Black, Latino students speak up about problems in Boston schools

[Brnpit]

Black, Latino students speak up about problems in Boston schools

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...xBHifAbwRDrMt7NdiUbK/story.html?event=event25 via @BostonGlobe

For two hours Saturday at the city’s public education headquarters in Dudley Square, officials with impressive titles outlined how Boston public schools struggle to educate black and Latino boys.

There were statistics and presentations, remarks and acknowledgments, but when the 60 black and Latino students listening, all boys, were allowed to speak, it was clear they were well acquainted with their school’s failures.


They live them.

Edward Tapia, a 10th-grader from Excel High School in South Boston, thinks the suspension rates for boys like him are unjustly high. Nathaniel McPherson, another 10th-grader at Excel, wishes public schools had teachers who mirrored Boston’s demographics. Dana Martinez, a 10th-grader at Madison Park High School, wondered why Boston schools are so segregated.

 

[Lehigh]

Public school You get what You pay for.

Hope they clear the issues up,

 

[Mr. Bizkits]

That preschool to prison pipeline is somethin' serious

 

[water]

Funny that adults discuss the shit as if it's not by design and the schools happened to get like that over time naturally.

Fuck white supremacy

 

[water]

That preschool to prison pipeline is somethin' serious

The fucked up thing is that the kids know it.

So it now becomes a game.

Some kids feel its inevitable so they give problems from jump and force other kids to follow.

Other kids try to fight it but it becomes so difficult over time they sucumb.

Yet other kids become broken and lose their sense of identity by overly conforming to become black versions of white people.

And finally some become super jumpers.

And despite all that they overcome, society will tell them that the rest need to be like them without questioning the lack of hurdles in white lanes.

I pray for our younger generation and I put in work but sometimes its heartbreaking to see the kids not knowing what life is going to be throwing at them.

 

[Non-StopJFK2TAB]

Boston has always been a terrible city for blacks. I know a teacher from the 70s who was one of the first blacks to teach in integrated schools.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Funny that adults discuss the shit as if it's not by design and the schools happened to get like that over time naturally.

Fuck white supremacy

and fuck scalia and roberts too for acting like, their pink privilege didnt play part in

thier well paved role to success, at our expense....