11/12/2023 0 Comments Eau claire leader telegram![]() And if educators were forced to disclose a student’s private information, LGBTQ+ students would feel unsafe to confide in them. Testing requirements take instructional time away from teachers. State-imposed spending caps leave many Eau Claire students without the resources they need and place an unfair burden on local taxpayers who are already struggling, through no fault of the district’s. Every time adults bicker over transgender students’ right to be themselves as they learn and play, or queer students’ right to build trusting relationships with their peers and their teachers, we send a harrowing message to those kids: your freedom is up for debate.īad policies have consequences. It’s time for a serious collective reflection on how we talk about students, families and public schools. They have been squeezed into the middle of petty squabbles about their very humanity. They have seen and heard arguments over the legitimacy of their identities, while political actors and media outlets propelled those arguments to a national platform. We have a moral responsibility to build and defend a public education system in which every student thrives - one built on community and dignity, that values educators and supports them as they continually improve their craft, and that closes the shameful opportunity gaps facing students of color, students in poverty, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, and others.īut, overshadowing any good-faith discussions about how to achieve this, LGBTQ+ students in our community have watched adults debate whether they should feel safe to confide in their teachers. Over the course of our spring elections, particularly in school board races, we exposed Eau Claire area kids to dangerous and disgraceful conversations. They’re kids now, and they can hear what we’ve been saying about them. Students in our public schools won’t get a do-over at being kids. Read this column from our digital organizer Christian Phelps, published in the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram on Friday, April 15, 2022, here. ![]()
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