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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/26/23808118/tennessee-teachers-lawsuit-tea-prohibited-concepts-crt-bill-lee-race-gender-bias\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tennessee’s largest teacher organization has joined with five public school educators to legally challenge a two-year-old state law restricting what they can teach about race, gender, and bias in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lawsuit, which was filed late Tuesday in a federal court in Nashville by lawyers for the Tennessee Education Association, maintains the language in the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 law\u003c/a> is unconstitutionally vague and that the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state’s enforcement plan\u003c/a> is subjective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint also charges that Tennessee’s so-called “prohibited concepts” law interferes with instruction on difficult but important topics included in the state’s academic standards. Those standards outline state-approved learning goals, which dictate other decisions around curriculum and testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit is the first legal challenge to the controversial state law that was among the first of its kind in the nation. The law passed amid a conservative backlash to America’s reckoning over racism after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis and subsequent anti-racist protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Ragan of Oak Ridge, one of the Republican sponsors of the legislation, argued the law was needed to protect K-12 students from being “indoctrinated” with social concepts that he and other lawmakers considered misguided and divisive such as critical race theory. That academic framework, which \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teaching-critical-race-theory-isn-t-happening-classrooms-teachers-say-n1272945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys of teachers\u003c/a> suggest are not being taught in K-12 schools, is more commonly found in higher education to examine how policies and the law perpetuate systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tennessee’s GOP-controlled legislature \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/5/22421860/tennessee-senate-joins-house-in-move-to-ban-classroom-discussions-about-systemic-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelmingly passed the legislation\u003c/a> in the final days of their 2021 session, just days after the bill’s introduction. Gov. Bill Lee quickly \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed it into law\u003c/a>, and later that year, the state education department set rules for enforcement. If found in violation, teachers can be stripped of their licenses and school districts can lose state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a small number of complaints have been filed and no penalties levied during the law’s first two years on the books. But Ragan has introduced new legislation that \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/17/23645451/tennessee-schools-prohibited-concepts-law-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would widen eligibility for who can file a complaint\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seeks to overturn the law and asks for a court order against its enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint claims the statute fails to give Tennessee educators a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct and teachings are prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers are in this gray area where we don’t know what we can and can’t do or say in our classrooms,” said Kathryn Vaughn, a veteran teacher in Tipton County, near Memphis, and one of five educators who are plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rollout of the law — from guidance to training — has been almost nonexistent,” Vaughn added. “That’s put educators in an impossible position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also charges the law encourages arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids any state from “depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laws need to be clear,” said Tanya Coats, president of the teachers group known as TEA, which is leading the litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said educators have spent “countless hours” trying to understand the law and the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> banned from the classroom — including that the United States is “fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist;” or that an individual, by virtue of their race or sex, “bears responsibility” for past actions committed by other members of the same race or sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TEA says the ambiguity of those concepts has had a chilling effect in schools — from how teachers answer a student’s question to what materials they read in class. To avoid the risk of time-consuming complaints and potential penalties from the state, school leaders have made changes to instruction and school activities. But ultimately, it’s students who suffer, Coats said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This law interferes with Tennessee teachers’ job to provide a fact-based, well-rounded education to their students,” Coats said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 52-page lawsuit gives specific examples of how the ban is affecting what nearly a million public school students are learning — and not learning — daily across Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Tipton County, for example, one school has replaced an annual field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis with a trip to a baseball game. In Shelby County, a choir director fears that his decades-long practice of teaching his students to sing and understand the history behind spirituals sung by enslaved people will be perceived as ‘divisive’ or otherwise violative of the Ban,” the suit says. Other districts have removed books from their curriculum as a result of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the state education department did not immediately respond Wednesday when asked for comment about the litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"gS2DCk\">Tennessee targeted anti-CRT policies early\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tennessee was among the first states to pass a law limiting the depth of classroom discussions about inequality and concepts such as white privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Tennessee’s education department reported that few complaints had been filed with local school districts based on the law. And the department had received only a few appeals of local decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was from the parent of a student enrolled in a private school in Davidson County. Because the law does not apply to private schools, the department found that the parent did not have standing to file an appeal under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another complaint was filed by a Blount County parent over the book “Dragonwings,” a novel told from the perspective of a Chinese immigrant boy in the early 20th century. The state denied the appeal based on the results of its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Blount County Schools still removed the book from its sixth grade curriculum. And the lawsuit described the emotional toll of the proceedings on a 45-year teaching veteran who was “entangled in months of administrative proceedings, with her job on the line, because of a single parent’s complaint about an award-winning work of young adult literature that the Tennessee Department of Education approved and the local elected school board adopted as part of the district’s curriculum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department also \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2021/11/29/tennessee-department-education-declines-investigate-curriculum-complaint-filed-under-new-anti-crt-la/8744479002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declined to investigate\u003c/a> a complaint from Williamson County, south of Nashville, filed soon after the law was enacted. Robin Steenman, chair of the local Moms for Liberty chapter, alleged the literacy curriculum “Wit and Wisdom,” used by Williamson County Schools in 2020-21, has a “heavily biased agenda” that makes children “hate their country, each other and/or themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman said the department was only authorized to investigate claims beginning with the 2021-22 school year and encouraged Steenman to work with Williamson County Schools to resolve her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials did not immediately respond Wednesday when asked whether the state has received more appeals in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, critics of the law worry about new legislative efforts to broaden its application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the state’s current rules, only students, parents, or employees within a district or charter school can file complaints involving their school. Ragan’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB1377.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill\u003c/a>, co-sponsored by Sen. Joey Hensley of Hohenwald, would allow any resident within a public school zone to file a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics argue such a change would open the door to conservative groups, like Moms for Liberty, to flood their local school boards with complaints about instruction, books, or materials they believe violate the law, even if they do not have direct contact with the teacher or school in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prohibited concepts law is separate from \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Tennessee law\u003c/a> that, based on appeals of local school board decisions, empowers a state panel to ban school library books statewide if deemed “inappropriate for the age or maturity levels” of students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a comment from one of the plaintiffs.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta W. Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:maldrich@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>maldrich@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/7/26/23808118/tennessee-teachers-lawsuit-tea-prohibited-concepts-crt-bill-lee-race-gender-bias\" rel=\"canonical\">Chalkbeat\u003c/a> is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That academic framework, which \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teaching-critical-race-theory-isn-t-happening-classrooms-teachers-say-n1272945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveys of teachers\u003c/a> suggest are not being taught in K-12 schools, is more commonly found in higher education to examine how policies and the law perpetuate systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tennessee’s GOP-controlled legislature \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/5/22421860/tennessee-senate-joins-house-in-move-to-ban-classroom-discussions-about-systemic-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelmingly passed the legislation\u003c/a> in the final days of their 2021 session, just days after the bill’s introduction. Gov. Bill Lee quickly \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed it into law\u003c/a>, and later that year, the state education department set rules for enforcement. If found in violation, teachers can be stripped of their licenses and school districts can lose state funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a small number of complaints have been filed and no penalties levied during the law’s first two years on the books. But Ragan has introduced new legislation that \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/17/23645451/tennessee-schools-prohibited-concepts-law-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would widen eligibility for who can file a complaint\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit seeks to overturn the law and asks for a court order against its enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint claims the statute fails to give Tennessee educators a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct