Posted on 08/17/2019 7:02:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Many of the recent shootings—including in El Paso, Texas; Pittsburgh; potentially Gilroy, Calif.—are linked to white supremacist hatred. And hate crimes have been on the rise nationwide for three consecutive years, according to FBI data released last year.
This growing hatred seeps into our classrooms. Like many teachers, I read these stories and statistics and wonder: What can I do to help my students feel safe and ensure that the next generation no longer operates from a place of hatred and fear?
...More than just making our students aware of racism, we can do anti-racist work.
It’s easy to decry the shooters as “crazy.” In the wake of the recent shootings, some educators have called for increased support around mental health and social-emotional learning. While this is critical work, research suggests that the majority of mass shootings are not attributable to mental illness. In fact, roughly 65 percent of the more than 350 mass killers counted by Columbia University forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone showed no evidence of a severe mental disorder.
Even the best SEL* programs on the market don’t address the deeper roots of hatred we’re seeing in our nation. Until we provide focused education about the history and current iterations of racist beliefs at the root of this hatred, we cannot claim we are actively working to solve the problem in our classrooms.
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Here are changes we can make to ensure we are breaking down racist beliefs and systems of white supremacy in our own classrooms:
1. Educate ourselves about anti-racism work.
We can’t do this work well with students if we don’t understand it ourselves. We must acknowledge that we have all been shaped by a system built on inequality and racism—one that consistently bombards us with stereotypical images of certain cultures and excludes voices from different backgrounds. Understanding racism and its roots, questioning our own privilege and biases, and slowly dismantling those systems and beliefs internally and in our schools is a life-long process.
2. Reflect on the voices we're sharing.
We can build empathy by listening to and studying other people’s stories. Unfortunately, there is very little diversity and inclusion in the stories many of us share in our classrooms. We need to reflect on whose voices we give power to and how we create a more inclusive space with the texts we use.
3. Don’t be afraid to discuss current events—and ask for help, too. Our classrooms cannot cocoon our students from the real world. We can begin talking through not only the recent violence in our country, but broader instances of systemic oppression related to white supremacy, anti-immigration sentiment, racism, and LGBTQ discrimination.
Reflect!
One word that exemplifies all That is wrong in education.
The left is driving all of this. The promotion of homosexuality and “gender” theory in the schools is a very bad thing.
Here’s a suggestion: Stick to the Three Rs
You can stop imposing your fears on young children who aren't even your own.
You can go back to teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic with imparting a political agenda.
This will give the children entrusted to your care a safe space to learn without fear.
If you're a good teacher, you'll inspire them with learning and they won't give any thought to 'racism' 'white supremacy', and 'hate'.
Teachers used to do that and we had far fewer incidents of acting out violence.
A good idea but impossible to implement when the entire US education system is overwhelmed with people who are obsessed with race.
Only speciously, and mostly by the propaganda mill known as the (m)ass media.
And hate crimes have been on the rise nationwide for three consecutive years
Coinciding almost directly with the rise of the anti-Trump movement ...
This growing hatred seeps into our classrooms.
Honey, your anti-conservative hatred has been in your classroom for decades. It "seeped" in under the guise of "tolerance" and "multiculturalism" and "political correctness."
What can I do to help my students feel safe and ensure that the next generation no longer operates from a place of hatred and fear?
Try doing your job -- teaching -- instead of trite moralizing.
we can do anti-racist work.
Start by refusing to teach the lie of "white privilege." And explain to your students that "social justice" is actually socialIST, and anything but justice. And that most of the problems in ethnic minority communities are brought on by the members of those communities themselves.
It’s easy to decry the shooters as “crazy.”
... because they are. And it's just as easy to call everything you don't like "racist."
what if better instead of using the expression “teach anti racism” we better say “tolerance” ..
What is needed, is antiprogressive everything
Progressives are more dangerous enemies of Aemrica than Russia or China or Iran
The Squad and the 2o candidates are extremely dangerous and need not be
I wouldn’t shed a tear of all these SJW’s out to destroy our Society ended up hanging from Lampposts.
I feel bad thinking that, but I know they feel the same about us.
Trouble is, if they could get away with it they wouldn’t hesitate. We at least have Morality ingrained in our Psyche.
That would depend, as in all teaching, who the “audience” was.
Problem is, those Rs are now considered racist and a product of white privilege.
“Stick to the Three Rs”
You know it, I know it, and all sensible Americans know it. But the radical leftists have taken over education and the Three Rs is the very last thing they teach any more.
And they don’t see the conflict between the SEL “charter” and the listed steps to achieve it.
“Teachers used to do that” — AND they used to be able to enforce discipline in their classrooms. Today, a teacher that looks at a kid cross-eyed gets keelhauled.
My Torres must not be aware of the gang wars between Blacks and Browns. Somehow I doubt that education is going to fix that. But she is aiming to send Whites to re-education camps, a favorite solution for Leftists since the days of Stalin.
Instead of re-education for Whites, why not invest in teaching everyone how to read and write English? Talk about a revolution!
Anybody who would shoot innocents has, by very definition, a "severe mental disorder." That shrink is nuts himself.
That brought to mind Catch 22...
"You mean there's a catch?""Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
Ironic, isn't it? She has a Hispanic last name and must surely be aware of the virulent racism between the Blacks and Browns. Yet she can only focus on the specious white racism.
Racists are people who are obsessed with race, make everything about race, and call some groups of people “racist” for the mere crime of existing.
Sound like anybody you know, Christina?
Yup—how about a sign for her class to ponder:
If you hate white people you are a racist!
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