MASKED THE PLAY

I ask often in this regard, are our children being provided a basis for active participation in the life of their communities? Do they understand the problems and the need to work toward solutions? Are they, in other words, learning the meaning of social responsibility, of citizenship?
If we aren’t clear about such questions, keeping them in mind with everything we do, making them a part of our ongoing discourse, we tend to fill our schools with contradictions—and these contradictions only foster cynicism and limited support, hardly the basis for making schools the centers for inquiry, authority, and change they need to be.
I’ll offer two vignettes that are related. I could present many more. You will have similar examples from which to draw, to raise to a fuller consciousness.

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