Saturday, December 18, 2021

A Home Run on the Wheel of Privilege?

Teachers talk a lot about privilege these days.  It comes up in professional development all the time.  In a recent session, one of the discussion leaders said "It's rare that anyone has privilege in all the sectors - it's a complex and mixed bag for most folks."

Afterwards, I thought, well, hmmm, I might just have a home run in luck on that there wheel:



('slim' and 'rich' may be stretches, but it all depends on your metric, right?)

In class the other day, I left my home screen projected on the board and just after my students noticed a document titled "The Chemistry of Bourbon", they saw this graphic.  So, I proceeded to tell them the story of how lucky I am to have privilege in all sectors.  After a few chuckles on the 'slim' category, some rapscallion (OL?) calls out "Good thing they don't have a sector called 'Has Hair' on there!"

 

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