. Having privilege does not mean that an individual is immune to life’s hardships, but it does mean having an unearned benefit or advantage one receives in society by nature of their identit
Poor white people often make the comment that they don't benefit from white privilege as evidence by the fact that they are poor or are disadvantaged in some other way. Privilege isn't about being given a head start, its about not being in the race at all.
"The details of the strategies may be different, but during the '60s and '70s, when the desegregation cases were at their height, cases were all over the country."
There seems to be a misconception that only the South struggled with integration in schools.
Support Students Who Come Out
Coming out is very scary and intimidating so any teacher should feel honored if a student comes out to them.
“So much of our language is gendered in ways that we’re not really thoughtful
I often catch myself referring to a person who's gender I am not aware of with male pronouns. Like if someone cuts me off in traffic, almost always I will say "look at this guy!" to whoever is in the car with me.
Q = Queer
I have also seen some people who say this stands for "questioning", as in people who are unsure of their sexuality.
“It’s always helpful to have a shared language when you’re talking about identity,”
Equipping yourself with the right vocabulary is a great way to have productive, meaningful conversations.
85 percent of these students have experienced verbal harassment and 66 percent have been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
This is especially sad remembering that these are literal children reporting this.
Toxic stress experienced by women during pregnancy can negatively affect genetic “programming” during fetal development, which can contribute to a host of bad outcomes, sometimes much later in life.
I believe there is evidence to show that trauma can be passed down for multiple generations. For example, if my grandpa was bitten by a dog when he was young, and he passes his fear to his kids, who then pass it to their kids, despite the fact that the subsequent generations did not personally experience the truama
alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, suicide, poor physical health, and obesity. There is also some evidence that ACEs are linked to lower educational attainment, unemployment, and poverty.6
This tends to be a generational cycle- one generation experiences trauma, which causes them to not only pass down their trauma, but contribute to the trauma their kids inherit, It can be a very difficult cycle to break
Hispanic children. In every region, the prevalence of ACEs is lowest among Asian non-Hispanic children and, in most regions, is highest among black non-Hispanic children.
I'd be really interested to see the data from 2022- I wonder if these groups experienced a spike in ACEs since 2020
highest prevalence,
I'm curious about what circumstances resulted in Arkansas having the highest prevalence of ACEs amongst our children.