Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
…on living in Camden as a city educator In the midst of the COVID19 quarantine that is proving to be enormously trying for tens of millions of Americans, I want to wish everyone tidings of safety, peace, and love during these difficult times. And while much has been written about Continue Reading…
As I was struggling to catch a breath, I ran out of the classroom when I immediately began getting yelled at because I disobeyed my teacher without the chance to explain myself…
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Anyone who cares about the wholistic development of children, including the educative process of children, had better #StayWoke in these COVID19 streets..
While neoliberal Democratic and conservative politicians as well as America’s corporate class habitually turn national crises into financial and power-concentrating opportunities to oppress poor and working people, this Coronavirus era represents a unique opening for America’s marginalized workers to assert and regain power.
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In retrospect, however, these classroom angels don’t challenge us, and in lacking a challenge, these students don’t help us become better at our craft.
“Both participants are scholars and gentlemen for allowing me to probe, and for us to have a great conversation centered around our differences, and how we can meet in the middle on some things.” – Ray Ankrum
Certainly, behavioral and academic correction can be an expression of care, but students have to know caring is the place where the correction originates.
Simply put, I’m asserting, the black education “leadership” class as referenced above are corporatists disguised as activists, and not at all are not who they claim to be.
Stepping back, I surmise that the ideals espoused by these pillars of Black Liberation Theology, should align seamlessly with the ideals of urban public education where masses of students of color come from communities that are the most economically challenged, and politically isolated.
Sometimes “playing the game” simply aint worth it…
