Spoken to an educator recently? Opened a newspaper? Then, no doubt you’ve heard about the startling increase in remarkably cruel, insensitive & flat-out rude behavior kids are showing on a regular basis. Group-think is short-circuiting basic decency with alarming regularity. At my middle school in recent months, as in schools …
A few weeks ago, I read this Medium post by Dr. Shayla R. Griffin, which I posted my initial reflections on, and which has had an enormous impact on my thinking over the intervening weeks. My takeaway: There is a population that wants schools to open: parents working from home need space; …
A friend on Facebook recently posted to ask, “What’s different this time?”, a sincere invitation to ponder what caused the video of an incident of police brutality in Minneapolis resulting in the murder of George Floyd to catch fire. Today, I watched the video Trevor Noah posted about a week …