and teachings are prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers are in this gray area where we don’t know what we can and can’t do or say in our classrooms,” said Kathryn Vaughn, a veteran teacher in Tipton County, near Memphis, and one of five educators who are plaintiffs in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rollout of the law — from guidance to training — has been almost nonexistent,” Vaughn added. “That’s put educators in an impossible position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also charges the law encourages arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids any state from “depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laws need to be clear,” said Tanya Coats, president of the teachers group known as TEA, which is leading the litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said educators have spent “countless hours” trying to understand the law and the \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> banned from the classroom — including that the United States is “fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist;” or that an individual, by virtue of their race or sex, “bears responsibility” for past actions committed by other members of the same race or sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TEA says the ambiguity of those concepts has had a chilling effect in schools — from how teachers answer a student’s question to what materials they read in class. To avoid the risk of time-consuming complaints and potential penalties from the state, school leaders have made changes to instruction and school activities. But ultimately, it’s students who suffer, Coats said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This law interferes with Tennessee teachers’ job to provide a fact-based, well-rounded education to their students,” Coats said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 52-page lawsuit gives specific examples of how the ban is affecting what nearly a million public school students are learning — and not learning — daily across Tennessee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Tipton County, for example, one school has replaced an annual field trip to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis with a trip to a baseball game. In Shelby County, a choir director fears that his decades-long practice of teaching his students to sing and understand the history behind spirituals sung by enslaved people will be perceived as ‘divisive’ or otherwise violative of the Ban,” the suit says. Other districts have removed books from their curriculum as a result of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for the governor’s office and the state education department did not immediately respond Wednesday when asked for comment about the litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"gS2DCk\">Tennessee targeted anti-CRT policies early\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tennessee was among the first states to pass a law limiting the depth of classroom discussions about inequality and concepts such as white privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Tennessee’s education department reported that few complaints had been filed with local school districts based on the law. And the department had received only a few appeals of local decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was from the parent of a student enrolled in a private school in Davidson County. Because the law does not apply to private schools, the department found that the parent did not have standing to file an appeal under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another complaint was filed by a Blount County parent over the book “Dragonwings,” a novel told from the perspective of a Chinese immigrant boy in the early 20th century. The state denied the appeal based on the results of its investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Blount County Schools still removed the book from its sixth grade curriculum. 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Robin Steenman, chair of the local Moms for Liberty chapter, alleged the literacy curriculum “Wit and Wisdom,” used by Williamson County Schools in 2020-21, has a “heavily biased agenda” that makes children “hate their country, each other and/or themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman said the department was only authorized to investigate claims beginning with the 2021-22 school year and encouraged Steenman to work with Williamson County Schools to resolve her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department officials did not immediately respond Wednesday when asked whether the state has received more appeals in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, critics of the law worry about new legislative efforts to broaden its application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the state’s current rules, only students, parents, or employees within a district or charter school can file complaints involving their school. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/6/16/23763698/tennessee-three-schools-justin-pearson-jones-crt-law-legislature\" rel=\"canonical\">originally published\u003c/a> by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://ckbe.at/newsletters\">\u003cu>ckbe.at/newsletters\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Wyatt Bassow and Ava Buxton missed classes one morning this spring to see democracy in action in Tennessee, they witnessed history that they acknowledged probably wouldn’t be fully taught at their high school less than a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Pearson, one of two young Democratic lawmakers who were dramatically \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/6/23672653/tennessee-legislature-gun-protest-expulsion-vote-pearson-jones-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expelled from office\u003c/a> just a week earlier by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, was taking his oath of office again that day outside the state Capitol in Nashville after being voted back in by officials in Shelby County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days earlier, Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville had been reinstated after a similar vote by his city’s council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both men had been ousted from the legislature for staging a protest on the House floor urging gun reforms after a mass school shooting in Nashville. The votes temporarily robbed some 140,000 Tennesseans in the state’s two largest cities of their representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve learned these last few weeks is that democracy is incredibly fragile,” said Bassow, a senior at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School, as he cheered Pearson’s reinstatement in the shadow of the Capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But because of the power of the people,” he added, “we were able to fix this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less certain, the students said, is whether the controversial ouster of the two young Black Democrats by the House’s all-white GOP supermajority would be fully discussed at their school, or any public Tennessee school, as part of a course in U.S. government, civics, history, contemporary issues, or social studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican leaders maintain the ouster was not racially motivated, the racial optics were undeniable, as was the supermajority’s suppression of legislative voices with whom they disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tennessee is at the front of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://projects.chalkbeat.org/2022/age-appropriate-books-critical-race-theory-tennessee-curriculum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative-driven wave of censorship\u003c/a> about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 state law\u003c/a> restricts classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who signed the law, has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/7/22922717/hillsdale-college-tennessee-governor-charter-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championed civics education that emphasizes American exceptionalism\u003c/a> and plays down the origins of present-day U.S. injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School libraries are under scrutiny too, especially for materials that have to do with race and gender. A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 law\u003c/a> gives the state unprecedented authority to overrule local school boards and remove certain materials from libraries statewide. And a 2023 law puts book distributors and publishers at risk of criminal prosecution if materials they provide to Tennessee schools are deemed obscene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have noticed that a silencing is happening in our schools,” said Buxton, also a senior at Hume-Fogg, when asked whether the expulsions of Jones and Pearson had been discussed in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, our teachers are wonderful and intelligent educators who do their best to give students the space we need to have important conversations,” she continued. “But I think these conversations would go much deeper if our teachers didn’t have the fear of these new laws hanging over them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"MjTSFl\">The rise, fall, and rise of the Tennessee Three\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The expulsions of the two Black lawmakers came during the dramatic last weeks of a tumultuous legislative session gripped by large citizen protests over \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee’s lax gun laws\u003c/a>, after an armed intruder \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/27/23658910/the-covenant-school-school-shootings-assault-weapons-metropolitan-nashville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School\u003c/a> in Nashville on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was not allowing them to voice the concerns of demonstrators during debates, Pearson, Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville took their protest to the House floor, where Jones and Pearson alternately used a bullhorn to shout “Gun control now!” and “Power to the people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, the trio broke the chamber’s rules of decorum. GOP-sponsored ouster resolutions accused the so-called Tennessee Three of “knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Republican representatives voted overwhelmingly to kick out the two young Black men, while Johnson, who is older and white and was less vocal during the protest, kept her seat by a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the House had expelled multiple members was in 1866, when six representatives were thrown out for conspiring to deprive the chamber of a quorum during a special session to ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two others have been expelled in more recent times, one for soliciting a bribe, and the other for sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the ousters of Jones and Pearson over their peaceful protest of gun violence — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/leading-cause-death-young-people-us-firearms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now the No. 1 killer of children and teens in America\u003c/a> — seemed heavy-handed to their supporters. The House could have chosen simply to censure them for breaking House rules of decorum instead of kicking them out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent four-page rebuke, the nation’s professional organization for social studies teachers denounced Tennessee’s House as attacking foundational principles of democratic and republican norms. Intentionally or not, the state was sending Tennessee students a message that the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and holding their elected officials accountable are “reserved for those who have a specific view or perspective,” the National Council for the Social Studies wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as disturbing,” the group continued, “this action sends a message to the larger community that civil discourse and active citizenship will result in punishment rather than in finding consensus in ways that uphold the principles