The Pink Slip Project was created by NYU Art + Education graduate students envisioning a more equitable school experience, with an emphasis on creating healing environments for students to return to after a traumatic 18 months. We prioritize student voices in our process as we seek transformative and restorative practices to replace traditionally punitive discipline.
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Avalon (they/them) ak8605@nyu.edu
Mary (she/her) maa496@nyu.edu
Molly (she/her) mer9738@nyu.edu
Zoe (she/her) zhs2004@nyu.edu
The forms teachers and principals fill out to suspend a student are often pink and referred to as 'pink slips.' The term is also commonly used in workplaces to give notice of termination of employment, which originated in 1910. It is also synonymous among police and social workers as the form filled out in order to institutionalize someone, with or without their consent. We appropriated this commonplace government form that signals a forced removal as a comment on the sterile bureaucracy used for adults that is unfairly modeled in school settings, altering children's lives.