"What do rich people garage doors look like?" some of you asked, and I have answers.
Here is one rich person garage door
Here is another:
A third
A fourth.
But these too are rich people garage doors
Undeniably a rich person garage door
This one is clear-cut too
But how about these? A manually opening door with hinges instead of an automatic door, but fancy hardware/hinges.
This here is an upper-middle-class garage door, *not* a rich person garage door
These have hinges and hardware and are definitely rich people garage doors
Obviously a rich person garage door
Clear rich person garage door
Another textbook example
What have we learned so far about rich people garage doors?

1) At the vert least, they look custom/unlike mass production garage doors, sometimes with added hardware.

2) At times they don't even look like garage doors at all.

3) They correlate with driveway grass.
Speculation: in a given high home value neighborhood, the introduction of one or two rich people garage doors will spur -keeping-up-with-the-Joneses demand for more garage doors. If I owned a rich people garage door company I'd strategically give steep discounts to some folks.
More speculation: future iterations of rich people garage doors are likely to have plant material growing on the garage door itself, if this doesn't exist already.
Still more speculation: a De Stijl garage door would make sense.
A rare find. This style of garage door is generally middle or upper middle class but the addition of stained glass pushes it into rich person garage door territory

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theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… argued that educators and activists have different obligations.

Among educators, that is a subject of discussion and debate. As it filters out there's a risk of talking past one another.

For example:

(1/x)
I listened with interest to the webinar event "Black Lives Matter at School: A Discussion with Educators on the Intersections of Activism and Pedagogy"

maec.org/resource/black…

It offers lots to ponder, including this:

(2/x)
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propublica.org/article/covid-…
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I ask because
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(And who decides which books are in that category?)
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