MONTGOMERY‚ Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate scheduled to be the first person in the United States to be put to death with nitrogen gas is waiting to see if he will receive a last-minute reprieve from federal courts in his bid to halt the execution. Unless blocked by the courts‚ Alabama intends to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith‚ 58‚ by the never-used method of nitrogen hypoxia Thursday. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Smith’s request for a stay Wednesday‚ rejecting his argument that it would be...

The United Auto Workers labor union has endorsed President Joe Biden despite former President Donald Trump‘s courting of the organization’s support. UAW President Shawn Fain announced his organization’s sought-after endorsement during his group’s annual conference in Washington‚ D.C. Wednesday‚ underscoring Biden’s record of standing with auto workers‚ dating back to the industry’s 2008-2010 crisis. “Donald Trump is a scab. Trump is a billionaire and that’s who he represents‚” Fain said...

The United Auto Workers union is endorsing President Joe Biden for reelection this year‚ UAW President Shawn Fain announced Wednesday at a union conference in Washington‚ D.C. “Today‚ I’m proud to stand up here with your International Executive Board and announce that the UAW is endorsing Joe Biden for President of the United States‚” Fain said. “We will reelect Joe Biden.” The union’s endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate shouldn’t be surprising; however‚ it comes after...

President Joe Biden received a key 2024 endorsement on Wednesday from the United Auto Workers‚ with the union's president using the occasion to savage Biden's likely general election opponent‚ Donald Trump. Shawn Fain announced UAW's support for Biden's reelection bid at their biannual conference in Washington‚ D.C. "I know there's some people that want to ignore this election‚" Fain said. "They don't want to have anything to do with politics. Other people want to argue endlessly about...

A recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 87% of public schools say the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted students' socio-emotional development. Respondents have also said there has been a significant increase in student misconduct.However‚ a teacher with 24 years of experience in the U.S. and abroad believes we are misplacing blame for this rise in misconduct. In a viral TikTok video with over 480‚000 views‚ Lisa Conselatore claims that the big problem isn’t the pandemic but modern parenting.“The problem is cultural‚" Conselatore says. "We have raised children to think that they are absolutely the most important person in any room. They are so special that whatever they want to do‚ or whatever they think‚ or whatever they say is the most important thing in that moment.” @lisaconselatore #tiredteacher #enough #raisingkids #timetolisten #supportteachers #culturetalk #culturecheck #teachersoftiktok #teachersontiktok #teaching2023belike “I know your children are special to you. I know that my children are special to me‚” she continues. “But none of them are the most special person ever in the room at any time. They're not. Nobody is because we live in a society and we all have to get along and we all have to respect one another and part of respecting one another is recognizing when you have a contribution to make and when you need to sit there and open your ears. … We don't have that down. We've missed it.”In the video‚ Conselatore lays some pretty big blame on America’s parents‚ but she also offers some simple solutions to improve the situation.“Teach them when to listen‚ taking a turn to speak. Speak when it's appropriate. When you have something to say and. It's your turn‚” she says. “Let's reevaluate our family cultures‚ our community cultures‚ and our larger society cultures. Because of this is not working‚ not working.”

When we become adults with or without children we often realize that there were some things that get left out when our parents were teaching us how to adult. Sometimes it's because our parents were never taught while other times it's because they didn't get around to it. Either way adults end up calling their parents‚ looking it up or stumbling across it by accident while scrolling social media.One mom‚ Cara‚ who runs the Instagram account Chaos with Cara‚ did just that and she took to her own social media page to share her discovery so others wouldn't struggle. Cara experienced what many people experience when using spices from a bottle over a hot stove–the clog. All the spices settle at the top and clog the holes so nothing comes out. A lot of folks just shake harder or turn the bottle back to its bottom and try again experiencing the frustrating clog once more. Cara learned via scrolling on TikTok that if you take that clogged bottle and just twist the plastic piece on top‚ the spices evenly come out of the holes. No vigorous shaking needed‚ just a quick twist and you've got seasoned food. People in the comments were equally impressed with this new discovery."I consider myself an intelligent‚ educated‚ corporate professional. Not in any of my 40+ years on this planet did this occur to me for a single second. FML‚" one person writes."You mean to tell me we been shaking like that for years hurting our arms and we could have doing that. MIND BLOWN‚" another person says."Are you kidding me?!!!!! And I’m literally seeing this seconds after I just seasoned my chicken the old way thanks for sharing! Had no clue‚" someone else questions."So that's why it's always so twisty‚ I just thought it was cheap packaging‚" one person admits.Turns out it's not cheap packaging at all‚ just smart packaging‚ though a couple commenters warned that when they first tried this trick they ended up with a pot full of oregano. So twist carefully. Check out her discovery below: See on Instagram

