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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my child's ES, which is 60% minorities, almost all the teachers are caucasian women.  She's been through three grades there.  All 5 K teachers were white women.  4/5 of the 1st grade teachers were white women. All 5 2nd grade teachers were white women. And I know this is the same across the country.  How can we, as a nation, change this?[/quote]

OP - use your head.  The demographics of each generation is changing.  Since teachers come from an older demographic, whites are still the majority.  It will change in the future.  But you should also understand that people can learn from someone who doesn't share their skin color.[/quote]

Teaching is lagging behind in this.

My kids had a black pediatrician, black pediatric dentist, and Latina allergist but most white ES teachers. It’s harder to become a doctor than a teacher, but more minorities are chose medicine.[/quote]

Those professions pay more. It’s not surprising that a group with less inherited wealth might (because I don’t know the numbers) be more motivated to go for more money.

I think there are still a fair percentage of black female teachers overall [/quote]

We also mostly marry black men who are not the highest category in regards to college graduates and earners in this country.

I make over 4 times more money than my dh. If we made equal pay, we'd definitely would not be able to switch from public to private like we just did, even with financial aid.

Versus my white friend who is cutting back work because her husband was just hired for a 300k job.

That’s true, brookings said it’s hard to escape poverty if you involve yourself with black men 
Sometimes black females have to pick up the financial slack- and a teaching salary won't cut it in those situations[/quote][/quote]

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