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Black Mothers Launch Microschools to End School-Prison Pipeline
yahoo.com ^ | January 26, 2022 | Marianna McMurdock

Posted on 01/26/2022 6:03:28 AM PST by grundle

In the Arizona desert, a new school model has Black parents driving across city lines to drop their children off each morning.

Frustrated with what they say is their public schools’ failure to provide quality education and nurturing environments for Black children and fearing the persistent school to prison pipeline, a group of mothers, many public school teachers, have created a network of their own schools.

Launched mid-pandemic just one year ago, the mothers’ goal is to grow the seven micoschools into 50.

“We could be advocating 24/7, and still not make the impact that we wanted to see. So, what do you do, do you go charter? Do you try to keep working in the public school system? Nope, nope, not us. We said, well, we can do it ourselves,” said Debora Colbert, executive director of the Black Mothers Forum, a Phoenix-based parent advocacy group.

In mixed-grade classes, students learn at their own pace and are guided by two teachers. Restorative discipline techniques, not punitive strategies, are the norm.

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1 posted on 01/26/2022 6:03:28 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

I wish them luck.
I hope they succeed.


2 posted on 01/26/2022 6:04:56 AM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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It’s very simple. If you want to end the school to prison pipeline, start with a father.


3 posted on 01/26/2022 6:05:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It's my government that I hate.)
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To: grundle

Some Karen will sue to stop this in 3, 2, 1...


4 posted on 01/26/2022 6:05:42 AM PST by The Louiswu (The times they are a changin. )
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To: grundle

I don’t recall seeing the word father in that entire article, could have missed it.


6 posted on 01/26/2022 6:07:17 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: grundle

If this is what it takes to break the cycle, I wish them well.


7 posted on 01/26/2022 6:07:22 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Jonty30

“I wish them luck.
I hope they succeed.”

Same here, it least they are being PROACTIVE while everyone else is sitting on their thumbs.


8 posted on 01/26/2022 6:09:20 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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“I don’t recall seeing the word father in that entire article, could have missed it.”

Doesn’t even relate. Obsessive stereotyping.


9 posted on 01/26/2022 6:13:51 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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They better watch out. If this shows signs of succeeding, this will be viewed as an existential threat to demonrats and they will act accordingly to sabotage it


10 posted on 01/26/2022 6:15:26 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: grundle

So it will be a system of schools for ethnic kids only? I think it’s a great idea, but some people might lose their minds over it.

Going outside the established DOE system is of course a survival strategy for ALL parents - I applaud parents standing up to school boards lately, but what is in the best interest of children is to stop arguing and trying to change what has developed over decades of time into a titanic waste of money and a detriment to a stable society - and a detriment to the idea of learning itself - and walk away from it.

Homeschool your kids or do what these gals are doing. Kids are expensive to have and raise - and then you give them to so-called “teachers” so their minds can be destroyed and their lives ruined. Does that make sense?


11 posted on 01/26/2022 6:17:25 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Someone with "comedian" on his social media profile is invariably a self-hating sadistic loser.)
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To: grundle

Have they been branded white supremacists yet>


12 posted on 01/26/2022 6:17:27 AM PST by mykroar (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. - Sun Tzu)
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To: grundle

https://www.weareteachers.com/restorative-justice/


13 posted on 01/26/2022 6:21:13 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: grundle

In mixed-grade classes, students learn at their own pace and are guided by two teachers.


Reinventing the country school house?


14 posted on 01/26/2022 6:38:21 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: grundle

This “sounds” like a great idea and I hope it turns out to be.

But, in my opinion, their only chance to succeed is to keep government money and it’s pernicious influence OUT.


15 posted on 01/26/2022 6:46:48 AM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: grundle

The fact that some teachers are involved show that
not all teachers are worthless creatures; there are
those who have the children’s best interests at heart.
Praises to them! Debora has appeared with Steve on War
Room several times. The woman has spunk and a good deal
of energy. Two necessities in going up against the teachers
unions and deep state entities.
Debora, you rock!


16 posted on 01/26/2022 6:49:05 AM PST by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistence by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
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To: grundle
Wishing them all the best.

On the scale of the individual to the collective, and decentralized versus centralized planning and governance, towards decentralizing is always the recommendation.

Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize in 2009 in Economics, offers "One-size-fts-all” policies are not effective."

Check out her Nobel speech:

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/ostrom_lecture.pdf

"Designing institutions to force (or nudge) entirely self-interested individuals to achieve better outcomes has been the major goal posited by policy analysts for governments to accomplish for much of the past half century. Extensive empirical research leads me to argue that instead, a core goal of public policy should be to facilitate the development of institutions that bring out the best in humans."

17 posted on 01/26/2022 6:51:41 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: Openurmind
The forum has advocated for school reform since 2016, after nationwide violence against Black children and a series of high-profile police brutality cases involving Black Americans. Their mission became eliminating low expectations for Black children and school discipline policies that often end with Black children funneled into prison.

It's not a stereotype it's a statistical reality nearly 70% of black children are raised by single mothers. The school policies aren't the problem the lack of discipline at home is the problem.
18 posted on 01/26/2022 7:02:37 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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Will there be room for white kids. Given the choice it would prove racism is not really an issue unless they teach CRT.


19 posted on 01/26/2022 7:22:23 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Responsibility2nd

They should just have daddy and me classes in the prisons.


20 posted on 01/26/2022 7:30:00 AM PST by cnsmom
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