Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Back to School in the time of COVID-19; 21 Days from Election
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Back to School in the time of COVID-19; 21 Days from Election
As Miami’s education professionals, including teachers, district staff and security personnel, our colleagues in United Teachers of Dade take our role as education advocates seriously when issues arise that threaten the well-being of our community. Since the COVID-19 pandemic took root in the United States, we have been advocating non-stop for a science-based public policy approach guided by medical experts and data.
If that sounds like high-minded jargon, what that simply means is that our goal is to save lives through safeguarding health. We are concerned about our students and our own children since we do not know the long-term impact of this “novel” (meaning “new”) virus, and we see the short-term devastation on our elders, the medically fragile and even on strong, able-bodied athletes throughout the country.
On This Day in History: On Oct. 13, 1792, the White House cornerstone was laid.
How many students learn in textbooks or tours to D.C. that while the Obamas were the first African American “First Family,” they were not the first African American residents of the White House?
Enslaved laborers were likely involved in all aspects of White House “construction, including carpentry, masonry, carting, rafting, plastering, glazing and painting, . . .and shouldered alone the grueling work of sawing logs and stones.”
More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. These presidents bought, sold, and bred enslaved people for profit. Of the 12 presidents who were enslavers, more than half kept people in bondage at the White House.
Constructed in part by black slave labor, the home and office of the president of the United States has embodied different principles for different people. For whites, whose social privileges and political rights have been protected by the laws of the land, the White House has symbolized the power of freedom and democracy over monarchy. For blacks, whose history is rooted in slavery and the struggle against white domination.
View all episodes
By United Teachers of DadeAs Miami’s education professionals, including teachers, district staff and security personnel, our colleagues in United Teachers of Dade take our role as education advocates seriously when issues arise that threaten the well-being of our community. Since the COVID-19 pandemic took root in the United States, we have been advocating non-stop for a science-based public policy approach guided by medical experts and data.
If that sounds like high-minded jargon, what that simply means is that our goal is to save lives through safeguarding health. We are concerned about our students and our own children since we do not know the long-term impact of this “novel” (meaning “new”) virus, and we see the short-term devastation on our elders, the medically fragile and even on strong, able-bodied athletes throughout the country.
On This Day in History: On Oct. 13, 1792, the White House cornerstone was laid.
How many students learn in textbooks or tours to D.C. that while the Obamas were the first African American “First Family,” they were not the first African American residents of the White House?
Enslaved laborers were likely involved in all aspects of White House “construction, including carpentry, masonry, carting, rafting, plastering, glazing and painting, . . .and shouldered alone the grueling work of sawing logs and stones.”
More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. These presidents bought, sold, and bred enslaved people for profit. Of the 12 presidents who were enslavers, more than half kept people in bondage at the White House.
Constructed in part by black slave labor, the home and office of the president of the United States has embodied different principles for different people. For whites, whose social privileges and political rights have been protected by the laws of the land, the White House has symbolized the power of freedom and democracy over monarchy. For blacks, whose history is rooted in slavery and the struggle against white domination.