School Racism In ABC News Report

Robert cannot take any textbooks home for completing his homework in any core subject because his teachers do not have enough course books for everyone. In fact, everyone must team up to use textbooks while the teacher is lecturing. The school library does not have a librarian, so it is rarely open. He gets low qualified teachers because the high-quality teachers do not stay at his school, due to lack of resources and support. The classrooms do not include computers, so there is no computer instruction. The school no longer offers art, band, or AP classes for budgetary reasons. Paint is peeling off the walls in many classrooms. Graffiti marks the walls. Ceiling tiles are missing. Due to the harsh rules, Roberts’s friends do not attend school
The school district is forcing them to become one school. Everyone was concerned that the “whites” would move away.

School racism starts with your address, but school racism can be seen in textbooks, well-intended “white” teachers and less qualified teachers, achievement gaps, the lack of AP courses, and a shortage of highly qualified teachers whom will teach in the intercity and harsh discipline policies, which can lead to high dropout rates.

Racism is taught thru textbooks, by well meaning “white” teachers, and less qualified teachers. First, institutional racism is racial targeting a specific group based on their race thru education and textbooks. Institutions use curricula. The curricula use a worldview developed by western civilization based upon European ethnocentrism. Textbooks remind the African American students they were once the property of a plantation owner. Textbooks also tell them they are not a human being and they are considered the most inferior of all the races. Books portray Mexican American students as migrant labor. Native American students are reminded of being forced to live on reservations (Mazama). The one-sided history written in our history textbooks and books is biased. These students are human beings, and their heritage has played an essential part in history, but unfortunately, textbooks are biased and portray them as slaves,
White teachers teach through white lenses. That is what they have been taught throughout their education. When teachers only understand what they have been taught, it is hard for them to teach using universal lenses. Teachers do not intentionally teach to offend anyone. The teachers prepare lessons that were interesting and relevant to their students’ lives, but sometimes the lessons are seen as racism. For example, WBTV in Charlotte, NC reported that kids were given an assignment about a bombing and had to select a survivor by race who would survive a nuclear attack. In Boston, high school students were told to "go back to Africa" by classmates. Middle school kids in Florida were given a test full of racist stereotypes. Second graders in LA were given a math problem asking them to count slaves needed in cotton fields (Battle). The teachers were trying to engage their students, but the lesson became unintentional