Q&A: How To Talk To Kids About George Floyd
The co-editor of the book Teaching For Black Lives talks about the curriculum for this moment.
Like most public school educators, Jesse Hagopian has spent the spring struggling to teach his students online. Some are homeless, while others are working front-line jobs to support their families.
And now many of his students, like others around the country, are on the front lines in another sense: protesting the deaths of George Floyd and other black people at the hands of police.
"I don't think their schooling is stopped at all. I think, if anything, it's on hyperdrive," says Hagopian. He is an author, an activist, a father of two sons and a black teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle, a city where more than 80 percent of the teachers are white. And he is the co-editor, with Dyan Watson and Wayne Au, of the 2018 book
