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Nidhi Shrivastava Farfaglia
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✨ Book Review: Punished For Dreaming ✨ ⁉️: Thinking back about your school education, what would you keep or what would you change? Change - it’s something that we fear but change is what is needed when young minds can be - as the title suggests - “punished for dreaming”. I have been thinking of this book ever since it showed up on my doorstep a few months ago. The author, Bettina Love, begins this story by relating about her own experiences with the education system that often would isolate her and not give her opportunities that she should have received. In her book, Love is not afraid to address racism and prejudice for what it is citing historical decisions that have affected access to the education system by installing policies that keep certain kids from benefiting the education system. Love’s unflinching, bold, and influential book compels us to revisit education policies that had been reinstated in the 1980s. As Love explores educational policies in various administrations and their impact on the lives of Black children. For me, Kia’s case was striking and memorable. Based in Chicago, her first encounter with the carceal state was because as an eight-year-old, she had been “caught” by a police officer for standing near and admiring them. Perhaps that was the moment that was heart breaking for me that “Kia understood immediately that in his eyes, she was not a child but a criminal and that, as a ward of state, she was at the mercy of the angry and scary white officer but also a system that thought nothing of moving her like a chess pawn every year.” This quote to me was hard hitting and spoke to me about just how important education is for all, and should be accessible to everyone, and especially those who exist on the margins. This book releases tomorrow, September 12. Thank you @stmartinspress and @BLoveSoulPower for the gifted copy. #PunishedForDreaming #BettinaLLove #StMartinsPress #SMPGinfluencer #shnidhi #RepresentationMatters #BIPOC #BIPOCauthor