“I can’t believe I’ve been such a coward.”
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by James Devaney/GC Images/Getty Images, Joseph Klipple/Getty Images, Noam Galai/Getty Images, Bettmann/Getty Images, Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images, and Getty Images Plus.The tragic, infuriating deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black individuals at the hands of police, and the subsequent anti-racist protests over the summer, have resulted in a national reckoning around race that’s touched everything from the prison system to monuments to.
You’ve got to have an anti-racist curriculum implemented in the school. But who’s going to teach that curriculum? How is it implemented? It’s got to be a strategic plan. You can’t just say, “We’re going to get this curriculum, and everyone teaches it.” People have to really be trained on how to teach it. I don’t know what it would look like for a person to be forced to teach a curriculum they don’t believe in.
and then move on to Frederick Douglass, looking into what he brought to what Black Lives Matter means. And [we’ll read] another book called. All these books are related to race in some way, and they’re all written by people of color as well. [Black Lives Matter] is definitely on our children’s minds. When I talked about this virtually with my students, I had a discussion where I said, “What are you feeling right now?” Even without prompts, a lot of them were already talking about some of the current events. My students are predominantly Latinx, Dominican, but I do have Black and white students as well. Some of them I think may have been radicalized by this moment in time.
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