Given the extensive evidence that indicates inequality cannot be solved by teachers or schools alone,it takes a specific kind of blindness to continue to assert that education erases inequalitiesIn I Stand Here Ironing, a story by the American writer and labor organizer Tillie Olsen, or an unnamed destitute mother addresses her child ’s judgmental teacher – who has called that day to schedule a conference – in a tormented internal monologue:Even whether I came,what good would it do? You think because I am her mother I absorb a key, or that in some way you could spend me as a key? She has lived for 19 years. There is all that life that has happened outside of me, and beyond me I will become engulfed with all I did or did not do,with what should absorb been and cannot be helped.
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Source: theguardian.com