It’s a Trust Thing
Written by redqueeninla in LAUSD
My first Earful Of Schoolboard Member involved mapping ‘three critical things’ about education (at 9:21), the middle of which was that: “…we have a sacred bond of trust that is enacted every day at the schoolhouse gate…”
And I think this is very much true. When I pass along my child, I trust that s/he will be safe physically, and I trust that his/er mandate to learn will be safely protected as well.
The whole ipad debacle has shattered this myth.
These ipads have been sold to us as a matter of “civil rights”: that youngsters of impoverished circumstances must retain the same access to technology as their privileged counterparts, otherwise their civil rights will have been violated. That these devices are a critical pedagogical tool, without access to which constitutes a violation of civil rights.
But it isn’t true. The term civil rights is being coopted as an icon to obscure