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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
The casual nature of the atmosphere with small numbers. I may have told this story on here before but here’s an example. It’s kind of good and bad.
I had six kids at a table and we were going over some document one of those things I was teaching them how to quickly pull the important information from it. Whatever.
One of the kids said “You seem like you’re black” and I was like “Well I’m white. I grew up in an all white neighborhood and everything” and he said “why do you seem like a regular person?” And I said “White people are regular people” and he said “no other white people are different”
All the kids were black and they weren’t like saying I act black like a wigger. They were just saying I didn’t act like I was better than them or more important or whatever. But that sense of equalitarianism was a double edged sword. I made it clear I wasn’t a “friend” but you know how it goes. They took advantage of the situation sometimes.
I don’t know if that answers your question. I don’t want you to get mean about it though. I wasn’t a perfect teacher. I know you’re smart enough to guess what my weaknesses were. You don’t need to call me out.
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I'm not trying to be mean or catch you out on anything. My experiences are totally personal and from a very specific situation and you have your experiences. I'm just curious.
There were black kids in my school but they were probably roughly about the percentage of black people in schools in general in America. I can imagine however in a school system with high levels of black kids that the power structure between black students and white teachers could have been tricky at best.
I mean all that I'm saying about my school experience in military school is about a disproportionate power dynamic in favor of teachers that doesn't exist in public schools, but also the public schools that I went to sound different than the schools you taught at.