black and brown kids. We actually may find some common ground - improving schools (and scholastic options) in economically depressed areas is needed. On that I think we may actually agree. But I truly don’t think staying home is the better of the two current options.
black and brown kids, but the leap to "no school would be better" is surprising, so I'd like to hear the entirety of brevin's thoughts before jumping in.
increases disparities between BIPOC and white kids, or poor and rich kids
"no school" is better than conventional, white supremacist, hierarchical schools of BIPOC and poor children reward those who can play a meaningless game and win.I refuse to overlook the scores of millions of Black and brown children who have been harmed by conventional schooling in America.
fixing the problem with”conventional” schools and black and brown kids.
I'm working in the poorest neighborhood in the Bay Area. All of the kids are now in online school. Most of the parents are close to illiterate. They cannot help their kids learn in these circumstances, and many do not bother having their kids attend class. For the poorest families, having their children go to school is the only hope for a future decent life. Your ideas about school are naive and ill informed. The problems these kids have in getting a good education are so complex that any issues with public schools probably account for 10% of the problem. They are malnourished, their parents are grossly under educated, the families are destitute, they don't always have housing, and they have medical problems that are the result of abject poverty. The public schools are the only place where they eat fruits or vegetables, the only place where an adult is in their life who understands what they will need to do to survive in our culture, and the only place they go where they feel safe.
That being said, kids are resilient, and missing one year of school won't doom most of them. Missing more than that would be a disaster.
And if you think school is the one place where poor Black and brown kids feel safe ...
Kids are resilient. But chronic stress tears almost everyone down.
JAF...just one minor question. You've referred to poor black and brown kids a lot. Do you also include poor white or Asian kids in your description, in which schools don't help them either? Or are you saying that poor Asian or white kids don't exist? Or are you omitting them because you haven't seen poor white or Asian kids? Or that the "white supremacist" system works for poor white and Asian kids? Or are you omitting them for some other reason?
black and brown kids, but the leap to "no school would be better" is surprising, so I'd like to hear the entirety of brevin's thoughts before jumping in.
increases disparities between BIPOC and white kids, or poor and rich kids
"no school" is better than conventional, white supremacist, hierarchical schools of BIPOC and poor children reward those who can play a meaningless game and win.I refuse to overlook the scores of millions of Black and brown children who have been harmed by conventional schooling in America.
fixing the problem with”conventional” schools and black and brown kids.
I'm working in the poorest neighborhood in the Bay Area. All of the kids are now in online school. Most of the parents are close to illiterate. They cannot help their kids learn in these circumstances, and many do not bother having their kids attend class. For the poorest families, having their children go to school is the only hope for a future decent life. Your ideas about school are naive and ill informed. The problems these kids have in getting a good education are so complex that any issues with public schools probably account for 10% of the problem. They are malnourished, their parents are grossly under educated, the families are destitute, they don't always have housing, and they have medical problems that are the result of abject poverty. The public schools are the only place where they eat fruits or vegetables, the only place where an adult is in their life who understands what they will need to do to survive in our culture, and the only place they go where they feel safe.
That being said, kids are resilient, and missing one year of school won't doom most of them. Missing more than that would be a disaster.
And if you think school is the one place where poor Black and brown kids feel safe ...
Kids are resilient. But chronic stress tears almost everyone down.
JAF...just one minor question. You've referred to poor black and brown kids a lot. Do you also include poor white or Asian kids in your description, in which schools don't help them either? Or are you saying that poor Asian or white kids don't exist? Or are you omitting them because you haven't seen poor white or Asian kids? Or that the "white supremacist" system works for poor white and Asian kids? Or are you omitting them for some other reason?
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