Breonna Taylor is still not getting justice and y’all still being neutral? Are you ready to take a stand now? Or are we waiting for another murder, march, & innocent verdict? culturallyresponsiveleadership.com/neutrality/ Here’s 16 issues to fight for in our schools! #DismantleWSC
1) Race, racism, and anti-racism in the classroom. Discuss it.
2) Grading students during or after a pandemic. Abandon it.
3) Teaching Ethnic Studies and the stories of marginalized peoples. Teach it.
4) Racist school policies. Dismantle them.
5) Adults using deficit language to describe students of color. Interrupt it.
6) Standardized testing any other drill and kill assessments. Opt out.
7) Grading students based on their screen sharing. Refuse it.
8) Teaching to Eurocentric and racist standards. Stop it.
9) Offering AP, Honors, and any other eugenic-inspired and college board-controlled courses. End it.
10) Hate speech disguised as free speech. Outlaw it.
11) Police in schools. Expel them.
12) Funding for Under performing and historical marginalized schools. Support it and triple it.
13) School choice systems that divert funding from poor communities and from public schools. Terminate them.
14) Tracking students in schools and sorting kids between schools, especially full-on “these students are better than these students” schools. Blow that shit up.
15) Uniforms, bells, and walking silently in halls. Stop it.
16) Detentions, suspension, re-entries, calling kids ‘repeat offenders’, and other penal code language. Abolish it.
(rinse and repeat)
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White supremacy is not just about hierarchy. It’s about HUMANITY and whether white folks see BIPOC as fully human. FULLY. We are unquestionably human but how we are treated and viewed is result of white supremacy and purpose of white supremacy. (thread)
This is why we (BIPOC) always are asserting, defending, and affirming our HUMANITY. white supremacy aims to remove our humanity, rights, liberties. Dignity.
Institutions treat us like animals. Jails. Schools. Child separation. Slavery. Agriculture. Police. Court system. It’s deeper than treated us like lesser humans. It is more akin to the treatment of animals.
Antiracist parents, please be prepared to fight for your brave educators who are fighting for your children. They are teaching critical thinking, love, & democracy. White rage will try to remove them, by hook or crook. Educators will need parents to support them. Be prepared.
Let me be clear, I’m talking about our administrations current attack on ethnic studies, critical thinking, critical race theory, and anti-racism. Parents, you have to choose a side. Choose a side that supports the marginalized and voiceless. Use your privilege.
Watch the news, and see how specific educators and leaders are removed, put on leave, investigated, and accused of all sort of fraudulent charges. This is all a distraction and an attempt to discourage change.
Spending my evening watching the @CityofSSF Commission on Racial and Social Equity. As a resident of SSF and Bay Area educator, I’m VERY interested in this conversation.
So far we’ve had examples of the myth of meritocracy, allusion to flawed and racist bootstrap mentality, and perhaps an attempt at being a medal minority. 🍿
Agreements can be powerful, if we named RACE explicitly, we could:
have a common goal of ANTIRACISM,
Be open to new perspective that challenge WHITE PRIVILEGE,
And be self aware of privilege and WHITE fragility.