Semi-Charmed Kind of Life (part three): Whose life is it anyway?
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We all construct our identities in complicated ways.
We all construct our identities in the context of our lifespans.
We all construct our identities in relation to the particular worlds around us.
One of the highly problematic things we do in education is our constant drive to define each child within the context of our life framework, rather than theirs.
“I have never understood adults who view children as either animals or the enemy, and like to make rules — from lining up to walk down a hall, to bathroom passes, to cellphone bans — that deny the humanity, the talents, the learning capabilities of kids.”
Identity is laughed at by a lot of Americans — perhaps the 40% of Americans who support the current obscene and immoral President — and people who are offended by attacks on identity are often ridiculed for being “snowflakes.” But identity is critical to individual and social wellbeing — that sense of combining individual uniqueness with group affiliations — and probably always has been.
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