The dilemma arises when you classify people by race, creed, or whatever. Just call them students. Some are hard working and get good grades, some are lazy and get bad ones. Nothing strange or unusual about it. That is the way life is.
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Data is important to look at and we are failing our students of color consistently.
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No. We are not failing. They are failing themselves. If a student fails it is not the responsibility of society, irrespective of race, creed or whatever. Do your job and stop feeling guilty.
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It's our responsibility when a system is set up to only support certain types of people.
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Every system supports differently. And minorities are less supported. That cannot be avoided. Often it makes minorities work harder and succeed. The U.S. story.
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Joaguin, mi hombre, pero, no.
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Does it have to do with there just being more of those students committing violations of conduct?
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No. It’s called implicit bias and it takes good teachers (and good parents like what my mother did) to disrupt these conditions. It is well documented that society does this among race, sex and even hair and eye color. How your look to someone else can determine your success.
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Please tell me why 6 percent of the population (black males) commit 50 percent of the murders? Is that implicit bias?
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Yeah. That’s exactly what it is. Urban areas anywhere in the world with the higher poverty rate are always subject to higher crime rates. What’s the poorest most devastated demographic in America? Access to equity and opportunity dramatically improve these conditions.
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Compare the crime rates to equally poor Appalachia and you can see poverty does not equal violence. The poorest demographic in the country is also the poorest demographic worldwide. How is that not obviously genetic?
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And if it’s Genetic why does Nigeria have a higher PhD output than all of white America?
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I'd like to see the statistical evidence to that. Considers the quality of American universities compared to Nigeria, I would question the quality of those PhDs compared to something from a more prestigious location. There is a reason people come to the States for education.
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Census data Africans https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/acs/acsbr12-16.pdf … Census data Americans: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf … African immigrants are better educated than native-born Americans. 42% of African immigrants have a bachelor's degree or higher; 33% of Americans do. Immigrants from Nigeria? 60.9%.


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This is the issue. Student offenses are often subjective. Perhaps the principals who make the decisions and mete out disciplinary measures need a workshop on implicit bias, equity, and racism.
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If you are wondering does racism exist just look at the comments. Nothing more to say.
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Isn't it all about the offense? Does everything have to be race related?
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I don’t know, does it? Active racism and ignoring it exists are what got us here in the first place.pic.twitter.com/DUAEtDcHD1
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That example is certainly racism. Very sad.
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