In my Freshmen class we watch the movie "Walkout" and in the film the students that take part in a school wide walkout get assaulted by police officers. In the film they show a scene that reminded me of this. The media covered the student walkout and didn't show any of the police assaults happing towards children, they mention it, but they call it student violence. My freshmen students recognized how that is a tactic used to make the students look like the aggressors even though that was not the case. Link to review of film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452703/

Currently in my senior elective class we are actually reading about the school to prison pipeline, and the article that we are looking at make reference to this incident. Soon we will be watching a Vox video that references this as well. Video is here https://youtu.be/HoKkasEyDOI

This whole section reminds me of the book we were reading this year in CI 450 "Vulnerable Heart of Literacy" by Elizabeth Dutro. As educators we need to make sure that we are using our classrooms as places of heeling trauma, and how this shouldn't just be us taking the time to talk about it in class, but going beyond it and intertwining assessments and activities in the classroom to be a form of heeling traumas.

This reminds me of the SNL skit that happened a few days after this election. A lot of people felt some type of way about the election results, but its always good to laugh about it to make us feel better. I know I've heard this before the idea that we have to laugh so that we wont cry. With that said here is the link to the video https://youtu.be/SHG0ezLiVGc

I still recall this day, I was a student teacher at the school that I currently teach in. We actually did not teach that day and took the time to talk to the students and have an open discussion of the fears that they had because of this. #CI45022