Mrs Bermudez

grade 6 English Language Arts teacher in SB, Felician University alumni, and lover of all books 📚

[Rae 🌻🌱 @raediancee]

I’m so not into policing the way student’s come to class. Wanna attend from your bed? Cool. In your car in the Target parking lot? Great. Wrapped up in a Sesame Street comforter? Stay warm.

Listen I’m just happy you showed up.

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

https://t.co/h7oNJs1onG

[Dr. Bria Wright @_BriaWright]

Hey teachers! 👋🏾 Friendly reminder that your Black, Brown and students of color don’t need you as a savior to save them. This is a harmful train of thought and is rooted in racism. Equity isn’t swooping in and trying to rescue students. Equity is interrupting systemic racism.

[Jeffery E. Frieden 🌱 @SurthrivEDU]

I have a joke about all-faculty PD, but everyone will get it in the same way at the same time.

[Allison Dubois @DuboisSb]

@SBreadingteach It’s transformative

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

👀

[Patrick, not Pat @PresidentPat]

White people’s quest for total dominance goes far beyond niceness. They have a system that enabled and affirms their acts of dominance. We do our kids a disservice by keeping racism interpersonal.

[Patrick, not Pat @PresidentPat]

I want my students to move from talking about race as "disrespect" towards Black people, to discussing how white people have created a system that prioritizes them and their culture why attempting to erase and murder others.

Treating each other w/ respect doesn't go far enough.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

So much of history has been whitewashed for the sake of making it palatable for white consumption that we are starting to perpetuate things that are not only misconceptions, but outright lies.

A lot of what you're told about protests, MLK, etc. is wrong.

A thread.

[Christopher Emdin @chrisemdin]

Dear White friends, You cannot be "antiracist" when you stumble all over yourself to say the word Black in front of people. #HipHopEd

[Tatiana Mac @TatianaTMac]

"diversity and inclusion" needs to be upgraded to "anti-racism and dismantling white supremacy"

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

Show BPOC the way, make them the priority

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

BPOC have been denied the ability to obtain an education for hundreds of years. Today BPOC jump hurdles and and are denied the opportunity to access paths throughout middle and highschool that will lead them to college. Are YOU as an educator one of those hurdles? CLEAR THE PATH

[ACLU @ACLU]

3 million students attend schools with cops, but no nurses.

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

A thread on my privilege.

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

I have privilege as white passing.
I have privilege as a Puerto Rican.
I have privilege as a Latinx person. With all that privilege things like this can easily still happen to me.

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

I’m obligated to use my privilege to uplift black people, black literature, black art, be anti racist, buy from black entrepreneurs and listen to and acknowledge black people because I will never experience oppression because of the color of my skin.

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

I have privilege as white passing.
I have privilege as a Puerto Rican.
I have privilege as a Latinx person. With all that privilege things like this can easily still happen to me.

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

‘F*ck this music. It sucks. You’re in America.’ — This Trump supporter berated a Latinx family for playing music while barbecuing in a park

[Mrs Bermudez @SBreadingteach]

My privilege allows me to survive encounters like this, encounters with the police and authority.