Yep. But try going to a research conference and telling a bunch of white intellectuals that. My ass be sweating bullets. Oddly enough tho, I’ve actually gotten a lot of support b/c a lot of them know what the fukk is going on.
The numbers don’t lie. U can’t have a demographic be disproportionately represented in suspensions and expulsions and then sit there and wonder why they don’t know what they weren’t even in school to learn.
One researcher told me in the middle of my presentation that the findings were disgusting.
I wanted to say “ya think motherfukker!”
Then I hit em with the economic costs. On some, “even if u want to analyze this problem from a purely conservative economic standpoint, we cost our nation billions of dollars by not addressing the racial and disciplinary disparities in our educational system. For instance in 2011-12 Texas schools had to spend an additional $76 million dollars due to students retained in previous grades correlated with exclusionary discipline.”
Had them people hit the
And when u start talking about the troubling implications behind the privatization of prison systems and those who benefit from school to prison pipeline....
Our education system is the beginning and end of our ability to progress.
That little white boy about to shoot up a school, that’s a failure of our education system. That blk boy who can draw the inside of an engine and took apart an electric pencil sharpener But was misidentified as emotionally disabled (ED) instead of academically and intellectually gifted (AIG) b/c he would act out due to hating his classes b/c he SEES ideas without having to write them down.
The lack of financial literacy, engaging content, testing, testing, testing, churning out entire generations of students with zero skills, who are disillusioned and can’t join the work force.....
That starts and ends with our education system. The same one gutted by conservatives in lieu of military spending, corporate welfare, and privatization of prison industrial complex.
They killed us for trying to learn to read for a reason. They never stopped trying to keep us from doing so.