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   Masto.poetry (mastopoet@h-net.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 22:07:05 JST Masto.poetry

   When my middle child, now nearly 40 was in kindergarten, he had an older German American woman for a teacher. She found our half Puerto Rican child to be slow and disruptive, and recommended him for special education. His mother, whose family were mostly educators insisted he be moved to a different main stream class.
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     Masto.poetry (mastopoet@h-net.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 22:07:03 JST Masto.poetry

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     But that bias against Black and Brown children is all too common in schools and can have devastating consequences for both the individual as well as cost society at large if brilliant and talented people are seen as slow and disruptive and denied a path to contribute to their fullest.

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     Masto.poetry (mastopoet@h-net.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 22:07:04 JST Masto.poetry

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     The school agreed and put him in a class taught be a young Hispanic woman. It turned out his was/is, gifted and brilliant. He went on to graduate from UF with honors and get a MBA from UT and is in charge of a large segment of a Fortune 500 corporation. The point isn’t how great he is, which, as his father, I could be biased.

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