There are about 3.2 million public school teachers in America, and more than 80 percent of them are white females. With an overwhelmingly white female teaching force across the country, many Black boys encounter instructors who are not entirely comfortable with their presence. This has a severe impact on their academic fortunes.
Female Teachers Give Boys Lower Grades
Studies have found that when female teachers evaluate students without reference to objective test scores, the teachers grade boys well below their actual academic performance. Professor Christopher Cornwell at the University of Georgia found that when boys perform better than girls on tests, after the subjective evaluations by female teachers were factored in, the girls wound up with higher grades. This disparity was even more striking for Black and Hispanic boys.
I don't know why all this is channeled against Africans in America. We got to stand up for them.
I've already pulled my son out of school. He is reading the "Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews". Must Read!
A very interesting book.
As an adult I was taking organic chemistry, a class not for faint of heart, not a class you'd want to repeat. My white male teacher was in the work to teacher transition program, in other words he had no experience teaching. And, of course this was in a college that was predominantly black. I was the only black male in class and our first project was a report, reports can be very subjective to grade. He returned my report to me with a grade of 65, there were no corrections made on my report by the professor and he told me,"don't be discouraged you'll do better next time."Instead of getting an attitude with the teacher, I stated I want to do better, but you've made no corrections on my report, can we quickly go over what I didn't do on my report? He said, "sure." As we went over the report my grade changed from a 65 to 95. So, why did I get the 65 initially? By the way, this happened repeatedly. As an adult I knew how to deal with this, but as a child similar things happened, and I wasn't equipped to handle the teachers the way I did as an adult. Many black children, particularly boys are going through the same thing, some recover, but many don't. And many this children, particularly the black boys will not tell their parents what's going on, believe me, I know.
THANK YOU! I was stumped on a couple of things in this article, but that's the one that confounded me. First of all, the "best teachers" of Black children obviously ain't white (I think that's the point of the article), and I KNOW Black teachers aren't being welcomed into predominantly white schools, so what did that sentence even mean?
This list really had the potential to be hard hitting…but when you're using evidence from books that are talking about "misguided feminism's" war on boys, you lose all credibility.
Furthermore, the points that did make sense should be about ALL white teachers. TRUST, the men aren't any better than the women.
That's not what it said or implied in my understanding it stated the overwhelming majority are white females and also that the best teachers go to the best districts which are in predominantly white areas these programs pay a lot better. This rings true to me because I dated a young lady who throughout her college career reiterated she would not be teaching in Memphis due to the low pay and low expectations of children enrolled. Smh
i see, so when theres evidence that someone of your gender is fucking things up, you can't own up to it, aight, typical excuse for a feminist, this isn't equality bro, get things straight
Franz W Robert II I'm a woman. Don't call me, "bro." Oh, I guess I'm being an unreasonable feminist by asking that you call me by my DISPLAYED name.
Secondly, do you have some proof that feminism is hurting men? Seems to me that this article is about WHITE FOLKS (women, most of whom probably don't identify as feminist) hurting Black folks.
Here, let me pull up a seat so you can sit your ass down with that weak shit.
Bottom line black men…as many of us as possible need to start teaching in these public schools!
"… As a learning institution gets more Black students, the best teachers tend to move away"
First, who or what decided that these teachers are the best?
Secondly, if a teacher moves schools because Blacks are the majority is that really the loss of a "great" teacher?
This article manipulates research and tries to place blame on something that is much bigger than white female teachers/ feminism.
agreed- this is a poorly written article..
we dont want to admit it but many black folks DONT want to teach, there isnt a large group or black people thats graduating college wanting to be teachers, those white women want to be there
This must change…either we want to have the ball out dream or have kids with a chance in school. If we talking about change, I mean real change then we have to change how we think and live. Otherwise all this talk and protest will have no long term efficacy.
We need more black teachers
http://keyconversationsradio.com/report-shows-lexington-education-disparities-have-negative-impact-on-black-communities/
Now there will be an EDUCATED young Man! Great job, dad!!!
Dude a have 20 teacher in my family, where did you get black folk don't want to teach?
You should check the history of teaching before making random and unproven statements like that.
You should check the history of teaching before making random and unproven statements like that.
Shawn Mc
True; however, we must begin to convince our college grads that three to five years of teaching will not harm them and Black children will greatly benefit.
