babylonfalling:High school students confront a meeting of the Detroit Board of Education to demand
babylonfalling: High school students confront a meeting of the Detroit Board of Education to demand Black Studies programs. Photo by Alan Gotkin for Fifth Estate (1969) Despite many (white) teachers’ and school boards’ assumptions that students, especially POC, just don’t care about learning or their education. Naw, we just don’t care about whitewashed education. Many of my students who really struggle with literacy and study skills, and whose classroom teachers complain about them being apathetic, suddenly bloom into historians and philosophers and literary critics when they’re allowed Black and Latino studies. Even just a glimpse sets them off being engaged for the first time. Look through history and you’ll see youth of color fighting to learn. It’s going on as we speak, and I see it with my students while their teachers complain about them. Problem is the curriculum, not the students. -- source link
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