Wherein I totally forgot to wear my pink shirt. You see, my daughter is very sick and I was up most of the night applying cold compresses to her forehead and neck, so when it came time to drag myself out of bed after 2 hours of sleep I wasn't thinking about the pretty pink blouse I had laying out, I just grabbed the nearest school appropriate clothing and off I went.
So what did we do in school? First thing in the morning I played them Joss Whedon's Equality Now speech from 2006. "Because equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. And the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it." We talked about the characters he writes and many in the class spoke about how they thought Black Widow was way more awesome than some of the other female superheroes in other movies. At the end of the day we also read Ray Bradbury's "All Summer In A Day", which I won't spoil for you, but was excellent to read and discuss in our class. We've all seen bullying, especially intellectual bullying (picking on someone for being smart), and it was good to point it out and declare that there is never anything wrong with being smart and owning that intelligence. We talked about other forms of bullying, and the students all walked out thinking about how they can contribute to not only stopping bullying, but how to create a more positive environment. Hopefully this will link us well into our Monday assembly and the start of Post It Positive.
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