I believed in this young man, and had I not intervened to make sure he received the best possible education he deserved, who knows where he might have ended up. He will certainly be a behavioral problem.” One teacher, a white woman, said to me: “Yes, he is quite smart but he will not ‘fit’ in the gifted program.
He was told multiple times he didn’t belong in certain courses, based on implicit bias or racist ideas about Black boys in school settings that too often serve to marginalize instead of encourage. I had a student I will never forget, a young man who was destined to become the product of low expectations from educators who didn’t believe in his potential.
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