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tariah23

Crying….

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

citizenshipandsocialjustice

calystarose

Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

aloneindarknes7

This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.

I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.

After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.”

If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity.

momo-de-avis

I remember reading somewhere once “we should be speaking of equity instead of equality” and that is a principle that applies here me thinks

imholdingoutforahero

A very heart-warming series by artist Marciano Palácio.

Sadly it still is considered shameful by society for a boy (or a male of any age) to like and identify with strong female characters, which is why the message that these illustrations convey is particularly important.

good-husband

Let yourself love who you love wholeheartedly. A good role model shouldn’t be defined by gender. A good husband supports others to love and find strength in anyone who gives them hope.