Last year, the office of US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy wrote a nearly 30 page health advisory about the mental health issue of parental stress. Anna, a White parent in Phoenix, who also serves on the leadership team at IS, shares her thoughts about the advisory and how it relates to integration.
The problem, of course, is school segregation. And in 2024, fully seventy years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separate is inherently unequal and that segregation itself is unconstitutional, it is a problem we all still live with.
White mom, Emily Moores, reflects on the parallels between tending to a garden and tending to the relationships necessary to participate in meaningful integration and living in true community.
Though getting to know a global-majority school through a tour or some other approach is valuable, it’s not sufficient to our commitment to integrate schools. It’s also about showing up in a way that honors the existing families and rich cultures that already exist at the schools we choose.
