It is saddening and disheartening to see all of the recent attacks that have occurred against innocent African-American lives. Stopping these unlawful and quite frankly disgusting attacks is one of the reasons why there are a lot movements started in the first place. However, some experts believe that for black lives to matter in the extent the movement wants, black education should be considered as a matter of undoubted importance as well.
It could be a piece of news that is quite easy to overlook, says the Washington Post, but it should not. The annual conference of Save Our Schools is being held just a few days after multiple bouts of fatal shootings all across America. The conference consists of "a coalition of educators, parents, students and concerned citizens fighting against corporate school reform and for the health of America's public education system." Hopefully, these people can think of ways to improve the state of America's educational system.
A primary problem in today's schooling is that schools in America are starting to become just as segregated or even more so than they were back in the 1960's. Luckily, these types of movements have regularly been putting pressure on legislators and policy makes to put more of an emphasis on the equality of education instead of just improving its state for the middle and upper, predominantly white socioeconomic classes. Experts believe that equality in education can lead to equality in society as well.
The Twitter "undercoverBAT" of the "Badass Teachers Association," which is a group of thousands of teachers, who are highly against reform, recently came out with a very powerful statement. "For black lives to matter, black #education has to matter," they tweeted. These teachers are looking towards the Save Our Schools conference to make black lives matter by making their education matter too.
