Monday, March 29, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/16/2021
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'Black Season' at My White Middle School
- It was our responsibility to make sure that our peers knew that an HBCU wasn’t an H&R Block for black folks. As students, we were also teachers. We just weren’t on the faculty payroll.
- It’s nearly impossible to find a black kid in a predominantly white school who is unfamiliar with the idea of speaking for the race
- We survivors all have our stories of fatigue and indignation at the moments when something black would emerge in the classroom and white kids’ heads swiveled in our direction in unison, expecting us to pick up the narration.
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in the Black History Month show, we got to control the narrative."
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Sunday, March 14, 2021
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/15/2021
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Private Schools Are Indefensible - The Atlantic
- if these children want to attend an elite college, their best bet by far is to spend their adolescence in a school where the experience of being Black is, for many, a painful one.
- Among the posts from more recent students, what’s striking is that several kinds of experiences were related over and over: the expectation that Black kids would be excellent athletes (and possibly weaker students); insulting assumptions about Black students’ family backgrounds; teachers repeatedly confusing the names of Black students; other students constantly reaching out and touching Black girls’ hair; and non-Black students using the N‑word. Read collectively, these posts are a damning statement about the schools.
- ‘Okay, we’re now welcoming you to the majority, where you should be’—with the white people, so to speak.” But “inherently within that, you are sacrificing who you are as a person—and it’s not like that would ever happen on the opposite end.” There had been costs to going to Spence. One of those, she now realizes, was “sacrificing my Blackness.”
- Private-school parents have become so terrified of being called out as racists that they will say nothing on the record about their feelings regarding their schools’ sudden embrace of new practices. They have chosen, instead, anonymous letters and press leaks.
- The parents had demands of their own, including an immediate halt to curriculum changes.
- Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is you are precious to us. Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is you are a threat to us.
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Shouldn’t the schools that serve poor children be the very best schools we have?
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