Are they afraid we won’t get it? Are they afraid we will see them as less than? Are they afraid that we have no flexible thinking?
A struggling teacher in Brooklyn
I teach a popular technology curriculum in two high schools, but I’m seriously looking to stop, because more and more, I’m finding that what I teach doesn’t resonate with enough of my students.
The sweet, eager student I have in 12th grade, who never owned so much as a flip phone, is getting a smart phone with a quasi-filter six months out of school. When I shared this with my principal in one school, she was incredulous, and I think still doubts I’m right. She wondered how it was possible that after all the chizuk and inspiring gatherings the girls seem to connect to that they could and would throw out so much — and so soon. As the one who coordinates many of these assemblies, I should be carrying more hurt, but instead I am carrying a fire to have realistic conversations and ask the one question nobody seems to be asking: Why? What changed?
Another principal I shared this with asked me, “Maybe we should bring in people who have been hurt by the Internet and social media to speak to the girls.” Personally, I do not think that is helpful.
Many of my students read the articles you ran, and when I taught them just a few days after Pesach, all they wanted was my opinion on the series.
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