by Courtney Mykytyn | Dec 15, 2016 | news, our stories, race
(a few months old… but I just saw it, so…) From a teacher’s POV… And Katherine Meeks marks the difference between her two experiences as defined by integration (or lack thereof) — not good staff/bad staff, good kids/bad kids, etc etc...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Dec 12, 2016 | news, race
More meetings ahead for our Chicago Ogden-Jenner parents…Looking at another year and a half before the merger could go through… keep up the good fight Lori and Rebecca, et. al!!!!...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Dec 12, 2016 | our stories, race
Lest anyone imagine that our school integration story has been smooth, that my offspring are always on board and willing, that all this talk about awareness and multi-racial/classial friendships has been easy, today my son came home and told that he doesn’t want to go to school there anymore.
by Courtney Mykytyn | Dec 1, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race, social justice
This is a beautiful essay. This part especially got me: “When we start comparing predominantly white communities to communities of color, I want to help people start to change the narrative from “better”… to different.” She’s right. The way we talk about schools...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Nov 30, 2016 | news, race, social justice
From his blog GreatSchoolVoices.org based out of Oakland, CA… “The basics of desegregation are simple. It just takes will.”
by Courtney Mykytyn | Nov 17, 2016 | our stories, race, social justice
by Kelly Bare Many of us are still in shock: How could so many Americans know the hurtful, unacceptable things Donald Trump has said about and done to other human beings — not to mention the outright bigotry his campaign failed to thoroughly disavow — and vote for him...
