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Justin Parmenter

@justinparmenter.bsky.social
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RPCV, public school teacher, 🍎 advocate Education is a human right. Charlotte, North Carolina notesfromthechalkboard.com

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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I knew Marcus King could play, but man this trio sounds so good m.youtube.com/watch?v=69NW...
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Atomic Habitz (Marcus King, Chris Dave, MonoNeon) "Red Hot Momma" - live at Newport Jazz Festival
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
10 minutes into my first class yesterday and a student pulls out a lemon squeezer. She said she was getting ready in the dark and just hoping she was grabbing the right stuff she might need for school. Teaching middle school is hard, but it’s also hilarious on a daily basis. #nced
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ready for the 32nd first day of school!! Have a great day in the classroom, teachers and students!! ❤️🍎
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They built four kilometers of road at the Majdanek concentration camp out of Jewish gravestones. You can still read some of the Hebrew. Third piece from my week in Poland with forty other NC teachers. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/08/14/j...
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Jewish Cemeteries in Poland: What Became of the Stones
What happened to the Jewish cemeteries in Poland: a North Carolina teacher's account of Okopowa, Tykocin, Majdanek, Gniewoszów and Kielce.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I recently spent a week in Poland studying the Holocaust with 40 other North Carolina teachers. At Majdanek on our last day, we sat to reflect on what comes next between the crematorium, where tens of thousands were burned, and the mausoleum, a dome covering a mound of human ashes. #nced
A stone wall and side view of the massive concrete Majdanek Mausoleum on the left, with the tall brick crematorium chimney standing in the background against a pale blue sky.A wide mound of gray human ashes sheltered directly beneath the thick concrete dome of the Majdanek Mausoleum, with dark polished stone in the foreground.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Such a beautiful morning on the greenway in Charlotte NC
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
17,000 stones stand in the field at Treblinka. Only 216 carry a name, and all but one of those is a town. The exception reads JANUSZ KORCZAK, and under it, I DZIECI. And the children. New post, with sources for your classroom. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/07/30/n...
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Nothing to See at Treblinka - Notes from the Chalkboard Treblinka
A veteran teacher's reflections on Treblinka after visiting Poland, with primary sources for educators teaching this history to students.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just returned from a week in Poland with 40 North Carolina teachers and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention how cool the street art in Warsaw is. #nced
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump’s Election Claims Land With a Whimper Among Republicans Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president’s claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...
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Trump’s Election Claims and SAVE Act Push Find Muted Response From G.O.P. Lawmakers (Gift Article)
Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president’s claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Seriously, we had the Project 2025 road map laid out for us and the prospect of a couple more Supreme Court seats locked up for decades AND the cheating infrastructure and knowhow from 2020, but in 2024 we just said “Eh, just let Trump have it this time…” 😂😂😂🤡
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How dumb do you have to be to believe that Democrats stole the election in 2020 when they *didn’t* control the government, but NOT in 2016 or 2024 when they did??
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow this sounds so much like North Carolina, where GOP legislators are pouring more than a half a billion taxpayer dollars a year into private schools that discriminate against children based on things like religious beliefs and sexual orientation. #nced 🧵
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run. #nced www.propublica.org/article/priv...
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Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Iran is literally invoicing the Trump administration for their share of the market manipulation racketeering haul. 😂🫡
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New York becomes first U.S. state to impose AI data center ban www.cnbc.com/2026/07/14/n...
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New York becomes first U.S. state to impose AI data center ban
New York became the first state to ban construction of 'hyperscale' AI data centers, for one year, after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Maine is in absolute outrage! Protesters took over Senator Susan Collins’ office chanting "VOTE HER OUT" after an ICE thug brutally executed a 26-year-old Colombian man. We demand immediate accountability for this state-sponsored murder! Enough is enough!
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Had a bit of indigestion this AM which had me briefly wondering if I'd caught cyclosporiasis, the parasite outbreak causing explosive diarrhea across 31 states now, because DOGE, the agency Trump handed to Elon Musk, cut the tracking system built to catch it. 🧵
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents #nced fortune.com/article/how-...
