I watched how class played out in a preschool classroom, creating disadvantages for the already disadvantaged and privileges for those born into privilege.
Class Reproduction by Four Year Olds
Friday, April 20th, 2012Overlooking luck
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Can someone please explain to Newt Gingrich that people not wanting a job typically doesn’t cause poverty; being unable to get a job causes poverty. I would strongly assert that very few people want to be unable to provide for themselves and their families. People who have only experienced privilege often do not recognize the parts of their lives that others are not lucky enough to have.
Hiding the lunch ticket
Monday, January 16th, 2012I was an outsider at my junior high school. Why was I ashamed of my family’s poverty?
A 4th of July Declaration of Dependence
Monday, July 11th, 2011It’s no small irony that on the 4th of July weekend our nation’s largest union surrendered a chunk of its independence. At their annual meeting in Chicago, the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly voted to support the use of student standardized test results in the evaluation of teachers. That vote alters the union’s previous opposition to such a policy and ties the NEA even closer to the Obama administration’s educational agenda.
Moving the Bar
Monday, June 27th, 2011At first glance, I thought that it was just another article about disappointing test scores.
From a Teenage Class Action Fan
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011My name is Liora and I’m fourteen years old. I’ve attended public schools my whole life except for the last year and half when I went to a private school. At this school, the classes were small and there was support and help anywhere and anyhow we needed. Not the case in public school. This was a sad piece of class difference that I noticed on the first day.
Learning about Class in Private School?
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011Like parents everywhere, we wanted to give our teenage daughter advantages we never had. High on our list was to provide her a much clearer class-consciousness than what we got as kids.
