From active to activist parenting: educational struggle and the injuries of institutionalised misrecognition

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We don’t want to be waging this war; we do it because it’s the right thing, we have no choice morally. I can’t sleep at night because it makes me feel sick. I said, ‘I can either be Adrian Mole or you can be Erin Brockovich.’ You can either sit there and cry about it and write in your diary and have a breakdown over how terrible the world and the situation and the reality … and just let that swarm you, or you can actually go: ‘No. I am going to question this; I am going to get answers; and I want to make this right.’ (Molly, Crowley Parents Campaign)[...]

[1] An introspective, intellectual character appearing in a series of novels written by Sue Townsend....[...]

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