We need to rethink discipline in schools
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The Problem With Value Attribution in America
Stanford professor says he saw an episode of Abbott Elementary about how value and success is narrowly defined in relation to existing systems of power. The author writes, this belief system is the modern version of separating the black people who perform respectability the best from the ones still deemed to be ghetto and helpless. "It's sort of deeply problematic with the idea that you know a racialized other can attribute value and attributes potential to young folks with immense potential"
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