The Black Child Has No Safe Place in the Classroom
The argument is age-long that boys are better at math and science than girls. So, yet another study telling us what we already know, teacher bias along gender lines is alive and well. And Black female students are impacted the hardest. Many a teacher doesn't even need to see the child, but to read a "Black" or "white-sounding" name on which they base their test scores. Teacher bias along racial lines has always and is an epidemic in the classroom from white and Black teachers alike. Non-white teachers as well cater to white students. These so-called educators' fascination with Black hair is Exhibit A in teacher bias existing in the classroom as it pertains to race. These biases and the teachers who display them are a way to determine whether a child attends college and ultimately make or break her/his future. All of these biases and more occur as early as the preschool level.
If you have the luxury of working from home, or not, you need to carve out the time to homeschool your child. This is the only way you will know that the focus is where it's really supposed to be, on education. With the prison-pipeline agenda foolishness that continues in this country, it is the only option for the Black child.
Other teacher biases affecting the Black child
1.) Targeting boys as always having challenging behaviors, hence more suspensions
2.) Shy or introverted children are developmentally delayed
3.) A child with a "white-sounding" name is smart
4.) Adultification of Black children, infantilizing white children
5.) Low expectations for low-income parents
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