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While we wait to learn who Biden will tap for Secretary of Education, there’s one name being floated that could use closer scrutiny. Because folks like to wrap themselves in the cloak of racial justice and when you look at their words, it tells an entirely different picture. ...
A Q&A Lily Eskelsen Garcia conducted with Education Week in July just caught my eye.
She was asked “Do you think law enforcement officers should be in school buildings?”
This is part of her response—which shows an extremely weak grasp of how anti-Blackness manifests in schools.
She was asked “Do you think law enforcement officers should be in school buildings?”
This is part of her response—which shows an extremely weak grasp of how anti-Blackness manifests in schools.
Apparently, her friends in white upper class schools are “so grateful” for cops in schools to save their kids from active shooters, but when you enter a Black community, that’s where trouble arises. Unless, of course, your child is the *Black* kid in the white upper class school.
Then your Black child’s experience likely mirrors that of Ss in mostly-Black schls—b/c it’s not the neighborhood that determines whether Black Ss are targeted/criminalized in schools. It’s their Blackness!
Ask Black Parkland Ss from wealthy white enclave. https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-parkland-students-feel-profiled-by-school-police-and-ignored-by-media
Ask Black Parkland Ss from wealthy white enclave. https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-parkland-students-feel-profiled-by-school-police-and-ignored-by-media
The research data + student testimonials re how police in schools criminalize and harm Black students is readily/widely available. And the former president of largest teachers union misstates basic facts and draws false contrast to avoid taking firm position on police in schools.
Also in same Q&A Lily Eskelsen Garcia cites her support for Black Lives Matter. Yet Black Lives Matter activists have routinely called for the removal of armed police officers from schools. Equivocating about cops in schools is a strange way to show your support for BLM movement.
