Great piece my friend! I’ve been behind on reading because things are just so busy. Back to teaching in an all black school so there’s no disparity at all. Seventh grade boys got into a fight in my classroom on Tuesday and a little girl got hurt in the middle of it. The school did impose serious consequences but the fact that this ever happens is unacceptable. Since I teach kids of Asian and South Asian descent in the summer I know this is not just how kids are. And it’s so much worse in the regular schools. The charters are trying to provide a safe environment. The regular ones I doubt it.
That’s the perfect distinction. When White students are not even part of the equation, you cannot explain the behavior away as a racial disparity in discipline, although I’m sure somebody will try.
“Kids are just kids” is not much of an explanation when you teach very different groups of kids and see very different norms of behavior. I’m glad the charter imposed serious consequences. Better they learn that lesson from the school now than from a judge later.
Great piece my friend! I’ve been behind on reading because things are just so busy. Back to teaching in an all black school so there’s no disparity at all. Seventh grade boys got into a fight in my classroom on Tuesday and a little girl got hurt in the middle of it. The school did impose serious consequences but the fact that this ever happens is unacceptable. Since I teach kids of Asian and South Asian descent in the summer I know this is not just how kids are. And it’s so much worse in the regular schools. The charters are trying to provide a safe environment. The regular ones I doubt it.
That’s the perfect distinction. When White students are not even part of the equation, you cannot explain the behavior away as a racial disparity in discipline, although I’m sure somebody will try.
“Kids are just kids” is not much of an explanation when you teach very different groups of kids and see very different norms of behavior. I’m glad the charter imposed serious consequences. Better they learn that lesson from the school now than from a judge later.
What an excellent essay. Thank you.
TY Betsy.