Urban Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
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continued from Part III… Groups like these (above) invest, meaning put up money, to make money by propping up corporate charter schools, and dismantling specifically public schools with majority students and teachers of color in the process. These investment firms, started by the rich (and white), are quite literally making Continue Reading…
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And in folks ignoring that economic situatedness, more than anything, influences students’ academic outcomes and economic opportunity, again, absolves government and politicians of their responsibility to fix economic inequality.
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Black folks have always had to contend with the systemic injustices of capitalism, while we simultaneously have to deal with centuries of injustice due to racism and racial exploitation. That dual experience is real, distinct, and unique.
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We have to be cognizant about our nation’s economic reality, and beneficiaries of the radical redistribution of wealth UPWARD, in order to understand where and how the modern attack on specifically urban teacher unions and urban education fits.
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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..
“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
… Originally run here on 1/21/2020 In 2014, Pete Denton of Excellent Education for Everyone, a New Jersey policy group, said, “Perhaps, most people in this room realize that an awful lot of people in the state don’t realize that we’re actually on track to shut down the traditional Camden public Continue Reading…
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.
The Myth of the “Failing” Urban School Narrative
“Failing” (their definition) schools are not the cause for the lack of future opportunities for low-income students of color, but capitalism and racial discrimination are. And, education reform through urban school closure and broader proliferation of corporate charter schools, as advocated by the Education Reform Community, does nothing to address either.
