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Jill Bergeron

Private Schools Are Indefensible - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • if these children want to attend an elite college, their best bet by far is to spend their adolescence in a school where the experience of being Black is, for many, a painful one.
  • Among the posts from more recent students, what’s striking is that several kinds of experiences were related over and over: the expectation that Black kids would be excellent athletes (and possibly weaker students); insulting assumptions about Black students’ family backgrounds; teachers repeatedly confusing the names of Black students; other students constantly reaching out and touching Black girls’ hair; and non-Black students using the N‑word. Read collectively, these posts are a damning statement about the schools.
  • Private-school parents have become so terrified of being called out as racists that they will say nothing on the record about their feelings regarding their schools’ sudden embrace of new practices. They have chosen, instead, anonymous letters and press leaks.
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  • ‘Okay, we’re now welcoming you to the majority, where you should be’—with the white people, so to speak.” But “inherently within that, you are sacrificing who you are as a person—and it’s not like that would ever happen on the opposite end.” There had been costs to going to Spence. One of those, she now realizes, was “sacrificing my Blackness.”
  • The parents had demands of their own, including an immediate halt to curriculum changes.
  • Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is you are precious to us. Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is you are a threat to us.
  • Shouldn’t the schools that serve poor children be the very best schools we have?
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    "Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality-and then pretend to be engines of social change."
Scott Nancarrow

Girls with ADHD - 0 views

  • “I wish I had grown up hearing the following words of encouragement – the things all girls with ADHD need to hear to build their self-esteem and avoid viewing their symptoms as character flaws.”
  • A diagnosis as a child would have been incredible. But beyond that, I wish I had grown up hearing the following words of encouragement – the things all girls with ADHD need to hear to build their self-esteem and avoid viewing their symptoms as character flaws.
  • “You’ll need to stand up for yourself over and over. And that’s OK.”
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  • “We will stand up for you.”
  • “Accommodations are a legal entitlement, not a favor.”
  • “Other girls with ADHD need you as a friend.”
  • “Other people don’t decide your value.”
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