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The exhaustion of being a Black teacher in a school when youâre one of too few educators of color
As well-intentioned schools with mostly white staffs scramble to respond to a reckoning on racism, an âinvisible taxâ of work falls on too few teachers and administrators like Malcolm Cawthorne in Brookline.
By Linda K. WertheimerUpdated April 1, 2021, 11:55 a.m.
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Malcolm Cawthorne at Brookline High School.Webb Chappell for The Boston Globe
MALCOLM CAWTHORNE, the longest-serving Black teacher at Brookline High School, leaned close to his computer screen and spoke firmly to the mostly white group of administrators in the Zoom meeting. âIâm not cleaning up your [expletive] anymore.â