Troublemakers Response Question
At the end of Troublemakers, author Carla Shalaby offers a letter to teachers, and within this poses questions that the reader can take and think about long after they close the book. One question that stood out to me was, "How will we try to heal one another, to address human needs, and to alleviate harms to human being that we see out in the world?" This question stood out to me because if I reflect on my schooling, no matter what level it may be, the world was a separate entity, never to be brought into the classroom. Carla offers different ideas such as raising "solutionaries" and learning freedom from students. To me, addressing this question cannot be done by one teacher alone in one lesson plan. It's a question that has the power to call other teachers to action and to wake up. That after students leave the school, they are in the world teachers work so hard to keep out and censor within the classroom. I believe that if teachers, traditional or not, unde...
