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Twitter Outraged over Teacher Telling Educators to Embrace Anti-Racist Thinking or Be Fired
Julia Marnin, Newsweek, May 27, 2021
A Portland, Oregon teacher told her fellow educators at the Beaverton School District to embrace anti-racist thinking or it will lead to being fired in clips surfacing on social media sending social media abuzz from a February Zoom conference made public.
Eighth grade humanities teacher Katherine Watkins made her comments during the district’s virtual equity summit published to YouTube by Parents Defending Education (PDE) in late April and clips of her comments were shared to social media Thursday, garnering many reactions.
“If you’re being resistant, I understand that, but you’re going to have to eventually come to the light because if you’re going to keep up those old views of colonialism, it’s going to lead to being fired because you’re going to be doing damage to our children…trauma,” Watkins said during the Zoom call.
Twitter Outraged Over Teacher Telling Educators to Embrace Anti-Racist Thinking or Be Fired
On 5/28/21 at 5:00 PM EDT
A Portland, Oregon teacher told her fellow educators at the Beaverton School District to embrace anti-racist thinking or it will lead to being fired in clips surfacing on social media sending social media abuzz from a February Zoom conference made public.
Eighth grade humanities teacher Katherine Watkins made her comments during the district s virtual equity summit published to YouTube by Parents Defending Education (PDE) in late April and clips of her comments were shared to social media Thursday, garnering many reactions. If you re being resistant, I understand that, but you re going to have to eventually come to the light because if you re going to keep up those old views of colonialism, it s going to lead to being fired because you re going to be doing damage to our children.trauma, Watkins said during the Zoom call.
Portal Schools promises pathway to workplace, with help from Belkin
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A new ninth through 12th grade school will offer academics and work experiences, simultaneously
by Donald Morrison
The excitement one imagines Chet Pipkin feeling when he was a 17-year-old inventing cables that enabled Apple computers to talk to non Apple printers could be heard in the Manhattan Beach billionaire, father of seven’s voice as he talked to parents on a Zoom call in February about inventing Portal Schools.
Pipkin is the publicity-adverse founder of the computer accessories company Belkin International, which he sold two years ago to Taiwan-based electronics giant FoxConn for close to $1 billion. Portal is a new, ninth through twelfth grade school located on Belkin’s Playa Vista campus, where students will intern and have an inside track on Belkin jobs when they graduate.
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