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One way educators can support the #NationalPrisonStrike is to recognize how we model and teach a carceral philosophy of throwaway people when we rely on punishment, exclusion, removal, control, and policing as our strategies of "classroom management." 1/
Too often, teachers think classroom management is something to do in order to get to the real teaching. In fact, classroom management is teaching itself. It's a curriculum, a set of lessons that young people are learning from us.
Are we intentional in these lessons?
Are we intentional in these lessons?
How might the everyday experience of schooling be different if we imagined classroom management as a prison abolition curriculum?
What might lessons in freedom look like, instead of lessons in authoritative models of control that teach strategies for powering over others?
What might lessons in freedom look like, instead of lessons in authoritative models of control that teach strategies for powering over others?
