“Nowhere is there a more intense silence about the realities of class differences than in educational settings.”
Media misrepresentations
Most children in struggling homes are actually white, although this is rarely mentioned in the public discourse.
If you deny this fact, then you can exculpate yourself from a discussion of social class and just focus on race. White people can more easily ignore this and just go about their business.
It is a form of classism AND racism to merely link together poverty and minority to say they are one and the same.
It is within classrooms that there are the strongest impressions of potential- what a child perceives he