How Cultural Indoctrination Exists in Our Schools and Impacts Black Students

I recently came across an article on Medium entitled “Culturally Responsive or Liberal Indoctrination”, which was in response to a recent Edutopia article I wrote, describing the process that math teachers should take to create lessons and tasks that are culturally responsive to the student population they serve. Although I agree with the author’s basic argument that teachers must allow students to develop their own agency around highly political issues, I was troubled that he questioned the integrity of my lesson’s intent and…