RiShawn Biddle did a rousing session on
racialized student discipline troubles in urban schools.
As noted in the Report,
racialized students have been disproportionately affected by the shortage of articling positions in Ontario.
Off the bat, we can all agree that
racialized students being unable to get an articling spot because they don't fit into a certain visual paradigm is not acceptable.
Not exact matches
It demonstrates further how
student loan debt burden is «uniquely
racialized» and how racial disparities in
student loan debt among young adults may be further perpetuating racial inequalities in the transition to adulthood.
Growing up in a
racialized society has an emotional impact on
students of color and leads to unconscious biases that affect how all of us perceive ourselves and others.
She shows how schools can help address the civic empowerment gap by teaching collective action, openly discussing the
racialized dimensions of citizenship, and provoking
students by engaging their passions against contemporary injustices through action civics.
The HGSE
students hoped that a teaching case might provide a resource for educators that would encourage dialogue on the responsibilities of schools and communities to address
racialized events.
«In other words, they have an awareness of how the classroom can be a
racialized space, where microaggression or other kinds of circumstances are detrimental to
students of color.»
When the news is filled with
racialized rhetoric or violence, teachers need to be prepared to discuss these topics with their
students — especially when those
students are people of color, economically disadvantaged, immigrants, or undocumented.
For instance, female, African American, and Latino
students can experience a «stereotype threat» when attending a math class due to
racialized and gendered beliefs about their ability in these subject areas.14
WHEREAS, at a time when the nation's K - 12
students are now «majority — minority» and
racialized gaps in
student achievement, income, wealth are on the rise, the continued opportunity gap in schools has created a climate where communities are restless for alternatives.
Muldrow told me she moved her older child out of the public schools because of «experiences that were not only negative, but were particularly
racialized» and that with vouchers, «private schools retain the ability to discriminate and don't have to provide the same services to
students as public schools.»
If
racialized gaps emerge that expose differential treatment, immediate interventions should be instituted to make the numbers more equitable and give all
student equal opportunity of access.
Racialized law
students were certainly not a third of the cohort, on a simple observation alone.
You said: «I don't think we actually have statistics of the
racialized status of all law
students in all law schools (the figures linked above are for lawyers, and just in Ontario).»
This is a grant in the amount of $ 3,000 to be awarded annually to a first - year law
student that will use their legal training as a tool for change and in the service of the community, engaging in promoting activities related to human rights, social justice and equality rights of disadvantaged and
racialized persons.
Think about what is facing us: the calls to action, the future of articling — or if not articling, what to have in its place — the impact of technology on legal practice, the access to justice imperative, the experience of
racialized members of the profession, mental health among lawyers and law
students and so on and so on.
I am an ally — that is, not
racialized myself, but hope to be an ally to those who are — and I can remember when the LLP program was being debated, the reinstitutionalization of discrimination through the program was predicted by the Black Law
Students» Association.
The same
student opined that the reputation of the Law Society would suffer «when a disproportionate number of LPP
students are found to be minorities,
racialized groups, etc.» The LPP will perpetuate the systemic disadvantages that already face
students from equity seeking groups.