I've spent a lot of time inside classrooms of very poor schools, including working with well-resourced parents like @nhannahjones.bsky.social who opted for those schools out of social obligation. Her experience - and agony - is common and wrenching. She's just one of (very few) willing to be honest.
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
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@toni.bsky.team saw the accessibility comment someone left on your blog post and opened: github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/iss…
Drafts are causing usability issues for visually impaired users · Issue #10035 · bluesky-social/social-app
github.comI wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks: writings.thisismissem.social/how-standards-are-made/
How Standards Are Made
writings.thisismissem.socialPresented our work on how friendship muda lets the expression of hierarchy in cooperation for elementary school children on the lighting talks at #ic2s2 #ic2s22026 @ic2s2.bsky.social today!
