In today's I, Anonymous Blog Quote o' the Day, an anonymous writer is fed up with right-wingers (as well as casual racists) using the term "woke"—a term originally coined by Black folk to bring attention to racial inequity—as a pejorative term. But what to do about it? Let's find out! People on the far right use the term ‘woke’ to pronounce their disdain for enlightened thinking, emotional maturity, and well-intentioned behavior. The term ‘woke’ has.
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Katharine birbalsinghs around the country, if you could kind of drop them, we could have schools all over the country like that with the results? even your arch critics can t deny that you have very, very good results at your school. that s exactly right. and when you were saying about me being this strict disciplinarian, and i feel that there s a culture of excuses and so on, that s in oursociety, notjust in our schools. in 2021, we as a people are letting ourselves down and letting our children down because we re not expecting enough of them. now, what s interesting is you did a whole series of teaching jobs, but you became and turned yourself into, overtime, into a public figure, starting with a blog about your experiences, an anonymous blog. i ve got to ask you, why were you then. why are you now known online as miss snuffy? yes, it s a good question. well, because. ok, so the blog was called to miss with love,
And when you say imposing it, i m not imposing anything. the children themselves love it. if you come to our school and and eat lunch with the children and have a tour, they ll all tell you how there s so much safer here than they have felt elsewhere and how they really enjoy that, they like it. so are you arguing that if there are lots of katherine birbalsinghs around the country, if you could kind of drop them? yeah. we could have schools all over the country like that with the results. yes. even your critics can t deny that you are very, very good results. that s exactly right. and when you were saying about me being this strict disciplinarian and i feel that there s a culture of excuses and so on that s in our society, notjust in our schools in 2021, we as a people are letting ourselves down and letting our children down because we re not expecting enough of them. now, what s interesting is you did a whole series of teaching jobs, but you became and turned yourself into over time,
Around the country, if you could kind of drop them? we could have schools all over the country like that with the results. yes. even your critics can t deny that you are very, very good results. that s exactly right. and when you were saying about me being this strict disciplinarian and i feel that there s a culture of excuses and so on that s in our society, notjust in our schools in 2021, we as a people are letting ourselves down and letting our children down because we re not expecting enough of them. jobs, but you became and turned yourself into over time, into a public figure, starting with a blog about your experiences, an anonymous blog. i ve got to ask you, why were you the head? why are you now known online as miss snuffy? yes, it s a good question. well, because ok, so the blog was called to miss with love, like to sir with love. and everybody will know the book. and then there was the film with sidney poitier and, um, and the i called myself miss snuffleupagus.