Equating Black Girls With Bad Attitudes Is Not the Answer
Black girls are disproportionately penalized for arbitrary infractions like having a ‘bad attitude’
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10 min readAug 20, 2019
I met Stephanie Patton, the principal of a public middle school for girls in Columbus, Ohio, in 2016. At a community meeting, she announced that after a lot of deep reflection and discussion about the…
