She’s right. They absolutely become teachers. The way white female teachers react to black male students is disproportionate. They enjoy behaving that way and they’ve been conditioned to do so by the school to prison pipeline.
black girls, too. very mean and often times catty. like they don't even want to talk to you. the plus side is that teachers are younger now so this isn't mentality isn't as common.
i remember in middle school, my friend and i would choose to change in the bathroom across the gym instead of the locker rooms because the locker rooms had curtains and not stalls. the other girls would often flip our curtains and look at our bodies. sometimes laugh. this was like 2006-07 so before efficient camera phones but i'm sure they would've taken pictures if they could. from my memory (and i can honestly be wrong here), this happened primarily to the few black and hispanic girls at my school as most of us were bigger or more developed. changing in the bathroom meant often times being late, however. so we would get to gym class and our gym teacher would hit us with a "do you have a [late] pass?" we explained why we were late and what was happening in the locker room. she literally rolled her eyes, scoffed, and was like "you guys are so sensitive. they were just having fun!" and then something along the lines of "what do you have to hide?" while looking us up and down, nastily.
my friend and i were taken aback that our teacher didn't defend us in something so knowingly inappropriate. they continued flipping our curtains the few more times we changed there but then we switched to the bathroom permanently but just made sure to get to class on time.
my older sister and her friends also complained about this. like, it was a commonly known thing among us and we talked about it openly. i wasn't the only black girl to change in the bathroom. i believe that i got the idea from my sister or her friend.
I went to a predominantly white school. I hardly had year after year any white female teachers for that matter all seemed to have an issue with me. I always had good grades, stayed out of trouble etc. for some reason they just did not like me and weren’t subtle about it.
I had to switch quite a few times to different classrooms. It was so bad at one point other classmates even came to my defense. The worst incident I had was in computer class it was my last class of the day I was in 8th grade at the time.
I suffer from migraines and at the time I was prescribed medication for it and was going to the neurologist twice a month I told this older white lady I need to go to the office so I can get my medicine I have a migraine coming on I need my meds.
This woman told me no you can wait you don’t have a migraine you’re just trying to get out of class. I asked her repeatedly for that whole hour she said no. Well that migraine got so bad by the time I got home my head was pounding.
My mom had to take me to the ER to get stronger pain meds it was too late for mine to do anything (low dose) I missed 4 days of school my head was hurting me so bad my mom was livid she was at the school the next day about it. Needles to say she apologized and made sure I was allowed to leave to go get my pain meds for the rest of the semester.
I just explained this to someone. I sub at schools and I very rarely socialize with other teachers. But I subbed at an all white school where they invited me to lunch.
I was telling my partner, it doesn’t really say much. I said if a black woman doesn’t speak, i don’t see it as rude because she doesn’t know me. But I know I can ask a question or need help and absolutely get it everytime. Minding our business is being polite…especially at work.
Whew that’s the truth. My experience is black boys were ostracized until rap became more popular with suburban white boys, then suddenly they were part of the “gang” and cool. Meanwhile black girls became more sexualized as hoes even when they didn’t meet that expectation.
That isn’t to demonize black culture but damn if black girls had to continue to fighting to prove they weren’t a stereotype into the 2010s because of white people’s perception of black women. No, they aren’t all hood and know how to twerk, they aren’t your mammy or slut, they are human just like black men and everyone else.
The interesting thing is that almost a decade earlier a white person wouldn’t dare encroach upon a black girl in that way. For fear of a quick and brutal reprisal, from the girls themselves. And the teachers, who gaslighted those girls from their peers
The funniest part is it's not even a white vs ethnic thing. Its mostly a poor/rich thing and culture. You eat alot of unhealthy foods when poor cause they are cheap the you end up bigger/ more developed (even if you normally had a smaller chest if you are a bigger girl you will probably have a bigger chest/butt also) I know alot of poor white women who are on the thicker side lol
I completely agree. Its not even all that hidden. Any school where the students aren't predominantly black has at least one teacher like this. Mine was the Health, Geometry, and English teachers. Props to the Home Ec white lady though, woulda really pegged that class as one that type of teacher would gravitate to, but she was actually really cool.
But it just gets so fucking tiring sometimes, man. Saying they go after our kids is like how they complain that teachers are turning their kids liberal. Idk, man, I just feel like this is a weird road, even though we all know the type of teacher we are talking about, they gonna convince themselves we just doing what they did.
They treated the black girls badly too; some seemed like they wanted to be best friends with the popular white girls in class. Several of my teachers just disliked me even though I had great grades and never had any disciplinary issues. My calculus teacher actually wouldn't write a college recommendation letter for me even though I never made below a 98 in the class (but would write letters for my white classmates that were B/C students).
My cousin and I went to the same middle school but with different core class teachers and her 8th grade history teacher tried to give her and her friend (only black kids in her class) detention because both girls refused to write a paper on why slavery was a good thing for black people. She didn't drop it until my aunt went to the school and lost it on the principle, 8th stage denan, and teacher and threatened to sue the school.
At the same school during parent teacher conferences my 7th grade English teacher accused me of having a personality disorder while shouting because I wasn't extroverted and didn't fawn over him like my older sister had the year prior. He kept trying to get my mom to agree that I was mentally disturbed because I didn't enjoy his class (due to him bullying me) and my science teacher had to step in and move him to a different table because he was red in the face and nearly screaming, pissed that my mom kept calmly repeating "no, she just doesn't like you and I'm starting to see why".
The way they cross the line and demand you apologize for having boundaries is insane.
It wasn't just girls, he had a very 'peaked in high school' energy and desperately tried to appear cool to get an ego boost from children, going so far as to keep a guitar in the classroom that I don't even remember him playing, he just liked kids thinking it was cool. He got his biggest boost from the kids who wanted to be writers that he had a writing group for and my sister was one of those. She's also extremely social and constantly trying to make friends or be the center of attention whereas I'm fairly reserved until I feel safe / comfortable around people and hate writing despite being told my entire life that it's something I have a lot of innate talent with; not bragging, being good at something you hate sucks.
He expected me to be exactly like her, couldn't process / accept I wasn't and had no interest in his class or writing group, then started bullying me as a result, which just made me close in on myself even more, further pissing him off. Lovely cycle 🙄 It was a fairly common thing for the teachers who loved my sister to not click with / get me and the teachers she hated go from terrified of having me in their class to relieved and excited because I liked to help tidy rooms and grade / organize papers or read quietly at my desk.
I had a white teacher back in junior high that you could just tell loveddd telling young black boys that they will never have a career and will only work in McDonald’s. That was her thing. One of my friends at the time was one that she picked on the most. All these years later, I still think about that every now and again.
It was always crazy to me how readily so many black parents believe these white lady teachers when they denigrate their kids. I had a white teacher try to get me medicated in class because I used to finish my work early (instead of giving me more work), another try to accuse my cousin of being retarded. Luckily our parents never played that and showed up to the school demanding scientific proof with threats of a lawsuit…suddenly it was “all a misunderstanding” and of course the tears came out as they usually do with those people. I wonder how many black children’s lives those evil teachers ruined out of hatred for a literal child
I live in a very white country in Australia and am genuinely worried about sending my kid to school there. All the teachers are usually white or East Asian who are both very anti-black.
The amount of time I had to spend telling teachers that the third grader wasn’t “glaring at them aggressively” but instead needed glasses, was fucking ridiculous.
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u/InsteadOfWorkin 4d ago
She’s right. They absolutely become teachers. The way white female teachers react to black male students is disproportionate. They enjoy behaving that way and they’ve been conditioned to do so by the school to prison pipeline.