{"id":43816,"date":"2011-12-20T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/one-teachers-approach-to-preventing-gender\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:19:09","slug":"one-teachers-approach-to-preventing-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/one-teachers-approach-to-preventing-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"One teachers approach to preventing gender bullying in a classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/togetherforjacksoncountykids.tumblr.com\/post\/14314184651\/one-teachers-approach-to-preventing-gender-bullying-in\">togetherforjacksoncountykids<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rethinkingschools.org\/img\/archive\/26_01\/tempel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">\u201cIt\u2019s Okay to be Neither,\u201d By Melissa Bollow Tempel<\/p>\n<p class=\"leadin\">Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said: \u201cAllie, I\u2019m not playing. It\u2019s time for art. The rule is no hoods or hats in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She looked up with tears in her eyes and I realized there was something wrong. Her classmates went into the art room and we moved to the art storage area so her classmates wouldn\u2019t hear our conversation. I softened my tone and asked her if she\u2019d like to tell me what was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ponytail,\u201d she cried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I see?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>She nodded and pulled down her hood. Allie\u2019s braids had come undone overnight and there hadn\u2019t been time to redo them in the morning, so they had to be put back in a ponytail. It was high up on the back of her head like those of many girls in our class, but I could see that to Allie it just felt wrong. With Allie\u2019s permission, I took the elastic out and re-braided her hair so it could hang down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow\u2019s that?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled. \u201cGood,\u201d she said and skipped off to join her friends in art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Why Do You Look Like a Boy?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/togetherforjacksoncountykids.tumblr.com\/post\/14314184651\/one-teachers-approach-to-preventing-gender-bullying-in\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>togetherforjacksoncountykids: \u201cIt\u2019s Okay to be Neither,\u201d By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-43816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-critical-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-boI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}