Storytelling Opportunity with Prince George's County Schools

Monday, January 30th from 10:00am to Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 2:00pm (ET)

About

This project is for students in Community Engaged Scholarship courses that are tasked with telling community partner stories and for community partners to post opportunities for students in storytelling roles to work with the organization. The goal is for this page to be a resource for students and community partners to connect to tell and share their stories. Opportunities for students to work with community partners for their storytelling assignments will be posted under events.  Students should first reach out to community partners to discuss working with the organization.  Once confirmed with the community partner, students can then use the registration link under the posted event to confirm that they will be working with the organization.  Only one student can register for each event posted so make sure to confirm with the community partner first and please only register for an event if you have confirmed you will be working for that organization.  

Please report impacts to your course Give Pulse group rather than this group.

"Hi There! So, I actually would love to have a story about a policy banning hoodies (not the hoods, the actual sweater!) my daughter's school has (she's actually in Prince George's County Schools). I work in DC Public Schools, so I got this form invitation through my position. Here is the short version of the situation in case someone wants to dig in!

-Students are not allowed to wear hoodies at all. Except, now they have allowed 6th graders to wear them because they go back and forth to outdoor trailers for classes. Well, my daughter (7th grade) also has health class in the trailer and therefore has to go outside which means 7/8 grade students can't wear a hoodie to go out to trailers, but 6th graders can.

-The school has been confiscating hoodies and shaming kids, embarrassing them in their classes in the process. They say it's for safety, but they have no data to suggest the school is any safer this year with the policy vs last year without it in place.

-The school does not follow the student handbook or code of conduct which states that uniform/dress code violations are tier 1, meaning there are specific interventions that can take place, like a phone call home, restorative conversations with the student etc.

-This is a policy about control, not safety, but administration continues to lean on safety as the reason. Oh, and staff are allowed to wear hoodies."

contact: Lenaheid@gmail.com

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Requirement Details

If you are in a course where you are tasked with telling a community partner story, reach out to the community partner you are interested in working with to confirm availability.  Once you have confirmed with the community partner that you will be working with them, register for the event to notify the organization and other students that you will be working with this partner.  Please only register if you will definitely be working with this partner as only one student can register to work with each partner and only register with one community partner.  

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This milestone will start when you agree to work with the community partner and ends once the project is completed or due