting the truth and they are afraid to ridicule me because they know it is true and I'll make the news and blow their cover if they make noise. I had two lawyers threaten me that I ignored because everything on those sites is true and backed up with evidence and they know it. I even included, in my book, an altered document my district put into my dismissal record, showing they violate the law to get their way like you know who. I have lots and lots of proof of their wrongdoing but so far no one who cares to see it.
That's probably true that Michael Moore is more like most people on this topic. But honestly the "leaders" in education are either misleading us or are clueless. I write about people who I think the world of except they won't say a bad thing about the union despite how the union has been trashing the great teachers for years. They go along to get along but no one willl admit this except me. And perhaps even they don't know because they do this to teachers quietly and the teachers won't talk. Everyone is scared. I compiled proof for years and only a fragment of it is in my book. Union President Randi Weingarten, who helped to get rid of great teachers, here's proof: https://soundcloud.com/karen-horwitz/tapodcastsusanrevmono is all over TV as a keeper of democracy when the whistleblowers, the people she helped trash, should be.
I have no idea where this country is going, but because I know why we are going in this direction and what could turn us around, hope makes my days easier. Even if the people rise up, we are hollow. We love Kardashians and ignore whistleblowing teachers. We must change as a people to have democracy, since citizenship requires depth of character and we just don't have much of that since our schools stopped modeling that decades ago.
Some of us are born other centered. Some of us are taught to think of others by our parents. But too many of us only learn it in our school, and when teaching that stopped, we shifted from other to self-centered. These fascists know that selfish people don't do a great job of winning back a country.
Thus, we need a leader to tell us why we became so selfish and what to do to save democracy and lead us out of this mess. I keep saying if Cory Booker listened to my 12 1/2 hour audiobook he'd know exactly how to connect to our better angels and lead us out of this mess in half the time he took to speak. Give the people an answer to how it happened so they have something to fight to get back! Inspire people that they can change education now that they know. There's a chapter in my book with a solution. It will be closer to a reset on a computer than an arduous climb back for reasons I explain.
A friend was telling me if you have a drop of liquid or oil in the mix when you are trying to make meringue it doesn't make meringue. Often solutions are simple. Always they are dependent on facts. People think school reform is impossible, but the truth is fascist-type administrators made it impossible, purposely. That's what people just don't get. I could turn these schools around in no time if I had power. That's why they made sure I didn't!
A leader needs to learn what needs to be done from a whistleblowing teacher just like the Sandy Hook people and David Hogg need to learn how to stop school shootings from one of us. We know why school shootings happen. My book explains it. A teacher's testimony at WhiteChalkCrime.com explains it 100%. https://soundcloud.com/karen-horwitz/indictment?in=karen-horwitz%2Fsets%2Fpodcast-excerpts (Click arrow on top to start.) If I can't get the Sandy Hook parents to read my book, how much hope is there for our people? It feels like we've become brain dead if people won't take the time to learn how to stop school shootings, or worse, we've become puppets of celebrities, if they won't bother to listen to a teacher.
Yesterday several MSNBC hosts said they owe it to us to explain things like the Texas flood issue and Uvalde. My book explains how a school ends up like Uvalde. But no one I try to reach wants to hear from whistleblowing teachers. So it's hard to imagine our fate with no media looking into things and people living to be happy, not solve problems.
That's why we need a leader of great depth and problem solving ability who learns the facts of how we lost democracy and leads us back. That leader would be giving people something tangible to believe in. That's the only way people will rise up since in general both parties made a mess of things, particularly education, and we've lose faith in our leaders. Figuring out education would be a huge gift. It's our greatest leveler and in the hands of fascists, instead of creating an equal society, it leveled off democracy.
My book is a roadmap. Soon I will add a couple of editorial reviews saying just that. I doubt even you read it. People are busy. But I am a teacher so I never give up on my students, particularly knowing how much incentive Trump gives everyone each time he speaks. People need to decide that this slide into evil is worth stopping and read my book. Then, besides getting a leader to read it, they'll get on schools boards once they understand how education works, something very few people know.
With us not being celebrities who are listened to, all we can do is put one foot after another. With progress being a function of relationships, as I engage with people all over the world one thing leads to another. Before Covid, I was producing events and projects with doable objectives, but that morphed to sitting at my computer, talking to the world, looking to spark something -- like from this outreach to Michael Moore. May the universe keep our bodies intact and our brains sharp long enough for some dramatic development to occur that gets humanity on a life-giving course.
