…gned with our country’s standards for themselves. We don’t value our children as full human beings. We also have such low expectations of adults and children we call high achievers that we’ve obfuscated high-achieving with full humanity, as if a perfect storm of privileges didn’t usher us into the maelstrom that is 2017. As a middle school educator, I hope the children have better solutions for the world than my genera…
…is, including diversifying the teaching profession and including more than white dudes in our math. We can also raise the status of teaching as a profession because teacher pay is a feminist issue given how many women we have in this work. But on a foundational level, we would do well to recognize that the incremental changes we seek to …