On Friday, June Care Christian posted a timely Teaching Tolerance blog, #dontshoot.  A former teacher from the same school district where Michael Brown just graduated, Christian provides an eloquent response to what educators can do in the wake of another high-profile shooting of a young, unarmed African-American male.  As she states, “Brown’s death and the outpouring of protest it ignited is symbolic of racial tensions that have festered for too long. Instead of internalizing the events in Ferguson as racial protocol in our nation, students should be taught to be the voices of change and the enactors of justice.”  She then offers some sage advice for all educators, in all communities.
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