What happens when we defund belonging in schools? The silent casualties tell the story.
When I was six years old, I learned I didn’t belong. Not because of anything I had done, but because of who I was. It was the first day of school in Galveston, Texas in 1961. I was a little Black girl in a pretty new dress, clutching my school supplies and walking proudly beside my grandmother. I had no reason to expect anything but excitement. School was supposed to be the beginning of something magical. Instead, it became the […]