A teacher has sparked a passionate debate on X after a letter they wrote banning 32 words from being spoken in the classroom was made public. The discussion is centered around whether a teacher has the right to control how their students talk in class. The letter has been seen nearly 44 million times on X.“The gibberish some of you choose to use is improper English‚” the teacher declared. “There are many ways to articulate what you need to say without using slang. Please know that using slang in an academic setting can diminish your capability to become a successful writer. More often than not the way you speak is the way you will write.”“This is an academic institution‚ and you will carry yourself as scholars in my classroom‚” the teacher added.According to the letter‚ if students are caught using any of the 32 banned words in their classroom‚ they will be assigned to write a short essay explaining why they chose “to use these words in an academic setting.”Words on the list include bruh‚ standing on business‚ on my momma‚ big motion‚ gyat‚ gang gang‚ on hood and rizz (short for charisma). The teacher also banned the use of the n-word. — (@) Given that much of the slang on the list derives from African American Vernacular English (AAVE)‚ many believed that the word ban was racially motivated. However‚ the teacher's race has never been disclosed. Seems anti black to me— Saint (@__lamar) January 7‚ 2024 There isn’t a Black child in the public school system who doesn’t know how to code switch. This is targeted.— RandomWhiteGuy📖 Heretic &; Disheveled Misfit (@TheReelRandom) January 10‚ 2024 The list caused a lively debate on X‚ and many people joked in the comments that they didn’t think they would last a day in the teacher’s class.First 5 minutes 😂💯— 𝓈𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉★ (@hearts4zaniyahh) January 7‚ 2024 Many people supported the teacher and believed slang is inappropriate in an academic setting‚ especially in an English class. They appreciated the teacher challenging them to change their word choice based on the setting. 1. Accurate and correct. 2. Sounds like a black teacher trying to help black kids elevate.— Dre Baldwin | #WorkOnYourGame (@DreAllDay) January 7‚ 2024 Good teacher. Not an easy stand to take. This will benefit the kids' education‚ lives‚ and careers.— Town Square Man ☕️ (@TownSquareMan) January 8‚ 2024 It appears this is a class full of inspiring writers and it also appears this lecturer is rightfully setting standards to improve their chances of success in the real world. Imagine how people have found a way to demonize standards. SMH— Tuoyo (@JustTuoyo) January 7‚ 2024 I like this. Challenging students to articulate themselves without slang is good. They need to know how to write and speak properly.— Chi. (@ByEzenwanyi) January 8‚ 2024 i never thought i would see the day that teaching kids how to be functional adults would be frowned upon pic.twitter.com/Yb7rPAYXzt— jonxlewis 🎧🏆 (@jonxlewis) January 7‚ 2024 Being able to talk with and without slang and adapt to whatever room or surroundings you’re in is important.Just ask yourself this‚ how would feel if you were in court‚ with your life in the hands of a judge and jury and your lawyer used all of these words and phrases? 🤣 pic.twitter.com/bKTOjTkRDZ— Agonaldinho🇩🇲 (@Agonaldinho) January 11‚ 2024 The list also bothered many people who thought the teacher should be able to distinguish between the student’s speech and the work they do in class. For most people‚ there is a big difference between how they casually speak with peers and how they write in an academic or professional setting. Many also thought the teacher was overstepping their bounds by trying to control how the students spoke.She’s on a power trip &; and doesn’t value the language of her students. She is more concerned with compliance than learning about her students‚ because she does not value her students’ identities.— Alyssa Rose (@AH_Belonging) January 7‚ 2024 So you as a teacher want to take away the right of speech to students? Why not let them talk how they talk? Dont you as a teacher know how people talk?You can’t just police their words‚ slang and lingo and expect them to talk a different way‚ that isn’t realistic and that’s…— Mike Hanning (@Mikenaniyoka246) January 8‚ 2024 Let me write the essay on how the way I choose to speak isn’t the way I’ll write. This teacher needs to vibe out for real.— streaming on kick (@dabbunny710) January 8‚ 2024 I get where they're trying to go with that but I don't agree with cutting out slang. Language is always evolving and there's more than one way to speak English. This just seems like power tripping and respectability politics to me 😐— Brindille (@twig_lalaland) January 7‚ 2024 One person had a practical solution the teacher could use instead of banning certain words. Instead‚ they could teach them to dig deeper into their meaning and find words and phrases that have a similar meaning.As a middle school teacher‚ I relate to banning bruh. Instead of this draconian response‚ the teacher is making the words more popular. Instead‚ she could assign them as vocabulary words‚ then challenge the students to find synonyms‚ especially curse words from Shakespeare.— RobinRadlauer-Cramer (@robradreads) January 21‚ 2024 Pritay Washington‚ an expert on childhood education at the Education Development Center‚ told Newsweek that she believes the students should be allowed to use slang in the classroom because it has an essential function: it helps them feel like they belong in school."So much happens in middle and high school beyond the learning of classroom content. Students are developing cognitively‚ mentally‚ socially‚ emotionally and physically‚" she told Newsweek. "They are honing their critical thinking skills and learning how to navigate the world around them. The importance of student engagement is critical‚ and this includes representation. Students' sense of belonging matters."

