According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, two-thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of the fourth grade will end up in jail or on welfare.

nd according to OSSE.dc.gov

Harsh

zero-tolerance

Such unnecessary reactions have only resulted in Black students having suspension rates of more than 30% when about 15% of K-12 public school students are Black (USA Facts, 2023).

ACLU puts it, youths are being “funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal legal systems over minor infractions,” all because of zero-tolerance policies

marginalized

fair and inclusive

unjust criminalization of students

Ninety percent of Jews understand that "Jews control the media" is antisemitic, but only 66 percent of thegeneral public does. And 57 percent of Jews see antisemitic content online, and nearly one-fourth of Jews haveavoided wearing or displaying things that would identify them as Jewish.

We are awash in gun violence and mass shootings, but we are told the right to own weapons of war is sacrosanct.Meanwhile, antisemitism has skyrocketed, as a study from the American Jewish Committee shows. Some 89percent of Jews think it is a serious problem or somewhat of a problem and 82 percent think it has increased a lot orsomewhat.

A new Centers for Disease Control study finds that nearly 60 percent of female students and nearly 70 percent ofLGBQ+ students experience "persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness." Ten percent of female students andmore than 20 percent of LGBQ+ students have attempted suicide. Yet state after state is passing legislation toostracize or stigmatize LGBQ+ students

This was true even after controlling for other factors that we know affect compassionate feelings, such as gender, ethnicity, and spiritual beliefs.

In one study, they found that less affluent individuals are more likely to report feeling compassion towards others on a regular basis.

Those participants who had spent time thinking about how much better off they were compared to others ended up taking significantly more candy for themselves--leaving less behind for the children.

In a different study they found that luxury car drivers were also more likely to speed past a pedestrian trying to use a crosswalk, even after making eye contact with the pedestrian.

They found that luxury car drivers were more likely to cut off other motorists instead of waiting for their turn at the intersection. This was true for both men and women upper-class drivers, regardless of the time of day or the amount of traffic at the intersection

Thefuncomesfromseeingothersmenaced—sometimeskilled.

Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that wecan, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster.

we are daring the nightmare.

think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums onlyhide it a little better—and maybe note all that much better, after all