There has to be a space for people to change, to learn and to rehabilitate. We are so quick to judge and to jail. Criminals are running our country and good people, or people who want to become good people, are stuck in a system that the criminals control.
For a society that works it’s basic to be doing things for the greater good and Norway is such a clear demonstration of that. What they do would come as a shocker to most Americans, and it would be interesting to see what impact it would make if everyone knew about it. What great conversation it could provide.
Suzanne, I Loved your sentence: You could say an evolution to a next phase of consciousness where we act from our interconnection as one humanity. I am with you on this. www.selfandrelationshipmastery.link. Let us empower the children in a new paradigm.
Here's something from my post last week to include in educating children:
Teacher gives $20 to her students with one rule: Use it for kindness: “I told them the way we prevent our world from becoming like the world in Fahrenheit 451 was through empathy and kindness,” Ulmer said. “After I gave them the money, I told them I wanted them to perform an act of kindness with it, then record a little video about it.” See how this mushroomed! From https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/preparing-for-the-future
If we had listened to the called-to-teach teachers crying out since 2002, about how fascists had taken over education at WhiteChalkCrime.com and EndTeacherAbuse.org, we wouldn’t have shifted towards cruelty. We were given teachers to keep us balanced and help people want to be citizens rather than opportunists but even the kindest among us still can’t bother to listen to those teachers, including Michael Moore, who ignored us too. I know. So many teachers asked for him to help but he too couldn’t hear us cry out about how the fascists were trashing us and replacing us with only those who’d go along to get along. He couldn’t hear us cry out that our unions were complicit with the fascists running education.
We need a leader who can hear how these fascists did this to us.
Was there any reason why you thought he would be your man? Let's pull for him to redeem himself now, given the unique position he is in where he appreciates what Norway does!
It wasn’t just me. I have an organization of teachers and so many of them wrote him. One sent my 2008 book to him. He seemed like the one but let us down. But I never give up on people so you’re right. Oprah’s researcher called me with my book in hand in 2010 and then did nothing so I get why no one wanted to open this can of worms. He and Oprah were on the top of our list for sure.
That’s what always happens when people face cover ups. They’re overwhelmed. They create loss for whoever fights them as the predators have so much power. And our administrators are great at public relations. They don’t act like Trump openly. Plus Randi Weingarten - union president - seems so caring yet she helped trashed some of the best teachers (I have proof of that on the website but people don’t look at what they don’t understand.) since she had no choice. That’s what people don’t understand. Good people are going along to
get along in education and won’t stop their complicity until this is exposed. They’re afraid. I’m sure Michael Moore knows Randi and has been fooled. He needs to know me but teachers like me were made intentionally powerless. That’s what fascists do.
This cover up is about as big as it gets. But the price we paid not having real teachers doing their thing is Trump and horrific so perhaps either of them will redeem themselves. We can hope.
Michael Moore is a hero that’s uninformed on this topic. But so many of us chose to reach out to
him because we thought if he became informed he’d blow it open. I do think he would.
If you read my book A Graver Danger, I do more than explain the cover up and solution. I explain why no one knows. So I really don’t blame him or even Oprah for not believing us. I understand why it happened and believe we had to learn that our schools would bring down democracy the hard way and we certainly are.
Meanwhile it’s people like you who care about democracy who will get this figured out. I love what the people on Substack are doing and feel confident they will learn that it was our schools that did this - Trump - to us.
This calls to mind what I find to be a good model: "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." With you and I frustratingly dealing with that first part, please god we get to the last part. With no deus ex machina in sight, maybe that's because it isn't supposed to be about great leaders now, but about the people rising up. That thought was behind my last paragraph acknowledging Michael Moore being more like us than like a Gandhi or a Roosevelt.
Your model makes sense. Maybe a higher power kept me at the ignore you level until Trump came along and gave me proof I was right that our schools made us morons. Most people continue to ignore me but very few ridicule because they know I'm right that the schools are a mess. They don't know I'm right that this is why democracy fell apart, but most are thinking maybe she is right. Competence is real just like truth. There is not alternative truth, only lies. There is no alternative competence, only failure. Few can defend these failed schools. I just have to be patient that people will put this together. I am patient. I am a teacher.