Keith that's wonderful you have 20 teachers in your family however I'm speaking of school systems as a whole. Black men black young men teaching is what's needed. I don't make random statements about that. There are not any MEN of color teaching NOW. 20 teachers though wonderful. In my district there are hardly any BLACK YOUNG MALES. I myself am in the process of changing careers to do just that. Again, it's great your family has 20 teachers. Now let's get a few hundred more families like your own.
Also Keith, I'm very aware of history as well as the present and that's the reason for my statement. I'm however not as concerned about the past as I'm in the future.
See you have to be careful with posts like this. I look white, I have been judged many times for my skin color because I do not fit into the "white mold" of thinking Because what people don't see when they just look at my skin is that I am half Native American. I plan on going into teaching.
Plus I went to a higschool with one of the best English teachers, and yes we had an overwhelmingly diverse student populations, not only was she comfortable with black students shes was comfortable with her students with ant race she would give them her all, and still communicate with most of her students today. It all depends on the teacher do not turn this into a race or gender thing, because it can go both ways because it is a people issue not a race/gender issue.
Plus I went to a higschool with one of the best English teachers, and yes we had an overwhelmingly diverse student populations, not only was she comfortable with black students shes was comfortable with her students with ant race she would give them her all, and still communicate with most of her students today. It all depends on the teacher do not turn this into a race or gender thing, because it can go both ways because it is a people issue not a race/gender issue.
All feminism is evil, misguided or not. {{-_-}}
Shannon Anne Carter
Proof? Try that street harassment bullshit. {{-_-}}
Johnny Ace Okeke In just the past few months, several women have been killed or brutally attacked for not responding to street harassment in America. If that's bullshit to you, then I know why you're simple-minded enough to think "all feminism is evil."
You hate women.
Sit yo misogynistic ass down.
It's not like the article stated that teachers are 80% white females or anything.
Ali Heikke you are using a single example to argue something that has been true throughout the years how about you don't speak on black issues since you would never know what it is like mmkay thanks 5 dollar indian.
As a white female teacher, I am completely offended by this article. The statistics you quoted in this article are not applicable to all school systems and are very skewed. I have never once "given" any student of any race, creed, or sex a grade. They get what they earn. You seem to be very biased against white women. I believe that is racism all the same.
Really on the attack mode here, yes much of this is sadly probably true but damn, that's a lot of hate on white female teachers, its a tough job.
Ali Heikke I take your statement to be completely accurate. However, do you think that the truth of your situation disproves the broader context? Make no mistake, I'm not taking sides as I haven't done my own research on this issue; so for all I know this article could be full of crap. But I see this trend on social media, blogs and so forth where someone presents their own situation in an argument as if it disproves a broader truth. That's like arguing that global warming isn't real because it's snowing in Minnesota; or saying McDonald's isn't unhealthy because you haven't experienced any health problems from eating it; or saying cigarettes don't cause cancer because you've been smoking for 5 years and haven't got it. You are literally one person, from one diverse high school, in one of many towns in one state; in this one country. Try to keep it in perspective.
Speaking from someone who has had his education postponed because of the likes of them, why don't you find another job!?
Cry me a river.
I had the misfortune of attending a speech class run by a republican white feminist. She was constantly preaching her views but she made me public enemy number one when I mentioned that I was not a feminist because my ancestors originated from a matriarchal country where the woman was head of her household and fought wars alongside her man. Only until we were kidnapped and sent here did we learn to hate our women. I then told her you should only be preaching to the white man who made you stand by while he had his way with our women. Well, it didn't turn out well for me, the Professor made sure the class was against me, and refused to let me attend the last 2 days of class (which by the way I was earning an a A), after a complaint I made about the toxic class situation I made to her the day before. For some reason she was very frightened of me, she would make silly things up against me (such as bullying people in class). Needless to say upon trying to turn in my final paper she mentioned that I had to see the administrator before being let back into class. I simply stared at her and tried to quietly plead my case to the professor, yet to no avail. A student mistook the encounter as being threatening. I told her don't be surprised if the guilt you experience later leads you to see me in your dreams. Upon walking home the police stopped me, they had a video, of the incident, yet I was let go. Terrorist threats our a felony here in California yet the policemen who stopped me, reviewed the video and claimed no threats were made. I read the report later and she even tried to claim that I was intending upon shooting up the school and coerced several students to fabricate stories that i was stalking them. Upon the restraining order hearing the assigned (lawyer?) even mentioned what a lying idiot she was, and