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RE: “Punish a white kid first” – The Rule I Didn’t Follow
Great story and a great title - immediately grabbed my attention in the chat. Your experience reminds me of an old Samuel L Jackson movie - although that had a very bad ending. It must be pretty depressing to hear such bad stories about your old students since then. At least you now feel empowered in your current job.
There are a lot of great books and movies about teachers making a difference. The problem is it doesn't usually work out. The school was setup for them to fail.
I think you will see the same picture repeated world wide when it comes to schools in underprivileged areas. Exactly the same situation occurs in schools here in the UK.
These kids are basically expected at best to end up on benefits or doing very low paid jobs. Those are the lucky ones.
The rest are just expected to end up as petty criminals or worse. If you grow up with those kind of expectations then it is kind of like a self fulfilling prophecy.
It is really sad because a huge amount of potential and lives are being needlessly wasted in this way. One of those kids, could in the right circumstances go on to change the world, unfortunately that potential will never be realised.
Parents or lack of parents is a super big problem in the US as well.