by Laurie | Nov 27, 2017 | Blog, Child's Experiences, Education, Sexual Abuse
She’s lovely, innocent, and deserves to enjoy a developmentally appropriate holiday free of unwanted touch, and yet that human right is often undermined by “socially accepted” norms. In an article about brainwashing, the writer Julia Layton...
by Laurie | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Child's Experiences, Education, Public School, Uncategorized
In one of my first posts of the school year, I discussed how we as educators each find our tipping point for intolerable acts regarding children. At the end of the article I described the tensions of being mixed-race during the start of school integration, and a...
by Laurie | Oct 20, 2017 | Abused Children, Blog, Child's Experiences, Education, Trauma Recovery
If you’re a woman you’ve, probably had your Harvey Weinstein moment, and you probably didn’t report your abuser. I get it. After my attempt to garner help from a perp-supporting yard teacher failed miserably, I gave up believing at seven years old...
by Laurie | Oct 2, 2017 | Abused Children, Blog, Child's Experiences, Education, Public School, Trauma Recovery
In my second blog I told the true story about a gang of boys dragging me to the “pussy-bushes” in 3rd grade Then came 5th grade when a lone troubled boy stalked me in the hallways at recess, using the packed passageways as cover as he repeatedly...
by Laurie | Sep 5, 2017 | Death, Public School, Trauma Recovery
I wasn’t sure for a moment whether to laugh or cry because I failed to save a draft before an “open-tab-over-load” forced me to reboot. Thanks (or maybe no thanks) to Google docs my brain now assumes everything is being backed up automatically, so my...
by Laurie | Aug 31, 2017 | Public School, Race Experience
(This is my yearbook photo from 9th grade) Berkeley Unified was one of the first districts in the country to integrate “by choice”. That sounds terrific. They didn’t need a court to order them to do as I mentioned in my post, Reality Check. Even...
