Roosevelt High School senior Jabre White was doing what so many of us were taught to do, respectfully addressing authority figures, when his teacher responded in one of the least respectful, and most dehumanizing, ways of all. In a recent…
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Reginald Wells, a 12-year-old student at Willie Ray Smith Middle School in Beaumont, Texas was allegedly knocked unconscious by his assistant math teacher last Friday after making a joke about his favorite football team, reports CBS News. Wells was standing in…
Jane Elliot is a teacher and diversity trainer who developed the “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise to teach students what it feels like to be a person of color. This video begins pretty abruptly, where one of the students who’s been…
A Chinese student slit his teacher’s throat in an act of revenge after his mobile phone was confiscated. The student, named only as Lei in local news reports, had been discovered playing with his phone by his teacher Sun Wakang…
A student overheard his teacher complaining about her job/paycheck and decided that he needed to speak on it. Was the student right or in the wrong for making a fuss?