'Who you are is valuable': How Black male teachers in Minnesota are recruiting others to the profession
But when Lewis started college last year, he picked a major in political science. “I barely knew what poli sci was,” said Lewis, 19, a sophomore at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. “And then I got a job at a day care, and I had always in the back of my mind thought, ‘Maybe teaching, maybe teaching.’” But as a Black man and the first in his family to go to college, Lewis said he faced pressure to go to school for something more lucrative. “And on top of that, I only see white women,” he said. “I never looked at my teachers and thought, ‘That's gonna be me one day.’”
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