of democracy and the functioning of our republic … (which) will have a long-term impact on our students’ faith in the democratic process and our constitutional principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"WBWFyU\">Tennessee’s living history drama was filled with teachable moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Political science and social studies experts say it’s hard to narrow down the events in Tennessee this spring to one teachable moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of citizens descending on the Capitol to protest gun violence after a school shooting and the subsequent expulsions and reinstatements of Jones and Pearson are rich runways for academic inquiry. Among the issues: freedom of speech, legislative rules of decorum, the enduring influence of racism on public policy, and — as Bassow, the Nashville student, articulated — the fragility of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1680px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg 1680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol on April 3, 2023, during a demonstration against gun violence and the state’s lax gun laws after a deadly school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Marta W. Aldrich / Chalkbeat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Geer, a political science professor who helped to launch the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, heartily agrees with Bassow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teachable moment is that democracy fundamentally rests on genuine competition among political parties,” said Geer. “But because of supermajorities in our state legislatures, the minority party has no real influence and is left to scream or complain. They’re not part of the governing process. There’s no give and take, no compromise. Meanwhile, the majority party has so much power that they don’t need to negotiate, and that leads to excesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for resources to become available to help teachers broach the controversies in Tennessee as well as in Montana, where that state’s House speaker silenced \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr,\u003c/a> a transgender lawmaker who refused to apologize for telling colleagues they would have “blood” on their hands if they supported a ban on gender-affirming care for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/10/23593288/memphis-shelby-county-schools-tyre-nichols-police-brutality-facing-history-ourselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves,\u003c/a> a nonprofit group that creates resources about current events to spawn thoughtful classroom discussions, zeroed in on two issues in its \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/decorum-sanctioning-representatives-jones-pearson-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessons\u003c/a>: how to discuss politics in non-polarizing ways and the implications of using rules of decorum to censure legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What norms should guide our conversations about political issues?” asks the group’s lessons designed for middle and high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could rules around speech be used to silence people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The availability of resources doesn’t mean such questions are being regularly asked in Tennessee classrooms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s public school teachers don’t have much wiggle room on what they’re allowed to teach. They’re also under \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23331530/school-library-law-stresses-teachers-classroom-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased scrutiny over the resources they can use.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are guided by hundreds of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/academic-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-approved academic standards\u003c/a> that set learning goals by subject and grade, and that dictate decisions around curriculum and testing. And social studies teachers already are hard-pressed to cover \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/standards/ss/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the standards for their subjects\u003c/a> during a single school year. Even if they do, only a few courses offered in grades five, eight, and 12 include standards that might lend themselves to discussions about the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tennessee civics is really nowhere in the standards,” said Bill Carey, who sells resources for educators through his nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee History for Kids\u003c/a>. “And if something isn’t in the standards, it’s probably not going to be taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social studies lessons, in particular, are monitored closely by parents and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, some complained that some Tennessee teachers were “indoctrinating” students into Islam in their seventh-grade world history classes, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/1/22/21101546/tennessee-launches-review-of-social-studies-standards-amid-concerns-over-world-religion-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting state officials to order an early review of those standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, amid a conservative backlash to anti-racism protests after a white policeman killed Black American George Floyd in Minneapolis (an incident that prompted a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-investigation-19d384c2d90b186b627f9d8cf1d5be2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation into systemic racism on the police force\u003c/a>), Tennessee was among the first states to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-legislation-teaching-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enact a law\u003c/a> intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about race, racism, and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the 2021 law prohibits teachers from discussing \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> that the state has deemed divisive, including that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably sexist or racist, or that an individual is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive because of their race or gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have complained that the law and the state’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules for enforcing the statute\u003c/a> aren’t clear about exactly what teachings cross the line. But teachers found in violation could have their licenses suspended or revoked, while their school districts could face financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22840317/crt-laws-classroom-discussion-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenced small but pivotal decisions that educators make every day\u003c/a> in Tennessee and in other states that have passed similar laws targeting so-called critical race theory: how to answer a student’s question, which articles to read as a class, how to prepare for a lesson, which examples to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whether to discuss the Tennessee legislature’s vote to expel Jones and Pearson, which made \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just didn’t mention this in class,” said one Tennessee social studies teacher who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. “I am just overly cautious with what I cover in class for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"xNloLY\">Students ‘come up with all these great questions’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Finchum, executive director of the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies, says the law — and a related climate of fear — has had a chilling effect on teachers who might normally contemplate lessons about the Tennessee Three, or perhaps about the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. But it also depends on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a new teacher who is teaching in an area of the state where you feel insecure, you may not want to go there,” Finchum said. “But if you’re an experienced teacher and feel strongly about these events and how your students can learn from them, you may go ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Sugarmon falls in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Friday at White Station High School in Memphis, students showed up to Sugarmon’s weekly current events discussion with lots of questions about the expulsion. The day before the legislative vote, many White Station students had walked out of school to show support for gun reforms called for by the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids come up with all these great questions. Sometimes there’s not an answer,” said Sugarmon, a veteran educator who teaches courses in U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to give students a safe and constructive space to discuss hard things, added Sugarmon, who is also an elected official on the Shelby County Commission, where she cast a vote to reinstate Pearson to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student in her class brought up racism, she said, prompting a conversation about why Tennessee lawmakers have sought to ban some books and squelch classroom discussions about racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been very vocal about not just what happened with Pearson, but with state laws in general,” said Sugarmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages them to explore source documents to formulate their own options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence-based discussions are the way that teachers should take up politically charged topics with their students, Vanderbilt’s Geer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence should be your guidepost,” he said, “while avoiding injecting ideology into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facts need to be interpreted,” Geer added. “But if we can agree on a basic set of evidence, we can have a conversation. And that’s an important part of democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Logan, a rising senior in Memphis at Germantown High School, talked about the lawmakers’ expulsions with her friends, but didn’t discuss the event as part of her 11th-grade American history class. Just the same, the deadly shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which prompted the protest and led to the expulsions, was a big deal to her. And as a young Black person, she related to Pearson and Jones, who are among the youngest members of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan hopes this year’s events at the state Capitol will resurface as discussion topics during her senior year when she takes a U.S. government class. She has important questions. And she’s looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people,” she explained, “that are setting things up for us for our futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:maldrich@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>maldrich@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Laura Testino is a reporter for Chalkbeat Tennessee, where she covers K-12 education in Memphis. Contact her at \u003c/i>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"mailto:ltestino@chalkbeat.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>ltestino@chalkbeat.org\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve learned these last few weeks is that democracy is incredibly fragile,” said Bassow, a senior at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg High School, as he cheered Pearson’s reinstatement in the shadow of the Capitol building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But because of the power of the people,” he added, “we were able to fix this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less certain, the students said, is whether the controversial ouster of the two young Black Democrats by the House’s all-white GOP supermajority would be fully discussed at their school, or any public Tennessee school, as part of a course in U.S. government, civics, history, contemporary issues, or social studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican leaders maintain the ouster was not racially motivated, the racial optics were undeniable, as was the supermajority’s suppression of legislative voices with whom they disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Tennessee is at the front of a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://projects.chalkbeat.org/2022/age-appropriate-books-critical-race-theory-tennessee-curriculum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservative-driven wave of censorship\u003c/a> about what can and cannot be taught in K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 state law\u003c/a> restricts classroom discussions about systemic racism, white privilege, and the ongoing legacy of slavery. