Thread by @2WardEquity

It is with a heavy heart I write to you this evening, yet I am encouraged by those who choose to engage daily in #AntiRacistEd action. In the midst of a global pandemic when we were relegated to engaging with each other daily online and not face to face you chose to engage.

You chose to act on #AntiRacistEd when people around the globe took notice of state-sanctioned violence against black bodies. Perhaps you saw the students and families in your care in the faces of the black & brown bodies that have succumbed to this state-sanctioned violence.

Perhaps you saw harm in the rhetoric that has been spewed in our country to the students in your care. Today we experienced an unprecedented event that will go down in history. What is very apparent to me is that we as educators have control over the messaging, the engagement,

the stance we take, and the space we create in our school environment tomorrow and through the rest of the school year. The choices we make this evening in preparation for receiving our students tomorrow will have a lasting impact on how our students remember this event

and how we as educators shape the future of our democracy. It has occurred to me that the choice to teach or not teach Social Studies because we don’t have the time in our school day perhaps has added to the current state of events. Perhaps those who are objecting the most

also missed those vital lessons in elementary school themselves. Perhaps they were not allowed to take the courses needed in secondary school to add to their knowledge of our constitution and the laws that govern our democracy.

Perhaps they were only expected to read and regurgitate facts. Whatever the adults we witnessed today experienced as students, I hope we can shift how we support the students in our #AntiRacistEd care so they become the adults who use the democratic process to effect change.

Critically loving our education system,

~Angela
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