Parenting Through Pandemics: Imagining and Demanding Justice in Schools

Abstract

Our reflections in this manuscript serve to share what we have experienced being teachers, advocates of public education, researchers, and parents of two young children through a global pandemic, public and environmental crises, and racial reckoning in our country. We acknowledge our privileged positions and draw from the adaptations required of us as children of immigrants who grew up in urban Los Angeles contexts very similar to those we taught in. While we imagine a future, we look back to our past selves to demand transformative shifts, just futures, and expansive learning environments for children and youth of color.