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Title : Black Lives Matter in Schools Announcement from Social Equity Educators
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Black Lives Matter in Schools Announcement from Social Equity Educators
SEE's press release on upcoming events (partial):Thousands of educators across Seattle, and many more across the country, will be wearing “Black Lives Matter” shirts to school and teaching lessons about structural racism, Black identity, and Black history for a nationally organized week of action from February 5-9th. Cities such as LA, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Boston, and more, will be joining this unprecedented national uprising to affirm the lives of Black students, teachers, and families. The national Black Lives Matter at School coalition that organized the week of action has issued three demands:
1) End Zero Tolerance, and implement Restorative Justice.
2) Hire More Black Teachers in our Schools.
3) Black History/Ethnic Studies Mandated K-12.
In addition, educators in Seattle added two more demands:
4) Fully fund our schools
5) De-track our schools to combat racial segregation
The Black Lives Matter at School week was unanimously endorsed by the Repetitive Assembly of the Seattle Education Association (SEA, the teachers union of Seattle). The Seattle People’s Party and the Seattle NAACP have also endorsed, along with Seattle Seahawk Michael Bennett. Nationally, Black Lives Matter co-funder Opal Tometi has endorsed the action.
“The opportunity gap between Black students and white students in Seattle Public Schools is growing and we are done waiting for change—We demand equity and we will be in the struggle for Black lives to matter at school until that basic fact is recognized by every single school,” said Seattle/King County NAACP education chair Rita Green.
Recent reports have shown that Seattle’s Black students continue to graduate at lower rates than white students and Black students in grades 6-12 are suspended at an outrageous seven times the rate of white students.
“The school-to-prison-pipeline is real,” said educator and attorney Nikkita Oliver. “It extends across this country and is certainly a destructive force right here in the Seattle education system. The Black Lives Matter at School movement is about dismantling the school-to-prison-pipeline and creating a school-to-justice-pipeline for our youth.”
“At a time when the president makes openly racist statements about Africa, Haiti and El Salvador, it is more important than ever to support anti-racist pedagogy and affirm the lives of our Black students,” said Garfield High School Ethnic Studies teacher, Jesse Hagopian.
"In Washington, the teachers are 90% white. Our whiteness invariably bleaches and distorts the curricula we teach,” said Center School teacher and Social Equity Educators member Jon Greenberg. "We have had our turn as the curricular protagonist. This week of action ensures that other stories, especially Black stories, get told."
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