Posted on 07/07/2020 8:26:10 AM PDT by Help!
Dear Faculty, in the interest of learning for life, and to promote a deeper understanding of our own socialization in America, the Multicultural Committee would like to promote an opportunity to grow. All we ask is that you watch a documentary on Netflix called 13th and engage in honest self-reflection. We would also like to offer a chance to talk through the ideas in the film and your work as a person confronting your own socialization and implicit bias.
13th is a powerful film that discusses the criminal system in America and how the prison system has been used to control, oppress, and criminalize minority populations. It discusses how the 13th Amendment was written to end slavery but has a loophole that was used by the white supremacist majority to create a penal system that would maintain the racial heirarchy.
We would like to suggest watching this eye-opening documentary with someone else you feel safe talking to about it (partner, partner teacher, PLT member, etc.) And we would like you to consider the cycle of socialization to reflect deeply about how we are each socialized. It is normal to be uncomfortable. Consider journaling about the film and the cognitive dissonance you might be feeling. For further development consider these questions questions for reflection.
Lastly, we'll be hosting two Zoom sessions to facilitate a conversation about these reflections. On Thursday, July 23, we will orchestrate a Zoom meeting from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. and one for 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Once we get closer to that week, we will send out a Google Form to gather names of participants so we can organize smaller Zoom rooms within each session. So please find some focused time over the next few weeks to immerse yourself in this essential work!
Thank you for your time and and we look forward to Zooming with you soon.
Multicultural Committee
I find it no different than schools that mandated “Inconvenient Truth” and Michael Moore movies. Teachers that learn lies, teach lies.
Exactly.
I remember reading that. I think I printed a copy.
Thanks!
We shouldn’t have to return to homeschooling as the answer every time we show we are too afraid or lazy or weak to overthrow a school system that we pay into. Schools have been around forever in the United States and at one time they did a pretty damn good job..
homeschooling in response to how the schools are indoctrinating our kids is like running like a b**** from another problem we can’t fix. What’s the answer to crime and the protests? Hiding in the house?
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