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I’d like to know if an editor asked Bari Weiss about this paragraph in her own piece that contradicts her entire premise. /1 pic.twitter.com/DaNUOzyogt — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 9, 2018 Bari Weiss has been writing the same “I’m silenced” essay for a long time, joined by a huge range of rich, powerful, connected, …
A Texas principal joked to her staff that the next time a black disabled child tried to leave the school grounds, she’d call the cops and tell them he had a gun. NEW at Pacific Standard “Swearingen’s “joke,” if that’s what it was, tells a story about the state-sanctioned killing of one of her students. …
Surveillance capitalist ed tech sells surveillance pedagogy. Fear and surveillance is no way to teach. https://t.co/o9C7tihu2l — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) May 7, 2018 Don’t spy on your students. Build pedagogical approaches premised on trust and respect. Maximize the best practices rather than letting potential bad actors frighten you into building your teaching approaches around …
Did you know it’s legal for companies to pay people with disabilities pennies on the dollar for doing the same job as a worker without a disability? It’s a discriminatory practice – and I’m working to eliminate it. https://t.co/KiFnq7OIS3 — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 1, 2018 It’s been exciting to see major senators, especially in …
News from the labor front, my latest at Pacific Standard. As the threat to strike grew, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey promised a hefty 20 percent raise for all teachers by 2020 (which would still leave the state’s teachers far below the national average). Rather than generate new revenue to cover the cost, though, Ducey, as …
My latest – on the arrest of a man with Down syndrome and the campaign to #AbolishICE “Juan Gaspar-García, a 22-year-old man with Down syndrome, came to this country from Guatemala the year after his mother died. He was 14 at the time, and his father and siblings were in Florida. From the outside, it …
“While we do need law enforcement to try and stop the next terrorist act; long-term, it’s well past time to think structurally.” My latest on Toronto, Waffle House, and Georgia Nazis for Pacific Standard
The “Autism cure” industry harms kids and uses ableism to fuel their grift. Case in point: Smits, the creator of CEASE therapy, wrote in his book that “all kinds of detoxification reactions may occur” as a result of the treatment. Most common is fever, he said, which “should not be treated with medication, as it …
Eugene Grant reacts to the death of this actor with dwarfism: I hate the character Mini-Me – the replica, the biddable pet, the victim of violence made to appear funny. But I was moved and saddened to hear of Verne Troyer’s passing and to learn more about his struggles. I am thinking of those who …
Ethan Saylor case settled for 1.9 million dollars. Off-duty deputies murdered the young man with Down syndrome in January 2013.