Abolitionist Education: Understanding and Implementing It for All Students

Educational research is full of research that recognizes the pain of dark children, but never acknowledges the causes of pain, inherited pain, and how to treat pain. Teachers around the world use a variety of teaching methods, but learning strategies and models of education reform should provide more to black children than educational management tactics. High level of knowledge, discounts, character building, no children left, and the race to victory include what seems impossible. It is important to promote shared dignity and human power for justice. Abolitionist education is her strategy. It should be noted that American education is based on white supremacy. The origins of race and racism in the United States date back to 1619 (Smith & Luis-Brown, 2018). Since the arrival of these first ships in the Virginia colony, the United States has built a system of racism that affects every aspect of society and permeates everyday life. It is important to take a critical step back and realize how American society has eradicated white supremacy. This research paper is going to elaborate on the concept of abolitionist education, focusing on a total of five readings by Love (2019), Reddy (2018), Falkner (2019), Egalite and Kisida (2018) and Wun (2018). A brief reflective summary shall also be presented at the end of this paper.

The Current Education System

Looking at the recent public outrage over the police killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbury, and many other black Americans, some say nothing about the police history, farm capitalism, and government policies that racist blacks made for them. One may be surprised at what he or she does not know about and that is- Progress. The American education system does not prioritize learning about slaves or thinking about racism and racism. This is evidenced by a lack of knowledge of the economic and political achievements of communities of color (Howell & Richter-Montpetit, 2020). Most of the children in America get K-12 training, which includes compulsory exams, some take AP awards courses and don't learn about Wall Street Blacks, Black Inventions, or Black Theory. As a result, many of the people go to school because of racial illiteracy, experience discomfort in conversations about race, and our thoughts and actions provide white excellence despite our thoughts and actions being the best intent. It should not be realized that they do. The reality is that the skin color and zip code shape every experience in this country. They are essential for the quality and longevity of unborn people. The current educational system can be described as a “educational complex for survival,” which can be said to be “built on the suffering of a colored race that students are only allowed to survive without learning how to thrive.” So, it is necessary to take a critical step back and realize how American society is deeply rooted in the white supremacy of our collective mind. To dismantle this system and gain freedom of education, not only reform, but also teachers, parents and community leaders must approach education with imagination, determination, courage and the urgency of abolition.

The Current Education System

Definition Of Abolitionist Education

Abolitionist education can be used as a way to address this mindset in future societies. Participating in the methods teachers can use to practice the practices of meeting white supremacy in education and society, level the field of competition for students' BIPOC, and create or build new systems that teach all students to become more democratic. It says a variety of ways. Social. According to Love (2019), abolitionism is about mattering, survival, resistance, prosperity, healing, imagination, freedom, love and joy. This form of education is the practice of working in solidarity with communities of colour, such as overturning imagination, creativity, rejection, (re)membership, forward-looking, healing, rebellious spirit, courage, determination and abolition to eliminate injustice. school.

Furthermore, it is to note that Abolitionist education aims to restore humanity to children in school. It looks different from school to school (Reddy, 2018). It comes from a critical racial point of view and uses methods such as protest, boycott, and challenge other teachers who are racist, homophobic or Islamic. It is also about black joy and putting love at the center of what we always do. In fact, many teachers who "love all children" are deeply rooted in racism, transphobia, classicism, strong gender ideology and aversion to Islam. These teachers do not belong to classrooms with black or white children. This is because anthills can occur without dark children in the room. Anti-darkness is social, apart from the dark body, and denies the existence of dark people and humanity. It's the opposition to the dark when white students attend almost entirely white schools that are deliberately excluded from the darks of America in order to increase their white supremacy (Falkner, 2019). 

The Abolitionist educators know how to talk about racism and homophobia in the classroom. They organize marches and boycotts. The idea of ​​mattering is important in that if you want to educate abolitionists and start working on fighting for justice, then a person must be important enough to help them, their students, and the student community fight (Love, 2019).  But sometimes black people have a hard time to conceptualize the most basic idea of ​​the mattering when they find that their country perceives of them as being disposable (Love, 2019). People in the dark are complex (Reddy, 2018). They are larger than black and brown skin tones. They cross the darkness under the moonlight with their culture, language(s), race(s), gender(s), gender(s), ability(ies), religion(s) and spirituality(ies). Their complex character cannot be discussed or explored separately. Even these complex identities inherent in the circle of multilateral beings must make a difference.

