We were asked to basically choose to be someone from this website. Then once we knew who we were we then commented on our classmates as the person we choose. The conversations that we were having were heartbreaking. I feel like everyone was in the same boat and didn't know anything that was about to be ahead. I wish there was more than we could have done and said. There were a lot of sad things going on. Especially those that are like me that had kids. Thank you for this amazing opportunity it was for sure a great way to look into something in someone else shoes.
1-Arguments against children’s literature are very unrealistic let’s be honest. When You hear something like “we can’t afford thirty or fort copies of something we don’t know.” Makes you as a district look like you don’t care. Brown Girl Dreaming is a book that children in our district are able to relate to and just because you don’t does mean it gives you the right to not allow it to be in the curriculum that we are teaching. I know many of my students have actually had personal connections to the book and that why I think it’s important to include this book in our school district. The second argument “No one around here knows anything about it. If it was really worth knowing we’d have heard about it.” with this argument I question you. Have you chosen not to know anything about it? The fact of this one is that the child that is learning this has had experience with it and heard about it. I think this is such an easy way to avoid teaching topics that our students may know more a...
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