Category: Public Education
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A Sadness about Education
I am feeling a sadness about public education right now. And about education in the US in general. I am wondering whether we have lost what education means and what it is to have been effectively educated. When I was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, I was definitely caught up in the humanities education in…
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We have to do better with scheduling our days…
It has taken me so long to get used to being out of the classroom, to be used to being able to use the bathroom when I want and not during passing period…to be able to actually enjoy my weekends rather than planning or grading for them. Teaching can be a selfless profession, for sure,…
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Going Forward Together
There is something amiss in schools these days, but it’s no one’s fault really. I think what it comes down to is that we are moving past institutions and that we are leaving people who are still in institutions behind. Students are being trained for jobs that probably won’t exist by the time that they…
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Wesley and a Theology of Access
What does justice look like today? I think it would be best termed as access. That we should skirt the idea of social justice altogether and just worry about access, which is related to but not as triggering to conservatives as the current word that is all the rage: equity. The most access-oriented theologian was…
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Public Education is Failing Most in Seattle
The history of Seattle is one steeped in racism and, not surprisingly, public education is faring poorly in Seattle. This is for complex reasons, mostly associated with racism of white students and parents not wanting to be bussed to diverse schools from rich, white Queen Anne in the early 2000’s. I remembered when my husband…
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Teaching “Fire by Night,” by John Beecher
Fire by Night When the burnt black bodies of the homeless Were found in the embers of the Negro church Into which they had crept to sleep on the floor The wails of the people traveled down the cold wind And reached the ears of the rich on the mountain …
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I still care about public education
I started my business Seahurst Wellness and Education Canter, LLC prior to the pandemic, but then went into the classroom again when they started cancelling school because they didn’t have enough substitute teachers. What I saw in the public school system while there dismayed me. I didn’t want to flee, even though I did resign.…
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