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joshgroven's review against another edition
challenging
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hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
mitskacir's review against another edition
4.0
Read this for a school book club, although I'd been meaning to read it for a long time before that. This was a very readable book, despite the challenging topics, and I loved how Morris incorporated the voices of girls experiencing "pushout" themselves. This book really made me reflect on how I perceive and treat the black girls that I teach and interact with in the school hallways. It raised a lot of questions for me: it didn't give me answers to my dilemmas, but I also don't think there are any easy solutions and being aware of and monitoring my own behavior is a good first step. At my school, I really see the issue as how do we move away from punitive practices that create an environment of mistrust amongst students, teachers, administrators, and law enforcement when we are already so entrenched? When students are in need of significant mental health resources and help developing pro-social behaviors; when teachers are stressed, their authority undermined, and the school is understaffed; when students and are feeling constantly monitored and policed... even small interactions escalate into highly negative scenes that frequently result in punishment. What is the sweet spot of supervision between adults maintaining a safe, orderly school environment where the focus is on learning and socialization, and an environment where students feel imprisoned, repressed, and pushed out? What skills do students and adults alike need to learn in order to move away from surveillance and punishment? And how much surveillance and punishment needs to be removed first, in order for these skills to genuinely be valued and learned?
This book also had a lot of enlightening information about the sex-trafficking that many black girls experience and how their victimhood often leads them to interact more with the criminal justice system instead of the educational system. It was also really interesting to learn about what school is like in juvenile detention systems and how our society professes to value education and see it as a pathway to liberation, yet the systems that are currently in place often seem more effective in pushing students away than retaining them.
This book also had a lot of enlightening information about the sex-trafficking that many black girls experience and how their victimhood often leads them to interact more with the criminal justice system instead of the educational system. It was also really interesting to learn about what school is like in juvenile detention systems and how our society professes to value education and see it as a pathway to liberation, yet the systems that are currently in place often seem more effective in pushing students away than retaining them.
_jacket_oil_'s review against another edition
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libswagmenter's review against another edition
challenging
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4.5
ell_jay_em7's review against another edition
5.0
A must-read for school boards, teachers, parents, and anyone who cares about justice.
keonya4j's review against another edition
This book is written for a black girl whose perspective is often ignored. However, the information is a lot to take in. Not only is it not digestible at times as a black female educator. There is a lot not included from an educators perspective. I also think about a black mother and her trauma. There is a ton wrong with our system, and black girls are consistently wronged with this system. At the end is anything going to change?
ejoppenheimer's review against another edition
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5.0