Definition Of Abolitionist Education

Abolitionist teaching does not follow a zero-tolerance policy and a prison-to-prison link. Advocate the resilient definition of the school as the only school-wide or district-wide way to improve school culture. Reject the idea that you don't need to change children and insist that all children play (Reddy, 2018). Adequate education ensures that students feel safe at school and that the school does not use violence against students that should be protected. In an atmosphere of higher punishment, the typical behaviour of black women in tightly protected communities is being misunderstood. Their actions are considered offensive, even if they are not.

The Origin Of Abolitionist Education

The practice of abolitionist teaching is rooted in each of us' inner aspirations for freedom, joy, restorative justice (restore humanity, not rules) and the importance to ourselves, our society, our families, and ourselves. What it takes to "require the impossible", deny injustice, and dispose of dark children. To assert the impossible means to understand that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamic phobia, classicism, mass confinement, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Act (ICE) are a safe system that cannot be dismantled upon request. They fight, argue that what they say is impossible, and they will be disbanded because they remember that freedom is a constant struggle. According to Love (2019), "Human Hierarchy" has always been a black, brown and indigenous question because it was designed to benefit whites by rationalizing the racist concept of biological racial inferiority compared to "Americans who see themselves as whites".

America's legacy of black oppression and deprivation is largely in line with the ideal we aspire to. This does not mean that they did not oppose, rebel, or rebel with just and righteous anger. These rebellions created a common identity that allowed them to build schools, educate their children, use the church as a place of worship, build society, and assemble the best lawyer brains to defend basic human rights (Reddy, 2018). Go out on the streets to show their dedication and withdraw or withdraw money from companies and organizations that demean and deny them.

Importance Of Abolitionist Education

Abolitionist teaching is based on creativity, imagination, courage, ingenuity, a rebellious spirit, and the ruthless method of demanding and fighting not all students survive, but a thriving educational system. According to a new study by Egalite and Kisida (2018), students do better in school and are more likely to graduate from high school, and if they have teachers from same race, they work towards higher education. Their performance improves positively. The study also found that students and teachers of the same race are more caring, more interested in studying, and more confident in their ability to communicate with teachers. It is not true that white people cannot teach dark children (Love, 2019). Of course, they can teach them, but for this you need to be knowledgeable. They must show interest and love for them, as well as for the culture as a whole. Many educational schools talk about culture, but they never explain what culture really is (Egalite & Kisida, 2018). Knowing their culture means knowing the social, political, educational, economic and spiritual context in which students live. Most of the people go to school because of racial illiteracy, experience discomfort in conversations about race, and our thoughts and actions provide white excellence despite our thoughts and actions being the best intent. It should not be realized that they do. The reality is that the skin color and zip code shape every experience in this country. They are essential for the quality and longevity of unborn people.

The Origin Of Abolitionist Education

The school teachers often misunderstand black women. According to Bryan (2020), the field of black femininity is an area for many teachers to think about. Black girls make up 16% of public-school girls in the U.S., while 42% of girls are reported to drop out of school (Wun, 2018). Schools and districts have a zero-tolerance policy that deprives teachers and administrators of discretion in making decisions that meet the basic needs of students. And in an atmosphere of higher punishment, the typical behavior of black women in tightly protected communities is being misunderstood (Reddy, 2018). Their actions are considered offensive, even if they are not. There are ways in which black women routinely oversubscribe, and there are ways in which black women's behaviour is actually perceived as a safety risk, even if they are less aggressive than their counterparts, the race and other racial groups. Due to this reason, even if they express their desire for education, they are called drunk and cheeky and are thrown out of school. Abolitionist education ensures that students feel safe at school and that the school does not use violence against students that should be protected (Gbollie & Keamu, 2017). This teaching insults and insults dark children and encourages fellow teachers who do not believe that dark children are important— people must demand that they leave the profession; they need to be called out.