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who signed the law, has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/2/7/22922717/hillsdale-college-tennessee-governor-charter-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">championed civics education that emphasizes American exceptionalism\u003c/a> and plays down the origins of present-day U.S. injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School libraries are under scrutiny too, especially for materials that have to do with race and gender. A \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/28/23047535/book-ban-tennessee-textbook-commission-legislation-age-appropriate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 law\u003c/a> gives the state unprecedented authority to overrule local school boards and remove certain materials from libraries statewide. And a 2023 law puts book distributors and publishers at risk of criminal prosecution if materials they provide to Tennessee schools are deemed obscene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have noticed that a silencing is happening in our schools,” said Buxton, also a senior at Hume-Fogg, when asked whether the expulsions of Jones and Pearson had been discussed in her classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thankfully, our teachers are wonderful and intelligent educators who do their best to give students the space we need to have important conversations,” she continued. “But I think these conversations would go much deeper if our teachers didn’t have the fear of these new laws hanging over them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"MjTSFl\">The rise, fall, and rise of the Tennessee Three\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The expulsions of the two Black lawmakers came during the dramatic last weeks of a tumultuous legislative session gripped by large citizen protests over \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/28/23661164/nashville-school-shooting-tennessee-covenant-gun-policy-protest-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee’s lax gun laws\u003c/a>, after an armed intruder \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/27/23658910/the-covenant-school-school-shootings-assault-weapons-metropolitan-nashville-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School\u003c/a> in Nashville on March 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated that House Speaker Cameron Sexton was not allowing them to voice the concerns of demonstrators during debates, Pearson, Jones, and Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville took their protest to the House floor, where Jones and Pearson alternately used a bullhorn to shout “Gun control now!” and “Power to the people!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, the trio broke the chamber’s rules of decorum. GOP-sponsored ouster resolutions accused the so-called Tennessee Three of “knowingly and intentionally bringing disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Republican representatives voted overwhelmingly to kick out the two young Black men, while Johnson, who is older and white and was less vocal during the protest, kept her seat by a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the House had expelled multiple members was in 1866, when six representatives were thrown out for conspiring to deprive the chamber of a quorum during a special session to ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two others have been expelled in more recent times, one for soliciting a bribe, and the other for sexual misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the ousters of Jones and Pearson over their peaceful protest of gun violence — \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/leading-cause-death-young-people-us-firearms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now the No. 1 killer of children and teens in America\u003c/a> — seemed heavy-handed to their supporters. The House could have chosen simply to censure them for breaking House rules of decorum instead of kicking them out altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent four-page rebuke, the nation’s professional organization for social studies teachers denounced Tennessee’s House as attacking foundational principles of democratic and republican norms. Intentionally or not, the state was sending Tennessee students a message that the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, and holding their elected officials accountable are “reserved for those who have a specific view or perspective,” the National Council for the Social Studies wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as disturbing,” the group continued, “this action sends a message to the larger community that civil discourse and active citizenship will result in punishment rather than in finding consensus in ways that uphold the principles of democracy and the functioning of our republic … (which) will have a long-term impact on our students’ faith in the democratic process and our constitutional principles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"WBWFyU\">Tennessee’s living history drama was filled with teachable moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Political science and social studies experts say it’s hard to narrow down the events in Tennessee this spring to one teachable moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of citizens descending on the Capitol to protest gun violence after a school shooting and the subsequent expulsions and reinstatements of Jones and Pearson are rich runways for academic inquiry. Among the issues: freedom of speech, legislative rules of decorum, the enduring influence of racism on public policy, and — as Bassow, the Nashville student, articulated — the fragility of democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1680px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest.jpg 1680w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/06/protest-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students protest outside the Tennessee State Capitol on April 3, 2023, during a demonstration against gun violence and the state’s lax gun laws after a deadly school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. \u003ccite>(Marta W. Aldrich / Chalkbeat)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Geer, a political science professor who helped to launch the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, heartily agrees with Bassow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The teachable moment is that democracy fundamentally rests on genuine competition among political parties,” said Geer. “But because of supermajorities in our state legislatures, the minority party has no real influence and is left to scream or complain. They’re not part of the governing process. There’s no give and take, no compromise. Meanwhile, the majority party has so much power that they don’t need to negotiate, and that leads to excesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t take long for resources to become available to help teachers broach the controversies in Tennessee as well as in Montana, where that state’s House speaker silenced \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/montana-trans-lawmaker-silenced-zooey-zephyr-d398d442537a595bf96d90be90862772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr,\u003c/a> a transgender lawmaker who refused to apologize for telling colleagues they would have “blood” on their hands if they supported a ban on gender-affirming care for youths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/10/23593288/memphis-shelby-county-schools-tyre-nichols-police-brutality-facing-history-ourselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facing History and Ourselves,\u003c/a> a nonprofit group that creates resources about current events to spawn thoughtful classroom discussions, zeroed in on two issues in its \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/decorum-sanctioning-representatives-jones-pearson-zephyr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessons\u003c/a>: how to discuss politics in non-polarizing ways and the implications of using rules of decorum to censure legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What norms should guide our conversations about political issues?” asks the group’s lessons designed for middle and high school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How could rules around speech be used to silence people?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The availability of resources doesn’t mean such questions are being regularly asked in Tennessee classrooms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s public school teachers don’t have much wiggle room on what they’re allowed to teach. They’re also under \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23331530/school-library-law-stresses-teachers-classroom-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased scrutiny over the resources they can use.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are guided by hundreds of \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/education/districts/academic-standards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state-approved academic standards\u003c/a> that set learning goals by subject and grade, and that dictate decisions around curriculum and testing. And social studies teachers already are hard-pressed to cover \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/standards/ss/Social_Studies_Standards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all of the standards for their subjects\u003c/a> during a single school year. Even if they do, only a few courses offered in grades five, eight, and 12 include standards that might lend themselves to discussions about the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tennessee civics is really nowhere in the standards,” said Bill Carey, who sells resources for educators through his nonprofit \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee History for Kids\u003c/a>. “And if something isn’t in the standards, it’s probably not going to be taught.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social studies lessons, in particular, are monitored closely by parents and activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, some complained that some Tennessee teachers were “indoctrinating” students into Islam in their seventh-grade world history classes, \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2016/1/22/21101546/tennessee-launches-review-of-social-studies-standards-amid-concerns-over-world-religion-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting state officials to order an early review of those standards.