What educators should expect from legislators: calling out racism

I rarely write a political blog post on my professional blog.  But today a response from my Senator’s staff felt like a bridge too far. Yesterday, I once again heard the President calling coronavirus the “Kung Flu” at a rally in Arizona.  Hearing it, I thought of all our Asian and East Asian students and how this would feel to them.  I thought of a Filipino family member telling us recently how as a boy he was called “Chink”as a child and various other derogatory […]