"She offers simple and simplistic solutions to complex problems," University of Minnesota professors Mistilina Sato and Timothy Lensmire wrote in 2009. "She allows white educators to think of themselves as normal and even saviors of poor pathological children and their parents."

In the face of societal inequalities, they wrote, "Payne comforts us with her soothing repetitions of centuries-old stereotypes of the poor. We can then get on with being white and privileged and free from responsibility for the well-being of our neighbors and fellow citizens."

It's nothing Payne hasn't heard and rebutted many times

"They criticize the book because they say, 'You don't say anything in the book about racism, sexism or the larger economic structures,' " she told her Orlando audience.

"And I don't. It's not that I don't think they're there. But when I wrote the book, I wrote the book for teachers. Do you follow me? I wasn't writing it to do a treatise on poverty."

After the session, she said this about stereotypes: "Everybody's brain sorts in patterns, anyway. So, you can have informed or uninformed patterns. People stereotype. It is a natural response to the environment."

She also downplayed assertions that, through her corporations and book sales, poverty has made her rich. These days, she said, it's easy to access her work online for free.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/education-guru-ruby-payne-is-she-wrong-about-kids-in-poverty-or/2237083/

A progressive in the truest sense of the word.

How in the fuck your dogshit take here got upvotes is beyond me. This shit is the exact opposite of a liberatory pedagogy.

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