> Interesting. Is it inherent systemic racism coming from teachers?
More likely it is the the systemic racism of society imposing struggles on the students' communities, which then manifests in the students' disobedient classroom behavior.
The teachers, meanwhile are operating in the same frame of systemic racism and associated socioeconomic conditions as any of us are. We all - black people included - are conditioned by society's default systemic racism towards black youths. But public school teachers serving struggling black communities are made to confront this more directly in the course of their work.
We expect public school to function as social work facilities, treating the social dysfunctions our society creates in young people while also preparing them intellectually to be contributing members of society, but we don't fund them enough to carry out that work.
Given this, public schools, which must by law serve a higher ratio of troubled youth than schools that can choose which students they admit, should be able to employ a higher ratio of behavioral health specialists to do this.
Better yet, those issues should be treated, or prevented, before the children arrive at school, but that would require a conversation about the distribution of wealth, security, and community stability that we as a society don't seem to be ready to have yet.
More likely it is the the systemic racism of society imposing struggles on the students' communities, which then manifests in the students' disobedient classroom behavior.
The teachers, meanwhile are operating in the same frame of systemic racism and associated socioeconomic conditions as any of us are. We all - black people included - are conditioned by society's default systemic racism towards black youths. But public school teachers serving struggling black communities are made to confront this more directly in the course of their work.
We expect public school to function as social work facilities, treating the social dysfunctions our society creates in young people while also preparing them intellectually to be contributing members of society, but we don't fund them enough to carry out that work.
Given this, public schools, which must by law serve a higher ratio of troubled youth than schools that can choose which students they admit, should be able to employ a higher ratio of behavioral health specialists to do this.
Better yet, those issues should be treated, or prevented, before the children arrive at school, but that would require a conversation about the distribution of wealth, security, and community stability that we as a society don't seem to be ready to have yet.