Tai
taiarnold.bsky.social
Tai
@taiarnold.bsky.social
Thinking in public about schooling, power, dominance, and cognitive legitimacy. Still working it out.

Explorations at the Margins. https://open.substack.com/pub/taiarnold
I very much appreciate the assemblyman’s work on this and hope that we can expand the work to get at the insidious cultures in schools that allow these kinds of things to be a solution. Please see my full comments at open.substack.com/pub/taiarnol...
January 21, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Tai
Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.”

Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show.

(Published December 2025)
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I have been looking at how schools reproduce dominant culture. open.substack.com/pub/taiarnol...
Schooling: Sorts Students | Protects Power Structures
Schooling in America is structured to protect the inheritance of the powerful.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So very disturbing.

Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Opinion | Why Do We Allow Child Marriage in America?
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social I would really like to know about the US Dept of Education’s OCR. I have reached out through your constituent services twice. Crickets from your office and OCR. What’s up? #educationalequity #schoolsafety #IDEAfailure
August 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM