It is time to bring back the 10 Chairs. I once thought that this stark simulation of economic disparity would take its place in a giant leap toward the systematic disruption of an inherently unfair structure. My Pollyanna disposition had surmised that confronted with the “10 Chairs” encounter, an educational awakening would overtake systems and institutions, leading the charge toward equity. Schools could become genuine venues of democracy and social justice.
But dominance and supremacy are wily forces woven into a social fabric that shrouds economic oppression right in front of our very eyes. I have realized that revisiting and reviving 10 Chairs is one tool that pierces through the shroud.