Reflection: How We Treat Each Other?
As I reflect on the past two years, I am reminded about how we treat each other truly reflects who we are. In the past year, so much pain, disruptions, and loss have occurred but one thing should remain strong: How we treat each other in a manner that uplifts. Lately, I am wondering how this got lost for some and stronger for others. As someone once told me, how you treat someone is something they will never forget. Although we may forgive, most never forget. Because the byproduct of a bad interaction can last longer than we think. Its ripple effect can come to revisit, over and over again. So as we move into the late quarter of the year, I do hope we up our game in the following things: Empathy, Compassion, Communication Be Kind, and Be Presence.
I ready this study today and all I could say was this is SHAMEFUL! It's very disheartening to know that only 2% of high school seniors in 2010 could answer a simple question regarding the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision. A decision that impacts all schools today!
ReplyDeleteWhat really bothered me was the fact that the state I live in Pennsylvania received an F, and does not require any type of civil rights curriculum in it's state standards.
This made me wonder what history are we teaching students? Why are we still deliberately avoiding the issue of racism? Is it really that scary? What will be the impact of not discussing civil rights beyond Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks?
On a promising note-three states are making a conscious effort to ensure that we continue to review civil rights education in our schools:
Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
I am thankful I had two parents who were born and raised in the south (VA and SC) and that my mother and I often had conversations about civil rights, watched documentaries on it together, and shared books on the topic.
Hopefully things will change, otherwise, I think history may repeat itself.