African Americans Should Be Allowed In Schools

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Each year, from kindergarten to twelfth grade, a black child most likely will be taught by someone that looks nothing like them, who could not relate to them, and acts nothing like the people he/she goes home to. Further, the black student may never encounter an African-American principal, an African-American teacher, or an African-American guidance counselor. In fact, African-Americans make up only an approximate eight percent of all teachers and faculty in public schools. White non-Hispanic individuals are an estimated eighty percent of all teachers in America. With this in mind, a black student may be sent to detention for small acts of disruption with his/her friends. Not only are public educational systems not diverse enough, but they are also designed to label African-American students as rebels or conform black children to the white standard-passive compliance, and when that …show more content…
Black students are being expelled at alarming rates and some areas have much higher rates than others. Of all black expulsions in America, thirteen Southern states were responsible for 50% of them. Despite black students making up only 21 % of the school population, black students were still being expelled in a much larger mass than any other race. 40% of students expelled from US schools each year are black. 70% of students involved in “in-school” arrests or referred to law enforcement are black or Latino. Black students are three and a half times more likely to be suspended than whites. Blacks and Latinos are twice as likely to not graduate than whites. 68% of all males in state and federal prisons do not have a high school diploma. Stereotypes that have traveled through time make it easy to target young black teens as delinquents. They are not delinquents; white schools do not sympathize or try to relate to

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