Ontario, Canada: Racism in schools, and a battle for respect

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    Racism in schools, and a battle for respect

    Charline Grant was used to the disrespect. At first it was subtle. Her oldest son, Ziphion, a second grader, was coming home with notes about his disruptive behavior, about too much fidgeting or showing off. Initially, she didn’t suspect racism. She sat him down and says she came down hard. But the microaggressions mounted. She now knows to call them “macroaggressions,” she says, because they might be imperceivable to some, yet punch the target hard. They followed him through elementary and middle school. There was the time he spilled his grapes and a teacher lashed out so strongly that spit ...


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    Black mothers in Toronto realized the racism they saw in schools went beyond individual cases. They banded together to challenge the status quo.


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