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Tom Backen

@backen1

Retired teacher who is curious about life and always learning

 Irma, Wisconsin
Joined June 2011
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Just found out that a school district in the Houston area is blocking a teacher from showing the movie musical Hairspray because Travolta plays a woman. Wait until that superintendent, who taught HS English, learns about Shakespeare.
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Want to read a book that's banned in your school or town? The Brooklyn Library is making electronic editions of banned books freely available to any American teenager. It's free. Via @wsuares
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The Trump administration can and should fix the USDA rural broadband program to allow more rural communities access to critical federal funding so they can expand broadband. baldwin.senate.gov/press-rel…
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Advocates for Rural Broadband in Wisconsin | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin...

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Advocates for Rural Broadband in Wisconsin | U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined a bipartisan group of senators in urging...

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During her testimony to Congress, former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch alternated between sobbing uncontrollably and screaming accusations of political bias at her interrogators. Wait, sorry, that was Brett Kavanaugh. Yovanovitch was as cool as a cucumber.
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Gmorning. You're stunning and the world is lucky to have you. We are LUCKY TO HAVE YOU. Do your best.
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So excited for my guy Pat Krieger. Great mentor, great leader, and now a state champion.
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Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything's differrent? - C. S. Lewis
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@edutopia21 Jul 2016
6 sci-fi books to spark classroom discussions about freedom: edut.to/29WkPJ0.
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With more than 300 days left in President Obama's term, the Senate has no excuse to delay. #DoYourJob
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@edutopia26 Dec 2015
Shifting the responsibility from teacher to student: edut.io/jIYMdh.
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RT ME!!! A donor will give to @BobWoodruff's foundation for veterans @Stand4Heroes every time someone tweets or RTs this: #Give2veterans
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Our country was built on freedom, including the freedom of religion. That means we don't ban an entire religion from the U.S. Donald Trump.
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“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” ~ #CSLewis – at Oxford, England
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@edutopia4 Dec 2014
#WisdomWednesday via @finleyt.
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BSM teachers pie baking class!
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