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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

Garrett, This is really good stuff. Thanks for keeping it open. It hit close to home as I am a TFA alum who spent over a decade teaching in Baltimore, DC and Maryland. I cringe out how much I didn’t know and how much I have learned. I still teach students and teachers and I still work for equity- just in a more humble, connected way- and am grateful for this kind of writing that looks at things a little more complexly. Have you read This Here Flesh? Cole’s writing is incredibly moving, and there’s a few lines I keep coming back to that I thought of one I read your work. I’ll share them later when I’m done moving my office.

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LaKay Cornell's avatar

THIS. This is what I thought of when you proposed this series. It’s so connected to you and - past you, present you, and future you. There’s zero distance between the point and the effect of the point on you and on culture.

It’s the unreliable narratator in its highest and best use. In a recent conversation about Journalism, Michael Hobbs made the comment that he’s over the idea that journalists should be non-biased. (Putting aside the fact that it’s impossible to ever fully be that and almost never actually true), the message was essentially that is precisely our bias - our experiences w topics and themes and experiences etc - that make stories matter so much.

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