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Susan Book

@sbook.bsky.social
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Parent Advocate for equitably funded public schools. Embrace neurodiversity. Mom. Writer. I'll remember your dog's name before I'll remember yours.

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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Color of Education Summit 2026. Here to learn and listen and hopefully apply. #colorofeducation2026
Black Tshirt with red text box "Justice" yellow box "Joy" and green box "Liberation " with Summit bookletSusan and friends posing at the summit
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In NC, I've been to Poneysaraus and the idea of a private school there is cracking me up. Ethical and amazing work by some great reporters
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Bensmummy33 🤕 @bensmom33.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone congratulate me on my new dream of opening a private school in Arizona. It will even comply with fire codes.
An image showing I could open a private school called Maverick Preparatory Academy in 18 states.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Gaining 1 for the Dems, thanks to NC.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Have we ever truly invested in all our children? Just because its private doesn't ensure quality, safety, or acceptance.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
Some of the nation’s first statewide voucher programs were created specifically for students with disabilities. But most legislatures haven’t required private schools that take this public money to accept even a few kids with such needs.
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Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.
To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.propublica.org/article/scho....
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Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.
To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Somehow I missed that Dinosaur has a second season on Hulu! Weighted blanket and all.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My son found an error in a physics homework question. This is how we know he's truly our son. 😀. Also this kid is freaking amazing every day.
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
An absolutely blistering and necessary rejoinder about the limits of representation and visibility from @steveway.bsky.social
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The Contradiction at the Heart of Disability in America
America loves seeing disabled people. It doesn’t want to pay to keep us alive, writes Steve Way.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Shh. Concentrating on work...and watching World Cup Soccer. Ok more so World Cup.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Yesterday, my son spent most of the US game just shouting at the TV, "somebody shoot the ball!" Shouting into the void is part of sports.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I should really go to bed early for Monday...but no way with this game!
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That last set piece for the last goal was a thing of beauty
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Maybe its because I've been watching hockey too much, but the refs in the Swiss/Qatar seem like their calling the game too tight.
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Public Schools First NC @publicschoolsfirstnc.org · 09/06/2026
Good news for reading instruction for students in ed. prep. programs. But funding for literacy coaches is being cut due to skimpy state budgets. Let's go state lawmakers - fund our public schools! #nced #ncpublicschools ow.ly/sSOs50Z9l0h
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Teaching kids to read: NC's teacher colleges are turning around low marks, report finds
The improvement for teachers' colleges is just one of many components needed to turn the state's and the nation's fortunes around after years of declining reading scores.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/05/2026
Johnny Appleseed became @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social‘s patron saint. Almost everything he thought he knew about the folk hero was wrong:
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Hunting for Johnny Appleseed in the backroads of America
The true story of John Chapman is much more complex—and booze-fueled—than the history books had led me to believe.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Never feel guilty for borrowing books from a library. Authors LOVE libraries. And libraries pay authors a small sum every time one of their books is borrowed (which in many cases comes to more than the percentage earned from the sale of a book in a discount outlet)...
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"Book also showed up to the rallies in 2018 and 2019, when her son was in elementary school. She said the lack of progress since is disheartening, and that her son is about to graduate."(In a few years) www.ednc.org/5-1-2026-nc-...
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NC teachers march for higher pay and increased funding for public schools
Learn about the May 1 teachers march organized by NCAE, demanding increased funding for North Carolina public schools.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Ok parents, pack a lunch, charge your phones, and find your red shirt for tomorrow. It will be a long day advocating for our public schools. #KidsOverCorporations #nced
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yesterday I picked up some handouts I had printed for an event Im helping to organize. My win, I went to Staples and didn't buy any new pens or markers.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A lot has been happening in special education on the state and local level here in my corner of NC. #SpecialEd #nced therewillbepoop.com/2026/04/06/m...
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My View from a Hard Plastic Chair | therewillbepoop.com
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I've been getting calls and text constantly from everywhere in the state. No one in special education in NC is doing well. In fact its a mess.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hate to miss this, recovering from some back issues. Give Helen Ladd my best. And give the NC Supreme Court and NCGA some hell.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Same
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Happy Autism Acceptance Day! I'm accepting that I sometimes struggle to shut down my brain and get sleep. #AutismAcceptanceDay
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Parents want a working system most of all. Do better Wake County Schools NC! www.wunc.org/education/20...
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Complaints allege WCPSS fails to transport students with disabilities
A formal state complaint claims Wake County Schools' vendors often fail to pick up students. Parents made over 16,000 complaints about the service since the last time the state investigated the issue.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Also reach out if you need to just rant.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
My back is a mess and appointment not until Wednesday. Im watching women's basketball 🏀
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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
It should be big news that Stein's education priorities don't include implementation of the Leandro Plan. It's weird that this fact goes unmentioned in the article #ncpol
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Gov. Stein outlines education priorities to crowd of educators, policymakers
Gov. Josh Stein highlighted education items in his recent budget proposal at an annual BEST NC convening of teachers, business leaders.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Busy day. #Red4Ed abc11.com/post/wake-co...
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Wake County school district scraps proposed cuts to special education
Teachers and parents said they were relieved by the board's decision but concerned about what comes next.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Wake school board pushes to drop proposed $18m special education cuts
The Wake County school board directed the district to find other budget cuts rather than eliminate 130 special education teaching positions that would drive up teacher-to-student ratios.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Bookmarking this for when I have the capacity and not fighting a freaking threat to students with disabilities funding on my local level.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Appreciate this op-ed by @ericmgarcia.bsky.social and to borrow language from my friend @jloeppky.com, best to view disability in itself as value neutral, which means it's not a superpower (it's ok for people to not like symptoms of their disability though). www.ms.now/opinion/gavi...
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Opinion | Trump is wrong to call learning disabilities disqualifying. Newsom is wrong to call them 'strengths.'
Eric Garcia: Neither Trump nor Newsom talks about dyslexia with the care and nuance the topic deserves
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#WorldDownSyndromeDay #LotsOfSocks
Green bee sock and blue sunflower sock
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You don’t cut the budget of your most vulnerable population and expect better results,” said Susan Book, the parent of a Wake special-education student.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Dont cut special education!!! #StopSpecEdCuts www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Wake schools plan to cut $18M from special education. What’s the impact?
The school district is citing a budget shortfall for the need to cut 9% of its special-education teachers.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Normally don't pay much attention when a team announces a new jersey. However, I'm in love with @nccourage.com 's new Venus Flytrap jersey!
White woman wearing glasses.  Blue venus fly trap NC courage jersey with pink accents.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I am indeed late diagnosed with a kiddo also somewhere on the spectrum. He's not low or high. He does general education but with a 1:1. He's afraid of driving. Not sure what our future holds, but he and I are in it together.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Bizarre for Frith say that increased autism diagnoses "overshadows the needs of those with intellectual disabilities, who require much more intensive support." I don't know a single late-diagnosed #ActuallyAutistic self-advocates who wants to erase high-support needs people.
Frith, who began her academic career at Saarland University in Germany, is concerned about the consequences of this — “that the frightening rate of increase in later-diagnosed groups overshadows the needs of those with intellectual disabilities, who require much more intensive support”.

