What if we taught our children to learn from mistakes?
What if we used the millions spent on standardized tests to train teachers to disrupt systems of oppression or create a pipeline of critical conscious teachers practicing cultural and linguistic responsiveness and humility?
What if we encouraged mistakes, missteps, and misunderstandings to be repaired for they are great teachers?
What if we coached them how to repair through observing, learning, and not repeating?
What if the oppressive mistakes and atrocities of the past helped us write better roadmaps for a more just antiracist future?
What if we centered the stories of those whose narratives were erased by those who mistreated, misstepped, dominated, suppressed, and never repaired?
What if we were courageous enough to teach children to examine their mistakes or failures as gifts for their path ahead?
What if they were not called mistakes but detours?
What if?
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