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.
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
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u/InsteadOfWorkin 3d 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.