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Belle Chesler

Belle Chesler is a visual arts teacher in Beaverton, Oregon.

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	Views Thursday, April 18, 2019 Defunding Children, A National Crisis of the Soul Three weeks ago, I sat in a cramped conference room in the large public high school where I teach in Beaverton, Oregon. I was listening to the principal deliver a scripted PowerPoint presentation on the $35-million-dollar budget deficit our district faces in the upcoming school year. Teachers and... Read more
	Views Thursday, October 18, 2018 The Kavanaugh Hearings Just Won't Leave Me Alone It’s been three weeks since Dr. Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony before the nation and I’m still struggling to move on. As talk turns toward the impending midterms, I find myself mentally pushing back against the relentlessness of the news cycle as it plows on, casting a spell of cultural... Read more
	Views Thursday, April 19, 2018 Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs and high-pressure firehoses turned on them, they kept marching. Their... Read more
	Views Tuesday, March 06, 2018 Will an AR-15 Succeed Where the American Dream Failed? “It was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.” — Emma Gonzalez , Senior, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Over the past three weeks, the impassioned voices and steadfast demands of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have resounded across social... Read more