Substitute Teachers Matter(c)

 Substitute Teachers Matter 

America’s educational system has a variety of interdependent components. In the classroom the role of the educator is extremely significant from assisting students in their academic goals to being there for social and emotional growth .

Quite often the role of the substitute teacher is often overlooked and diminished. Far too many parents, administrators and students view our role as insignificant and not that crucial to the education of a student as their primary educator.

For too long the substitute teacher has been marginalized. For many substitute teachers the compensation is meager and our academic expertise is discounted and even ridiculed in some educational venues .

In many school districts substitute teachers are rarely consulted by administrators for opinions on pedagogy ideas. Teacher training programs which seek to enhance the academic credentials and classroom skills of teachers and educators are nonexistent in school systems for substitute teachers.

Many school principals and department heads don’t invite substitutes to training sessions inside and outside the school buildings. Substitute teachers are too often viewed as ‘baby sitters’ from administrators to parents to students and even full time teachers.

When the issues of diversity and staffing are present Black substitute teachers like myself and others are rarely observe in many school buildings across the country.

Recently I experienced with other substitute teachers  a social network threat that targeted schools on the anniversary of a horrific school shooting in America, substitute teachers were not even put on notice nor aware of the threat from school administrators or teachers unions. We were vulnerable and imperil and no one cared from administrators to teacher’s unions.

Substitute teachers are critical assets in any academic and educational equation in both public and private educational institutions in America.

We have transformative academic and educational capital that continues to be underutilized and underdeveloped in our schools.

I proposed this reality has to end in our school systems in America. This is a public service announcement  so do pay attention

BLM Forever

 BLM has been in America since Slavery and I expect it will continue to be a movement as long as America exists

BLM is an unapologetic siren and declaration that our existence has essence . It genius is in its simplicity Every Black human being on this planet has an essence . BLM is a foundation to weather the slings and arrows and misfortunes of life with the knowledge that one’s singular life matters This profound belief has carried Black Americans through unbearable situations and the depths of inhumanity that no words could ever articulate U Matter….. Black people… U always have and U always will Greg/BLM

DEFUND the POLICE

DEFUND the POLICE

The police in America forever have underperformed especially in communities that don’t share the hue of the majority of police in our nation. Defund does not mean eliminate

The police have exaggerated not only their performance but they have also failed in providing basic ‘law and order’ and to ‘protect and serve ‘functions of late they are good at ‘aim and fire’

The politicians who leverage the outsize role of police used them as campaign fodder to buttress their tiresome dogma about law and order. Academia offers up unproven theories that never make it off the campus

The police unions extort taxpayers with threats of strikes and non compliance with basic investigative and forensic best practices

Media platforms provide the public with curated scripted propaganda about crime waves and the increasing violence in America when in fact crime has been down for decades and the overwhelming majority of citizens even in tough urban venues are not criminals nor provide safe harbor for criminals

The police it is true and factual rarely execute citizens without cause but they do engage in endless acts of brutality, intimidation and incivility towards the very people they claim to ‘protect and serve ‘

To observe so many now wage this insane attack on the messaging of police reforms is truly unacceptable and outrageous .

Yes let’s Defund failed police departments unable to harness crime ... Yes let’s Defund police departments that violate our privacy with unlawful surveillance and racial profiling…Yes let’s Defund police departments that are not accountable nor create processes that pursue ‘best employment practices’ .. Yes let’s Defund police departments that recruit’ failures from other police departments

The police in America have failed us and continue to fail Americans…. DEFUNDING the police is just the opening salvo to reform and improving the quality of policing in America

BLM