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Articles by Lisa Arrastia
Are White Christian Nationalists Leading Children to Slaughter?
As I write this column on Wednesday 25 May, the death toll from the US's latest mass shooting, at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, has climbed to 21—19 children aged between eight and ten, and two adults.
An Unspeakable Crime
Four months ago, two days before the civilized world celebrated one year since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into force on January 22, officials here at the Kansas City National Security Campus hosted a virtual celebration of a different milestone with partners from across the National Nuclear Security Administration and U.S. Air Force. “With great pride and excitement,” they recognized the completion of the B61-12 bomb’s Life Extension Program’s first production unit.
An Expression of Love to Teachers
May 25, 2022 Dear Student-Colleagues, This is a note of fierce love for you. You have seen and experienced more in the last few years than anyone should experience in a lifetime; indeed, no one should ever experience any of . . .
Carta a los futuros maestros tras otro tiroteo masivo en las escuelas de Estados Unidos - El Salto - Edición General
Queridos estudiantes, queridos colegas, Esta es una nota de amor furioso para ustedes.
Letter to My Student Teachers on a Day of Yet Another School Mass Shooting in America Original
Dear Student-Colleagues, This is a note of fierce love for you. You have seen and experienced more in the last few years than anyone should experience in a lifetime; indeed, no one should ever experience any of . . .
Opinion | Letter to My Student Teachers on a Day of Yet Another School Mass Shooting in America
Opinion | Letter to My Student Teachers on a Day of Yet Another School Mass Shooting in America | Lisa Arrastia
Schools Can No Longer Be Our Social Safety Net
Last Wednesday, Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that if today’s cultural practices under COVID continue, the country is in for “the worst fall, from a public health perspective, we've ever had.” Will a country historically embedded in nationalism and relentless individualism listen? Will we all don the mask? In the few weeks before more schools reopen in person, consideration for our collective social welfare seems a chimeric dream.
Teaching Under Covid: NY School-Reopening Guidance Highlights the Need for a Radical, Uniform National Response to Covid-19
New York State’s “Recovering, Rebuilding, and Renewing: The Spirit of New York’s Schools,” a 145-page tome issued July 13, is a spirit-killer that begs the question, If these many guidelines are necessary, why are NYS schools—or any schools and colleges—reopening? The reopening considerations are manifold, and they will produce a logjam for school leaders immersed in a multitude of, ultimately, futile health matrices in the face of this super-virus.
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