The Strange Case of Tracy Castro-Gill
For those who don't keep up here at the blog, I announced some time back (actually years in the making) that I would end blogging about Seattle Public Schools and focus on higher-level issues like so-called personalized learning, charter schools and student data privacy. (I will still have twice-weekly Open Threads for those who want to discuss the district or any other public education topic.)
I do want to highly recommend a recent story in the New York Times on race and how people who live in Hawaii think of it.
What follows here is an opinion piece with supporting data. The most important takeaway is not what has been happening to me but rather, what kind of behavior will this district allow vis a vis staff at JSCEE and in the schools. Because if vicious name-calling is the new normal, this district is in trouble.
This post is about the head of Ethnic Studies for Seattle Public Schools, Tracy Castro-Gill. She was formerly a teacher at Denny International Middle School.
She is many things. Bright and yet not a sophisticated thinker. Energetic and yet she thinks no one notices how hard she works in the district and whines about it. Sure of her stands and yet unwilling to consider that she just might CONTINUE READING: Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Strange Case of Tracy Castro-Gill