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, amid a conservative backlash to anti-racism protests after a white policeman killed Black American George Floyd in Minneapolis (an incident that prompted a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-police-investigation-19d384c2d90b186b627f9d8cf1d5be2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal investigation into systemic racism on the police force\u003c/a>), Tennessee was among the first states to \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-critical-race-theory-legislation-teaching-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enact a law\u003c/a> intended to restrict K-12 classroom discussions about race, racism, and gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, the 2021 law prohibits teachers from discussing \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20697058/tn-hb0580-amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">14 concepts\u003c/a> that the state has deemed divisive, including that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably sexist or racist, or that an individual is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive because of their race or gender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators have complained that the law and the state’s \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/11/19/22792435/crt-tennessee-rules-prohibited-racial-concepts-schwinn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules for enforcing the statute\u003c/a> aren’t clear about exactly what teachings cross the line. But teachers found in violation could have their licenses suspended or revoked, while their school districts could face financial penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential fallout has \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/17/22840317/crt-laws-classroom-discussion-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">influenced small but pivotal decisions that educators make every day\u003c/a> in Tennessee and in other states that have passed similar laws targeting so-called critical race theory: how to answer a student’s question, which articles to read as a class, how to prepare for a lesson, which examples to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes whether to discuss the Tennessee legislature’s vote to expel Jones and Pearson, which made \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/us/tennessee-house-democrats-expelled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I just didn’t mention this in class,” said one Tennessee social studies teacher who asked not to be identified, for fear of retribution. “I am just overly cautious with what I cover in class for now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"xNloLY\">Students ‘come up with all these great questions’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mark Finchum, executive director of the Tennessee Council for the Social Studies, says the law — and a related climate of fear — has had a chilling effect on teachers who might normally contemplate lessons about the Tennessee Three, or perhaps about the insurrection at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. But it also depends on the teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a new teacher who is teaching in an area of the state where you feel insecure, you may not want to go there,” Finchum said. “But if you’re an experienced teacher and feel strongly about these events and how your students can learn from them, you may go ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Sugarmon falls in the latter category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Friday at White Station High School in Memphis, students showed up to Sugarmon’s weekly current events discussion with lots of questions about the expulsion. The day before the legislative vote, many White Station students had walked out of school to show support for gun reforms called for by the Tennessee Three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The kids come up with all these great questions. Sometimes there’s not an answer,” said Sugarmon, a veteran educator who teaches courses in U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s important to give students a safe and constructive space to discuss hard things, added Sugarmon, who is also an elected official on the Shelby County Commission, where she cast a vote to reinstate Pearson to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student in her class brought up racism, she said, prompting a conversation about why Tennessee lawmakers have sought to ban some books and squelch classroom discussions about racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been very vocal about not just what happened with Pearson, but with state laws in general,” said Sugarmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She encourages them to explore source documents to formulate their own options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence-based discussions are the way that teachers should take up politically charged topics with their students, Vanderbilt’s Geer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The evidence should be your guidepost,” he said, “while avoiding injecting ideology into the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, facts need to be interpreted,” Geer added. “But if we can agree on a basic set of evidence, we can have a conversation. And that’s an important part of democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Logan, a rising senior in Memphis at Germantown High School, talked about the lawmakers’ expulsions with her friends, but didn’t discuss the event as part of her 11th-grade American history class. Just the same, the deadly shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, which prompted the protest and led to the expulsions, was a big deal to her. And as a young Black person, she related to Pearson and Jones, who are among the youngest members of the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logan hopes this year’s events at the state Capitol will resurface as discussion topics during her senior year when she takes a U.S. government class. She has important questions. And she’s looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people,” she explained, “that are setting things up for us for our futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Marta Aldrich is a senior correspondent and covers the statehouse for Chalkbeat Tennessee. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brandy Smith is grateful her students are among the youngest on campus. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Too young to question why she has them stand up against the wall, out of sight of the classroom door, on drill days. Too young to ask why they do active shooter drills at all.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith is a pre-K teacher for Metro Nashville Public Schools. It can be an extra burden to teach such young students, though. They are often left out of school safety conversations – and young children can’t advocate on their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the weeks since \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-updates-3dfb2fcbb22ff8638074fd90c7b266fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a shooting at a private Christian school\u003c/a> in Nashville left three adults and three 9-year-olds dead, Smith said she’s had many “ups and downs.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s a lot of emotions,” Smith said. “I’ve gone from scared and terrified, to kinda just really pissed off. So mad that I could kinda just punch anybody.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith said she is “a lover, not a fighter” though. So as \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/20/23692010/tennessee-legislature-gun-control-covenant-school-shooting-jeff-yarbro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee lawmakers have debated – and largely failed\u003c/a> – passing gun control legislation in the wake of The Covenant School shooting, Smith has channeled her anger into advocacy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s among an increasing number of educators joining the thousands who have rallied, marched and protested, calling for change – and begging lawmakers to listen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here’s what a few Tennessee educators have to say about school safety – and why speaking out is so important. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Brandy Smith, a pre-K teacher in Nashville, Tenn. \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cb>As a teacher, you have to fight\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61517 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Brandy-Smith-160x197.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Brandy-Smith-160x197.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Brandy-Smith.jpeg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Since the morning a shooter opened fire at The Covenant School, Smith said she’s more fixated on her school’s escape plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“No matter if we’re in the library or the playground or the classroom, I know the steps,” Smith said. “And every now and then, I’ll just catch myself thinking about it, and then I’ll go over the checklist again in my head.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She considers herself lucky that preschoolers typically follow directions, but she never imagined she would spend so much time worrying about school safety when she became an educator.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We would have more time for a lot of other things if we didn’t have to do lockdown drills, and our kids would be safer if we didn’t have people being able to buy guns so quickly,” Smith said while apologizing for crying during her interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith participated in a local teachers union \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/basalticcraver/status/1641890185368555521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“sickout”\u003c/a> 10 days after the Nashville shooting. The event drew hundreds of Tennessee teachers to the state Capitol as lawmakers considered boosting funding for school resource officers and arming teachers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That same day, two young Black Democratic legislators were ousted from the Tennessee General Assembly for protesting and calling for gun control on the House floor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith remains cautiously optimistic, though. Since the shooting, protests and rallies have continued at the Capitol and across Nashville.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a teacher, she considers it her responsibility to advocate for her students and colleagues. But she’s also learned a more sobering duty: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You just have to come to the realization that if I have to — I will, like, fight somebody with a gun to keep them out of my classroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Paige La Grone Babcock, sixth grade teacher at Apollo Middle School in Nashville, Tenn. \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cb>Amplifying student voices\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61522 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-160x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-800x1065.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-1020x1358.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-768x1022.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-1154x1536.png 1154w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-1538x2048.png 1538w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Paige La Grone Babcock isn’t new to advocacy. A member of the local teacher’s union, she often organizes “Red4Ed” action in support of public school teachers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not only is Babcock’s husband also a Nashville schools teacher, but her child attends high school just down the road from The Covenant School.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Babcock thinks most law and policy makers don’t understand the day-to-day of teaching, especially how the fear of mass violence impacts students and staff.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day after the shooting, Babcock gave her middle school students, many of whom have disabilities or special needs, space to share their feelings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One 11-year-old student asked, “Why are lawmakers not doing more?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Because I don’t feel safe anywhere,” he said. “I don’t feel safe at school.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said she almost cried but instead told herself “there’s too much work to do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days later, she also joined a sickout at the Capitol. With his parents’ permission, she brought the student along.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When you feel helpless, the antidote to helplessness is to do something,” Babock said. “I felt like it was important for him – who very clearly articulated ‘I do not feel safe anywhere. I do not feel safe at school. This was preventable’ – I felt like he needed an outlet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two met with state and local lawmakers. Her student spoke to a crowd of protestors, rallying around voices like his. