“We still need to offer more to our children than educational factories with the equivalent of terrible working conditions. We need to offer them a place to really flourish–every one of them.” SchoolEducationSchoolingUnschoolingStandardized TestingSudbury Schools Book:Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children
“The white middle-class kids were looking forward to high school, academically and socially. The black kids and the white working-class kids had mixed feelings about the transition. For them high school meant an end to the one big happy family they had experienced in their grammar school. Because these students were a minority, they spent some time hanging out within their groups, building identity, and part of the time with the majority kids, building bridges. In high school, though, as they had heard from older siblings and friends, the black kids hung out with the black kids, the Asian kids with the Asian kids, and so on. There were big enough groups in each of these categories that identity politics often took precedence over friendship. Friendships across those lines weren’t impossible, but they were much harder.” ChildrenSchoolFriendshipIdentityDiversityInclusionDeiCross Cultural Friendship Book:Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children Source: Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children