🇵🇸 Palestine coming up in your classroom? 🇵🇸

We've got some advice 🧵

1/ Colonialism, empire, nationalism, capitalism, racism, fascism, antisemitism and islamophobia will come up and are part of the story of how Palestine came to be and continues to be colonised. 2/ To be trauma-informed means power-dynamic and politically informed. Prevent + recent PSHE guidance have been designed to censor+criminalise minoritised - but not exclusively - young peoples’ experience of the world and ideas in relation to state power, agency, protest..

1. There's nothing revolutionary about incarcerating children
2. Why use the image of a Black boy to advertise prisons for children?
3. The colonial co-option of Youth Justice & Revolution is disrespectful
4. Paying prisoners in branded ‘Oasis Dollars’?! #secureschoolsareprisons

https://twitter.com/SteveChalke/status/1381880980135407617

Youth Justice should mean abolishing the conditions that lead to imprisonment, such as isolation booths, exclusion, racism, ableism & poverty, not fast-tracking the school to prison pipeline.

We want this pipeline to be abolished, not extended. #endtheschooltoprisonpipeline

Since the student protest at #PimlicoAcademy on 30th March, there has been a lot of media coverage about the alleged motivations of the students. Here are some of the headlines: Most of the headlines & articles tell us that students staged a walkout (the protest remained on site) due to upset over a flag & the uniform. These misperceptions imply students took drastic action to complain about minor things. Their actual demands have far more substance.

Secure schools have been snuck into the policing bill... Yet another sinister way in which the government would rather pump money into locking people up, in this case children, instead of dealing with systemic social issues that cause trauma in the first place #KilltheBill Text on infographics reads - Infographic 1:
The policing bill & “secure schools”: what's going on?
What are “secure schools”?
“Secure schools” are part of the government’s planned reform of youth justice - essentially, a rebranded version of Young Offenders’ Institutions (YOIs)

Thank you to everyone who attended our official launch on Saturday 💛 it was great to have so many of you there 🥰

Here is a thread on how you can join CARE - we welcome anyone who believes & upholds that the best education is an anti-racist education! So here's info on joining: 1 - provide us with a brief intro to you: who you are, what you do, any experience you have in anti-racist education and/or organising (experiences & observations that relate & have driven your interest count).