![]() ![]() ![]() The annual Razor Walker Awards, presented by the Watson College of Education, are meant to recognize “those that walk the razor’s edge.” This year’s award ceremony, held on April 25, intended to highlight leaders and organizations who tore down barriers to children’s education and learning, such as poverty, home life and health. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, it’s probably because UNCW does a better job of advertising chemistry experiments than the events that actually matter in this case, our lovely leadership chose to honor Senator Michael Lee, the sponsor of North Carolina’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, with a Razor Walker Award for public policy in education. In a dimly lit Burney Center, fronted with grilled beef tenderloin, piano and perfunctory pleasantries, hearing the yells of indignation through two sets of closed doors, I stood and mourned the integrity of an institution. How else can I describe the feeling of knowing my own university celebrated a bigot? However, to emulate those emotions in writing for you all is a whole different matter.Īnger, disbelief and disappointment. As Editor-in-Chief, that may be strange to hear, but anger, disbelief and disappointment come easy when spoken or written off-handedly in a journal. ![]() It’s difficult for me to express myself thoroughly sometimes. ![]()
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