Balancing Politics With Public School
March 21, 2018
Paula McAvoy, program director for the Center for Ethics and Education, was featured in U.S. News and World Report on politics in public schools.
From U.S. News and World Report:
"[S]chools and districts that choose to participate in an event like the National Day of Action [do not] have to go about it politically. They could, for example, sponsor a day for students to wear orange, a color that honors victims of gun violence, or organize events addressing tangential issues, bullying and other mental health crises.
"I think the school can support students, but they need to make sure and students need to recognize that their classmates may not agree wholeheartedly with that view and those who don't agree should have the option to opt out of any demonstration, and teachers need to be careful that students who have an alternate point of view aren't silenced," says Paula McAvoy, the program director for the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