I have had sites up since 2002 blasting the truth and they are afraid to ridicule me because they know it is true and I'll make the news and blow their cover if they make noise. I had two lawyers threaten me that I ignored because everything on those sites is true and backed up with evidence and they know it. I even included, in my book, an altered document my district put into my dismissal record, showing they violate the law to get their way like you know who. I have lots and lots of proof of their wrongdoing but so far no one who cares to see it.
That's probably true that Michael Moore is more like most people on this topic. But honestly the "leaders" in education are either misleading us or are clueless. I write about people who I think the world of except they won't say a bad thing about the union despite how the union has been trashing the great teachers for years. They go along to get along but no one willl admit this except me. And perhaps even they don't know because they do this to teachers quietly and the teachers won't talk. Everyone is scared. I compiled proof for years and only a fragment of it is in my book. Union President Randi Weingarten, who helped to get rid of great teachers, here's proof: https://soundcloud.com/karen-horwitz/tapodcastsusanrevmono is all over TV as a keeper of democracy when the whistleblowers, the people she helped trash, should be.
I have no idea where this country is going, but because I know why we are going in this direction and what could turn us around, hope makes my days easier. Even if the people rise up, we are hollow. We love Kardashians and ignore whistleblowing teachers. We must change as a people to have democracy, since citizenship requires depth of character and we just don't have much of that since our schools stopped modeling that decades ago.
Some of us are born other centered. Some of us are taught to think of others by our parents. But too many of us only learn it in our school, and when teaching that stopped, we shifted from other to self-centered. These fascists know that selfish people don't do a great job of winning back a country.
Thus, we need a leader to tell us why we became so selfish and what to do to save democracy and lead us out of this mess. I keep saying if Cory Booker listened to my 12 1/2 hour audiobook he'd know exactly how to connect to our better angels and lead us out of this mess in half the time he took to speak. Give the people an answer to how it happened so they have something to fight to get back! Inspire people that they can change education now that they know. There's a chapter in my book with a solution. It will be closer to a reset on a computer than an arduous climb back for reasons I explain.
A friend was telling me if you have a drop of liquid or oil in the mix when you are trying to make meringue it doesn't make meringue. Often solutions are simple. Always they are dependent on facts. People think school reform is impossible, but the truth is fascist-type administrators made it impossible, purposely. That's what people just don't get. I could turn these schools around in no time if I had power. That's why they made sure I didn't!
A leader needs to learn what needs to be done from a whistleblowing teacher just like the Sandy Hook people and David Hogg need to learn how to stop school shootings from one of us. We know why school shootings happen. My book explains it. A teacher's testimony at WhiteChalkCrime.com explains it 100%. https://soundcloud.com/karen-horwitz/indictment?in=karen-horwitz%2Fsets%2Fpodcast-excerpts (Click arrow on top to start.) If I can't get the Sandy Hook parents to read my book, how much hope is there for our people? It feels like we've become brain dead if people won't take the time to learn how to stop school shootings, or worse, we've become puppets of celebrities, if they won't bother to listen to a teacher.
Yesterday several MSNBC hosts said they owe it to us to explain things like the Texas flood issue and Uvalde. My book explains how a school ends up like Uvalde. But no one I try to reach wants to hear from whistleblowing teachers. So it's hard to imagine our fate with no media looking into things and people living to be happy, not solve problems.
That's why we need a leader of great depth and problem solving ability who learns the facts of how we lost democracy and leads us back. That leader would be giving people something tangible to believe in. That's the only way people will rise up since in general both parties made a mess of things, particularly education, and we've lose faith in our leaders. Figuring out education would be a huge gift. It's our greatest leveler and in the hands of fascists, instead of creating an equal society, it leveled off democracy.
My book is a roadmap. Soon I will add a couple of editorial reviews saying just that. I doubt even you read it. People are busy. But I am a teacher so I never give up on my students, particularly knowing how much incentive Trump gives everyone each time he speaks. People need to decide that this slide into evil is worth stopping and read my book. Then, besides getting a leader to read it, they'll get on schools boards once they understand how education works, something very few people know.
Did I tell you I love your spirit! I love how you care so much. I hope to meet you when I'm back in California in December.
With us not being celebrities who are listened to, all we can do is put one foot after another. With progress being a function of relationships, as I engage with people all over the world one thing leads to another. Before Covid, I was producing events and projects with doable objectives, but that morphed to sitting at my computer, talking to the world, looking to spark something -- like from this outreach to Michael Moore. May the universe keep our bodies intact and our brains sharp long enough for some dramatic development to occur that gets humanity on a life-giving course.