Nathan DeGroot

  • I have discovered over the past nine months I have participated in this course, that self direction is a complicated ideal for me. Perhaps I am not a leader in the direct sense of the word. I am easily distracted, […]

  • Listen up kids because I’m about to learn you a thing you ain’t never learned before.

    In your normal school environment your English and Social Studies classes go somewhat like this. HERE IS CONTENT, UNDERSTAND […]

  • (This image is me with my legal name change documents, my small step towards making change for myself).

     

    For the past three months I have been a part of my school’s musical, How To Succeed In Business […]

  • Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. November is Trans Awareness Month. If Facebook hadn’t given you that trans support filter for your profile picture, would you have known? The answer is probably no. This is not […]

  • Nathan DeGroot wrote a new post 10 years ago

    This weekend was full of excitement and productivity, we spent our Saturday morning rolling through pitches and seemingly endless amounts of candy. I spent the last few weeks focusing on racism in our schools, but […]

  • Nathan DeGroot wrote a new post 10 years ago

    I’ve come to a realization about my topic. It’s not something I can explain simply, it’s much more easy to explain in the form of questions.

    What does it mean to be a good ally? Am I, as a white person, […]

  • Nathan DeGroot wrote a new post 10 years ago

    1. Why is this topic/issue important?

    YOU ARE NOT BORN WITH BIAS, YOU ARE TAUGHT IT!We cannot control what children learn within their family circles but we can influence the life lessons they learn in […]

  • Nathan DeGroot wrote a new post 10 years ago

  • First, a story:

    Late one night, a man searches for something in a parking lot. On his hands and knees, he crawls around a bright circle of light created by a streetlamp overhead.

    A woman passes, stops, takes […]

  • Why I care and why you should care is often a hard question for people to answer. Not me. I care because little children are getting blindsided by years upon years of bias. Who taught me to let my heart race when […]

  • Hey Sidney! Thanks for your comment on my post by the way. I really like how you’re looking at all your options, I think that’s really important. People all have differing views about what our biggest problems are […]

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    Me: Do people say weird or stupid things because you’re Chinese?

    Him: People say my name is stupid and they don’t like it.

    Him: Trevor doesn’t call me my right name.

    Me: Do you know why that […]

  • We, as Vermonters, live in a world of little to no diversity, yet that does not mean it doesn’t exist. What I want to do with the resources given to me, is tell the stories of families that are at least part of a […]

  • I am here because I am salty about too many things. There’s this weird, fiery passion I have for proving people wrong, a need to do… something. I have this impulse to fight people, an impulse that is somewhat […]

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