“…A new normal requires moving beyond tweaking structural problems. As Bettina Love writes in We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom (2019), it is not enough to be “OK”; the goal is to create an environment where everyone, especially historically oppressed people, can be well. Abolitionist teachings show that certain systems, practices, and assumptions must be destroyed in order to (re)create a more vibrant model of education.…”