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A classmate in my master’s degree program explained to our class: “I really want to talk with my students about why it’s wrong to discriminate against gay people.

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I had one conversation with them about it, but then my principal found out, and ever since then he’s been watching every move I make. I feel like I can’t teach about this any more.”

After working for weeks to write units on such topics as gender bias, racism, and the criminalization of youth, our class discussed what it would be like to actually teach these units in our classroom.

We wanted to teach the lessons we’d written — in fact, we had chosen this master’s program because it explicitly focused on anti-racist teaching. But while many of my classmates strongly believed in the lessons we wrote, at the same time most expressed doubts about actually being able to teach these lessons in our classrooms.

Our professor prompted us: “Tell me about your fears.

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