Reflective Summary (Conclusion)

I must say that I have learnt a lot about the concept of abolitionist education from the five readings by Love (2019), Reddy (2018), Falkner (2019), Egalite and Kisida (2018) and Wun (2018). Yes, being living in America since years has made me aware of many facts and figures about the level of existence of racial discrimination but the readings have provided me insights about the roots of all these things and how we can still cope up with this stigma. I believe now that with abolitionist education, we can all become successful in making a better American society. I learnt that abolitionist education is based on creativity, imagination, courage, creativity and rebellion. It is refusing to take part in zero-tolerance policies and the school-to-prison pipeline.  It is also to ask teachers to recognize and accept America and its policies as anti-black, racist, discriminatory, unfair, and to solidarity with the dark and poor people who fight for humanity and fight beyond survival. It comes from a critical racial point of view and uses methods such as protest, boycott, and challenge other teachers who are racist, homophobic or Islamic. It is also about black joy and putting love at the center of what we always do. The doctrine of perseverance chooses to participate in the fight for justice in education, knowing that a person has the ability and human rights to reject oppression and oppress others, mainly his students.

Importance Of Abolitionist Education

I have also learned that black women are more susceptible to negative attacks. Schools and districts have a zero-tolerance policy that deprives teachers and administrators of discretion in making decisions that meet the basic needs of students. And in an atmosphere of higher punishment, the typical behaviour of black women in tightly protected communities is being misunderstood. Their actions are considered offensive, even if they are not. The reality is that the skin color and zip code shape every experience in this country. They are essential for the quality and longevity of unborn people. To dismantle this system and gain freedom of education, not only reform, but also teachers, parents and community leaders must approach education with imagination, determination, courage and the urgency of abolition. This form of education is the practice of working in solidarity with communities of colour. Abolitionist education must show interest and love for them, as well as for the culture as a whole. Many educational schools talk about culture, but they never explain what culture really is. Knowing their culture means knowing the social, political, educational, economic and spiritual context in which students live.

Abolitionist education is a way to reduce all these negative thoughts and examples that black people often encounter, especially in the education system. All these readings are about struggles and opportunities to adhere to appropriate attitudes to educational freedom, not criticism, citizenship, joy, theory, love, rejection, creativity, community and ultimately, reforms based on values. Because, through clarity, our current goals and ideals show that we, as dark people, want to thrive as full Americans who are important to this country and have the rights of all white American citizens. it is necessary to take a critical step back and realize how American society is deeply rooted in the white supremacy of our collective mind. To dismantle this system and gain freedom of education, not only reform, but also teachers, parents and community leaders must approach education with imagination, determination, courage and the urgency of abolition

To achieve engaging learning goals, I think you need to use a radical imagination that calls for the impossible and focuses on the intersection of community building and justice through grassroots organizations. Quality education opposes standardized tests, teaches only racist English teachers, arms teachers with weapons and solidarity with parents and colleagues who turn schools into prisons. Abolitionist education supports and teaches that in the universe, black life means something, every black life means something, and claims black humanity. Teachers who say they are deeply involved in social justice or say "I love all children" but can't say the word "the meaning of black life" know what social justice is and what it really means to find joy and gratitude There is no real understanding of. Their students and their culture.

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Bryan, N., 2020. Shaking the bad boys: Troubling the criminalization of black boys’ childhood play, hegemonic white masculinity and femininity, and the school playground-to-prison pipeline. Race Ethnicity and Education, 23(5), pp.673-692.

Egalite, A. J., & Kisida, B. (2018). The effects of teacher match on students’ academic perceptions and attitudes. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 40(1), 59-81.

Falkner, A. (2019). “They Need To Say Sorry:” Anti-Racism in First Graders’ Racial Learning. Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education, 4(2), 37.

Gbollie, C., & Keamu, H. P. (2017). Student academic performance: The role of motivation, strategies, and perceived factors hindering Liberian junior and senior high school students learning. Education Research International, 2017.

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Reddy, S. (2018). We Don’t Need No Education: Deschooling as an Abolitionist Practice. Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, (1), 124-133.

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Wun, C. (2018). Angered: Black and non-Black girls of color at the intersections of violence and school discipline in the United States. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21(4), 423-437.