As a result, black educators need to work longer to earn the same aggregate compensation
as white educators.
We also
invited white educators, because it is rare for them to be in a space full of Black male educators and they need to hear our voices.
I'll ask them directly how they feel when they hear educators —
often White educators — tell their children there are no excuses in striving for excellence.
Many worry that middle - class
white educators in particular lack the cultural understanding that could help them work more compassionately with poor black and brown students.
This entire year I have learned so much about the increase of punitive punishment for mostly students of color, the statistics that show 80 percent of students are taught
by white educators while their classes are filled with students who have entirely different identities, fact - based knowledge about the brain, trauma, and so many other components of the educational system that need to be unpacked.
There is a tinge of racism in the discussions
when white educators want less choice for kids of color in big urban systems than they have for their own children.
In part 3, I will share how a number
of white educators responded to the 1st article, both in their allyship and with their questions.
In fact, according to recent figures,
white educators make up 82 percent of the teaching force, while black teachers make up only 7 percent (U.S. Department of Education, 2016).
But I've heard similar statements uttered by
white educators over the years, and I think it's safe to assume that many of those who objected to Sullivan's essay were white.
White educators, by contrast, may be acting on a stereotype that black preschoolers are more likely to misbehave in the first place, so they judge them against a different, more lenient standard than what they're applying to white children.
In one common scenario,
a white educator in a suburban school stands in front of a classroom that has one or two or maybe a handful of students of color, surrounded by white students.
In Chicago Public Schools (CPS), black educators typically earn their master's degree 3.5 years later than
white educators, and those black educators who climb the leadership ranks do so five years later than their white colleagues.
We found that black educators are promoted and earn their master's degrees much later in their career than
white educators.
Until the 1960s,
white educators and politicians could look at a class of white children in which a number of students were doing poorly and shrug.
As
a white educator, I often ask myself, «How does my whiteness show up in the ways I interact with or view people of color?»