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A thread from Michael Leland on FB.
The fact that we keep buying the "Kids are falling behind academically" narrative of this pandemic is the grossest example of how we have allowed a corrupt version of capitalism to alter our basic moral compass.
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The fact that we keep buying the "Kids are falling behind academically" narrative of this pandemic is the grossest example of how we have allowed a corrupt version of capitalism to alter our basic moral compass.
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Kids are only falling behind on a scale the adults are defining for them--A scale determined by test scores and achievement measures that were designed decades ago to sort kids by their potential future impact on the economy.
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This is a system designed to uplift the white and the wealthy, and when applied in a pandemic, it achieves its purpose with terrifying precision: filtering those with the most resources straight to the top.
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Kids are only falling behind if we choose to measure them on scales that have been broken for decades, and we refuse to change them even during a pandemic in which thousands of their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles are dying every day.
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Kids aren't falling behind. Kids are adapting. They are learning new skills. They are overcoming. Kids are surviving a pandemic that has shaken their world before they fully understood it.
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Adults who say they care about them need to put away their measurement tools and show them some damn love and compassion.
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