OPINION: The shortcomings in Brookline s police reform and reimagining wickedlocal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wickedlocal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when youâre one of too few educators of color
As well-intentioned schools with mostly white staffs scramble to respond to a reckoning on racism, an âinvisible taxâ of work falls on too few teachers and administrators like Malcolm Cawthorne in Brookline.
By Linda K. WertheimerUpdated April 1, 2021, 11:55 a.m.
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Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.Webb Chappell for The Boston Globe
MALCOLM CAWTHORNE, the longest-serving Black teacher at Brookline High School, leaned close to his computer screen and spoke firmly to the mostly white group of administrators in the Zoom meeting. âIâm not cleaning up your [expletive] anymore.â
Wicked Local
Asked to weigh in on the differing visions of public safety offered by the Select Board’s Committee on Policing Reforms and the Task Force to Reimagine Policing in Brookline, community members had some ideas of their own.
Residents at a public hearing Tuesday shared thoughts on local policing, often endorsing one group’s recommendations over the other and occasionally hurling accusations of bias.
The committee and task force have been compared and contrasted from conception, with one setting out to improve the town’s existing policing and the other considering bold changes to the public safety model. Both were convened by the Select Board.
Brookline dives in to police reform discussions wickedlocal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wickedlocal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Brookline s Task Force to Reimagine Policing pitches new agency wickedlocal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wickedlocal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.