No one is coming to save our kids but us. Watch 15 DAYS, the untold story of what school closures did to a generation. So it never happens again.
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Fauci said 15 days.
It was 2 years.
The media called parents "conspiracy theorists" for demanding open schools.
Dozens of interviews. Three years of filming. One documentary.
15 DAYS is streaming NOW.
RT if you want accountability.
Is AI safe for kids? Fair question. Wrong one to stop at.
I spent a day at @CommonSense's Kids & AI Summit. The most hopeful voices were four NYC teenagers and two Goldman Sachs leaders.
Better question: who will teach our children to use it?
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Thank you, @AppletoZucchini, for having me on the podcast, for this thread and for your wonderful new documentary "15 Days: The real story of America's pandemic school closures"
If it weren't for @TracyBethHoeg, I believe America's children would have stayed masked much longer.
She and I fought side by side to give children normal school again. Here is who she is and what she did 🧵
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This week @TracyBethHoeg joined me on the @Rstorechildhood podcast to talk about what really happened and how anyone can spot good research.
Watch the full conversation ⤵️
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@TracyBethHoeg and I worked together through the hardest days of the pandemic to get masks off children. She did a world of good and never backed down.
I’m honored that she is a leading voice in my film 15 DAYS⤵️
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“A moral and ethical failure of adults.”
Months before the Great Barrington Declaration made the case for focused protection, @TracyBethHoeg was already posting Europe’s data showing schools could safely open. She joins me on the @Rstorechildhood podcast.
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When schools reopened in 2020, parents were required to show vaccine passports to enter- this effectively banned many of the black parents that Randi Weingarten pretended to be care about when she kept schools closed, because these parents - rightly- were skeptical about the new drug. All public school students were required to have the shot in order to participate in ANY afterschool activities, so this largely ended many public school athletics careers or forced families to leave the city.. We told Robert's story back in 2022 youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6J-bsU…
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I was a New York City Democrat who voted for Obama twice and Biden. Then they closed my kids’ schools and called it science.
The science said schools were the safest place for kids. So I made 15 DAYS.
Thank you @HARRISFAULKNER for having me on.
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‼️Top-dollar spending. Poor results. Parents shut out. This op-ed exposes serious failures in New York’s schools. From NY to Colorado, parents in every state must stand together and demand open records, answers about school funding, and a real voice. Our children deserve better. @Rstorechildhood
READ THE ARTICLE: thecentersquare.com/opinion/…
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😲During the early 20th century, @nyuniversity was a vital haven for Jewish students systematically shut out of the Ivies. While elite institutions implemented strict antisemitic caps, NYU’s merit-oriented model enabled a massive influx of talented Jewish scholars in NYC.
NOW: Students and faculty rally on October 7 against New York University and it's policies toward Palestinian Student Groups and demanding that NYU divest from Israel
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HRC has run this strategy for more than a decade: it finds famous people at key moments, gives them a stage, and used their stories teach the public what to think about children and gender.
Read my piece for @Rstorechildhood:
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In 2020, a NYC school board member melted down over a white father holding his friend's black baby on his lap. She called it racist, told him to "read Ibram X Kendi." I was a NYC parent watching in real time. @MaudMaron was president of that school board.
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Restore Childhood is proud to have co-produced Uncancellable, the film about @MaudMaron's determination in the face of haters like Nicole Hannah-Jones, and all the activists who disrupted school board meetings when Maud simply tried to center students, ahead of politics.
Nikole Hannah-Jones asked @MaudMaron what she was willing to give up. Maud gave up her job, many friends and much more. I always heard that honesty in her voice, and it is why I made a film about her. It's called Uncancellable.
Which is what Maud is. 1/4
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"I saw fathers, who had to turn off their cameras because they were crying so hard about their suicidal children..."
💔interview w/marvelous writer @annbauerwriter about the impacts of school closures & what she saw in Minneapolis in the aftermath.
WATCH: restorechildhood.substack.co…
I had this fabulous conversation with Natalya @Rstorechildhood yesterday. We covered everything from school closures to falling literacy to Storyalīz. It's long but her questions brought out the connection so well. If you have 45 min today---
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Actually there IS a film that has been screened dozens of times around the country, including by @Moms4Liberty @Freedom4Teachrs, @FreedomFdtn, here on @X and currently on streaming on @Substack @amazon @YouTube
@DrJBhattacharya features prominently.
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Everyone should.
