In the immortal and now dated words of The Monkees, I am a believer. My belief and optimism extend deeply into the work I do every day as an educator, a member of the teachers’ union and a Jewish activist here in the Denver area.
I believe teachers’ unions are capable of bringing people together across lines of difference. I believe in solidarity and collective bargaining, in the promise of public education and in the resources needed to do my job well. I believe social justice movements have an important place in education and should lead the way for complexity, dialogue and human dignity.
That is why the “Drop the ADL from Schools” campaign is so fundamentally disturbing…