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@persistancemakeschange-blog
Tell me how
How can we make school a better place?
How do we change the structure of school so that it promotes a society rooted in equality and justice rather than oppression and discrimination?
What specific structural changes can be implemented?
This is an example of a simple school structure. This includes the tracking method. This structure traps students in a school curriculum that accomplishes nothing.
The biggest myth of Progressivism is that big government is good for poor people. It really protects the power of the insiders.
Matt Kibbe (via moralanarchism)
I was a progressive until I learned the hard way that it is wrong to assume that when police arrive they will help or protect you. Fortunately, I’m still alive to say these things. Others aren’t so lucky.
Whenever you’re advocating for the government to come to the rescue [of anyone], maybe first you should check your privilege.
our police force and judicial system need to be reeducated about racial issues. How can we survive with police who use gun violence to resolve conflict? College educations, strict physical training, and information about equality should be the standard background of all cops.
In America, life seems to move faster than anywhere else on the globe and each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage, the rage of people who cannot find solid ground beneath their feet.
James Baldwin, ”The Harlem Ghetto” (via lands-ends)
words that ring true in today's society. There is rage, but if we use that rage and redirect it into a constructive rage we can spark change and we can recreate society's ideals.
tumult
Bombs, shrapnel and bullets fall
With more familiarity than the rain.
Violence comes in place of communication
It’s much easier to cling to hate,
Than to move towards peace
And hatred ravages the serenity peace brings.
Newspapers have turned red,
reporting all the bloodshed
Terrorist groups ignite fear
While civilian men women and children suffer
At the hands of a few
And violence follows violence
We’re starting to notice injustice
Society’s starting to get uneasy
Atrocities are noticed and
peaceful riots are on the verge of
explosion
Police violence has become the norm
Laws are imposed by force
Privilege is abused
Men and women are injured and killed
But the corruption of the judicial system
Protects those who enforce its’ laws.
We can’t stand for injustice
We need fundamental change in society
Schools provide the environment to reduce hatred
and oppression
and discrimination.
“It’s not a question of whether schools should participate since they do so anyways, but should they do so blindly and irresponsibly or with maximum possible courageous intelligence and responsibility?” --John Dewey
As students we spend more time in school than we do at home. Schools have the power to mold and shape the future of society. How do we change schooling? What is our role in society and how do we move forward? DIversity, communication, and understanding. Fundamental change is rooted in these three things.
According to Robert Jensen, white people have four fears:
unearned success
losing what we have
loss of economic, political and cultural power
fear of being seen as racist
If these fears aren't confronted, the injustices and inequality that exist will never be overcome.
Through education, we will learn to speak eloquently and use our voices to ignite change. Non-violent approaches will expedite change and the violence present in the world today will diminish.
They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch.
The Taliban murdered at least 126 students, teachers and others at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan today. (via inothernews)
Today's news is filled with bloodshed. The oppressor restricts learning by controlling what is taught and using violence to enforce their beliefs on the oppressed.
*everyone brings something unique to education and the best way to learn is to hear everyone's individual stories and to use them to help shape your education.
*learning should be experimental, fun and engaging
*learning should be applicable
*classrooms should be open forums for discussion
All we see around us is fire and violence. By educating the masses we can eliminate ignorance and teach humanity and compassion. Tolerance is key.
reblog of fuckyeahradicaled:
"learning happens when we're not looking" is an example of learning throughout our lives. Schools are just places where we begin to learn, it is our jobs as curious and engaged students to seek further knowledge, outside of the classroom.
Do you know how they brainwash people in this country? They repeat something over and over. And that’s what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it—and have it repeated to us—over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all of this, he has no perspective on what’s really important anymore.
Mitch Albom (via liberatingreality)
Reblog of attndotcom:
Shouldn’t an education be more attainable?
Why has the education in America become so expensive? We lack diversity in our secondary and higher education because of the race and class divide. Exorbitant prices in education aid in the growing gap between the middle class and the top 1%.
This idillic representation of a teacher's apple depicts an outdated and authoritative view of education.
School puts a lot of pressure on students and sometimes that weight puts such a burden on us that we cannot keep our heads above the water.
