Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.

Definition: "Relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities."

Chapter 3 of the Ethnic Studies Document compromises the "Conceptualize" principle because this ethnic studies proposal get students talking, engaging, and empowering students, but I did not read one thing in Chapter 3 about conceptualizing the future. "Imagine, and build new possibilities for post-imperial life that promotes collective narratives of transformative resistance, critical hope, and radical healing"

Understanding how race and ethnicity impacts society should be an essential core component of every students’ K–12 education experience.

Having students research a challenge facing their community; engagement with local elected officials, advocates, and community members; structured debate; simulations of government; or service learning are all citizenship-oriented skills that are best developed in a classroom where students are able to exercise their agency.

This definitely hasn't been the norm for supporting. In reality, when people of color organize and protest their government officials/people in power they are portrayed as violent and angry and they are quickly dismissed by those in power. Like the Black Panther Party showing up to the capital in CA with guns to support their 2nd Amendment right

underscores one of the four important instructional shifts––citizenship, which is needed to prepare all members of American society, regardless of citizenship status, to become civically engaged in our democratic society.

We have failed our students with regard to history and preparing them to be active citizens in society. (A reading about this)

Ethnic studies educators democratize their classrooms by creating a learning environment where both students and teachers are equal active participants in co-constructing knowledge. This enables students to be recognized and valued as knowledge producers alongside their educators, while simultaneously placing an emphasis on the development of democratic values and collegiality

This approach of ensuring that students critically investigate and interrogate content is paramount to ethnic studies courses.

But it shouldn't be just focused on ethnic studies, it should apply to all subjects of teaching.

This approach is inherently student-centered and helps democratize the classroom by allowing students to help pursue their own questions and shape their education.

Students should be exposed to a variety of primary and secondary sources, learn how to process multiple and often competing sources of information, form and defend their own evidence-based analyses, and understand how to appropriately contextualize and evaluate sources of information by bringing them into conversation with other texts, significant events, people, theories, and ideas.

Shouldn't U.S. History be taught this way as well? Why is there such a push to stop such teachings in history classes?

Students need to see themselves represented as empowered individuals and experience a diverse range of complex stories to help them understand themselves, as individuals and as members of group identity, and the lived experiences of others different from them.

Students absolutely need to see themselves represented as empowered individuals in all classrooms, not just ethnic studies.

It is important to recognize that all teachers, whatever their backgrounds, have strong knowledge of their own personal and cultural experiences and knowledge to gain about the historical and current lived experiences of other groups.

Recognize that ALL students as well have strong knowledge.

it is important that ethnic studies educators are aware of how their own identities, implicit biases, and cultural awareness may impact ethnic studies teaching and learning.

Not just ethnic studies teachers, but ALL teachers.

Relevance- Ethnic studies provides students with an education that is both culturally and community relevant.

Why is only ethnic studies culturally and community relevant and not other subjects of study?

This shows how ethnic studies can be adapted and used in different educational studies like Math.

I believe this is an important point to make. When we base success around standardized test taking, there leaves little room, if any at all, for ethnic studies. It highlights how those in power believe ethnic studies is not important enough to learn and study about with regard to standardized testing

Ethnic identity linked with academic identity is crucial. School has little meaning if students are being taught that people like them are incapable and unimportant.

This is an example of how a person in a position of power opposes ethnic studies because they think that "it has a very toxic effect" that promotes victimhood.

I like how this statement talks about how ethnic studies benefits everyone who learns from it, not just students of color but white students as well. "valuing their own cultural identity while appreciating the differences around them.