Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My son was attempting to back up a claim and told his sister that he got some bit of information from me. Her reply- "Dot mom is not a valid source". 😂🤣🤣🤣☠ 011
Reposted by Amanda GappKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm due to teach our 20th c. US history graduate seminar this spring, and while I don't have the new one worked up yet, here's what I taught last time around. (And I'm sorry, I can't alt-text these as they're much too long.) Part 1: 2129420
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026According to AI, only AI uses the phrase "early christians". There is an adjunct art history teacher who had a job at a museum who is about to swear by this fact despite any human brain working out that that might be incorrect. 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"If you use outside teachers to teach your kids, how is that any different than public school?" I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you have never dealt with a problem at a public school as a parent. 000
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A person who claims to be a professor of European History (based in Florida, so...) just told me that teaching a 13yo about the Holocaust in detail is inappropriate. And this is how we are where we are now. 110
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wasn't quite sure what I would get when walking into helping trash out a closed antique store, but 100 year old sheet music actually wasn't on the list. 000
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We are an "AI makes you actively stupider" household. It is timely that this is going around now. Last night, a college teacher claimed that my daughter's first writing assignment for that class was 100% AI... because the AI machine told her so. 100
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thing said tonight by my child- "I didn't get into college at 12 by talking like I can't read." 001
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In the piano class at 12's school, the teacher gives them a song to practice independently and then when they can play it for him correctly, they "pass off" and get a new song. As of Friday, 12 has reached the point of receiving a new song at the start of class and "passing off" before the bell. 100
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 28/08/202612 after taking some quizzes for her classes- "I got a B in Spanish, but a 100 in Art History. I'm doing better in college than in high school!" Me- "Said the middle schooler." 000
Reposted by Amanda GappBebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Can it happen @openspacer.bsky.social ? 719227
Reposted by Amanda Gappkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT 88204216220
Reposted by Amanda GappHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/08/2026The wrong 80-year-old died today. 15941126
Reposted by Amanda GappDancindanw @dancindanw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026JUST ANNOUNCED - I suggest you get your tickets now - WOW 💜- @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social at 54BELOW in NYC - January 2027 - See you there Bebe 💙 - @jamiedumont.bsky.social @kevinddaly.bsky.social @bwaybeatnews.bsky.social @divarobbie.bsky.social - 54below.org/events/bebe-...54below.orgBebe Neuwirth Celebrates Kander & Ebb | 54 BelowTickets go on sale to Patrons on Fri, Aug 14 at 12pm. Tickets go on sale to Supporter+ members on ... 062
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"You're wrong!" You're trifling and I have time and boredom. 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026My dad was a car guy. He could rebuild an engine. As a kid, he woukd let me help keep track of parts. His baby of a car was a Thunderbird T-top. I thought that was the coolest car in the world. Nobody else's dad had a car like that. 011
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I would trade in minivan life for '66 Mustang life in a heartbeat. 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The kids had a music book out of audition cuts. I sat at the piano and played one. Decided it was a bit high for not being warmed up. Moved down an octave. Decided that was too low. Split the difference and played it in an entirely different key by reading the intervals instead of the notes. 110
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 09/07/202612 has a vocab list that she thinks all adults should know– Transient, usurpations, evinces, despotism, depository, hither, abdicated, perfidy, magnanimity, disavow, consanguinity, acquiesce, and rectitude. 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Judgy, well–read middle schooler reading the Declaration of Independence is.... an experience. 010
Reposted by Amanda GappBebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Dammit. Now where the hell did I park my. . . Ah. Found it. 622843234
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 07/07/202612 was sent to pick a song or two to learn to sing. Somehow that has resulted in her tumbling down a Betty Buckley rabbit hole (which sounds like it is shifting to a "who else sang that and how did they do it" rabbit hole). "I want to project like that" has been whispered in awe. 000
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 05/07/202612 often wears earbuds in a store to combat the noise. She has a pretty eclectic taste in music, so there is never any way to guess what she's picked to listen to. As we left a store yesterday, I asked what had been in her ears. "Twisted Sister!" Then she asked me, "Do you know who that is?" 120
Reposted by Amanda GappAmi Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I guess the 250th anniversary is the one where you have to get rid of a mad king 28713
Reposted by Amanda GappBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/06/2026Happy Bob Fosse's birthday! 1026632
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Last ever baby tooth falling out and selecting college classes just shouldn't fall on the same day, but here we are. 020
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I don't know what a better metric would be, perhaps something that addresses the child globally, but my daughter is now a walking example of how gifted screener tests can fail. 100
Reposted by Amanda GappAmanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Article is paywalled, but this is what I know- In 1st grade, my son's school told me he was reading at a 4th grade level and then told me he wouldn't have access to harder books because it would make other kids feel bad. His teacher said he could teach the other kids. 181
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Today 12 learned that I have known 2 profoundly talented, blind pianists (and that, yes, I mean she literally needs to learn to play her scales with her eyes closed). 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Giraffes muttering to themselves that if only their legs were longer, then they would stand a chance 010
Reposted by Amanda GappAdam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026NEWLY UPDATED: To help ramp up for the Tonys on Sunday, here are videos of the 40 greatest Tony performances of all time. Enjoy and share widely! The youngs must know! www.timeout.com/newyork/thea... 1225595
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I told the kids that I am not cooking dinner all summer, they can handle it. Yesterday they made chicken korma and today the little one made sosis rougay. At this rate, I will never cook again 😆 020
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 29/05/202612 has finished 6th grade with a 4.25 high school gpa. Eight classes done. She wants to start college in the fall. 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 29/05/2026When it comes to middle school musical instruments- xylophone is more annoying than piano. 120
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026If the only way you can teach your kid Algebra 1 is if the curriculum is "Christian based", it is a cult. 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Turns out, it isn't actually very fun to really live in K&E musicals. (I knows they are called scripts but they are meant to now be pretend!) 000
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026We are averaging 1 in 10 teachers who just hate smart kids and feel the need to take them out. My kids have collectively had about 75 teachers across their k-12 careers so far and about 8 teachers have been serious problems. Not just minor annoyances. 000
Reposted by Amanda GappBebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I got to go to a screening of the first 2 episodes of “Spider Noir” last night. SO GREAT ⭐️and everyone in it is fabulous ⭐️the art direction is fabulous ⭐️ SO FUN⭐️ 2295048
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Email to registrar- "On May 4th, I submitted an application and"... Reply from registrar- "When did you do the application, it takes 5-10 days." Reply to the reply- " "On May 4th" " 011
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026"Wait, Cicero was also a person?" Poor little theatre mouse studying her Latin 🏛👯🏻♀️ 😆 010
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Last 2.5 weeks of the school year- no backpacks, no binders, no trapper keepers... So school is finished then? Testing happened, so no more anything learning? For 2.5 weeks? 000
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 10/05/2026“PTSD is surviving the crash, CPTSD is growing up in the wreckage.” Interesting quote to see today. 000
Reposted by Amanda GappAmy McEuen, Ph.D. @mceuen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com 3698782203
Amanda Gapp @amandagapp.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Book It is "back" like the Big Mac is "back". It never went anywhere, you just haven't been around to see it for decades. 010
