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Racism in Education

The document discusses racism in education, highlighting how it manifests through discrimination and unequal access to resources based on race or ethnicity. It emphasizes that racism is a systemic issue embedded in educational structures, affecting both students and teachers. Solutions proposed include promoting inclusion and diversity, creating multicultural lessons, and addressing funding disparities in schools.

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Racism in Education

The document discusses racism in education, highlighting how it manifests through discrimination and unequal access to resources based on race or ethnicity. It emphasizes that racism is a systemic issue embedded in educational structures, affecting both students and teachers. Solutions proposed include promoting inclusion and diversity, creating multicultural lessons, and addressing funding disparities in schools.

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Racism in

education
By Natasha, Tanya, Batul, Lexi, and Veronica
What is the issue and what is
happening
What is racism in What can we do to help
education? this?
Racism in education is the term We can encourage inclusion and diversity in
for behaviors or mindsets that schools as a solution to this problem. To help
discriminate against someone kids understand more about race and
based one the person’s race or ethnicity, teachers can create lessons about
ethnicity in the education multicultural topics. The best way to teach
system. It can lead into various the lesson is to have a more equal or an
ways such as unequal access to inclusive learning environment to promote
resources or stereotyping empathy and understanding for every person,
students based on their race. regardless of their background.
Describe the issue (how is this
issue a systemic problem?)
Because racism is deeply embedded in the educational system's
structures and policies, it is a systemic issue in education. This
indicates that racial discrimination practices are not isolated
episodes but rather a component of a larger system that upholds
inequality and harms particular ethnic groups. It may have an
impact on the quality of education given toward students, as well
as the resources/pay given to teachers.
Who is affected by this issue
Students Teachers
students can face teachers can
discrimination, experience
unequal racism in hiring,
opportunities, and promotions, and
biased treatment. interactions.
The consequences of these
systemic problems on the people
Majority of school funding for
affected.
Statistics show that the The redesigning of school
public schools comes from
police placed in districts and neighborhood
property taxes. The 35% of
predominantly nonwhite school assignments when
those taxes mainly goes
schools in order to protect Brown V The Board of
towards the wealthier
from potential shooter Education was implemented
communities providing them
threats often police more created intentionally
proper materials for learning,
than protect the kids. In segregated schools. Now, many
but leaves the poorer
these schools they tend to schools, mostly the white
communities with practically
lack psychologists, social wealthier ones,are attempting
nothing. Predominantly
workers, and councilors while to secede from those districts
nonwhite school districts
still always having police on causing difficulty of allowing
statistically receive $23 billion
sight, nonwhite students the same
dollars less than the
possible opportunities for
predominantly white
quality education.
counterparts.

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