I first saw this video during a professional learning experience called
Teaching Children of Color: Engaging with the Seven Constructs of Effective Teaching in Urban Schools offered through the Rochester Teacher Center.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ6H-Mz6hgw
What a wonderful talk. This reminds me of Bryan Stevenson's Ted talk on ending mass incarceration. So much of how this works happens in school. Neither of these talks make that connection yet. The school to prison pipeline is real, especially when you know that New York State uses third grade ELA test scores to determine how many prison cells to build. As I say oh so often, I don't know why people aren't more pissed off!
ReplyDeleteRacial-social-economic control of our middle and lower classes by the upper, ruling class has been surfacing more and more in the American cultural mindset. While we can celebrate and glorify the idea and acts of our Revolutionaries who threw tea into the Boston Harbor, why can't we fight back against the plutocracy that is taking over our lives? When will the statistics and social events shaping our culture be used as a test question on a Pearson test?
ReplyDeleteThe film "A Culture High" (2014) brings up a lot of the same issues as our speaker here. How much of our culture is our responsibility as teachers? If we do not speak out against this inhumanity to humanity, who will?
How much of university cost as well, is to keep the poor and middle class where they "should" be?