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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune
Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I'm honored to join the North Carolina State Board of Education's newly formed Task Force on Educator Licensure and Advancement. 🍎🙏 #nced
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Witnesses of ICE Killing in Houston Dispute the Official Account The agency said a Mexican immigrant driving a van tried to ram agents before they shot him dead. A lawyer for three passengers said that was untrue. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...
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Witnesses of ICE Killing in Houston Dispute the Official Account (Gift Article)
The agency said a Mexican immigrant driving a van tried to ram agents before they shot him dead. A lawyer for three passengers said that was untrue.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
West Virginia spent $3M on an ‘anti-woke’ college program. One student is enrolled www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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West Virginia spent $3M on an ‘anti-woke’ college program. One student is enrolled
State lawmakers mandated the center’s creation despite recent budget troubles at the university
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Patriot Front members ride the Washington Metro on July 4, 2026, before marching through the nation’s capital. What an unforgettable artifact of where our nation stands on its 250th birthday. Photo by Cheney Orr / Reuters.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I love it when resistance is hilarious!! Images of Stephen Miller hanging as a bat at the Lincoln Memorial, Ted Cruz as a sex worker, Donald Trump under a bridge, etc. projected in DC by artist collective VJay Bombs.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/06/2026
Donald Trump has a new nemesis, with a name worthy of a supervillain, @mviser.bsky.social writes. He reports on what he learned after scientists tested samples of the algae that’s infested the Reflecting Pool:
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Tests of the Reflecting Pool Turn Up a Surprise
Eforts to clean the pool might be making the problem worse.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 22/06/2026
BREAKING: A federal court just blocked the DOJ from seizing private data on millions of Maryland voters. In 9 out of 9 attempts, courts have prevented the Trump administration from accessing voters' data.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump Demanded Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ He Got a Surprise Instead. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
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Trump Demanded Iran’s ‘Unconditional Surrender.’ He Got a Surprise Instead.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
NC lawmakers are moving toward committing $10 million a year to an AI chatbot for students in grades 6-12 — no competitive bid, no educator input, and the tool isn't even finished yet. Here's what's happening and what you can do about it #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/06/18/h...
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How NC Lawmakers Cut Out Educators to Push Classroom AI - Notes from the Chalkboard
North Carolina legislators are pushing an AI chatbot into public school classrooms — and they want it there by August. As New York Times reporter Natasha Singer noted yesterday on The Daily podcast, t...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Note the same legislators who cut nearly 7000 human teaching assistants and never restored that funding now want to give us a $10 million AI chatbot to "assist" students in learning. Our kids deserve better. #nced
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
$10 million for an AI chatbot the company is rebuilding because students rarely use it? Paying recurring state dollars to be someone’s beta tester is not a sound education policy. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/06/15/n...
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NC Legislators Want to Put an Unproven AI Bot in Your Child's Classroom in August - Notes from the Chalkboard
The North Carolina General Assembly is moving a bill that would spend more than $10 million in recurring state money every year to put an AI chatbot in front of students in grades six through twelve. ...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
No competitive bidding. No independent review of the evidence. No teachers consulted during drafting. Just a contract written into statute for a single named vendor. #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/06/15/n...
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NC Legislators Want to Put an Unproven AI Bot in Your Child's Classroom in August - Notes from the Chalkboard
The North Carolina General Assembly is moving a bill that would spend more than $10 million in recurring state money every year to put an AI chatbot in front of students in grades six through twelve. ...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Ten years of public records requests, secret PR playbooks, and pulling back the curtain on education policy. From "White Fragility" book returns to defeating merit pay, a look at why the fight is still entirely worth it. ⬇️ 🍎 #nced notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/06/12/a...
