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mekka okereke :verified:

This can be countered by Black teachers. ♥️👍🏿

Black students randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K-3 are 9 percentage points (13%) more likely to graduate from high school and 6 percentage points (19%) more likely to enroll in college than their same-school, same-race peers.

nber.org/papers/w25254

White kids can benefit from this too, and aren't harmed by it. Black kids from privilege benefit a little. Black boys from underprivileged backgrounds benefit the most.

9 Feb 2023 at 13:59 | Open on hachyderm.io
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mekka okereke :verified:

People looking to minimize the impacts of racism, believe that Black teachers help through the "role model effect." That's part of it but not the whole story.

There are few enough Black teachers in this country, that we can literally ask a good portion of them what's really happening. It's not just the role model effect. Teachers are shielding Black kids from racism.

Until they can't anymore...

time.com/6130991/black-teacher

9 Feb 2023 at 14:01 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified: replied to mekka okereke :verified:

The typical education experience for a Black boy in the United States, is to have almost all white teachers, mostly women, more than half of whom vote for the most racist candidate on any ballot, and no Black teachers. The teachers have low expectations of you, punish you more than your classmates, and threaten to call the cop who works in the hallway on you at any moment.

I don't know how to explain more clearly, that this is never going to work.

9 Feb 2023 at 14:04 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified: replied to mekka okereke :verified:

I'm not surprised that Black US kids don't perform as well as white US kids, or as well as Nigerian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, or Caribbean kids. I'm surprised that any Black kids make it through this hellish gauntlet at all.

When you look at how much the US pays to educate each student, and how poorly it does at Black educational achievement, it's clear that the US is the worst country in the world at educating Black students, by far. Because racism. No one spends more to achieve less.

9 Feb 2023 at 14:04 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified: replied to mekka okereke :verified:

Once you understand white US history instead of Black history, you'll understand why the following interventions will do much more to improve US Black educational achievement than most of the nonsense we're trying today:

• Bail reform
• Fire racist teachers, including the Bill Cosbys
• Retain anti-racist Black, white, AAPI, Latinx teachers
• Get rid of school cops
• Provide all students free lunch. And breakfast. And afternoon snack.
• Transfer police budget to school budget. Bring back art.

9 Feb 2023 at 14:06 | Open on hachyderm.io
mekka okereke :verified: replied to mekka okereke :verified:

Black people know this, and racists know this. The only people that don't know this, are most non-racist Americans. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I know that racists know this, because if you invert all of these interventions that work to reduce school racism, you have just written a near perfect racist political platform:

• End bail reform
• Keep racist teachers
• Fire anti-racist Black, white, AAPI, Latinx teachers
• Place more cops in schools
• End free lunch programs
• Increase police budgets
• Defund art education

Black people know this, and racists know this. The only people that don't know this, are most non-racist Americans. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I know that racists know this, because if you invert all of these interventions that work to reduce school racism, you have just written a near perfect racist political platform:

9 Feb 2023 at 14:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
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