Sean Furbush and Carolin Zorrilla
Submitted to the Billerica Minuteman
For far too long, our history has been taught through lenses too few and too narrow.
In our classrooms, diversity should not be a token, but a vessel upon which we may tell the colorful tales of our nation and of our world. Yet, for reasons only determined behind the closed doors of educational bureaucracies, it is something that continues to be neglected in the face of calls for curricular reforms here in Massachusetts.
In recent years, our frameworks have served as one of the main examples of what not to do when implementing diversity into the classroom.