For four months this winter, 1,300 NYC high school students joined Monday morning school strikes to fight for educational equity & school reintegration. TheFutureIsMs is a series of reports by young feminists, made possible by SayItForwardNow:
like LaToya Beecham. The 16-year-old emigrated from Jamaica at age 8 and is now a 10th grader at an overcrowded and underfunded school in the Bronx.
“Black and Hispanic students are much more likely to attend a school where more than 75 percent of students experience poverty,” the Council reports.This imbalance is something Sue Najm, 16, has seen up close. Now a student athlete at a well-funded Brooklyn public school, the Teens Take Charge member briefly attended other, less-resourced schools when she moved between different foster homes.
The issue of educational equity is linked to broader feminist and anti-racist goals. A 2012 California study showed that black girls are disproportionately punished at school, which, according to similar studies, could lead to them leaving school early, making them susceptible to the juvenile justice system., New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote about fixing the diversity problem in the city’s specialized schools.
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