This person is likely shielded from the worst effects of our shit education system since they are most likely white.
Our schools are specifically hostile to black students and other non-white students. Most schools, including mine, had a majority white staff and majority white administration, a white cadre who’ve been conditioned through culture to view non-whites as somehow threatening. Kinda like cops. Shows like “cops”, “law and order”, etc constantly portray black and brown people as ‘thugs’ so when a black or brown student does something that even remotely reminds them of behaviors they’ve seen on these shows, they take it as an “attitude” and kick the student out of class, get them suspended, etc.
When these white teachers do this over and over and over, labelling normal ass students as somehow bad in their minds and going straight to these sorts of punishments time and again, these students end up missing a third or half of yearly class time because of the racism ingrained in the white teachers and staff.
My school had two black teachers, one Latino teacher, one black cop, and one black administrative staff member. Our school was at least half non-white. We had about 1800 total students, so if half were non-white, that’s about 900 non-white students. We had 5 teachers and staff who were non-white. Over half of my class didn’t graduate on time.
White racism has some seriously fucked up consequences…
This person is likely shielded from the worst effects of our shit education system since they are most likely white.
Our schools are specifically hostile to black students and other non-white students. Most schools, including mine, had a majority white staff and majority white administration, a white cadre who’ve been conditioned through culture to view non-whites as somehow threatening. Kinda like cops. Shows like “cops”, “law and order”, etc constantly portray black and brown people as ‘thugs’ so when a black or brown student does something that even remotely reminds them of behaviors they’ve seen on these shows, they take it as an “attitude” and kick the student out of class, get them suspended, etc.
When these white teachers do this over and over and over, labelling normal ass students as somehow bad in their minds and going straight to these sorts of punishments time and again, these students end up missing a third or half of yearly class time because of the racism ingrained in the white teachers and staff.
My school had two black teachers, one Latino teacher, one black cop, and one black administrative staff member. Our school was at least half non-white. We had about 1800 total students, so if half were non-white, that’s about 900 non-white students. We had 5 teachers and staff who were non-white. Over half of my class didn’t graduate on time.
White racism has some seriously fucked up consequences…