Cheers & Jeers
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Justin Ward, a life skills teacher at Laurel Highlands High School, is a finalist for the Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year.
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Kandiss Taylor, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate participates in a republican primary debate on May 1, 2022, in Atlanta.
Cheers: There无毛视频檚 been a lot of ink spilled in recent months about the high turnover rate among American teachers and the problems in replenishing their ranks. For that reason, any school would be wise to hang onto educators as dedicated as Justin Ward and Brittney Bell. Ward, life skills teacher at Laurel Highlands High School, and Bell, fifth-grade instructor at Carmichaels Elementary School, are two of 12 teachers across the state who are in the running to be the Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year for 2024. As the 无毛视频-Standard reported this week, Ward returned to his alma mater after college graduation 无毛视频渢o give back to the community that impacted me. 无毛视频� it无毛视频檚 so satisfying just to see the daily victories with my students. They need us. A lot of times, this is probably the most consistent stability that they see,无毛视频� he said. Bell has 无毛视频渨ild ideas and a big heart,无毛视频� doing things like transforming her room into a space station or surgical room to discuss career possibilities with students. She believes teaching needs to be 无毛视频渞elationship-driven.无毛视频� She explained, 无毛视频淚t无毛视频檚 not just about them doing well on the state tests or scoring high. They need to know that no matter what they do educationally, you are in their corner.无毛视频� And those students are lucky to have teachers like Ward and Bell.
Jeers: The argument about whether Earth is round or flat was seemingly settled somewhere around 1600. But for Kandiss Taylor, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia and now a district chair in that state, the question of the planet无毛视频檚 roundness or flatness is apparently still up for grabs. In a recent podcast, she seemed to agree with two guests who earnestly believe the orb we inhabit is flat. Taylor then went on a diatribe about globes, suggesting that the presence of globes 无毛视频渆verywhere无毛视频� is part of some wider conspiracy. She exclaimed, 无毛视频淎nd that无毛视频檚 what they do to brainwash. For me, if it is not a conspiracy, if it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go?! Every store, you buy a globe, there无毛视频檚 globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media 无毛视频� why?无毛视频� Given the penchant for book banning by Taylor无毛视频檚 ideological fellow travelers, let无毛视频檚 hope they don无毛视频檛 go after globes next.
Jeers: Need something else to keep you awake in the middle of the night? Then how about the fact that more than 300 researchers, engineers and executives who are developing artificial intelligence have signed on to a letter stating that AI, in the words of The New York Times, 无毛视频渕ight one day pose an existential threat to humanity无毛视频� and 无毛视频渟hould be considered a societal risk on a par with pandemics and nuclear war.无毛视频� Anyone who has seen the classic movie 无毛视频�2001: A Space Odyssey无毛视频� and its renegade HAL 9000 computer can easily imagine how artificial intelligence could turn against us. Moreover, artificial intelligence could eventually lead to the elimination of millions of jobs as it carries out tasks more efficiently than we could ever dream of. That will lead humans to do 无毛视频� what? It might be best to go slow when it comes to developing AI.