At the peak of the Teacher Revolt in 2018, educator Tina Bojanowski ran for a seat in the Kentucky legislature and won. She was re-elected in 2020. She is a teacher in the public schools of Jefferson County (Louisville).
In this video, she explains to her fellow legislators that their efforts to ban “critical race theory” are nonsensical. There are real problems to be addressed, like youth suicide, gun violence, and COVID.
She surveyed her colleagues and found that they were confused about what they were allowed to teach to comply with the law’s requirement that they must avoid any mention of racial superiority or anything that would make students uncomfortable. One teacher asked how she could teach about World War 2 without mentioning Hitler’s claims of Aryan superiority. Another said that history includes many actions that might make students uncomfortable.
Her brief statement illustrates the value of having working educators in the state legislature and the folly of state legislatures passing laws mandating what teachers are not allowed to teach.
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The notion of educating to avoid discomfort is absurd. Lots of things in life are uncomfortable, and these discomforts are the things that sometimes make or break us. My ELLs were “fish out of water.” They were highly uncomfortable!. it was my job to give them the lessons that would allow them to swim.
The right often accuses the left of being “snowflakes,” but it is the right that is pushing legislation based individual perceptions of slight or wrong. If wearing a mask in a pandemic is burdensome, try to imagine how difficult it will be placed in a coffin for eternity.
Anti-CRT is nonsense to rile up the right before the midterms. Guns, drugs, climate change and voting rights are all far more important than the distraction of “CRT.” It is important for educators to get into politics. State legislatures often pass unreasonable laws in a vacuum. Ms. Bojanowski can help provide her fellow representatives a dose of reality.
Diane, I am so grateful for your emails! I get so many emails that I just send to the trash because I’m not willing to waste time online. But I check each and every one of yours to determine if I want to read more and most of the time, I do. They can be upbeat or not, but they are always pertinent to the ongoing debate about how we want to go forward as a country if we are to fulfill the promise of democratic government and, necessarily, an informed citizenry. You are truly a national treasure, Diane! Sending love and appreciation, Carole
She pretty much nails the conservative catfish to the tree. Other than the sound of the katydids so natural in my part of the south this time of each summer evening, I can hear no response from the distant right.
Ms Tina knows what is going on. Those laws are just a diversion. You go git’m girl!
“anything that would make students uncomfortable”
Most of learning makes us feel uncomfortable: math formulas, physical laws, DNA, periodic table, grammatical rules, Spartacus, wars, kings, and the art of teaching is to make the kids feel that it’s worthwhile to move out of one’s comfort zone.
Also, feeling uncomfortable makes us appreciate the comfort we have more or crave for what makes our live more harmonious.