A letter to students and families in Washington State from the Wet’suwet’en people as they fight to protect their ancestral homelands

A letter to students and families in Washington State from the Wet’suwet’en people as they fight to protect their ancestral homelands

Dr. Karla Tait, Director of Clinical Programming at the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre on the “frontlines” of the Wet’suwet’en lands, took the time to write a letter to students and families in Washington discussing how their struggle connects to our lives and the lives of all people.

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The fact that we are even discussing arming teachers shows that we’re too far gone for my boys to be safe in public school. It's time to start preparing to get out.

The fact that we are even discussing arming teachers shows that we’re too far gone for my boys to be safe in public school. It's time to start preparing to get out.

The status quo is leading to increasingly disastrous results. Inequity, segregation and gun violence in our schools are only increasing. Things have been really bad since literally the beginning of public schooling, and things are continually getting worse.

Just like every school shooting before this one, if this isn’t the wake-up call that permanently changes our perspective and our behavior, then we ourselves have made sure that it’s nothing more than a pointless, senseless, meaningless tragedy.

Put another way, if you don’t do things differently now, then you’re choosing — knowingly — to continue to be complicit. If I don’t do things differently now, I am, too.

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