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I wonder how different the national school reopening debate would be right now if we had not just had two decades of destructive neoliberal #edreform forced on us.
The nasty, false idea that personal "choice" will result in equity (it doesn't-it exacerbated existing inequities)
The nasty, false idea that personal "choice" will result in equity (it doesn't-it exacerbated existing inequities)
That you can improve schools magically w/o addressing the savage inequalities of funding & resources & simply create alternative privatized systems. In fact, we know now, that racial/economic inequity was made worse by charter proliferation, attacks on teachers & their unions...
Resources sucked out of the highest needs schools. A disgusting Hunger Games system that competed for the "good kids" and threw away the "bad kids."
Ranking & sorting kids & Ts based on racist standardized test scores, schl ratings systems, turning schls into test-prep prisons.
Ranking & sorting kids & Ts based on racist standardized test scores, schl ratings systems, turning schls into test-prep prisons.
False, profit- motivated corporate narratives abt quantifying student learning, about robbing kids of their childhoods in the name of equity (longer school days & school years), narrowing curriculum down to the tested subjects erasing arts, music, laughter, joy for certain schls.
Where would we be right now if an entire generation of "school leaders" hadn't been indoctrinated in these corporate, anti-child, privatization, test score obsessed, utterly false & racist ideas?? If we prioritized equity of learning experiences, of resources???
Where would we be if we admitted poverty matters & to improve schools you must address housing, poverty, food, healthcare?
What if Ts, schls, & unions had not been used as scapegoats so society could ignore our shameful, racist poverty rates in the richest country in the world?
What if Ts, schls, & unions had not been used as scapegoats so society could ignore our shameful, racist poverty rates in the richest country in the world?
What if kids in places like Chicago had been priorirized for resources BEFORE the pandemic hit?? What if we had a system of properly maintained, updated buildings? What if we already had a nurse in every schl? What if we had ample tech & internet for every child already in place?
What if we already had sufficient staffing, clean buildings with enough janitorial staff, small class sizes??
I mean, I could go on & on.
I mean, I could go on & on.
What if we didn't have the bipartisan habit of racist, misogynistic attitudes towards urban schools & staff??
What if we already had an elected school board, accountable to the masses, not the privileged, well-connected few??
What if we already had an elected school board, accountable to the masses, not the privileged, well-connected few??
I don't think you get this just mind-bogglingly, insane rhetoric from folks like @chicagosmayor, @janicejackson, or @ChiPubSchools without the legacy of corporate education reform and the damage it has wreaked.
