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No Teacher But A Grade?
We as educators are expected to agree with, participate in and be accomplices to wrong, unethical and immoral actions for crumbs inside of these educational institutions.
Our students don’t have a Social Science teacher or a Science teacher so they are doubled up in other classrooms with ELA and MATH teachers minus those subjects.
The teacher Mr. Gerald Harris quit.
It is difficult to teach when the students are allowed to rule the school, have no accountability, not held responsibility for their actions and excuses are made for them as to why they are defiant, disobedient, rude, uncivilized and lawless and our only solution is to put them into the criminal justice system.
We are expected to criminalize them, vilify them and hold them accountable for the lawlessness we allow? That just does not make any sense and isn’t cool to me as a BLACK educator.
The school has given students more power on the home and schools to only be harshly criminalized, vilified as we are expected to push these brilliant bright black babies through these schools unprepared, unable, weak minded, incompetent, ignorant and illiterate.
When we Black educators come into the school, we come with a DIFFERENT set of morals, standards, expectations, demands, ways, systems and work ethics.
We come with A grade in EVERY level of education to produce not only highly and proven scholars but ripe citizens.
We dismantle the school to prison pipeline
We decrease drop out rates
We demand accuracy
We expect superior work
We make sure that our babies are well aware that they are expected to either: Enlist, Enroll, Employ, Explore or Entrepreneur; THEY HAVE A CAREER IN EITHER OR.
To have a heart as big as yours.
To be as attentive as you have always been.
To be selfless at time when it seems unappreciated.
To know life is bigger than you and what you have and don’t have.
To pour the love into your grandchildren the way you have.
To demand that they become respectful, kind and hard working young men.
To show up in your way.
To be the foundation upon which they stand.
To demand excellence, superiority, honesty, ethics, morals and confidence.
To build mentally strong young men.
To stay on top of the boys at all times.
To be love, show love and express love your unconventional way.
To be the epitome of every BLACK teacher that produced strong, resilient, capable, competent, ripe young people.
To be impactful and influential in the lives of our future and the success of our brilliant babies is the ultimate goal of Black educators.
To set and create the atmosphere and lead our children into thriving, ripe, confident, superior leaders of tomorrow, we shift their trajectory.
“Black teachers have this collective experiences & historical memory to articulate to Black children and others what and why to help the navigate this society in ways that empower them not to accept the society that will be passed to them.” Rann Miller
BLACK educators have always been GRADE A. It is NOT normal that our children are this violent, disengaged, disrespectful and malicious.
What is the root? IT IS IN EDUCATION. Black teachers understand that we not only teach academics but civil, manners and we pick up where home should have. We equip our future to be civil, lawful and assets and it appears this is NOT what education is about today.
Attitude
Advancement
Assurance
Attendance
Appreciation
Attire
Achievement
Athleticism
Accountability
Ability
Accomplishments
BLACK EDUCATORS UNDERSTAND THAT:
When we exude pride
When we exude confidence
When we exude our reality
When we exude truth
When we exude high self esteem
When we exude dominance
When we exude Joy
When we exude clarity
When we exude ownership
When we exude competence
When we exude mental strength
When we exude know how
When we exude know when
When we exude know what
When we achieve
When we advance
When…….
Yet, it is For a check, I must see the opposite of those things.
To feed our family
To maintain employment
WE ARE EXPECTED TO DO THE UNTHINKABLE, IMMORAL, UNJUST, UNETHICAL AND THINGS THAT WE KNOW IS FAILING, HURTING AND DESTORYING OUR FUTURE AND IT SHOULD END.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES, THE THOUGHTLESS DECISIONS OUR CHILDREN ARE MAKING IS A DIRECT CORRELATION OF WHAT IS NOT GOING ON WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS AND THAT IS EDUCATION, CRITICAL THINKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from ‘audio-visual aids’ – flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” Marva Collins
In Preschool we earned E’s for EXCELLENCE and when we got the teachers we needed we understood that those E’s were more of a foundation of our learning because Education was extracting what we had within.
Our BLACK educators maximized our strengths and turned our weaknesses and ignorance into intellectualism and we walked away understanding that we will and should be:
Encouraged
Earnest
Early
Elegant
Empowered
Eager
Employable
Empathetic
Eclectic
Exciting
Ecstatic
Elaborate
Enthusiastic
Enlightened
Extraordinary
Energized
Exuberant
Equipped
Edified
Eligible
Enamoured
Enterprising
Educated
Effectual
Enlivened
Entertaining
Exceptional
Eloquent
Eventful
Efficient
Entrepreneurial
Entrancing
Enjoyable
Expectant
Equitable
Essential
Eternal
Etheraeal
Enriching
