• For toddlers and preschoolers, it’s important to role-model diversity and inclusion. You can read children’s books about promoting and including others, and celebrating diversity and differences
• Once children are school age, you can start having more explicit conversations about race, inequality, and justice. Ask them how they feel about it. Ask what they think. Point out and discuss negative stereotypes that are demonstrated in movies and television shows. Celebrate when people demonstrate courage in speaking up for people who are different. Research shows that having explicit conversations with children about race between ages 5 and 7 can improve racial attitudes in a short time. You can call out examples of early bias and invite your child to make positive choices; developing this awareness is key.
• For children 8 through 12, you can read children’s books about the historical context of race and inequality. Discuss heroes like Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
•As children enter their teenage years, talk with them about the news, current events, and further examples of bias and racism that they encounter. Discuss their own experiences and the experiences of their friends. Since teenagers are developing their own identity, it’s important to talk with them about where they see race and inequality in their own life experience.1 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) defines social justice as “the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities.”2 To study social justice is to learn about the problems that dramatically impact quality of life for certain populations, and how people have worked to solve those problems. All students, even younger students, can recognize when something is unfair and can think about solutions.
Indoctrination at it's finest funded by our tax dollars. If you have kids in public indoc centers, yank them out. As an aside, life AIN'T fair and things are NOT equal.
Found this as a footnote on another page:
1 Critical Practices for Anti-Bias Education, A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance, tolerance.org.
Accessed: https://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/general/PDA%20Critical%20Practices.pdf
Imagine that. The SPLC is involved. NOT surprised. Does the WCSD care? NOPE. Comments are open but so is the round file for those in opposition.
So there will be “collaborative conversations“. That’s funny right there. Anyone who voices any sort of disagreement will be shut down and shamed.
I took a K this morning, wiped it with a 12 and then flushed it down the toilet.
It is time for separation of school and state.
Yes. Focus on this line “judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin”
Dr King would say “All lives matter”
Bkmk