ancientreader: stevie smith drawing for her poem the wild dog (stevie smith dog)
ancientreader ([personal profile] ancientreader) wrote in [personal profile] osprey_archer 2019-09-29 05:17 pm (UTC)

Well, to turn a hashtag on its head, #notallpublicschools, because systematic theft of real property from African Americans, and denial of opportunity to build wealth based on real property, combined with school funding based on local property taxes, has ensured that public schools in white districts are still quite lovely, whereas ... But you don't need me to tell you this, or to recite all the ways in which white people perpetuate educational inequities because "I just want to help out at my child's school." I have become uncontrollably snarly on the subject in recent years, for reasons you can easily guess at if you read my journal here.

And here I thought the "real" America was the white, Christian nation. /s

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