Thread by @khadastrophic

I really wish people paid attention to the ACTUAL experience of Black children in public schools rather than made up white grievance stories.

A thread:

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1455180908114423813

Schools regularly ban Black children from wearing their hair the way it grows out of their heads. Braids have been banned. Covering their hair, too, has been banned.

chalkbeat.org/2020/1/16/2112…

Here's another list of discrimination against Black children's bodies in school, including a white teacher cutting off a 7 year old girl's hair in front of her class as punishment:

thegrio.com/2017/06/08/bla…

There was that time that a school police officer arrested a Black middle school girl for using a $2 bill to buy lunch-- for COUNTERFEIT MONEY:

forbes.com/sites/kellyphi…

But now that we're talking about cops in school, we could talk about the time a few months ago when cops arrested and handcuffed a Black kindergartner who ran off school grounds and told him he should be beaten:

abcnews.go.com/US/year-boy-al…

But that's a cop outside of a school. Let's go back inside. Remember the time a cop in South Carolina attacked and body-slammed a girl in a classroom? He also arrested the girl who filmed it. Both girls were devastated and left school.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/v…

(He still thinks he was the real victim, btw: thedailybeast.com/school-officer…)

A white teacher in Arkansas made a 5 year old Black boy clean out feces in a toilet with his bare hands because it broke down.

Five. This was just a few months ago, too.

local12.com/news/nation-wo…

This might explain why so many Black parents were actually relieved about their kids being able to learn from home during COVID:

apnews.com/article/lifest…

But lets go in the classroom. What do Black children learn there?

Well, in some school districts (including my own) Black kids have been told to pretend that they are slaves in class lessons.

usatoday.com/story/news/edu…

In another classroom in North Carolina, a white teacher told her Black students they would be her "field slaves" if not for the Constitution and called a Black student a monkey.

newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…

In NY, a teacher made Black students get on the floor so and stepped on their backs, asking them "how does it feel to be a slave?"

nydailynews.com/new-york/educa…

A teacher in Delaware used yoga to tell her kindergartners that Black people came from "the great big country of Africa" to be slaves in the United States.

delawareonline.com/story/news/202…

Maybe that's not as bad as kids in Texas being asked to list the "positive and negative" aspects of slavery?

apnews.com/article/95a731…

But sometimes teachers just go ahead and call a Black kid n*gger when they get worked up:

theblackwallsttimes.com/2021/04/13/vid…

Research has shown that teacher bias against Black children begins in preschool. There are literally thousands of articles about all the ways Black children are treated in comparison to white peers.

theguardian.com/world/2016/oct…

Author Charles Murray literally wrote a book arguing that Black people are genetically inferior to white people to discourage government policies that funded PRESCHOOL for poor kids.

And he gets interviewed on places like @CBSSunday without even being questioned about it.

But I digress. Schools in America are still largely segregated. Black kids lose out in schools with tracking, experience higher rates of discipline for the same infractions as white peers, are discriminated against by teachers and white peers, and fall behind.

But anyway, let's just go back to talking about white people not wanting their kids to learn the history of white people in schools. That's the really important issue facing public schools in America today.

Broke the thread somehow:

https://twitter.com/khadastrophic/status/1456714447129567233

Schools also give their (well-established as racially biased) discipline records on Black and brown students to police, who use the data to create a secret list of "future" criminals.

projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/…

These cops claim they use this data to offer "mentoring" programs to kids, but we know that they've used it to target, harass & terrorize them.
This teen had almost 20 cops show up & bang on his windows while his siblings hid terrified under their beds.

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

Anyway, before all this CRT nonsense, folks were actually paying attention to Black students sharing their experiences about the traumatizing racist experiences they've endured in schools with the black@ hashtags.

Maybe we should go back to that?

nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/bl…