At the May 20th Oak Park Village Board meeting, two competing documents arrived for the board’s approval. The Community Relations Commission provided an updated Oak Park Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement at the request of the board. And three board members -- Trustees Deno Andrews, Simone Boutet, and Dan Moroney -- shared their own updated…
Who is to blame for a school’s culture?
The May 15 article "Acting Out" in the Oak Park newspaper Wednesday Journal details the negative view that the teachers at Oak Park middle schools have of the climate at their schools. For the past 16 years, I have been an educator, including a teacher, assistant principal, and principal in Chicago and the suburbs. What…
Opening
This post was the first one I wrote for my new blog, Burning Down, Raising Up. We white people designed a capitalist machine that generates comfort and complacency for ourselves by consuming the bodies of Black people, exterminating Native people and raping their lands, and drawing power from the labor of Latinx, Asian, and other…
Entwining 