The recent student-recorded video of a White male police officer slamming a Black female adolescent sitting in her school desk to the floor while her classmates and teachers looked on grabbed the nation’s attention about the unproductive presence of police in schools. This past July Mother Jones magazine documented how police in schools (or by…
Tag: Education
The Master Narrative: No “Slaves,” Only “Workers” in Texas Schoolbooks
An attentive 15-year old let his mother know that a required Texas social studies book claimed that people of African descent brought forcible to the Americas to labor for Whites were identified as “workers” rather than “slaves” in a section devoted to “immigration.” Mom took to social media, Black Lives Matter…
A Texas Educational Approach to Racial Truth & Reconciliation
A recent Gary Trudeau “Doonesbury” cartoon shows a befuddled social studies teacher claiming – in accordance with Texas social studies standards – that secession from the United States by the Confederate States of America was primarily about so-called “states’ rights” while slavery was down the list of reasons. The clueless teacher then is confronted with a…