Training More Black Men to Become Teachers


Tiger1

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African American males account for only 2 percent of the teaching force.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/12/programs-teachers-african-american-men/420306/
 
Trying to get back into it now. I started way too early and then ran away. The kids needs us there and there are avenues for us to advance quickly in bigger cities. Hopefully, this works out in Houston.
 



I didn't think it was even 2%. I've been beckoned back to the affluent school district that I graduated from, post retirement from corporate. But I feel the need to be in an area where I can change and enhance young African-American males (ala greater Houston). What the home school district wants from me is to bolster their kids and help architect and develop a hs level comp sci program adjunct w/ the local community college (spoke @ length w/ superintendent/staffers @ comm coll). smh ~40-50 blacks in the entire hs and I know a majority of them won't touch a STEM related class due to how they were funneled from elementary to jr hs. The program would be for the majority kids and that's not where I want my focus to occur. Those kids come from 2 parent-degree'd families and have $$$$ @ their disposal. It's the kids that grew up like me, poor, striving, sincere, hard-working, hunger and thirst for knowledge, that I want to help.
 
As long as most of the black community keeps viewing teachers as the enemy and open to take any abuse from a black kid-you will keep seeing a shortage. Who wants to teach black kids after seeing them go HAM on teachers for no reason at all.
 
I talked to this guy the other day and asked him did he know this older teacher way back when....first thing he mentioned was the board he carried how he used it

Once that left the schools kids changed.....the fear of getting popped was enough for some kids but since they left you had nothing to hold them back
 
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