/PRNewswire/ Caminar, a mission-driven behavioral health care organization in the Bay Area, is holding their Speakers Series virtually on Tuesday, April 5,.
Within all of these conversations about racist practices, what often gets left out are stories about the ways school disciplinary practice and policies affect Black students’ emotional well-being and traumatizes them. Black students continue to be judged as inferior and dangerous. Even with “progressive discipline,” Black students who violate rules are seen as offenders rather than teens in need of support.
Almost 30 years ago, Ontario floated a blueprint for addressing these issues. But regardless of continued calls to action for an inclusive education, Black students continue to receive subtle negative messages. School boards have not found a systemic way to enforce anti-racism and equity policies to lessen the disruption in Black youth’s lives. However, educators working in kindergarten to Grade 12 spaces are in a unique position to correct the practices that are unjust for Canadian Black youth.