This is an excellent illustration of the challenges educators face in addressing racism in schools. “Few schools have leaders willing to openly and effectively challenge systemically racist structures.” https://link.medium.com/AKdsj6SdW9 

This fall @SFUnified education leaders committed to anti-racism. Nonetheless, I know many educators continue to operate the same way they always have.

I encourage families to look through their children’s assignments. In my own children’s classrooms patterns are emerging. @SFUnified can say it is committed to anti racism, yet this means nothing if we continue to teach books centering perspectives of white heterosexual men.

Questions I’m asking staff at all levels (including at my children’s teachers and admin):

How are you centering voices and perspectives, contributions and histories of Black, Indigenous/Native American, Latinx, Asian, Arab and Samoan/Pacific-Islander students?

How does your practice dismantle narratives and power structures that center whiteness, patriarchy and heterosexist culture?

What specific ACTIONS are you taking? What specific PRACTICES are you changing? What are you started doing differently? What have you stopped doing? How has your curriculum changed?

This thread seems particularly relevant.

Let’s add “educational system” to the list. https://twitter.com/jessienyc/status/1307721162756161543