Seems so odd to “celebrate” our nation when it is plagued with the pandemic, racial tensions, unemployment and cross-sector uncertainty. It would be like celebrating a person’s birthday who is struggling with depression. Here’s another oddity: I wrote a book on the impact of trauma on children and their education. That was written pre-pandemic although it was edited to include the pandemic during the page proof stage. It does deal with racial and sexual discrimination and micro aggressions. The book’s efforts to create trauma responsive institutions has added and new meaning, augmenting its import. Sadly, Trauma Doesn’t Stop at the School Door is a book for our time. And it can help, which gives me solace. Amazon book stock is running low but there’s an ebook discounted. Teachers College Press has the paperback and ebook (also discounted). Perhaps the book will give you hope; it does that for me. For the 4th, hope is a good theme. Better perhaps than fireworks. Who needs bangs and booms now when we see experiencing bangs and booms daily, most with no sound?
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