"Some of us treat going to White schools as a great honor and opportunity for Black and Brown kids, when in fact, it can be a very complex experience—physically, psychologically, and pedagogically." In my teaching to college and grad students about the failures of Brown v. Board, and school desegregation and school integration, I emphasi…
"Some of us treat going to White schools as a great honor and opportunity for Black and Brown kids, when in fact, it can be a very complex experience—physically, psychologically, and pedagogically." In my teaching to college and grad students about the failures of Brown v. Board, and school desegregation and school integration, I emphasize that many white people think whiteness is the norm and the Holy Grail, and that includes the predominantly white institutions, aka public schools, that we've self-segregated into. Reflecting on this further as a white public school parent in Chicago, I've observed that these predominantly white schools are the ones that the district and then parents label as "the best in the city" and self-congratulate ad nauseam for "turning around" and "making it the school it is today." So it's not even *some* of us who act like it's a gift for students of color to be part of these schools -- it's most of us, and it's baked into white supremacy culture.
"Some of us treat going to White schools as a great honor and opportunity for Black and Brown kids, when in fact, it can be a very complex experience—physically, psychologically, and pedagogically." In my teaching to college and grad students about the failures of Brown v. Board, and school desegregation and school integration, I emphasize that many white people think whiteness is the norm and the Holy Grail, and that includes the predominantly white institutions, aka public schools, that we've self-segregated into. Reflecting on this further as a white public school parent in Chicago, I've observed that these predominantly white schools are the ones that the district and then parents label as "the best in the city" and self-congratulate ad nauseam for "turning around" and "making it the school it is today." So it's not even *some* of us who act like it's a gift for students of color to be part of these schools -- it's most of us, and it's baked into white supremacy culture.