BLOG POST #11: What ideas here feel close like you can touch them? What ideas feel far away/ hard to wrap your mind around/ impossible? What does this have to do with youth work? With social justice? With your daily practice?
Many, if not most, of the ideas, are extremely important to make happen if we want an equitable world. It’s not a radical thing to name the issue. I believe the work can be done, and in the webinar, 3 black women advocate for this work.
The idea of abolishing schools feels so far from what we currently have. After the pandemic, we really saw things denied to us by schools, departments, and governments being given to us within the first few weeks: free wifi, laptops for students, food access, etc.
I agree with the idea that DEI positions are created to fill a quota for black and brown people. Still, I would argue that it makes a difference in spaces with more black and brown people who get a seat at the table and more opportunities for black and brown students to see BIPOC folks succeed.
Abolitionist teaching needs to happen to remove cops and replace them with counselors, do away with standardized testing, and do away with messed up buildings centuries old. We must reinvent the wheel, write the work from the start, create the curriculum, and tell the story as it was, not what they want us to show.
All of this has to do with youth work, social justice, and my daily practice. The change we make in everything allows a domino effect in our lives.
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