Opinion: School-to-prison and white post-racial privilege
03/07/2013Our Voice: Stop the pink slips
03/13/2013
Source: SF Gate
A gymnasium full of teachers, teenagers and community members are sitting around small tables and jotting down the names of their favorite teachers on blue Post-It notes at Edna Brewer Middle School.
Stephanie Benjamin, a 17-year-old peer educator with Youth Uprising, met her favorite teacher during elementary school in Oakland. She reads from her Post-It: “Ms. Wallis knew what was going on with us. She wouldn’t just get on you for not doing your work, she’d try to figure out what was happening at home.”
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Fierce advocates for the high academic achievement of all students – particularly those of color or living in poverty.
