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Just a reminder that if Biden wins, the path to justice doesn’t get shorter. It just has fewer headwinds.
A few notes on education, which I know better than I know other issues...
A few notes on education, which I know better than I know other issues...
There are active efforts at the state level to dismantle public education, which are led by far-right groups that have colonized the Republican Party, and which won’t go away if the Trump era ends in January.
The historic underfunding of schools attended by Black and brown children, immigrant children, and poor children, will not stop if Biden wins the electoral college vote.
America’s racially segregated schools will not become less segregated if Trump is ousted. Which isn’t to say that they can’t be or won’t be integrated. But the work is the work.
High-stakes accountability testing, which stigmatizes and colonizes schools serving marginalized kids, won’t disappear. In fact, it might gain stronger allies.
The war on teachers won’t be ended by this election. The push to privatize schools won’t stop. The lust for profits won’t end.
I’m not trying to be a downer.
I’m just reminding myself, in this public way, that injustice is a norm in this country. A “return to normalcy” is good in so many ways. But it is not a sufficient condition for justice.
I’m just reminding myself, in this public way, that injustice is a norm in this country. A “return to normalcy” is good in so many ways. But it is not a sufficient condition for justice.
Elections, as wiser people than I have said, are not the work of politics. The work of politics happens on every other day of the year. Every day, the grind.
I’ll stop. This thing ain’t over yet.
