Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
Though counterintuitive, making academic gains, to city parents, is not synonymous with making a school, “better”. Parent choice by urban parents is more complex than “school quality”.
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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
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.
The Myth of the “Failing” Urban School Narrative
In promoting “college and career readiness”, certain assumptions are taken for granted: that schools are sites of egalitarian meritocracy and not spaces of social reproduction, that tomorrow’s job market desires more individuals with formal education, and that the market will a viable one for qualified and willing workers.
