https://www.indy100.com/"/this-man-is-documenting-day-1-of-hate--aft"
Nov 10, 2016 -- Shaun King, a journalist for the New York Daily News has spent the first day since Trump's victory compiling reports of hate and violence.
[4] In Thomas Frank's "What's The Matter With Kansas" the issue of the state of Kansas being a people exporter state is not discussed.
This is sad, because along with countries, such as Ireland and the Philippines, the state of Kansas has seen millions of its citizens emigrate to other more progressive states or countries decade-after-decade for the past hundred years. This huge emigration means that although its education system at the primary, secondary and tertiaries has been historically strong, a great portion of the people are emigrating en masse.
The political, social and economic status quo in Kansas is what guarantees much migration. For example, I was educated and trained in a special program to learn to teach social studies in a multi-cultural community, i.e. in Kansas City. I was subsequently labled as naive and had a hard time finding work even in the metropolitan areas of the state.
However, it must also be stated that nearly all positions I came across in social studies or history in the state Kansas were saved for football and basketball or track coaches--not someone like me who was specializing in classroom teaching and motivating students to be lifelong learners. (In Kansas City's Harmon High School in 1985, where I did my teachers' training, I was the first social studies teacher to organize a trip to for students to one of the metropolitan areas most famous museums, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. I was teaching a world cultures course and took students to see the Indian and Asian exhibitions there.)
In order to teach in Kansas, I had to eventually add 3 language (German, Spanish, and ESL) certifications to my teaching repetoir to even obtain a job in the state in the 1980s and 1990s.
(In contrast to having a coach for the local school team,) Kansas' statewide bias against having motivated young social studies and history teachers continues to this very day. However, I should add that this is a bias that is also prevalent in approximately 40 of 50 USA states.
[5] Many of my friends and family say this is a hard-time to get a teaching job in Kansas (or neighboring states) due to the collapse of the state's budgets under Governor Brownback and Secretary of State Kobach.
Therefore, I will apply outside of my homestate, too.
[6] American educators are working in almost every country of the world. Will such developmental minded educators find progressives to support their return to reform America?
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