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For insight, 11Alive talked to Kennesaw State University Associate Professor Sheryl Croft about disciplinary actions in the classroom. She said when a student is disciplined and they don t understand, it s the same feeling as being wrongly accused. You have a disconnect between the teachers expectations for white students, and then expectations for Black students, Croft said.
She said cultural synchronization is key. The term is used to describe the necessary interpersonal context that should exist between teachers and African-American students.
The National Center for Educational Statistics shows that from 2017 to 2018, 79% of all teachers in America were white women.
Rahiem Shabazz, the director and producer of the three-part documentary Elementary Genocide, said he only had a handful of Black teachers.