What if Schools Are The Source of Trauma? | Rosemarie Allen | TEDxCherryCreekWomen
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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So often, schools look at homes, families, and their communities as the source of trauma. This allows educators and administrators to blame and shame parents when their children act out at school. When measuring the impact of childhood trauma on individuals, we use the Adverse Childhood Experiences Inventory, however all questions on the inventory are grounded in the home and family. What if schools are the source of trauma? It is important that we examine trauma that occurs at school, by those charged to teach, encourage, and inspire children to learn. When we turn the camera inward and look at schools as a source of trauma, we might be surprised at what we find. Dr. Rosemarie Allen is a survivor of school trauma. She was suspended countless times, expelled from 3 schools, and exprienced corporal punishment regularly from teachers and administrators. Dr. Allen attributes many of those negative interactions to implicit bias, cultural misalignments, and explicit racism that is inherent in America's schools. In her role as Associate Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and CEO of the Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence, she teaches future and current educators about the role of implicit bias in making decisions and the perceptions of children's behaviors. She teaches about power, positionality, and the importance of creating antibias/antiracist school practices. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
School is a toxically stressful, traumatic adverse childhood experience.
I never experienced physical abuse in public school, however I still feel the whole experience was traumatic in its own way. I was carrying a lot of stress and pain from home and then to have to go into school so early in the morning and just be constantly criticized by teachers all day for a little things that don't matter in the real world really wore on me. On top of that the constant peer pressure bullying etc.
@@lilafeldman8630 neither in terms of Physical abuse. But the classmates were the stressor for me as the class spread misinformation and told everyone to not "befriend" with me just because I had a different opinion from their group and did not want to stay with them.
Some teachers believed their lies and did not treat me well. It was just akward and sad talking to them whilst doing work back in my school.
Bullying included, these traumatic events really just messes my mental state where i can't even live a day without remembering them when i try to do something, example - playing games, studying, playing piano, editing photos/videos, eating, etc... I am still a student learning IGCSE but not in school anymore, i just wish i can recover from those memories fully and move on with life.
Her Ted talks really deserve more views. Dr. Allen's work is so important!
Schools traumatize our kids from the bullying that is going on alone, not even including the way staff treats children. School staff continue the same punishment methods and bullying has only gotten worse. When will they try something new?
I remember being told "just ignore them" whenever I went for help for bullying issues; I had one really bad case of bullying from one student which, by that time, I had stopped looking for help, and it has effected me ever since.
When the semester exams arrive, children memorize and this causes force to erase their talents, children are traumatized from learning..
Schools and kids and teachers especially principals are just dumdasses who need to get another degree in working with children
I wish we talked more about trauma from school because if you took that from my childhood then it was perfect. Like I know it’s not your responsibility to raise these kids but when you have to look after several different kids from varying backgrounds it IS your responsibility to make sure they feel safe with both you and each other
Dr. Allen is one of my favorite research presenters. She exudes passion through her presentations.
She is fraud ....
Thank you for sharing your story and experiences 😢how sad that you went through this. Horrible that it was happening in THE SCHOOL you attended!
My prayers for you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My prayers also for all children who have experienced this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Prayers for all schools to become a safe place 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
“if education doesn't solve a problem, then it is a problem; If the educated do not solve problems, then they are the problems.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Right
I was totally wondering this, I grew up with the best parents ever I never saw them fight only small normal disputes every now and then. No yelling, when I did something wrong they talked to me understood my feelings helped me pursue my dreams, I'm very lucky. But I remember ever since Kindergarten started I never wanted to be in school all the way up till high school, I tried to leave early in the morning went to the nurses every day and made believe I was sick until they got sick of me I would hide in the bathroom like everyone else. It came to a point that in high school I couldn't even make it to class, I broke down crying in the stairwell and completely ran away every period I got to somewhere in the school and got high to pass the day. I was never bullied, when I was a little girl I was mostly involved in drama ALL THE TIME and then later I thought nobody liked me and I ran away and hid in the counselors office every lunch for a whole school year even if people did like me. It's strange, my parents never taught me this. But I was always very anxious and hated being around the kids in my class. To now I have graduated and I still feel like I need to fit in, even if do my best to not and never have.
I feel you. Went through similar situations from kindergarten to high school.
School is just THE most unnatural environment a child can be in. Being locked up 7-8 hours a day in a small room with 30 other kids who are exactly your age( but not part of your family) and with only one grown up watching them.. that's like putting 30 unrelated wolves in a cage. Many of them will be dead within a few hours...
There will come a time when people will look back at our current school system and wonder about the cruelty
English isnt my first language. I feel you! You described everything i always wanted to! I have selective mutism. I am autistic and also have adhd, mdd, ocd, cptsd, gad, maladaptive daydreaming problem, and I'm very paranoid. I was undiagnosed for 20 years. My heart goes out to you❤ I dont know where you are from but i feel so much grief and longing because i always wanted to have a friend like you.❤️🩹🥲
I never had any real friends. only acquaintances...but no real connections. I hope you heal!
(and Only if you want to) but i hope you become a youtuber and document your healing journey and people like me will feel seen and heard instead of ostracized, obscured, misunderstood. Now i know I'm not the only one. Now i know I am not crazy. My family, peers, relatives, teachers always mislabelled me. Most people who labelled me were using darvo method. They have npd and bpd.
I can't control my destiny but they resent me for having strabismus, hyperacusis, lipedema, psoriasis, ibd, hypothyroidism, incontinence. They insult me because i dont look the way they want me to... i dont look the same anymore.
@@helloworld-w6p Spot on! You've hit the nail on the head!
When i tried talking about it irl, people told me im being dramatic and they tried to make me doubt my own reality but i know theyre not humane. The only time they think about injustice is: when it happens to *them.* Those who accepted dysfunction can never spot it or even if they see, they don't and won't care about others because they werent't helped when they needed help.
And then there are some people who WILL care, and will do something about it just because they weren't helped, just because they KNOW what it feels like... and they learned the right lessons from their past.
Schools are An invisible t r @ p. People who experience bad behvaiour at workplace can leave their job, because they are free... but what about minors? Adults expect minors to tolerate something that even adults themselves cannot tolerate. Double standards. 🤷♀️
Any wonder why there are school shootings. Could it be that these shooters went through some trama from a teacher or student did to them?
Exactly but idiotic society solely blames all men for it and calls them incels sick society
Teachers are just as traumatized as students.. but we are not even seen as human beings.
Other countries don't have school shootings EVER. No justification for such violence.
"Did you know that there are 19 states that still allow corporal "punishment" (physical abuse) and 40 states that allow it in private schools."
We love youuu
I hated some of my teachers. I am going through trama because it i
I have been traumatized as a teacher by students - so yes I get it.
You're a grown-up, you choice to be a teacher and you're able to defend yourself. Children can't. It's insane that you'd be traumatised by children.@@n9mone
I was diagnosed with repetitive trauma from my time in school
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there is no what if lol its fact
Just talk. She’s talking like a poet. Tf