Glad that @sheathescholar pointed out @learnforjustice silence on #Palestine colonization, apartheid, and war crimes. Educators aren't looking for safe, easy lessons about difficult & real topics. Anyone with good classroom resources please share below.
This thread is all over the place but mainly I just want to convey that you cannot call yourself antiracist without recognizing what systemic injustice looks like, idc if it's in "your" community or someone else's. you must study and speak out on injustice wherever you find it
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Yesterday during a PD they asked what’s causing you stress & I put in the chat “they keep making us go back to normal and normal wasn’t working”
Today in a meeting my principal asked me what I meant by that. She gave me the chance to say more. So I did.
Everyone might hate me soon bc I plan to spend the next 4 months talking about how we should stop doing bad stuff to kids.
Doing bad stuff to kids is universally recognized as NOT what our work is. Yet we do bad stuff to kids every day. Let me explain:
Bad stuff we need to stop doing to kids:
-Cram them in a chair for hours at a time
-Refuse to let them talk to each other
-Stress & test them because we need the “data”
-Shame them for noncompliance
-Withhold water/food
-Blame them for not meeting the standards
Can we stop saying children are resilient? It’s not resilience, we’re just forcing them to deal with difficult things and they deal with it because they have no power and no choice in the matter.
Thinking what this generation of children will say about their childhood in 20 years.
We have no capacity to understand what the impact of this pandemic will be on them.
Stop dismissing their misery and their pain by praising their resiliency.
just got off a staff information session zoom. i want to quit.
what they’re doing to us and to the kids. it’s nothing short of criminal.
how do we expect children to learn in this environment? masks. shields. no physical interactions. no recess. water fountains shut off. all day in a chair.
the fact that we can’t come up with a healthy age appropriate alternative to this prison-like environment should tell us we are fighting a losing battle.