Our children. All of them! Are being put through quite a lot. Adult immigrant bigotry, systemic racism, homophobic school board book ban mandates, corrupt charter schools stealing their public school buildings & budgets, anti-nutrition school lunch programs, A.I. Driven computer curriculum ad nauseam.
They know a steaming pile of excrement when they smell it. It agitates them and alienates them. Which places them in an untenable position. How does one love & respect a community of grownups who behave this way? How does one swear allegiance to a Democracy that permits and promotes such cowardly conduct? Our kids are wrestling deep inside themselves with some very serious emotional/developmental questions.
There are living-breathing children & youth inside those public school buildings. We are burying them beneath the casual rhetoric of adult politics. We are rendering them invisible by not describing what is being done to them. In the 1930’s sisters Sanora & Dorothy Babb waded into the depths of The Dustbowl Migrant Refugee Camps. As they helped people, they also documented the daily unfolding of events. It is a STUNNING & very humane portrait. “On The Dirty Trail: Remembering The Dust Bowl Refugee Camps” U of Texas Press 2007.
Our 2025 kids deserve better.
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