Where do you have conversations about educational equity? Though I have had numerous e-mails and comments from people who have browsed this blog, it's clear that this hasn't become a spot people where people have been having these discussions. There have been very few comments and even fewer posts about new topics others want to bring up.
I hate to think that the low rate of activity on this blog shows the current level of conversation about school integration. If people aren't interacting about the topic here, where is that interaction happening? More importantly, how do we continue to push that conversation to the front burner?
People who counsel patience make me even more impatient. I have heard anecdotes and frustration about integration issues from at least 2 Hopkins schools (my home district), 2 Robbinsdale schools, several Minneapolis schools, Edina schools, Wayzata schools, and that racial graffiti was found outside FAIR in the WMEP District. Some of these stories involve schools not reacting to actions which seem clearly racist in tone. So, students continue to be in the midst of integration issues and I hear nothing.
Where are the conversations being held? I'd like to be a part of them, and I think our students would feel safer knowing they are being held.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
We talk with neighbors and with people with kids the same age as ours. The problem is that we usually get the same perspectives back to us as we have ourselves. It's like we need our block to meet with a block of neighbors from some place different.
ReplyDeleteEquity in the schools always seems like something someone else does something about at the school or at the district. In Minneapolis what chance do parents have to make things happen at the schools. From year to year you don't know what schools will be open or which teachers and principals will be there. How do you make longterm changes (and change the "culture") when everything seems to get restarted every time?
ReplyDelete