What is it Like to Teach Black Students?

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Depressing reality!

That sums it up. Reality is shit.

[Anglojew]

"You racis'"

[Drawing-slim]

That sums it up. Reality is shit.

Indeed it is. I have no kids but I have lots of nephews and nieces growing up in the states and that worries me when I compare how I grew up never seeing any other kind but my own kin. It's really depressing reading this article, because it's consistent with everything I knew and feared already.

[Weedman]

the truth is generally racist.

and Racists are generally just being honest

[Weedman]

Michelle Pfeifer was a good teacher to black teens

[Methusalem]

Just put 'Moroccans, Algerians and Senegalese kids in French schools', 'Turkish, Albanian, Lebanese and Kurd kids in German schools', 'Assyrian, Lebanese and Somali kids in Swedish schools', 'Pakistani, Indian and Jamaican kids in Britain's schools' etc. instead of 'Blacks in US-American schools' and the whole description of this teacher would perfectly fit.

[zhaoyun]

Many Black kids are really poorly behaved. That's a fact. It's not racist to come to that conclusion, just common sense. I've seen plenty of it with my own eyes, and dealt with plenty of that shit.

I don't think it has to do with any innate racial characteristics though. It is the product of a history of dehumanization and oppression that created these social problems.

But real talk, it's gonna be up to Black folks to fix this. When I say that, i don't mean ALL Black folks because there are plenty who do raise well behaved children, I'm talking about the underclass that garners so much attention, they are a sizable minority, like 35-40% of African Americans. But many act so outrageous they get all Black people painted with a broad brush unfortunately.

[Hadouken]

[SIZE=5]Turkish, Albanian, Lebanese and Kurd kids in German schools'

yes kids but not young adults

i am a kurd and have been raised in germany so i went also to school here and yes you are right kids of these ethnicities act similar but 1. you exeggerate the number of the ones that do and 2. such behaviour stops usually at 17 18 and is not comparable with the young black adults in the text at all

in all my years as a pupil aprox. 10% of kids have been like that especially when i was in technical secondary school where we all were more mature

and i was in schools where there were a lot of people of the mentioned ethnicities

you are representing us wrong imo

[Sikeliot]

My experiences with black people in the classroom have always been positive, but then again the ones I have known have all been educated, often Afro-Latino or Cape Verdean or immigrants from elsewhere, and did not make up a large percentage of my school.

If I had to deal with urban/inner city African Americans, my opinion may have been different. Although knowing me I'd have transferred schools if there were problems.

[Methusalem]

yes kids but not young adults

i am a kurd and have been raised in germany so i went also to school here and yes you are right kids of these ethnicities act similar but 1. you exeggerate the number of the ones that do and 2. such behaviour stops usually at 17 18 and is not comparable with the young black adults in the text at all

in all my years as a pupil aprox. 10% of kids have been like that especially when i was in technical secondary school where we all were more mature

and i was in schools where there were a lot of people of the mentioned ethnicities

you are representing us wrong imo

I don't know the exact numbers or percentages since there are no statistics but MENA/Southeast Euro/East Euro/SSA youths in Western Europe are known for similar behavior and hence have a very bad reputation among Western Euros.

I didn't read the article I just assumed the article speaks about kids and teenagers and average MENA teenager in Western Europe doesn't act differently from average Afram teenager. Same heated, aggressive, masculine 'ghetto-macho' mentality.

And I include myself into these groups bro. young Eritreans and Horners in general are the same bunch as Kurds, Turks, Lebos, Albos, Bosnians etc. not only my personal experience.

Many Germans would hence rather live next to some Aframs than to some MENA Muslims.