“How do I get in trouble for wearing the same uniform? I can’t help that my body is shaped differently or that I’m tall, so skirts look short on me.”In May 2019, I wrote aabout my experiences in journalism school as a Black student. Since then, I sometimes get invited to speak on panels or give talks.
After I had given a talk a few months ago in Ottawa, a group of Black female Grade 12 high-school students asked if they could speak with me about issues they faced on a regular basis. They described how they felt they were perceived and treated based on how they wore their hair, and how their bodies were policed by dress codes that didn’t seem to apply equally to others.The United Nations found African Canadian students are far more likely to be streamed into applied courses.
“I wanted to take a university law course,” said one student, “but I wasn’t allowed.” Others chimed in with their difficulties in course selection. In 1999, the Ontario Ministry of Education introduced the. The policy introduced both academic and applied courses for math, English, geography, science and French courses in Grades 9 and 10. Academic courses focus on theory and abstract concepts, whereas applied courses focus on practical applications.
The 1999 policy replaced a previous policy that streamed students into vocational, college or university tracts. In theory, the 1999 policy was intended to allow students to keep their options open, but in practice it continued the act of streaming.Numerous studies and reports have found that streaming
**CORRECTION** Equal access doesn't mean equal outcomes. You are not owed equal outcomes. You make that for yourselves.
Some people are treated more equal than others. It is reality.
It is an equalizer for the ones who have the brains and work. If you don't have the one, and don't work, then you fail.
Equal access doesn't always mean equal access, either. When one student goes home to a stay-at-home parent in a safe environment with up-to-date technology and another goes home to take care of four siblings who can't safely play outside and no wifi or computer, that's not equal.
To my dismay, education doesn’t necessarily breed tolerance either.
AtongAter 'I didn't have the prerequisites for the class and they didn't let me, that means they were racist' 'I am basing this because outcomes were not identical across groups, and that means there is racism'.
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