So how did we reach this point?

“Over the years, our basic definition of autism has remained the same, but it’s our interpretation of it that’s changed,” Frith explains. When she began researching autism, the diagnosis was narrow and confined to severely impaired non-verbal children. By the 1980s Frith was beginning to encounter children she felt did not neatly fit into the autism box but did present with some of its traits — the “not-so-typical” cases. These were children who had autistic traits but also fluent language and were highly intelligent. They were very similar to children described in the 1940s by the Austrian physician Hans Asperger, another pioneer in the field, who lends his name to Asperger’s syndrome. She argued that they too should be included in the study of autism.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Good afternoon
Beagle mix laying on a blue cushioned outdoor swing.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Rest and recover when and if you can!
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Happy #Red4Ed Wednesday those who celebrate
White woman with brown hair and glasses.  Wearing a red short and gray jacket as well as a neurodiversity infinity pin and feather rainbow earings
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Made a heart shaped cake. Husband said," It's nice to know the cake isnt always a lie."
Chocolate heart shaped cake on a red plate
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Step 1. Go Vote in tge primary NC. Step 2. Go out with a person you love. Happy Valentines Weekend/ Start of Early Voting ❤️
White heterosexual couple in front of an early voting sign.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I'm getting a lot of ads for snowpants considering our area only got like 2 inches of snow. 🙂
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The man can still cut a promo much better than that Jabroni Hulk Hogan.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
As more of my friends enter menopause or perimenopause, they too have hit pause on drinking.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Meanwhile with the Atlanta win, Carolina ekes its way into the playoffs as a division leader no less.
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Susan Book @sbook.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Hockey Night. Yes of course I'll be putting my loop earplugs in momentarily.
White couple in red and black in an indoor arena
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