I love the starkness of this, Mary Lee. Had many talks with our younger daughter when she was home-bound during the pandemic. Systemic change that is fair for all means people with privilege are going to have to give up some things. Hard, but necessary.
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Franki and Mary Lee are both teachers, and have been for more than 20 years.
Franki is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Beyond Leveled Books (Stenhouse), Still Learning to Read (Stenhouse), and Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop (Scholastic).
Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
I love the starkness of this, Mary Lee. Had many talks with our younger daughter when she was home-bound during the pandemic. Systemic change that is fair for all means people with privilege are going to have to give up some things. Hard, but necessary.
ReplyDeleteI love that you picked this little package of a haiku right out of her very words!
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