News reporter Kayla Sullivan was wrapping gifts and addressing Christmas cards to her son’s teachers late one night when she decided to share something with her many followers that was different than her usual content. She’s become famous for doing “news reports” featuring the lighter side of parenting. “Going live” from her home and various day-to-day destinations using household items as props. But in this particular video‚ she instead shared about feeling sad and embarrassed about having a different last name than her four-year-old son. The feelings were prompted by needing to write “Alan’s mom” in parenthesis when signing the cards for his teachers.“I told myself I’d probably delete the [Instagram] story in the morning and regret getting this vulnerable on social media‚" Sullivan told Parents. "Instead‚ I woke up to so many people with kind things to say or stories that genuinely offered great advice.”“About three weeks ago‚ I was crying and was writing Christmas cards to my son's teachers and feeling really embarrassed because I felt the need to put Allan’s mom in parenthesis because my last name doesn’t match my son’s‚” the video begins. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kayla Sullivan (@kaylamariesully) ​“I was never married to my son’s father‚ but I did give my son his last name. I don’t regret that… I just got engaged‚ and I’m going to be taking his last name. His son has his last name‚ and I don’t want my son to feel like the oddball out‚ so we will not be putting our last name on Christmas cards. I don’t want rugs or signs that say our last name because I don’t want my son to feel left out‚" Sullivan said.“There are other things that people suggested that I just thought were really beautiful. And I wanted everyone to be part of this conversation‚ but it was all secretly in my inbox. Other people asked‚ ‘Can you share the response?’ and this just seemed like the best way to do it. So please comment on this video if you did reach out to me or if you didn’t and you want to say something to make people feel better about this. I know it may sound silly‚ but a lot of people struggle with not having the same last name as their kid‚ and it does hurt sometimes‚ so I just wanted to give people the opportunity to come here and look at these comments and feel less alone because it really helped me. Thank you.”Sullivan was so moved by the response she made another video to discuss the reaction. @kaylareporting TikTok · Kayla Marie Sullivan While you might think—as some of the commenters did—that kids having different names than their moms is becoming less unusual these days. According to a Pew Research study published in 2023‚ most women still take their spouse’s last name.“Most women in opposite-sex marriages (79%) say they took their spouse’s last name when they got married. Another 14% kept their last name‚ and 5% hyphenated both their name and their spouse’s name‚” says the study.Perhaps for this reason‚ Sullivan’s follow-up video struck a nerve. It received over seven hundred comments on TikTok‚ where Sullivan has 1.2 million followers‚ and almost 2500 comments on Instagram‚ where she has 681 thousand followers.“As the kid who never had the last name of her parents or her siblings‚ the most important feeling is belonging. Being someone’s daughter and sister isn’t about sharing a surname; it’s about feeling part of a family and being loved by those people‚” wrote kids_and_the_commute on Instagram.​“Three people in this house. Three last names. It confuses the heck out of people when we travel through the airport‚ but otherwise‚ we do like you. Holiday cards say our first names. No door mats with the family name. It all words‚” wrote Instagram user mamawildnfree."I think the lesson I’ve learned from sharing this feeling is that there is so much good that can come from being honest and not trying to pretend like everything is perfect‚" Sullivan told Parents. "It’s okay to be embarrassed and to admit that you are struggling with something even though people will tell you not to or say you shouldn’t be.”

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