A fellowship of the few: Black male teachers in America's classrooms are in short supply [APMReports.org]

Samantha Sangenito 9/5/174:00 AM

When you're the black guy in the building, certain tasks fall to you.

"They would call me in to have talks with certain young men," said Robert Parker, a high school history teacher in Philadelphia. "Students who wouldn't do their work in class."

The same thing happened to Jovan Weaver.

"Teachers would just send them to my room because I built a connection with them," said Weaver, who taught sixth- and eighth-grade math and is now a school principal. "Sometimes I wouldn't even know. I'd just get a note, and, like, I have kids sitting in my class."

[For more of this story, written by Emily Hanford, go to https://www.apmreports.org/sto...-teachers-fellowship]

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