apologized to me for having to waste my time. Consequently I was told to sign a "no-contact" order, and upon the school hearing, the Professor did not show up, nor did anybody else for that matter. The video that was played only showed how scared everyone was, but I could be heard trying to quietly plead my case, and I refuted successfully all of the fabricated claims, she and the other individuals made against me. I was only suspended for a semester yet this was the last class I needed to satisfy the Cal state requirement to gain entry. I am only a year away from earning a BS in computer science and I want to follow the pre-med track as well. Yet this person abused her privilege to cause me all of this unnecessary trouble. In retrospect I should have dropped yet I was always taught to never give up. Anyway, she now has a black lives matter on her Fbook page (despite her intention to claim I wanted to shoot up the school so the police could arrest and kill me) giving credit to a black lady in arms deep of a white man on her page header picture. My point is this, African culture (before western influence) women were not only equal but also enjoyed much higher positions of power and status. I don't have a problem with the woman appearing taller than the male in this picture because they both were in control of their society, family and wealth, maybe that picture was taken the day after battle and she just happened to win the bet of killing more enemy soldiers. Flash forward to today after slavery and the evil slave master put it in our minds that women are inferior and to give credence to that claim ask yourself why is it a white lady can cause all sorts of drama with you, lie, or whatever but there is always a black woman to defend her? Anyway I love this picture.
I had the misfortune of attending a speech class run by a republican white feminist. She was constantly preaching her views but she made me public enemy number one when I mentioned that I was not a feminist because my ancestors originated from a matriarchal country where the woman was head of her household and fought wars alongside her man. Only until we were kidnapped and sent here did we learn to hate our women. I then told her you should only be preaching to the white man who made you stand by while he had his way with our women. Well, it didn't turn out well for me, the Professor made sure the class was against me, and refused to let me attend the last 2 days of class (which by the way I was earning an a A), after a complaint I made about the toxic class situation I made to her the day before. For some reason she was very frightened of me, she would make silly things up against me (such as bullying people in class). Needless to say upon trying to turn in my final paper she mentioned that I had to see the administrator before being let back into class. I simply stared at her and tried to quietly plead my case to the professor, yet to no avail. A student mistook the encounter as being threatening. I told her don't be surprised if the guilt you experience later leads you to see me in your dreams. Upon walking home the police stopped me, they had a video, of the incident, yet I was let go. Terrorist threats our a felony here in California yet the policemen who stopped me, reviewed the video and claimed no threats were made. I read the report later and she even tried to claim that I was intending upon shooting up the school and coerced several students to fabricate stories that i was stalking them. Upon the restraining order hearing the assigned (lawyer?) even mentioned what a lying idiot she was, and apologized to me for having to waste my time. Consequently I was told to sign a "no-contact" order, and upon the school hearing, the Professor did not show up, nor did anybody else for that matter. The video that was played only showed how scared everyone was, but I could be heard trying to quietly plead my case, and I refuted successfully all of the fabricated claims, she and the other individuals made against me. I was only suspended for a semester yet this was the last class I needed to satisfy the Cal state requirement to gain entry. I am only a year away from earning a BS in computer science and I want to follow the pre-med track as well. Yet this person abused her privilege to cause me all of this unnecessary trouble. In retrospect I should have dropped yet I was always taught to never give up. Anyway, she now has a black lives matter on her Fbook page (despite her intention to claim I wanted to shoot up the school so the police could arrest and kill me) giving credit to a black lady in arms deep of a white man on her page header picture. My point is this, African culture (before western influence) women were not only equal but also enjoyed much higher positions of power and status. I don't have a problem with the woman appearing taller than the male in this picture because they both were in control of their society, family and wealth, maybe that picture was taken the day after battle and she just happened to win the bet of killing more enemy soldiers. Flash forward to today after slavery and the evil slave master put it in our minds that women are inferior and to give credence to that claim ask yourself why is it a white lady can cause all sorts of drama with you, lie, or whatever but there is always a black woman to defend her? Anyway I love this picture.
You read this, and your initial response is to sympathize with the teachers in question? It's a tough job for anyone, yes. Just like my job is tough, and most other jobs are tough. Does that make it okay to discriminate and cause life-long emotional and psychological scars to children of color? Being a child of the school system, as well as a woman of color, I can personally vouch for the mistreatment at the hands of white females teachers. That's not hate, that's truth. Hate is what those teachers did to me and continue to do to children of color.