Making our Private School Bubbles Broader Public Squares I have often heard from teachers, students and parents that Jewish Day School is a “bubble.” On the one hand, this term is used affectionately in that the bubble is a safe, warm space, with shared values and a shared outlook--a space where we gain strength as a school community. But the bubble is also seen by many as dangerous. It can be a place that perpetuates insularity and can lead to narrow and skewed views. So much so that students often talk about becoming free and leaving the bubble. And certainly we need to move beyond our bubbles, or, as some have called them, our silos. We need to understand that “it’s important to resist the temptation to surround ourselves almost exclusively with like-minded people, those who reinforce our pre-existing views and biases.”(Commentary, “Living in Ideological Silos”) The place where we need to go is into more public spaces. Places where, as Parker Palmer points out, “our
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