When Schools Try to Erase Diversity, Parents Have To Make It Part Of The Curriculum

We teach our kids all kinds of things. How to tie their shoes. How to ride a bike. How to say “please” and “thank you.” How to swim. Parenting is an endless loop of lessons — many practical, some even silly. But then there are the big things, the ones that literally shape our kids’ humanity. We teach them to treat people with dignity and respect. We teach them that every person’s story matters. And when we send our kids to school, we hope those lessons will be reinforced in the classroom.Unfortunately, that’s not always the case.Teachers do so much, of course. We love and appreciate them for i