My grand padlet by Chang Lillian

Parent involvement

lillianchang79 — 2024-02-20 14:10:37 UTC

Racial stigma for parents of color to get involved.

Gender stereotypes - lack of father engagement and potentials for expanding the landscape of family-school partnership - diversity of how parents can participate in addition to traditional defaults e.g. bakery sales.

Racial injustice is systemically designed

lillianchang79 — 2024-02-20 14:16:52 UTC

Historical truths

Policies

So if the truths can't be told, how can we start to move towards racial justice

Deficit-based framing

lillianchang79 — 2024-02-20 14:24:42 UTC

Why is it that teachers and school leaders communications with African American parents always starting with "absence", "low performances"?

Why are teachers assuming that these parents "just don't care", when in reality they are struggling in many ways, or showing their care for kids schooling in different ways?

Critical Race Theory and Radical solutions?

lillianchang79 — 2024-02-20 14:25:25 UTC

Historical heritage of racial injustice is so engrained and powerful, and it seems that we need radical solutions in education system to turn it around. But changes can't happen if 1) power to change are held by people who resist it 2) radical changes may bring backfire, as shown by what happened after Brown and almost every little movement 3) the current generation will suffer and sacrifice for future generation to benefit from the radical changes, and people are generally not inclined to do that.

Can change happen in the future if it is not built on incremental changes happening now?

Paternity cop-out

lillianchang79 — 2024-02-20 14:51:29 UTC

The education system and adults in general are saying, kids are too young to know about sex, LGBTQ issues, religion, or Critical Race Theory.

What kind of protection is really developmentally solid?

What topics do you introduce at what age? How do you introduce?

Access differences...

Are we just epistemically lazy and arrogant to figure out HOW to introduce "complex topics" to kids?

How many times do we tell kids:"this is an adult conversation, stop asking questions", and turn our curious kids away for asking a question that we can't answer?

The adult world is figuring out answers to many important topics, and have limited capacity or willingness to include children in the dialogues.

Reggio Emilia: Children hold a hundred languages and boundless potentialities.

Cartoons or conversations

lillianchang79 — 2024-02-20 14:57:42 UTC

Article on how CoCoMelon is overstimulating for kids' brain, and creates an addiction for kids.

So we are exposing kids to over-flow of technology-based information with not a concern, while "worrying" whether kids will be able to handle a conversation about real life.

You can be expose kids to much information about "the right beliefs" in today's tech world, but can't embody it in real life interactions. Indoctrination and education are not the same.

It is really disrespectful to see kids only transmitters of "knowledge and information" that adults decide on, taking away their chance to pursue of their own journeys of asking questions and seeking for answers.