Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom – w/ Matthew R. Kay
Teaching Hard History
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The Immigrant Child Crisis at the Southern Border
Quamy jeffreys: A teacher at a predominantly white elementary school said her students lacked empathy for children of color who were suffering. She says she tried to explain that there was more to it, but the teacher stood firm these students lacked empathy, period. Jeffreys: We condition children to be compassionate toward animals and we fail to provide equivalent instruction when it comes to children of color. In the absence of those specific conversations, kid's default to the dominant view that children of color, even those in crisis, are somehow not deserving of our care or concern,.
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