The View From Here

Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet.

What the children know

By Julie Landsman, The View From Here

 I read the numbers. They are in the paper in abundance. x number of homeless families, x number of black boys being kicked out of schools compared to white, the school-to-prison pipeline, x number of families with no health insurance. You have read them too.

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The good life — and children living in fear

By Julie Landsman, The View From Here

It has been a month, and the image has not left me. If something troubles me after a month I know I have to attend to it. Whether that be in writing, or perhaps talking with someone or calling a friend on the phone. In this case, it is simply to explore what I saw.

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Preppy New England propriety and dancing in Minneapolis

By Julie Landsman, The View From Here

Recently I went to Bunkers’ Bar to hear a band and have a glass of wine. I don’t often go to bars. It may be part of aging and the lack of sleep after alcohol. It may be my new self-consciousness in unfamiliar places. It may be that I have mistakenly believed I would not like the music.

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Raised on reading

By Julie Landsman, The View From Here

My friends know that I read constantly, obsessively perhaps. A book is in my purse in case I have five minutes free before my friend arrives for lunch, or the dental assistant calls me back to her chair. Books are hidden in nooks, occupy the fourteen foot high wall space along the length of my living, dining, kitchen space in our condo.

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Urgency: Wanting some enlightened change before I die

By Julie Landsman, The View From Here

Recently, in a conversation with a man about my age, sixty- eight, he said he was feeling a sense of urgency now. This feeling had to do with the limit of years left and the desire to see change happen: real, concrete progress. His comment reminded me of a conversation that another friend had with a man who was interviewing her last year for work in a city school.

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