Little Red School House

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Enjoy our first episode of a continuing series titled Truly Talented. Other than getting a chance to talk with talented and passionate people, we want to use this series as a political gateway for others. Also as educators we love to always be learning, especially about topics we aren't familiar with.

Today's guest, Eilea Given, is a Canadian Jump Rope Athlete (yes competitive jump rope is a sport!). Eilea has won many medals and titles and has recently been coaching jump rope to both skilled jump rope athletes and beginners alike. Please share your thoughts and feelings with us about today's episode.

Enjoy & Solidarity

John & Gord

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Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

Mina & Cassie, former guests from our "Challenges of Being Queer in Education" episode join us today as LRSH co-hosts to discuss Lies Teachers Tell. We talk about intentional lies in the form of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and lies of omission with quotes from Dr. King that are not taught in the classroom. We then discuss LRSH's plan to combat lies in the classroom -Brutally Honest Text Books. If you would like to join LRSH like Mina, Cassie, & Fernando have done please contact us. Our goal is to grow and empower our community. Solidarity! ----------------------------------------------------------------

Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

Fernando Valenzuela, a substitute teacher in Las Vegas, joins us to discuss the "Exploitation of Substitute Teachers" in schools around the country. Here is Fernando's Petition: https://www.change.org/p/superintendent-jesus-jara-give-substitute-teachers-at-ccsd-health-insurance-and-the-raise-they-deserve/dashboard?source_location=user_profile_started If you want to show your support or reach out to speak about the issue more thoroughly please email Fernando here: [email protected] Solidarity! ----------------------------------------------------------------

Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

Two amazing teachers, Mina and Cassie, share their own "Challenges of Being Queer in Education" on today's episode. We had a wonderful time talking with both - they stole the show! If you want to donate and support Mina you can at her GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/mina039s-transition-fund Solidarity! ----------------------------------------------------------------

Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

Hello, Little Red School House listeners!

We are excited to share that starting in January 2020, we will release a free episode of Little Red School House every Monday.

To allow us to keep up on this schedule, we're asking you to join our community - officially - by becoming a sponsoring patron through our Patreon page. --Even a dollar a month helps.

Your financial support will enable us to pay our guests for their time, improve our content, quality of recordings, and allow us to grow.

For now, please enjoy a sampling from our upcoming episodes.

Join us next Monday, January 6, for our next regularly scheduled episode in which we discuss the challenges of being queer in the education system with a special guest.

Happy New Year, listeners!

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Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

This week we are joined by Bashir Mohammed a journalist in Edmonton, Canada. Bashir tells us about an ongoing story concerning the racist and discriminatory treatment of a student, his mother, and to Bashir himself for daring to go public.

No matter the side of the border, we as educators must speak out against policies and behaviors that discriminate against people.

Thank you Bashir!

Solidarity!

If you want to help get justice for Emmell you can go here:

https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForEmmell/

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Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

After listening to our episode "Grades are Capitalism in Action," a former student from Jefferson County Open School in Denver reached out to us. "I never got a single grade while attending JCOS," Edward told us.

Obviously, this sparked our interest. This led to a fantastic conversation that had become one of our favorite episodes.

Not only did we get to hear about Edward's experience as a student of an open school, but we also got to speak to his former advisor and former teacher from the same open school, too.

Thank you Lauren and Edward for an amazing time.

We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed making it.

Solidarity!

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Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

We are excited to share the second episode of our We Can Make it Better series.

Our guest following last episode with Brett from Rev Left, is our very own John Battalion the co-host of this podcast. Brett is a very tough act to follow so please be kind.

Our goal is to make imagining the end of Capitalism easier than imagining the end of the world.

Listen and Enjoy!

And please show your solidarity by letting us know what you think about this episode.

Solidarity!

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Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.

In this amazing episode we read and discuss the amazing article with the same title of this episode - " Grades are Capitalism in Action" - by economist & economics professor Dr. Richard Wolff.

We agree with the esteemed Dr. that grading teaches meritocracy, which in turn helps deflect blame for capitalism's failures onto its victims. That is why we also share ways that we challenge the capitalist grading structure within our own classrooms and offer ways that we can educate without grading.

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Little Red School House focuses on issues with our current education system and ways we can empower students, educators, and anyone who cares about education.

Shouldn't people be put before profits? Shouldn't our children be educated to grow and learn instead of being treated like the means to the financial gain of those in power? If you agree with this so-called "radical" and "revolutionary" perspective, you've come to the right place!

Join educators Gord Milstone and John Battalion as they call out systemic problems and discuss how we can break down barriers in the educational system. Engage with us on social media at @LRedSchoolHouse on twitter. You can also find us on Patreon at patreon.com/LittleRedSchoolHouse.

Please rate and review Little Red School House on iTunes too. This will help increase our reach.