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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. If that’s the kind of environment I’m in what can I do to change that if I am low in the hierarchy? I think it’s such a problem.[/quote]

I will be honest that the emotional heavy lifting of dealing with low key racists every day burned me out. Not so much for myself, but because I saw the impact on the students year after year. I wanted to leave by year three. Then two things happened. My school started a chapter of the minority scholars program. Then, there were two staff members publicly committed to speaking up for students and teaching them to self-advocate when teachers discriminated. The other thing was that we finally hit the tipping point through retirements and had a staff open to some uncomfortable conversations about bias. Otherwise, I would have left at the end of that year. [/quote]
That’s awesome. Unfortunately, our admin ( both principal and AP) continue with micro- aggressions and digs towards those staff members who are considered “other”. Obviously it trickles down to teachers who contribute to a really bad school environment. If we say something, we hear the ever dreaded “in America”, even though I’ve been in the US for decades. [/quote]

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