I really think we need a term for the phenomenon where you have only seen someone with a mask on so your brain filled in the bottom part of their face, but then you see them without a mask and realize that your brain was WAY off. #covidproblems
@kellywchris 1- Excellent question and will continue to think on this one but I honestly believe every teacher should spend their first year in an inclusive classroom and take what they learn and apply it to every class. I am also often curious as to why we don't have more..
Exposing a racist’s comment and looking to hold them accountable is not ruining someone’s life.
It’s definitely not more tragic than the experiences of residential schooling, where children were forcefully removed from their homes and subject to abuse. We can’t let this go.
Residential schools were created specifically to remove Indigenous children from their families and communities with the deliberate outcome of destroying their cultural identity.
He labelled all Indigenous people ‘misguided children’, he’s not trying to save neglected youth.
He made the post in reaction to Mi’kmaq people asserting their right to fish.
He didn’t say boarding schools, he said residential schools, and those were created for a specific purpose. There’s no mistaking what he meant.
There are non-Indigenous people in NS, petitioning for the revival of Residential Schooling in response to our exercising of Treaty Rights.
They’re advocating for ethnic cleansing, because our people are accessing resources we have a right to.
Even if the schools operated without any abuse, they existed to remove children from their families and cultures so that they would lose all cultural identity - the U.N. defines that as cultural genocide.
There’s no improving something that is at its core, ethnic cleansing.
You’re describing a system that apprehends children and places them in more stable homes - that exists and has its own problems.
And I’m not ‘triggered’ as you say, I’m explaining what residential schools were and the impact they had on my people. There’s no improving them.
Maslow applies to educators now more than ever. Leaders need to remember that when they’re talking about culture, mission, and all that stuff at the top of the pyramid... they have staff members & students who are worried about safety, security, and all that stuff at the bottom.
Sask curriculum, wya? You’ve been gone for what feels like forever to a first year teacher! Let’s hope the wait is worth the site being more user friendly and the Treaty Ed outcomes aren’t still at the very bottom of the page...