RaineBeausoleil

We’ve done a lot of meaningful things this semester. I loved having an open dialogue with everyone. I hope the conversations we’ve had impact your teaching careers in good ways and we can all make some sort of change in the world. Not only did our conversations help impact me but so did the media we used to learn this semester. The first thing to come to mind is precious knowledge. This documentary impacted me deeply. Not only did it show how our biases can effect children but how we as teachers have a duty to do right but our students. It shows how it goes deeper than what we do in the classroom, but how we can fight for our kids to have better. I think that’s something very important for teachers to understand. The next thing to come to mind is the film Teach Us All. Again, another film about how biases are doing a disservice to children. Seeing this film made me think about how I can hopefully help my students with their success and how to consider their living situations. As we...

For this reading, I wanted to connect it to the picture above. For context, this picture is a popular saying in the queer/trans community. As this quote from the document says, “The Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s survey including more than 10,000 youth entitled, Growing UP LGBT in America, found that 42% of gender nonconforming youth report frequently or often being called names and 40% reported being frequently or often excluded. Further, over half of gender nonconforming youth reported that they did not participate in activities offered by the school out of fear of discrimination. Additionally, the Journal of Adolescent Health (2015) reported that transgender youth were more likely to report: being diagnosed with depression compared with students who were not transgender (50.6% vs. 20.6%); suffering from anxiety (26.7% vs. 10% ); attempting suicide (17.2% vs. 6.1% ); and engaging in self-harm activities with lethal intentions (16.7% vs. 4.4%).” As a trans person these statisti...