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One disempowering experience I had in K-12 is having teachers who would get mad every time I asked for help. I had a lot of teachers who just expected me to understand the material just because everyone else understood it. I had teachers who would mumble under their breath. I feel like this is the reason why I find it hard to ask for help and speak out when I don't understand something.

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A disempowering experience I had in school is when my friends made fun of me for being a teacher's pet because I talked out loud in class (I was in fifth grade). It made me feel like I shouldn't speak up. An empowering experience I had in school was when my high school English teacher helped my friends and I call out a pedophilic teacher. It might not have gotten as far into the district as we wanted, but it was important to say something.

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Empowering: Was when my English high school teacher really supported my class when we were struggling with the transition to college and preparing for it
Disempowering: Was being excluded or being made fun of a lot in elementary school because of my religion.

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A disempowering experience that I've had in K-12 school is when I took a class where the teacher had little to no experience and they couldn't help the class with their questions.

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I would say that an empowering moment I had during my K-12 experience was when I finally stood up against one of my white privileged teachers who always made us minorities in the class feel bad about our background and made us feel like we had no worth due to being less financially stable than others.

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Disempowering: I would always worry about how people thought about my appearance.

Empowering: I was acknowledged of my creative works in projects.

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A dis empowering experience I've had in k-12 school is learning history where I didn't feel represented, so I didn't feel like I can do anything big.
An empowering experience I've had in k-12 school is when I was enrolled in ethnic studies class my freshman year
An experience I've had in k-12 school is dancing folklorico in the spring 2022 dance show

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Empowering- Having teachers that are hispanic because I felt in a comfortable place since they would be able to understand me more.
Disempowering- not thinking the same as other peers so they would kind of put me to the side and people making fun of my accent since it wasn't the "American accent"

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Thomas Chin                                             I have been bullied in my middle school years their solutions have gotten me more bullied. I truly hate the school bus rides and, I wish my parents could drive me more, or there is a more direct commute to school.  Saturday School: Empowering: Recognition for my achievement was always "a breath of fresh air. “  Disempowering: Not being socially included.

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Thomas Chin                                             I have been bullied in my middle school years their solutions have gotten me more bullied. I truly hate the school bus rides and, I wish my parents could drive me more, or there is a more direct commute to school.  Saturday School: Empowering: Recognition for my achievement was always "a breath of fresh air. “  Disempowering: Not being socially included.

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a disempowering experience I've had in k-12 school is when was a lack of material being taught in my algebra 1 class I feel as if it was also really distracting since the teacher didn't take much control. An empowering experience I've had was when my teacher in one of my classes supported me when I was doubting myself in completing a challenging assignment.

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An empowering experience I had was feeling a sense of community while on campus. Having a group that made me feel seen and loved.

A disempowering experience I had was being called "chestnut" or "cheez-it" jokingly just because my name was "different".

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A disempowering experience I have had in k-12 mostly middle school was students and teacher not paying attention to me when I was speaking.

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A disempowering moment i had was when other kids would make fun of me or point out things they saw as flaws which led to me having insecurities with age
An empowering moment i had when was i was recognized by a teacher for my good work

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Being a minority I've always had moments of disempowerment, being a poc people view and will always treat you different. So it was always hard trying to not oppress my own self worth. But a empowering moment I have had is watching people around me figure out that someone like me is someone they've always wanted to be like or be around.

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One dispowering experience I had during high school is insecurity because of my English. I moved to United States in 9 grades and lack of English was my biggest insecurity.

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A disempowering experience I've had in K-12 school was non- supportive teachers.
An empowering experience for me was when I switched schools my teachers were more helpful and actually cared if their students succeeded.

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A disempowering experience I’ve had in K-12 school is having teachers that did not teach.

An empowering experience I’ve had in K-12 school is taking on leadership roles for school clubs and events. An experience I’ve had in K-12 school is making my own choices and choosing my own classes.

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A disempowering experience I had a lot was when my teachers would ask for "big strong boys" to help with carrying or moving things around like chairs for example.

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an empowering moment I had was the end of high school. The teachers really supported all the students in the transition into adulthood and gave us reassurance that we could come to them for help in the future.

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Empowering: when my class had my back when I told them about how one of the panelists wasn't giving me the respect I deserved

Disempowering: during my final presentation with teachers & 1 rando panelists- one of the teacher panelists was looking on the ground, everywhere but me.

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I would say teachers. Some of them had bad teaching methods. When they didn't want to teach they'll just make us to a test or write.

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One empowering experience I had during high school was how I felt a strong sense of community among my peers. One disempowering experience I had in high school was taking pre calc. This class was very hard for me and discouraged me.

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A disempowering experience I’ve had in K-12 school is the schools’ attempts to dehumanize my identity as a woman of color and lesbian. They made me feel like I was unworthy to get an education because of my identity. I was expected to take discrimination from faculty staff and students in silence.

An empowering experience I've had in K-12 school was joining a cultural club that represented my background.

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growing up i kind of experienced a lot of empowering experiences in K-12 however I do think that this feeling of empowerment came from being stereotyped as the model minority. It was definitely a half way attempt to be empowered but similarly a lot of the disempowering moments I had in K-12 came from the same model minority myth, but only this time the problem was I didn’t fit those stereotypes. This did a number on my psychologically and I don’t know that I ever figured out how to feel empowered in academia. Strange things.