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s important for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61388/why-nashville-student-activists-arent-going-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students to have their voices heard\u003c/a> and realize their influence, she said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It allowed him to see he was not alone in his big feelings, but it’s not just about making yourself feel better. It’s about advocating for the world in which we want to live in.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Daven Oglesby, exceptional education teacher at Lakeview Elementary Design Center in Nashville, Tenn.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>Advice for lawmakers: Visit schools\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61518 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-160x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-800x801.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-1020x1021.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-768x769.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby.jpeg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Daven Oglesby’s advocacy is not just for his students. His 6-year-old son also attends the school where he teaches.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said he’s been most troubled by those pushing legislation to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-04-05/tennessee-advances-bill-to-arm-teachers-after-deadly-nashville-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allow teachers to carry firearms\u003c/a> on Tennessee campuses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What type of alternatives were considered prior to the decision being made for teachers carrying firearms,” Oglesby said he wants to ask lawmakers. “We’re not charged with serving and protecting students. We’re charged with educating.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oglesby already worries about the stress lockdown or active shooter drills have on students, many of whom are easily disturbed by changes in their routine or environment, like suddenly turning off the lights or being forced to be still and quiet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He doesn’t think lawmakers realize these aspects when crafting school safety and education policies. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Come visit these schools that you’re making these laws about and ask educators, parents and administrators, ‘What are your thoughts?’” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And if lawmakers won’t do that, Oglesby said it’s his responsibility to speak out and amplify those perspectives along with his students’ voices. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not enough to just be a teacher. It’s not enough to just sit in the classroom,” he said. “I have to take what I’m learning in the classroom — not just teaching my students, but learning from them as well — and spread that knowledge outside of the classroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because in the end, Oglesby believes change is possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Anna Voorhees, preschool teacher at West End United Methodist Preschool in Nashville, Tenn.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cb>Preschools are often “left out” of conversations\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61519 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-160x178.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-160x178.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-800x890.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-1020x1135.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-768x855.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees.jpeg 1114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Anna Voorhees became a daycare worker as a teenager. She currently works with infants as young as eight weeks old at a church-based daycare in Nashville – the same daycare she attended as a child.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent weeks, she and her colleagues frequently think about what they would do “if someone gets into the building.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“How would I protect my students?” she’ll ask herself, Voorhees said. “Are we going to attempt to hide and try to find something to barricade the door with, or are we going to climb out a window and pass babies through it?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked how many times she has joined the recent throng of protestors, Voorhees pauses. She can’t remember. She comes from a long line of activists. Her father, Jay Voorhees, is a pastor and has spent decades advocating for Nashvillians experiencing homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s marched alongside others, asking lawmakers to enact tighter rules for purchasing firearms or allow officers to take firearms from someone deemed a risk to themselves or others, commonly known as “red flag laws.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voorhees said marching and chanting is as much for her as it is for her students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have anxiety, and it’s become worse with everything going on,” she said. “One of the ways that I find myself healing the most is by being here, using my voice. It’s harder for me to find energy to do nothing.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like private schools, she believes preschools and daycares are too often excluded from school safety plans. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Preschools are often left out of the conversation. We don’t get [school resource officers]. Some places are privileged enough to have armed security, but a lot of places do not … so I am here to try and be a voice to my colleagues.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith said she is “a lover, not a fighter” though. So as \u003ca href=\"https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2023/4/20/23692010/tennessee-legislature-gun-control-covenant-school-shooting-jeff-yarbro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee lawmakers have debated – and largely failed\u003c/a> – passing gun control legislation in the wake of The Covenant School shooting, Smith has channeled her anger into advocacy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s among an increasing number of educators joining the thousands who have rallied, marched and protested, calling for change – and begging lawmakers to listen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here’s what a few Tennessee educators have to say about school safety – and why speaking out is so important. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Brandy Smith, a pre-K teacher in Nashville, Tenn. \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cb>As a teacher, you have to fight\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61517 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Brandy-Smith-160x197.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Brandy-Smith-160x197.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Brandy-Smith.jpeg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Since the morning a shooter opened fire at The Covenant School, Smith said she’s more fixated on her school’s escape plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“No matter if we’re in the library or the playground or the classroom, I know the steps,” Smith said. “And every now and then, I’ll just catch myself thinking about it, and then I’ll go over the checklist again in my head.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She considers herself lucky that preschoolers typically follow directions, but she never imagined she would spend so much time worrying about school safety when she became an educator.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We would have more time for a lot of other things if we didn’t have to do lockdown drills, and our kids would be safer if we didn’t have people being able to buy guns so quickly,” Smith said while apologizing for crying during her interview. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith participated in a local teachers union \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/basalticcraver/status/1641890185368555521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“sickout”\u003c/a> 10 days after the Nashville shooting. The event drew hundreds of Tennessee teachers to the state Capitol as lawmakers considered boosting funding for school resource officers and arming teachers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That same day, two young Black Democratic legislators were ousted from the Tennessee General Assembly for protesting and calling for gun control on the House floor. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith remains cautiously optimistic, though. Since the shooting, protests and rallies have continued at the Capitol and across Nashville.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a teacher, she considers it her responsibility to advocate for her students and colleagues. But she’s also learned a more sobering duty: \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You just have to come to the realization that if I have to — I will, like, fight somebody with a gun to keep them out of my classroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Paige La Grone Babcock, sixth grade teacher at Apollo Middle School in Nashville, Tenn. \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cb>Amplifying student voices\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61522 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-160x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-160x213.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-800x1065.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-1020x1358.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-768x1022.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-1154x1536.png 1154w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2-1538x2048.png 1538w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Paige-La-Grone-Babcock2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Paige La Grone Babcock isn’t new to advocacy. A member of the local teacher’s union, she often organizes “Red4Ed” action in support of public school teachers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not only is Babcock’s husband also a Nashville schools teacher, but her child attends high school just down the road from The Covenant School.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Babcock thinks most law and policy makers don’t understand the day-to-day of teaching, especially how the fear of mass violence impacts students and staff.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day after the shooting, Babcock gave her middle school students, many of whom have disabilities or special needs, space to share their feelings.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One 11-year-old student asked, “Why are lawmakers not doing more?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Because I don’t feel safe anywhere,” he said. “I don’t feel safe at school.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said she almost cried but instead told herself “there’s too much work to do.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two days later, she also joined a sickout at the Capitol. With his parents’ permission, she brought the student along.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When you feel helpless, the antidote to helplessness is to do something,” Babock said. “I felt like it was important for him – who very clearly articulated ‘I do not feel safe anywhere. I do not feel safe at school. This was preventable’ – I felt like he needed an outlet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The two met with state and local lawmakers. Her student spoke to a crowd of protestors, rallying around voices like his. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s important for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61388/why-nashville-student-activists-arent-going-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students to have their voices heard\u003c/a> and realize their influence, she said. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It allowed him to see he was not alone in his big feelings, but it’s not just about making yourself feel better. It’s about advocating for the world in which we want to live in.