TEACHER CERTIFICATIONS
TEACHER LICENSES
TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVE.LOPMENT
TEACHER MENTORS
TEACHER RESIDENCY
ISN’T IT FUNNY HOW OUR TEACHERS OF OLD DIDN’T HAVE OR NEED ALL OF THAT AND PRODUCES SCHOLASTICALLY ASTUTE STUDENTS?
BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL PROGRAMS
CHARACTER PLUS PROGRAM
INTEGRITY IS DOING GOOD AND RIGHT IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC.
WHY ARE THESE CELEBRATED, HIHGLY HONORED AND REGARDED SCHOOLS SILENT ON THE CONTENT OF WHITE AMERICA’S CHARACTER?
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ONCE SAID, “WE MUST REMEMBR THAT INETLLIGENCE IS NOT ENOUGH (COLLEGE SCANDAL, “ELITE” SCHOOLS PRESERVED FOR AFFLUENT WHITES, PRIVATE SCHOOLS SET UP FOR WHITES ONLY). INTELLIGENCE PLUS CHARACTER-THAT IS THE GOAL OF TRUE EDUCATION.”
CHARACTER PLUS AND CHARACTER COUNT PROGRAMS ARE INDEED A JOKE.
WE GREW UP IN HOMES WHERE OUR PARENTS EXPECTED AND DEMANDED US TO BE MORAL, JUST, CARING, SUPPORTIVE, GIFTED, TALENTED, SKILLFUL, GOOD CITIZENS, RESPECT FOR ALL, RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT WE DO AND DON’T DO, AND HOLD HIGH OUR BLACK VALUES, AND VILLAGE.
OUR PARENTS DEMANDED THAT WE HAD MANNERS AND UNDERSTOOD THAT WHEN WE WERE OUT, WE REPRESENTED THEM AND THE COMMUNITY AND THE CULTURE AND WE DID IT EXCEPTIONALLY.
WE WERE VILLAGE CHILDREN AND WERE EXPECTED TO BE STRONG MINDED AND THICK SKINNED.
OUR ANCESTORS TAUGHT US SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SKILLS THAT EQUIPPED US TO HEAD OUT INTO A WORLD WHO DIDN’T SEE, HONOR OR RESPECT OUR HUMANITY BUT IT WAS THE DIGNITY, MORALITY, STRENGTH AND CONFIDENCE WITHIN THE HOME, WE WERE PREPARED.
WHITES CAME IN AND CONVINCED US IT WAS ALL ABUSIVE, MISUSING US, TOXIC AND DISRESPECTFUL AND THEY SHOULD BE AUTONOMOUS AND MAKE DECISIONS OVER THEIR OWN LIVES, BODIES AND DIRECTIONS WHILE AMERICA HASN’T SHIFTED.
THEY FAILED US
THEY STRIPPED US
THEY ROBBED US
THEY HURT US
THEY HARMED US
THEY DENIED US
THEY LIED TO US
THEY ALLOW OUR CHILDREN OF COLOR TO SHOW UP ANY WAY, WE DEMANDED GOOD REPRESENTION
THEY ALLOW OUR CHILDREN TO SPEAK ANY WAY, WE DEMANDED GREAT DICTION
THEY ALLOW OUR CHILDREN TO THINK THEY DON’T HAVE TO PRODUCE, WE DEMANDED THAT THEY OVERPRODUCE
THEY ALLOW OUR CHILDREN TO BELIEVE THESE SAME LAWS THEY EMBODY WILL SOMEHOW BE THEIR REALITY AND THEY ARE LEARNING THE HARD WAY, IT IS NOT
WE EQUIPPED OUR CHILDREN
WE REPOSITIONED OUR CHILDREN
WE EMPOWERED OUR CHILDREN
WE UNDERSTAND OUR CHILDREN
WE BUILD UP OUR CHILDREN
WE LOVE OUR CHILDREN
WE ARE AN EXTENSION OF OUR CHILDREN
OUR CHILDREN IS AN EXTENSION OF US
WE MADE SURE THEY WERE ALWAYS:
SOCIALLY
EMOTIONALLY
SPIRITUALLY
INTELLECTUALLY
LITERARILY
SCHOLASTICALLY RIPE
NONE OF THESE WHITE TEACHERS EMBODY OUR BLACK LIVES, OUR BLACK DREAMS, OUR BLACK VISION, OUR BLACK GOALS, OUR BLACK POLITICS, OUR BLACK BRILLINCE, OUR BLACK RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIVING, JUSTICE AND PURSUIT TO HAPPINESS
THE HINDER IT
THEY STOP IT
THEY BLOCK IT
THEY END IT
THEY DETER IT
THEY DENY IT
THEY OMIT IT
THEY EXCLUDE IT
THEY ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN
THESE PROGRAMS OF SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND CULTURAL ENRICHMENT AREN’T LEGIT, THEY AREN’T EVEN IN OUR INNER CITY SCHOOLS
