The Trump administration conspired this summer to cruelly disrupt all the public schools in our country by illegally freezing federal Title II funds. They claimed that, essentially, the money was being spent on the “woke agenda.” Right before the school year started, there was a thaw. Funds were released after 24 state attorneys general challenged […]
The first time I heard the phrase in person, I guess, was as a substitute teacher. “You don’t know me!” said a 5th grade Black boy (at a predominantly white school), in a fight. He repeated the phrase as we pulled him off the other kid. He was right. We didn’t know him. His teacher […]
My family and I were on vacation. Edisto Island: no hotels, beaches, calm, quiet. We rented a house seaside and could hear the waves. A lot of family: my wife’s parents, her two brothers, and two aunts. My son was 3 years old. He came out for breakfast. My father in law says to him […]
The Fleet Foxes have a song called Helplessness Blues. It starts with a developmental dilemma in which the singer is saying he was raised to believe he was totally unique. But he’s starting to wish he could be a cog in a machine. I was raised up believing I was somehow uniqueLike a snowflake distinct […]
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