I think Nikole should watch UNCANCELLABLE youtu.be/j8a0WceqsYw
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I Have No Pictures of 9/11
I was two weeks shy of thirty. I lived on the Upper West Side. I had stayed out late the night before, so I slept late.
My mother called around nine and told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center. I did not believe her. I turned on CNN and saw it myself. By the time the second plane hit, it was beyond understanding.
The towers were not personal to me. They were the thing you looked for to know where you were.
My mother was sixty. She worked on 14th and Seventh. No trains were running to Brooklyn, so she walked sixty blocks uptown to get to me. When she reached me we stopped at the Red Cross to see if we could give blood. Then we walked to the pier at West 69th Street and stood with everyone else, looking south at the smoke.
I do not remember what we said. Our phones were not cameras. I have no photographs of that day.
Every picture I have seen of 9/11 belongs to someone else. The pictures I own are in my head.
The soot on my windowsill. The smell. The sunshine, because it was a beautiful September day. The faces of people in the coffee shop, every one of them like the man in Munch's The Scream.
I could not sleep for six months. My normal sleep never came back. For those same six months I could not talk about anything else.
Then something changed. After about six months, every question about 9/11 felt like someone opening a new wound. I did not want to talk about it anymore.
That is how I learned the thing I now repeat often. After the lockdowns and the school closures and the mandates, we had about six months to collect the stories before people put the rawest part of themselves away.
That is why we made 15 DAYS when we did, and why we made it fast.
I will admit something here. I misspeak. I say 9/11 when I mean Covid, and Covid when I mean 9/11. Whatever part of me sorts experience into categories filed those two things together.
Twenty-five years later, it is still incomprehensible.
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@marionnestle turns 90 today.
She recently visited 3 markets to find the last box of Trix made with artificial dyes. It joins a cereal box collection she has kept for 40 years.
She was my professor at NYU. What she taught me went far beyond breakfast.
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The @UFT recently sued @SuccessCharters for ostensibly violating the Charter cap, which prevents the largest NYC charter school operator from opening new schools.
So here in America, unions with @NYSEDNews are using lawfare and concealment of data to prevent kids from accessing great schools and keep parents in the dark.
One of the best charter schools in the country, Success Academy, just filed suit against the NYS Department of Education Commissioner Betty Rosa for no longer permitting the College Board from disclosing AP exam results from NYS schools.
For years, NYSED had permitted the College Board to share aggregate, non-personally identifying data on Advanced Placement (AP) exams with U.S. News & World Report, as 47 other states have also done, so that U.S. News could develop its national ranking of all public high schools. This year, Commissioner Rosa blocked the College Board from providing AP data to U.S. News preventing SA’s data from being released.
The AP exam disclosure is important as it plays a significant role in school rankings nationwide. Success Academy in previous years was ranked 11th in NYS and 9th in NYC last year, the highest of any school that does not have selective admissions. Without the AP data this year, Success Academy’s ranking dropped to 196th statewide and the school’s and its students extraordinary outperformance thereby has gone unrecognized.
Success Academy does not limit demanding AP coursework to a small, academically elite group — all of its students (who win admission by lottery) have access to challenging, college-level academic work. And they have produced exceptional AP results.
This year, more than 3,000 SA students took 7,810 AP examinations across 18 subjects—with an average pass rate of 68 percent. Nationally, fewer than 25 percent of high school students pass even one AP examination by the time they graduate.
At Success, 95 percent of its 2026 graduating class passed three or more AP examinations, 79 percent passed five or more, and 60 percent passed seven or more. They outperformed their New York and global peers on nine AP examinations, including U.S. and European History, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Literature.
Ask yourself why NYSED Commissioner Betty Rosa would choose to limit the release of student performance data on APs.
By doing so, she diminishes the performance of the best charter schools, masking the poor performance of NYS and NYC public schools, and limiting the recognition of Success’ and other great charter schools’ faculty and students.
The UFT teachers union recently sued Success Academy for ostensibly violating the Charter cap, which prevents Success, the largest NYC charter school operator, from opening new schools.
So here in America, the teachers union working with the NYSED is using litigation and concealment of data to prevent our kids from getting a better education and keep parents in the dark.
This should be a crime, and Betty Rosa should be ashamed of herself.
(I have cribbed sections of some of the language and data above from a letter from Success Academy’s Founder & CEO Eva Moskowitz. If X had footnotes I would have added them.)
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What's really behind young women's tattoos and face piercings?
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