I agree with everything her essay says, except for any comments about racial motivation. I'm as white as you can possibly be (according to 23andme) and I exper

I agree with everything her essay says, except for any comments about racial motivation. I'm as white as you can possibly be (according to 23andme) and I experienced the same thing. Lazy teachers that just show up and hand out worksheets. Of course, they would give a very carefully prepared lecture on the day that the principal would sit in on their class, but then the next day they were right back to handing out worksheets. I don't know what the solution is, but the problem is lazy teachers who do a bad job (or a combination of some that are lazy and others that are unqualified). The motivation isn't racism, but I would agree that black students are more likely to be stuck with bad teachers. Black schools tend to be less desirable to work at, worse facilities, worse funding, worse behavioral problems among students (it's a vicious cycle), parents who don't get involved (again, vicious cycle. How can you help build a school that works when you have no firsthand experience with a school that works?). The consequence is that the teachers that work at many of the schools that have large percentages of black students tend to be terrible teachers, not because someone is trying to actively hurt black students, but because the processes that help get bad teachers out (oversight, parental involvement) simply don't function in those schools, and the good teachers that start in that environment very quickly burn out (or are chased out by corrupt school administration when they speak out) and move on.