I think what you're saying on a personal level is true, but totally different than an institutional failure to educate children. For them, being in a failing school does offer them lessons, but maybe not ones we want to offer them.
Maria, I resonate with all of this so deeply! As a musician and someone that grew up queer in a conservative and highly religious home, it's a battle every day to let my hope not be ashamed. This is such an important conversation, thank you for calling it out!
I think what you're saying on a personal level is true, but totally different than an institutional failure to educate children. For them, being in a failing school does offer them lessons, but maybe not ones we want to offer them.
Oh for sure — I don't mean to suggest individualized spiritual bootstrapping at all, and definitely not to collective problems.
Maria, I resonate with all of this so deeply! As a musician and someone that grew up queer in a conservative and highly religious home, it's a battle every day to let my hope not be ashamed. This is such an important conversation, thank you for calling it out!