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Daven Oglesby, exceptional education teacher at Lakeview Elementary Design Center in Nashville, Tenn.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>Advice for lawmakers: Visit schools\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61518 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-160x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-800x801.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-1020x1021.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby-768x769.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Daven-Oglesby.jpeg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Daven Oglesby’s advocacy is not just for his students. His 6-year-old son also attends the school where he teaches.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said he’s been most troubled by those pushing legislation to \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2023-04-05/tennessee-advances-bill-to-arm-teachers-after-deadly-nashville-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allow teachers to carry firearms\u003c/a> on Tennessee campuses. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What type of alternatives were considered prior to the decision being made for teachers carrying firearms,” Oglesby said he wants to ask lawmakers. “We’re not charged with serving and protecting students. We’re charged with educating.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oglesby already worries about the stress lockdown or active shooter drills have on students, many of whom are easily disturbed by changes in their routine or environment, like suddenly turning off the lights or being forced to be still and quiet. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He doesn’t think lawmakers realize these aspects when crafting school safety and education policies. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Come visit these schools that you’re making these laws about and ask educators, parents and administrators, ‘What are your thoughts?’” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And if lawmakers won’t do that, Oglesby said it’s his responsibility to speak out and amplify those perspectives along with his students’ voices. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not enough to just be a teacher. It’s not enough to just sit in the classroom,” he said. “I have to take what I’m learning in the classroom — not just teaching my students, but learning from them as well — and spread that knowledge outside of the classroom.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because in the end, Oglesby believes change is possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Anna Voorhees, preschool teacher at West End United Methodist Preschool in Nashville, Tenn.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003ch4>\u003cem>\u003cb>Preschools are often “left out” of conversations\u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61519 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-160x178.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-160x178.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-800x890.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-1020x1135.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees-768x855.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/Anna-Voorhees.jpeg 1114w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Anna Voorhees became a daycare worker as a teenager. She currently works with infants as young as eight weeks old at a church-based daycare in Nashville – the same daycare she attended as a child.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent weeks, she and her colleagues frequently think about what they would do “if someone gets into the building.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“How would I protect my students?” she’ll ask herself, Voorhees said. “Are we going to attempt to hide and try to find something to barricade the door with, or are we going to climb out a window and pass babies through it?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked how many times she has joined the recent throng of protestors, Voorhees pauses. She can’t remember. She comes from a long line of activists. Her father, Jay Voorhees, is a pastor and has spent decades advocating for Nashvillians experiencing homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s marched alongside others, asking lawmakers to enact tighter rules for purchasing firearms or allow officers to take firearms from someone deemed a risk to themselves or others, commonly known as “red flag laws.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voorhees said marching and chanting is as much for her as it is for her students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I have anxiety, and it’s become worse with everything going on,” she said. “One of the ways that I find myself healing the most is by being here, using my voice. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This opinion column about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-nashville-student-activists-not-willing-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee expulsion\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for Hechinger’s weekly newsletters. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activism has been part of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah Suara’s\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> young life since her politician mother hauled her along to demonstrations in a baby carrier. That’s why she’ll be spending this week protesting guns and the expulsion from the Tennessee House of two Democratic lawmakers by their Republican colleagues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s hoping more young Tennesseans will join her.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The most important thing is to keep speaking out, and to show the legislature and the rest of the world that we won’t stop fighting,” said Safiyah, an 18-year-old senior at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://humefogg.mnps.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hume-Fogg\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a magnet high school just four a few blocks from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some 7,000 students who walked out of school in Nashville on April 3 did exactly that, after three children and three adults were killed by an assailant armed with semi-automatic weapons at a nearby church-affiliated school. They \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/nashville-children-scream-republicans-gun-control-viral-photo-1792437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">confronted lawmakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the capitol, then later watched in dismay as a Republican majority ousted Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones for interrupting debate by leading a gun control protest on March 30 inside the chamber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, the day before yet another mass shooting left five dead in Louisville, I spoke via Zoom with Safiyah and two of her Hume-Fogg classmates, along with their English teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/03/30/covenant-school-shooting-may-our-children-succeed-in-ending-violence/70058947007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courtney Shultz.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They described what they see as an attack on democracy, one that has trained the nation’s eyes on their home state. Despite anguish over gun violence and the legislature’s failure to act on the issue, the high school seniors hope to build a better Tennessee, a state with a history of racism and segregation that only recently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/23/tennessees-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust-has-been-moved-museum/8064468002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the bust of the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Unfortunately, it’s up to our generation to push back and let them know we are not going to be silent anymore,” said Ren Peters, 18, who plans to study oceanography in college this fall in Florida, but wants to come back to his home state and continue fighting for stricter gun control. “We are going to be heard. You are not going to push us around. This isn’t a dictatorship.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shultz, who is also the school’s debate team coach, described the lesson in democracy she and about 25 Hume-Fogg students received last Thursday, when student government leaders from the school held a peaceful demonstration in support of Pearson and Jones in front of the capitol alongside their principal. Many waited in a packed tunnel for two hours to enter the building before they were confronted by state troopers who told them the building was full and they couldn’t enter, Schultz recalled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Shultz, an English teacher and debate coach at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, protesting inaction on gun laws at the state capitol in Tennessee last week with senior Ren Peters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Coutney Shultz.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students carried small signs (after being warned they could not be larger than 8.5 x 11) with slogans like “Make Murder More Difficult,” and “We Just Want to Live Through High School.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They led chants and songs, including the renowned gospel tune \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/630051651/american-anthem-this-little-light-of-mine-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This little light of mine.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Several said they have been angry at the lack of stricter gun control laws in Tennessee and elsewhere for years, along with their legislature’s more recent focus on banning books, abortion and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160784530/tennessee-ban-public-drag-shows-transgender-health-care-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">drag shows.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have been repeatedly asked to be patient. At this point, patience is ignorance,” Hume-Fogg senior Wyatt Bassow wrote in a letter to Republican \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee Gov\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Bill Lee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/04/09/gen-z-tired-being-patient-gun-reform-nashville-shooting/11621908002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">published\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in USA Today. “The reason this keeps happening is not drag shows or video games or a leftist agenda or books or schools or dress code or ‘wokeness’ or civil rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Ren, Wyatt plans to attend college in Florida, but told me he sees a future for himself in Tennessee, perhaps in politics. He’s both outraged and energized by what he witnessed in the state capitol. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is fascism. We are looking at it straight in the face, and the first step to fascism is silence,” Wyatt told me. “That’s why I want to come back here and make havoc. I know I can make change, even though our democracy is fragile.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students held up signs after marching to the state capitol in Tennessee to make their voices heard, as teacher Courtney Shultz has encouraged them to do. The Tennessee expulsion has ignited anger among students across Nashville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Courtney Shultz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah, a member of the mayor’s youth council, has more practice at protesting than her classmates Ren and Wyatt. She’s the daughter\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of at-large Metro Council member \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://zulfatsuara.