BLM at Schools Week

Guilford Central School, among other schools in our district, is participating in the national Black Lives Matter at Schools week.

“Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition organizing for racial justice in education. We encourage all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year.”

This week, we will be focusing on these four principles of the Black Lives Matter movement:

• Restorative Justice

• Empathy

• Loving Engagement

• Diversity

Here is an excerpt from Black Lives Matter at Schools that GCS stands behind:

“Young People are aware of racial tensions and injustices in their own lives and in the media. They benefit from guidance from teachers, families, and other adult caregivers in discussing, analyzing, and processing what they see and hear around them. Providing them with context for what they are hearing and seeing will increase their cultural literacy and ability to engage in brave conversations and actions with their peers and adults. The 13 guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter movement serve as a helpful framework to structure these conversations.

All young people can benefit from conversations about the BLM movement and its guiding principles. We affirm that the movement is about Black lives: we celebrate the acts of resistance, creativity, and joy that uplift them while we also confront and mourn the injustices and atrocities that are continually perpetuated against Black communities.”