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Life is about compromises.
For a very long time in America, education emphasized the three “Rs” — reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. These days, such priorities are problematic.
The federal education apparatus now appears aimed at creating citizens with a proper worldview — “school” is a training ground for ideology rather than academics. And an establishment in California is serving its purpose impressively.
San Leandro High School sits on the cutting edge of wokeness: It hosts a “Social Justice Academy.”
Per the public institution’s website:
The Social Justice Academy (SJA) provides 10th to 12th-grade students with a forum to become the catalysts of social, political, and environmental change. The mission of the Social Justice Academy is to empower students to make positive changes in their communities. We intend to improve San Leandro, and to develop civic-minded leaders and lifelong learners who can be drawn on as a valuable source of active citizenship to support growth in San Leandro.
For details on that improvement, here’s SLSJA.org:
SJA educators and scholars build a critical, intersectional consciousness that challenges traditional educational curriculum, standards, and pedagogy.
- Challenge and criticize power, oppression, capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, and xenophobia on the internal, interpersonal, institutional, and ideological levels.
Do the students…or teachers…or administrators know the definition of capitalism? Are they aware it’s a system based on a free-market economy in which an individual may own his or her own business? Do they truly insist that their own abilities to start businesses be forcefully taken by politicians?
Whatever the case, they’re protecting the marginalized:
SJA educators and scholars cultivate a familial structure that values holistic humanization, compassion, community cultural wealth, and critical and radical love and hope.
- Center the communities that have been marginalized.
- Understand personal, collective, and generational experiences, trauma, and resilience.
- Cultivate compassion and move towards healing.
- Utilize a restorative justice framework that allows students to thrive, heal, and build resilience.