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zulfat Suara,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who came to Tennessee the U.S. from Nigeria in 1993 and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/04/07/vp-kamala-harris-meets-tennessee-three/11623365002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was with\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited Nashville on April 7 and told protestors: “Your voices are part of the conscience of our country.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah has already \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/02/18/donald-trump-protest-nashville-road-name-change-john-lewis-way/69912918007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">led a rally\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to stop Republicans from changing part of a Tennessee street named for Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon Rep. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Lewis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Donald Trump Boulevard. She’s met members of Lewis’s family in Alabama, and knows both Jones and Pearson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ouster felt even more personal because Safiyah knows both men. The two legislators, both of whom are Black, were ousted while Rep. Gloria Jones, who is white and who also joined the protestors, was not. Collectively they’ve become known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/tennessee-house-expulsion-gloria-johnson-justin-jones-justin-pearson/70080338007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Tennessee Three,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but only Jones and Pearson must now \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/09/justin-pearson-tennessee-expelled-00091113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fight\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get their positions back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once school is out today, Safiyah will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zulfat4council/status/1645118911413616647/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">head back to the state capitol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in support of Jones and Pearson, where a special meeting of the city’s metro council will be held to discuss the vacant seats. She said she feels tired. But when Safiyah enters \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rhodes.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhodes College\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Memphis next fall, she’ll continue fighting and protesting, making the kind of “good trouble” Rep. John Lewis personified.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He would be sick to his stomach seeing everything that is happening,” Safiyah told me. “He’d be sad for the state of Tennessee.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s certain that he would also be heartened by the voices of young students, pushing back, just as Safiyah was taught to do from the time she was born.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mom,” Safiya told me, “has always taught me that if you don’t have a seat at the table, full up a folding chair.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This opinion column about the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/column-nashville-student-activists-not-willing-to-wait-a-generation-for-gun-control/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee expulsion\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/newsletters/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for our weekly newsletters. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Sunday, the day before yet another mass shooting left five dead in Louisville, I spoke via Zoom with Safiyah and two of her Hume-Fogg classmates, along with their English teacher \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/03/30/covenant-school-shooting-may-our-children-succeed-in-ending-violence/70058947007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Courtney Shultz.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They described what they see as an attack on democracy, one that has trained the nation’s eyes on their home state. Despite anguish over gun violence and the legislature’s failure to act on the issue, the high school seniors hope to build a better Tennessee, a state with a history of racism and segregation that only recently \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/23/tennessees-nathan-bedford-forrest-bust-has-been-moved-museum/8064468002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the bust of the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from the state capitol.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Unfortunately, it’s up to our generation to push back and let them know we are not going to be silent anymore,” said Ren Peters, 18, who plans to study oceanography in college this fall in Florida, but wants to come back to his home state and continue fighting for stricter gun control. “We are going to be heard. You are not going to push us around. This isn’t a dictatorship.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shultz, who is also the school’s debate team coach, described the lesson in democracy she and about 25 Hume-Fogg students received last Thursday, when student government leaders from the school held a peaceful demonstration in support of Pearson and Jones in front of the capitol alongside their principal. Many waited in a packed tunnel for two hours to enter the building before they were confronted by state troopers who told them the building was full and they couldn’t enter, Schultz recalled.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61395\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Shultz, an English teacher and debate coach at Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville, protesting inaction on gun laws at the state capitol in Tennessee last week with senior Ren Peters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Coutney Shultz.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The students carried small signs (after being warned they could not be larger than 8.5 x 11) with slogans like “Make Murder More Difficult,” and “We Just Want to Live Through High School.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They led chants and songs, including the renowned gospel tune \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/630051651/american-anthem-this-little-light-of-mine-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This little light of mine.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Several said they have been angry at the lack of stricter gun control laws in Tennessee and elsewhere for years, along with their legislature’s more recent focus on banning books, abortion and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160784530/tennessee-ban-public-drag-shows-transgender-health-care-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">drag shows.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have been repeatedly asked to be patient. At this point, patience is ignorance,” Hume-Fogg senior Wyatt Bassow wrote in a letter to Republican \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tennessee Gov\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Bill Lee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/04/09/gen-z-tired-being-patient-gun-reform-nashville-shooting/11621908002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">published\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in USA Today. “The reason this keeps happening is not drag shows or video games or a leftist agenda or books or schools or dress code or ‘wokeness’ or civil rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Ren, Wyatt plans to attend college in Florida, but told me he sees a future for himself in Tennessee, perhaps in politics. He’s both outraged and energized by what he witnessed in the state capitol. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is fascism. We are looking at it straight in the face, and the first step to fascism is silence,” Wyatt told me. “That’s why I want to come back here and make havoc. I know I can make change, even though our democracy is fragile.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-61396\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2023/04/willen-nashville-column2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students held up signs after marching to the state capitol in Tennessee to make their voices heard, as teacher Courtney Shultz has encouraged them to do. The Tennessee expulsion has ignited anger among students across Nashville. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Courtney Shultz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah, a member of the mayor’s youth council, has more practice at protesting than her classmates Ren and Wyatt. She’s the daughter\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of at-large Metro Council member \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://zulfatsuara.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zulfat Suara,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> who came to Tennessee the U.S. from Nigeria in 1993 and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/2023/04/07/vp-kamala-harris-meets-tennessee-three/11623365002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was with\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Vice President Kamala Harris when she visited Nashville on April 7 and told protestors: “Your voices are part of the conscience of our country.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Safiyah has already \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2023/02/18/donald-trump-protest-nashville-road-name-change-john-lewis-way/69912918007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">led a rally\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to stop Republicans from changing part of a Tennessee street named for Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon Rep. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/us/john-lewis-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Lewis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Donald Trump Boulevard. She’s met members of Lewis’s family in Alabama, and knows both Jones and Pearson. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ouster felt even more personal because Safiyah knows both men. The two legislators, both of whom are Black, were ousted while Rep. Gloria Jones, who is white and who also joined the protestors, was not. Collectively they’ve become known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/tennessee-house-expulsion-gloria-johnson-justin-jones-justin-pearson/70080338007/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Tennessee Three,”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but only Jones and Pearson must now \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/09/justin-pearson-tennessee-expelled-00091113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">fight\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to get their positions back.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once school is out today, Safiyah will \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zulfat4council/status/1645118911413616647/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">head back to the state capitol\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in support of Jones and Pearson, where a special meeting of the city’s metro council will be held to discuss the vacant seats. She said she feels tired. But when Safiyah enters \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rhodes.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rhodes College\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Memphis next fall, she’ll continue fighting and protesting, making the kind of “good trouble” Rep. John Lewis personified.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He would be sick to his stomach seeing everything that is happening,” Safiyah told me. “He’d be sad for the state of Tennessee.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She’s certain that he would also be heartened by the voices of young students, pushing back, just as Safiyah was taught to do from the time she was born.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My mom,” Safiya told me, “has always taught me that if you don’t have a seat at the table, full up a folding chair.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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