Punished for Dreaming (Chap. 3/4) by Rhea Carmon

Case Studies

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Read the Case Studies for Discussion

What is more important opportunity or community?

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“Black children are often exposed to soul-crushing social challenges and psychic damage when they attend majority-White schools. Even today, Black families take huge risks to send their children to districts they perceive as offering more educational opportunities.”

Expectations for Discussion

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Assume Positive Intent
Speak from Personal Experience
Listen to Understand, Not to Respond
Respect Differences
Embrace Discomfort
Challenge Ideas, Not People
Practice Empathy and Compassion
Give Everyone Space to Speak
Be Willing to Apologize and Adjust
Confidentiality and Truth

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Charter School Bubble

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As the charter school bubble erupts, Black communities are left with what renowned educational researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings calls “education debt.”

Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class

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Abbott Elementary

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Can we afford failure?

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"Education entrepreneurs are still just entrepreneurs, and failure is a key component of being a good entrepreneur. In their book, Education Entrepreneurs Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane profess that failure is an essential component of problem solving. "

The Analyst Breaks Down the Need for the Matrix

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In the final scene of the Matrix Resurrection, the Analyst states why the "suits" will continue to control humanity with the matrix.

The System

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I realized that the system

Is made to keep us trained

So they attach a grade to the teacher

Which assigns a grade to the school

Which assigns a grade to the district

And we all become slaves to the systm

Supplying the energy needed to keep it going

These grades are symbols of our ability to conform

Hopson City Schools

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Hopson City is a community in Alabama that flourished under segregation. So much so that the mayor agreed to with the Governor that they should not integrate after Brown V. Board of Education ruling.

Oakwood Academy

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A historically black school in Huntsville, AL has been successful at educating black children since the 1800s. Why have schools like this been able to thrive?

Advocation, Advocacy, Access

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"As a result, gone were “the teachers who showed black children that they could believe in themselves…who taught civics curriculum where they participated in democracy…who, in the midst of oppression, taught children to aspire,” she explained.

Black students also lost their advocates, Walker said. Black education organizations and networks had worked for years, partnering with activists like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E. B. Dubois, and James Weldon Johnson, to launch the Civil Rights Movement. They furthered the aspirational curriculum that black educators taught in their classrooms and created a system of advocacy for African American school children that stretched throughout the South.

But after desegregation, the merger of some black educational organizations with white educational organizations meant that the efforts to advocate for the needs of black children would fade into the background."

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Statistics of current educational discrepancies. How do we begin to level the educational playing field?

Final thoughts about the topic

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