“President Trump’s New York” (Essay Read)
This essay was originally posted on Substack: https://naomiwolf.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/159633744
“What happened to New York and Brooklyn between 2022 and 2024 should be in the history books. Mayor Adams and Joe Biden devoted nearly five billion dollars in a single year to “welcoming migrants.” City schools and shelters were overrun. “Asylum seekers” received benefits that low-income and middle-class New Yorkers could only dream of. Dr. Wolf analyzes how this influx of lawlessness and privilege damaged the city’s social contract—and describes the dramatic shift that followed Inauguration Day. Do we get to believe in sovereign nations again?”
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I am a teacher in Canada and I struggle with the idea of consequences when students act out. Meeting them where they are is not a bad option. The reason is because, the way I see it, like big Ag, big Tech and all of the other big stuff, big Ed is also a business that students are seeing through. Many of the students feel that they are being ‘ideally’ streamed to go to a university where they will find themselves in a lot of debt after 4 years and no job. (The coop programs they offer ought to have more focus as it seems to be one of the few things that is allowing students more success.) Many teachers still don’t seem to have a grip on how to accommodate for different learners and so when a student is frustrated, as they ought to be, by the the fact that the teacher seems to be looking for their own skills in that of their students – really just looking for a reflection of themselves–they act out. I don’t see how we could consequence them just because they happen to be forced to go to school that doesn’t always recognize and accept them for who they are. There are provincial literacy tests and numeracy tests (that the voters wanted) that tell the students every day that those are the top skills they need. I disagree. English and Math are important but so are many other skills.
As an Art teacher, critical thinking, creativity and problem solving is where I think it is at. Just visually, (I see it maybe more as an art teacher) the school tells students a lot. The often empty forums where you enter the school tell the student that nothing is really going on here and the tables and chairs that are all the same tell them they need to fit in and be like everyone else. This is a lot of pressure when we aren’t the same. There are not enough choices in high school in my opinion. Most students are too old already to be told what subjects to take. As an art teacher one of my main goals is the find out what each student strength is and tap into it. In grade 9 is breaks my heart that they know what they are not good at and have no idea what they are good at. This needs to change and is definitely why I don’t think students ought to have a consequence. The majority of bad behaviour, to me, is often a product of systems that need a lot of work. I did an art project that took two years to complete. I scanned every page of Oliver Twist into photoshop and changed the text to look, as I interpreted it, like a reading difficulty that students can have. I have an Oliver Twist that reads possibly as a dyslexic student may see it with inverted b’s and d’s ect. I have a scotopic sensitivity Oliver Twist book and 5 others. You basically can’t read them. If you walk in the students’ shoes, it can be easy to see why they act out. In fact, I am surprised at how good they are.
Just wanted to say how inspired I am by the essays that Naomi writes. I love how thought provoking they are and that Naomi writes what is on her mind on not worrying if the audience is pleased or not. I agree with a lot of Naomi’s points about immigration –especially that it should be safe (and legal) for the immigrants who want to come. When it comes to immigrants who become students, I can’t imagine how difficult it is for them especially in a system that already has many difficulties.