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A Decade of Trouble - Notes from the Chalkboard
Ten years ago this week, I took a deep breath and published my first op-ed about standardized testing in the Charlotte Observer. I vividly remember sitting in my classroom watching my students test th...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For the last day of school, my students designed mouse traps. While many dreamed up robotic cats and catapults, an immigrant student won the day with this masterpiece. Behold: La Chancleta. 🩴 "Not lethal but very dangerous... more effective if its Immigrant parents." #nced
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
No single letter grade can capture the complex, human growth that happens under a school's roof over 180 days. We cannot allow a broken formula to dictate the worth of our schools, our teachers, and our kids. #nced www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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After a year of triumphs, we shouldn’t call NC schools and students failures | Opinion
Stop letting a broken formula define our schools’ successes in North Carolina | Opinion
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Show a little extra love to our Charlotte Mecklenburg k-12 students and educators if you can--things are really hard right now. #nced www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Technical glitches hinder CMS state testing for the second day in a row
The district has not yet said how many students were affected.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Michael Fanone was beaten, tased, and left with a heart attack and brain injury on Jan 6. Now, the Trump administration’s $1.776B “slush fund” could make the very rioters who assaulted him rich. You can’t claim to back the blue while rewarding those who tried to kill them.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Remember when Elon Musk had to miss a great party because he was busy feeding USAID into the wood chipper? Now we are seeing the fruit of his labor.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
‘Every health facility said they were full’: alarm over rapid spread of Ebola in DRC www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Every health facility said they were full’: alarm over rapid spread of Ebola in DRC
New strain of virus, aid cuts, and cultural norms around burials and touch add to difficulties in stemming outbreak
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This plant has been in my classroom window for three years and just started this massive project like two weeks ago. Great job, little buddy!! 🫡 #nced
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
No educator worth their salt would ever use a child as a proxy to attack their colleagues. It is the height of unprofessionalism to tell a 10-year-old that the person they look up to every morning in the classroom is failing them. #nced www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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Did Rep. Virginia Foxx really punch down on a 10-year-old? Oh yes, she did. | Opinion
Rep. Foxx, you were once a teacher. You should know that words have power, especially when they come from a person in a position of authority.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This week Trump claimed gas prices were falling--A lie so absurd when the reality is staring every American in the face every single day. You can't gaslight a gas station sign. notesfromthechalkboard.com/2026/05/10/y...
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You Can’t Gaslight a Gas Station Sign - Notes from the Chalkboard
On Thursday night, Donald Trump was standing near the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial talking to reporters about a renovation project in Washington. The discussion was part of a broader focus ...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
High-octane gaslighting at $4.59 a gallon.  Believe your eyes, not Trump's lies...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
😂😬😂😬😂😬😂 Hold up, didn’t Trump indict Fed Chair Jerome Powell for construction cost overruns?
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Bridge burning clowns
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Public Schools First NC @publicschoolsfirstnc.org · 04/05/2026
Our latest blog post is live: “More Than Coffee: The One Gift Teachers Never Get Tired of Receiving.” Tap the link below or head to our website’s “Blog” section to read the newest post. publicschoolsfirstnc.org/more-than-…
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hey friends, it’s Teacher Appreciation Week so I wrote about my late 11th grade American Literature teacher named Cynthia Beasley who changed my whole attitude about education and still influences my own English lessons to this day. 🙏🍎 #nced publicschoolsfirstnc.org/more-than-co...
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More Than Coffee: The One Gift Teachers Never Get Tired of Receiving – Public Schools First NC
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/05/2026
Spirit specifically cited why they couldn’t stay in business: skyrocketing fuel costs due to Trump’s war. And the Trump admin is still trying to blame Biden for everything?! It’s May 2026. Trump was the “I’ll make everything cheaper on day 1” guy. The “no new wars” guy. Own your actions.
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Here’s the school privatizer playbook: —> Frame schools that struggle with poverty and the effects of institutional racism as failing —> Divert their funding to charters and private schools —> Document the results as additional “evidence” of failure —> Repeat #nced #ncpol
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
‘Do your jobs!’: Teachers, allies flood into Raleigh with message for state leaders Thousands of demonstrators turned Halifax Mall into a sea of red T-shirts Friday. #nced ncnewsline.com/2026/05/01/d...
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'Do your jobs!': Teachers, allies flood into Raleigh with message for state leaders • NC Newsline
Thousands of educators, advocates and allies converged on Raleigh Friday, demanding higher pay for teachers, more state support per student, more childcare funding, and more funding for special educat...
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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NC is losing the competition for teachers. Take a look: Avg teacher pay: NC ~$59,971 VA ~$72K GA ~$72.7K SC ~$67.1K TN ~$62.9K NC is getting outbid for its own teachers. This trend won’t end until the numbers change. #nced #redfored
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