Cole Perry

I wanted a twitter to post abt summer camps & youth work. My tumblr is of the same ilk, but in longer form:

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

I want to follow up immediately. I think camp ppl should take all youth issues under our wing. So the kids getting gassed at the border, kept in cages, killed by police, dying by policy choices that create poverty. We should all be organizing & fighting for these kids’ lives.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

#SummerCamp & US #YouthWork folk, urgent issue in the field:
this administration is making states remove guidance for supporting LGBTQ youth in 4-H.
These are evidenced-based best practices about accepting all youth, specifically trans youth.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

They are doing lockdown drills to avoid agents of the state.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

“If you build palaces for children, you tear down prison walls.”
-socialist doctor Julius Tandler

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

Obviously when I say the children are all of our responsibility, that includes the children of Palestine.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

I want to follow up immediately. I think camp ppl should take all youth issues under our wing. So the kids getting gassed at the border, kept in cages, killed by police, dying by policy choices that create poverty. We should all be organizing & fighting for these kids’ lives.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

It also flies in the face of what was a broad bipartisan consensus that racist impact is bad and should be corrected.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

Schools aren’t supposed to correct racial disparities in discipline.

[Meaghan Mingo @mingome]

I told y'all they were going to act to make school discipline more punitive. This is stage 1. It's only going to get worse.

https://t.co/PLUyVmXEf5

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

It seems obvious to say this EO is another gift to embedded structures of yt supremacy.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

Florida out to make kids less safe online

[EFF @EFF]

Florida’s new anti-encryption bill is both dumb and dangerous. Florida lawmakers must say no. https://t.co/AXIKwX09tz

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The LA Teachers' Union is going on strike.

Fuck.

Yes.

1/

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

About 1 in 12 youth held for a criminal or delinquent offense is locked in an adult jail or prison, and most of the others are held in juvenile facilities that look and operate a lot like prisons and jails.

The carceral system is not a place for children.

[Daniel Baryon @AnarkYouTube]

The Republican game plan is always to cut funding to services that help people and redirect it to services that kill/imprison people. Then when the services that help people underperform they argue it's because they are controlled by the state so that they can justify privatizing

[Joe Brummer @JoeBrummer]

The trouble with Restorative Practices in schools is that there is too much focus on using them to respond to incidents and not enough on building community to prevent incidents. You can't restore what you didn't build.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

Teaching is good (and it's a good year!)
but I definitely miss the intellectual work I used to have more time to do.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

I do not have time to do review this paper for a journal, but I must be longing for a certain kind of intellectual stimulation that I'm not getting teaching high school, haha.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

@gakaufman22 All books that changed the way I work with young people:
The first r: How children learn race and racism by Van Ausdale & Feagin
It’s Complicated: the Social Loves of Networked Teens by @zephoria
And @c_j_pascoe ‘s Dude You’re a F*g: Masculinity and sexuality in high school

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

@heymrsbond I plan to grade...

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

We want to build a decentralized approach to solving conflicts focused on recognizing that everyone is worthy of care and that no one is disposable."
-@deanspade
https://t.co/kv4DCfYvvR

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

Thinking about #ConflictResolution and #TransformativeJustice in the classroom

"We need new skills to depart from a system for solving conflict based on a centralized authority that determines who is good and bad. ...

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Misogyny. It's being used to radicalize boys into fascism.

[Cole Perry @drsummercamp]

When someone talks about “protecting children,” pay attention to what they mean by that

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Hundreds of new laws went into effect in Arkansas today.

Including one that says kids under 16 no longer need work permits to get a job.

The former law verified a child's age, looped in state and local officials, and protected children. Now that's gone.

https://t.co/PoAnXPe7z1

[josh! @queersocialism]

one of the biggest missteps with ‘social justice’ over the last decade, was obsessing over terminology, and everyone using the ~correct~ language to avoid being outcasted—which just led to people adopting the terminology to fit-in and it didn’t translate to transforming behavior