the play is revolutionary tour 2025

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Implicit bias makes it easy to deny the humanity of a child or children in an early learning environment.  If a child 's humanity is being erased then it is safe to say that they are not feeing affirmed. If they are not feeling affirmed due to erasure then we can rest assured that chid's feelings are going unmet and their path to belonging will be suspended until they feel safe enough to proceed.

Unreasonable expectations are pervasive in many early learning settings. The need for children to deny their senses, withhold the needs of their bodies to move, and force their bodies to do what it is not yet ready to do are just a few of the ways that a child's humanity is decentered in order to center compliance.

The carceral framework pervading many education systems starting in early childhood did not originate in the wake of Brown vs. the Board of Education. In the C2P nexus, implicit bias, zero tolerance policies, and assumption of ill-intent which leads to the criminalization of childhood all work together to oppress a child's sense of self determination and take their humanity right along with it. The Play Lab focuses on liberating our earliest learners from a framework created to close them in.  . Our organization was established to address the growing need include and empower those children who are othered due to race, gender, trauma, neurtoype and those whose families are bound by financial constraints. these are our babies who get dismissed and dehumanized and find themselves funneled into the C2P nexus before they have a chance to experience a learning experience in any other way.

Imagine waking up in a world where you are told where to go, when to go there, where to sit, what you can or cannot say, when to use the bathroom, when, what, and how much to eat, when to take a break and what you are allowed to do during that break. Did you wake up in the criminal legal system? No. I am describing the day of the average early learner.  Our goal is to disrupt the framework that uses observation, scrutiny, and coercive tactics to leverage control and empower every child to be confident that they have a voice and a choice and both have value.