Tag: Publics

How Public Schools Leverage Dishonest Reasons to Discourage Marginalized Students

My kids are fluent in Spanish, but we never included this fact on a school form. This was my wife’s deliberate choice. “If we tell the school they’re bilingual,” she said, “they’ll assume they are deficient and put them in remedial English.” I knew bet...

What Can Be Done to Make People Feel Safer on Public Transit?

This post was co-written by Michaelle Tuz-Atkinson, M.Sc., my wife and partner in our Substack newsletter Ride On: The Drive for Better Transportation Systems. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems violence on public transit has risen considerably. Much of it involved&n...