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Such a miserable story: an all white-school board forces a teacher to remove a Pride flag and a Puerto Rican flag from a classroom.
The teacher, one of the few Latine teachers in a 2/3 Latine district, resigns.
“Schools are a neutral place” explains the superintendent.
And tearing down those flags is neutral?!
https://sahanjournal.com/education/worthington-school-board-votes-remove-lgbtq-puerto-rican-flags/
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The word “comfortable” is doing a whole lot of work in public debate about schools these days. And it’s true, education is •full• of discomfort:
Students get uncomfortable when learning a an unfamiliar concept.
Students get uncomfortable when they become aware of problems in the world.
Students get uncomfortable when their assumptions are challenged.
Students get uncomfortable when they feel unsafe.
I don’t think the word “uncomfortable” means the same thing in all those sentences.
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@inthehands LOL they're also uncomfortable if the room is too hot.
@geonz True! And tbh that’s a legitimate problem, more legitimate than some of the things these spitball-throwers are whinging about
@inthehands Right. I really, really want to put together the Howard Zinn style education community with a ton of actual reading and math learning :P
@geonz I’d certainly be curious to see what that looks like.
@inthehands I just this second thought of that way of describing my chimerical institute.
@inthehands but basically -- the right wingers *are* intensively teaching and cultivating in schools to take over school boards and local and national governments. We have been known to do similar things but we need to get more organized about it.