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Jen Roesch

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Age of Awareness

If Opening Schools Is About Equity, Why Aren’t We Listening to Those Most Impacted?

Low-income, Black and Latinx parents are saying what they want, but their voices are missing from the discussion

13 min readJul 22, 2020

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If Opening Schools Is About Equity, Why Aren’t We Listening to Those Most Impacted?

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Age of Awareness

The Fight Over Reopening Schools Is a Turning Point In the Response To the Coronavirus

We need to fight for a just pandemic response

14 min readJul 17, 2020

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The Fight Over Reopening Schools Is a Turning Point In the Response To the Coronavirus

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Age of Awareness

We Can’t Let Parents and Teachers Be Pitted Against Each Other In Debate Over School Reopenings

We have been presented with unacceptable choices by a society that doesn’t value children or working families

11 min readJul 6, 2020

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We Can’t Let Parents and Teachers Be Pitted Against Each Other In Debate Over School Reopenings

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Age of Awareness

The Problem With the AAP Guidelines on Opening Schools

They are being used as a blank check for reopening when they should be seen as a call to fundamentally alter our priorities

12 min readJul 1, 2020

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The Problem With the AAP Guidelines on Opening Schools

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Age of Awareness

How Homework and Parental Involvement Narratives Maintain Inequality

What we can learn from the inequalities exposed by remote learning

10 min readJun 19, 2020

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How Homework and Parental Involvement Narratives Maintain Inequality

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An Injustice!

The Black Panther George Jackson and the True Cost of Freedom

Killed by prison guards in 1970, he understood that even the simplest demands have always been met with state violence

6 min readJun 16, 2020

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The Black Panther George Jackson and the True Cost of Freedom

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Age of Awareness

Lost Learning Time is Not the Crisis

We should be focused on our kids’ social and emotional needs, not academic expectations

9 min readJun 10, 2020

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Lost Learning Time is Not the Crisis

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Age of Awareness

Our Debt to Black America Just Shot Way Up

The struggle against racism has always held the hope for a better world

7 min readJun 3, 2020

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Our Debt to Black America Just Shot Way Up

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Age of Awareness

Curfews Provide Cover for Police Violence and Repression

And they put essential night workers at further risk and harm struggling cities

6 min readJun 1, 2020

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Curfews Provide Cover for Police Violence and Repression

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Age of Awareness

Everyday New Yorkers Are Protesting Decades of Violence and Inequality

NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s defense of police who drove into a crowd of protestors is an insult to New Yorkers fighting for justice

7 min readMay 31, 2020

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Everyday New Yorkers Are Protesting Decades of Violence and Inequality

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Jen Roesch

Jen Roesch

Socialist, Writer, Mother, Teacher — Fighting for a World Worth Living In. I run a newsletter about schools in the time of COVID at JusticeLens.substack.com.

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