Dear WECAN Members and Friends,
We stand in solidarity with the Black community in Minneapolis and around the country, as well as with all those who have lost loved ones who have been murdered because of hatred and ignorance. We grieve with the family of George Floyd and the Black community. We stand alongside those in protest following his death and the 400 years of injustice for Black people in America. We are humbled by the power and courage of the people who are oppressed and horrified by the systems that exist to keep it so.
As an association working on behalf of the young child, these events quicken the urgency with which we work to transform Waldorf early childhood education in North America, by deepening our commitment to recognizing personal implicit and explicit biases; talking about, confronting, and responding to racism in our institutions and schools; transforming our teacher education programs and supporting Waldorf Early Childhood educators to become anti-racist educators.
WECAN stands with our colleagues at NAEYC and AWSNA, who speak our hearts’ thoughts and we are grateful for their wisdom, expressed in their messages here:
We commit to relentlessly working together to create communities where each and every child, family and educator can thrive.
Susan Howard
WECAN Coordinator
On behalf of the WECAN Board
