Still trying to get a hang of the social justice thing, but I liked this image.

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12. It's appropriate in a lot of contexts,

isn't it?

Social media spreads things farther and faster than ever would have happened in years past. In our case, it was in a meeting which flew in the face of conventional wisdom and authoritarian educational policy that demands that we treat our kids like data rather than the unique, complex beings that they are. I, for one, sat at the back of the room and grinned, and tried to rein in my enthusiasm, when I was told so solemnly, so sincerely, that since not all kids are in the same place, I should treat them like the individuals they are.

Of course, that's just the beginning of a push to individualize education, and that worthy goal takes an incredible amount of time and resources to be done well. Unless, of course, you simply add it to the duties of the teaching force without supporting it, which is the way these things work.