Which is exactly why things like DEI need to be taught in schools.
If parents are racist…they teach their kids to be racist. And that comes out when they go to school and encounter other kids that their parents have taught them to hate. There is no better place to push back on that, than in the place where they encounter those other kids.
Teachers should not be forced to turn a blind eye to that hate. They should be required to teach kids a better way of interacting with each other, because it solves two major problems at once…
A)…it provides every kid in that school with a safer learning environment.
And B)…it might actually prevent some of those kids from growing up to also teach their kids to be racist, and end the generational learning curve that perpetuates racism in the 1st place.
Absolutely. My post was just about how kids begin with a DEI mindset and that gets removed from them. What you’re talking about is reinforcing the normal, especially for those kids in bad environments. The issue then becomes the schools not having the backing to fight the eventual angry parents and their lawyers because their child is being shown that their parents are wrong. Schools used to be able to push back, but they bend over at anything now for fear of lawsuits and/or funding cut and jobs lost.
Education is one of the most critical careers we have, and yet it’s underpaid and attacked constantly for doing their job.
Which is exactly why things like DEI need to be taught in schools.
If parents are racist…they teach their kids to be racist. And that comes out when they go to school and encounter other kids that their parents have taught them to hate. There is no better place to push back on that, than in the place where they encounter those other kids.
Teachers should not be forced to turn a blind eye to that hate. They should be required to teach kids a better way of interacting with each other, because it solves two major problems at once…
A)…it provides every kid in that school with a safer learning environment.
And B)…it might actually prevent some of those kids from growing up to also teach their kids to be racist, and end the generational learning curve that perpetuates racism in the 1st place.
Absolutely. My post was just about how kids begin with a DEI mindset and that gets removed from them. What you’re talking about is reinforcing the normal, especially for those kids in bad environments. The issue then becomes the schools not having the backing to fight the eventual angry parents and their lawyers because their child is being shown that their parents are wrong. Schools used to be able to push back, but they bend over at anything now for fear of lawsuits and/or funding cut and jobs lost.
Education is one of the most critical careers we have, and yet it’s underpaid and attacked constantly for doing their job.