Another possibility is that
black parents feel more comfortable advocating for their child with a black teacher, demanding that their child be screened for giftedness.
There's not much survey data specifically on how
Black parents feel about charter schools nationally, but it's pretty clear that they resoundingly support a parent's right to choose the best school for their child.
Not exact matches
I
felt like there are too few stories about
Black Queer and Trans / Non gender conforming people who
parent and even less about those who breastfeed.
However, he has remained one of the most unpopular figures in polling data citywide, especially with a school system that is heavily
black and Hispanic and in which many
parents never
felt totally happy with the Department of Education.
The series juggles police brutality, systemic racism,
black youth culture, gang violence, and
black parenting with aplomb, and all topics
feel entirely new to The CW but also necessary for the network, where it can be paired with an equally pulpy series like Riverdale.
For his part, Dean has to apologize for the optics of his house staff — the always - smiling Georgina (Betty Gabriel) and Walter (Marcus Henderson)-- who, yes, are both
black but who worked for his
parents and whom he really would have
felt bad about firing.
Tika Sumpter does a fine job as Michelle, capturing the character's wary calm as she navigates multiple worlds at once, from the working - class Chicago neighborhood where she still lives with her
parents to the high - powered law office where she
feels she has to work extra hard to be seen as «Michelle» and not «the
black woman.»
Surrounded by the upper class, Chris has trouble
feeling at home, especially when he learns that young
black men have gone missing from the area for several years, and two of the
parents» employees might be connected to these disappearances.
For instance,
black parents may
feel more comfortable «disagreeing» with their regular school assignment than Hispanic
parents do, particularly if the
parents in question are recent immigrants.
As one NAACP member recently lamented, «
Black parents, I am sorry that you will have to listen to non-
black people quote the NAACP to you as they basically tell you that you do not have the right to choose what you
feel is best for your children.
This perception varied greatly by ethnicity, however; Hispanic
parents (26 percent) were much more likely to
feel unwelcome than whites (8 percent) or Asians (8 percent), and somewhat more likely to
feel unwelcome than
blacks (16 percent) or Native Americans (17 percent).
Or,
Black parents might
feel more comfortable reaching out to a
Black teacher to suggest that their children be tested for eligibility for gifted programs.
Parents and teachers, if you don't
feel comfortable giving your kids a permanent
black marker (Sharpie), a washable Crayola marker works just as well.
Parent - child communication within alcoholic families is often characterized as excessively critical, lacking warmth, and as inattentive to children's needs and
feelings (
Black, Bucky & Wilder - Padilla, 1986; Jones & Houts, 1992).
The child applies this
black and white thinking in order to resolve the dissonance
felt regarding the
parents; further idolizing the aligned
parent, while assigning all negativity to the rejected
parent (Eddy & Saposnek 2012).