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Brookline educator Joshua Frank knows what it’s like to face backlash for teaching certain topics to K-12 students.
“Teachers over the course of time build those repertoires where they can handle not just current events but highly racialized, politicized events in a way that honors the event itself as well as the multitude of the multiracial voices in our classrooms,” he said. Brookline's interim superintendent, James Marini, said in a statement, in part, "Brookline is extremely fortunate to have a gifted educator and administrator like Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School. We are committed to better understanding the burden placed on him and other Black teachers to educate our students and ourse...
Globe Magazine 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. Email to a Friend 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 ...