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https://theconversation.com/how-literature-teachers-can-create-anti-racist-classrooms-224890

How literature teachers can create anti-racist classrooms

This whole article is   and it's almost impossible to highlight all the absurdities, but I'll just leave this one here to tempt you into clicking through.

Defining student success
While dominant understanding of the purpose of education tends to measure student success based on academic grades and transferable career skills, it is important to view student success as intimately related to self-expression and fostering community.

The scholar and educator bell hooks reminds us that classrooms are spaces of radical possibility that can create space for student joy and freedom. Student success then translates into creating environments where students can realize their passions and work towards possibilities of self expression and collaborative expression.

There's a video too. I couldn't watch more than a few seconds before it irritated me into closing it. Maybe you can stomach this ideological bullshit, but I can't. 



Just teach the material that's going to give kids the best education and opportunities to be gainfully employed you arseholes. Fuck your ideological bullshit.