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An admission: I am finding it far more relevant to my educational justice politics to read about organizing among/by health care workers & the unhoused than 99% of what I am seeing about education itself. https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/there-is-no-outside/
It seems so clear to me: *this*— not delivering some illusion of online education — should be our struggle right now.
“You don’t have to spend any time inside an emergency room to understand the single most consequential fact about our health system: it is built on a foundation of denying care.”
To what extent is educational injustice in this country build on EXACTLY that same model of denial—rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, & greed?
“This is how the poor have experienced our health care system, and now that experience is—rightly but belatedly—attracting international attention. The pandemic is a moment for health workers to reflect on our own work and our own position in that same system..”
As a teacher, I’ve been doing a lot of “reflecting,” as have my colleagues, but I have a deep sense of dread that our efforts have already been appropriated, w/out our consent or even consciousness, by edtech as we rush headlong onto yet one more google platform.
Are we reflecting on the right things?
“The pandemic is a moment for health workers to reflect on our own work and our own position in that same system. We must think about our sick and dying patients and appreciate how the nature of our work ties our struggles to those of the poor and the dispossessed.”
“...it hasn’t always been easy to channel the spirit of the Poor People’s Campaign—partly because good organizing takes more time & experience than I have had, & partly—crucially—because medicine usually ignores, reassures, & manages the language of the oppressed into silence.”
Let’s pause on that: “ignores, reassures, & manages the language of the oppressed into silence.”
(An apt description of the billions of words that have been spilled in memos & directives over the last weeks by U.S. school districts trying to “manage” this crisis.)
(An apt description of the billions of words that have been spilled in memos & directives over the last weeks by U.S. school districts trying to “manage” this crisis.)
