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Harassed by male students in theater class, they would run across the stage anytime the teacher left, pulling down their pants, etc. I was the only girl in the class and it was all chalked up to “boys with be boys”

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When I was in second or third grade my friend and I were on the playground when students from the special education classroom went on recess. We noticed their disabilities and in reaction laughed and ran away from them, calling them the r word between ourselves. Ableism looked like assuming disabled students were undesirable or unworthy, not as human as myself.

As an adult I work with and develop goals for students whose disabilities impact their access to education. I’ve worked on “social skills” with autistic students, for example, which essentially seeks to make them present more “normal” and neurotypical vs understanding, learning more about, and affirming their unique needs and abilities. This “trainings of social skills that really is just a minimizing of autistic presentation is an approach I am seeking to interrogate and unlearn now to replace with neurodiversity affirming practices. In this case, ableism looks like contorting disability to look more like “abled” bodies.

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As a student, I looked down upon classmates who weren’t planning to attend college (aka most of them) and thought myself superior for planning to go

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8th grade: I joined many of my classmates in trying to taunt another classmate out of the closet. Everyone "knew" he was gay, and apparently we thought it was our business. 

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8th grade: I joined many of my classmates in trying to taunt another classmate out of the closet. Everyone "knew" he was gay, and apparently we thought it was our business. 

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Practicing power-over when “managing” my class-I basically used to be a poster child for Teach Like a Champion

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Witnessing other colleagues perpetuating antifat standards with comments to students. Hearing colleagues talking about weight loss competitions and congratulating each other. Reading some of the content that students were engaging with in “Health” class that perpetuated antifatness.

I feel enraged. CW: eating disorder. I had an eating disorder and seeing antifatness perpetuated makes me feel emotionally unsafe/unseen and really worried about how it impacts students.

I still struggle to interrupt these “everyday” moments of antifatness when I see them. I’m afraid of being “too much.” But it is something I’m working on. What I would love is for more straight-size people to step up to the plate on this and educate and shut it down and check in with people they know may be impacted when it happens.

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My colleague failed a student over a few assignments she would not accept after “deadline”. Student almost dropped out and it took a long time to trust. Being so angry I vowed that I would examine my own grading practices and now speak up when hear folx complain and am working to change grading policies with a work group I’m in with my school district.

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My colleague failed a student over a few assignments she would not accept after “deadline”. Student almost dropped out and it took a long time to trust. Being so angry I vowed that I would examine my own grading practices and now speak up when hear folx complain and am working to change grading policies with a work group I’m in with my school district.

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I often felt judged at school for taking advantage of a free lunch program.

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School leaders making educators stand for 6 hours while administering state tests

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I remember participating in sizeism in middle school. I think I believed if I was making fun of other people, I wouldn’t be a target myself. To this day I still think about terrible things I said.

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Practice of exclusionary discipline practices in my classroom, and especially without interrogating how my whiteness affected my decisions/perceptions in a classroom of predominantly Black students

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I was in 6th grade when there was a SARS outbreak and I remember kids making comments about me infecting them and using other racial slurs about my race/assumed ethnicity.

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Overhearing teachers referring to Black students as ghetto

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An adult in our school asked a transgender child (2nd grader) how she feels, what she thinks about being transgender. Didn’t ask anyone else about how they feel being in their bodies.

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I used to be very concerned with students timeliness. We would spend a lot of time talking about the importance of being on time and I would call parents when children were repeatedly tardy. This was policing and hyper vigilance around time is a white supremacy characteristic. 

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I used to be very concerned with students timeliness. We would spend a lot of time talking about the importance of being on time and I would call parents when children were repeatedly tardy. This was policing and hyper vigilance around time is a white supremacy characteristic. 

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Educators and school support staff valuing one person's teaching or knowledge over another simply due to age

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School desks that are constricting or cannot be adjusted to size.

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The students who were chosen to be the school ambassadors and leaders were light-skin students of color

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Making disabled people *ask* for accommodations instead of imbedding them or offering them.

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I actively reprimanded and punished students who sagged their pants 🤦‍♀️

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I (white) was raised in a very "academic" household with strong emphasis on "proper" grammar. I was corrected at home and I brought it into every facet of my life, including school. I "corrected" classmates grammar and received praise from my teachers. I'm still unlearning this habit.

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I often felt like there was only one right way to do things. One way that would be recognized, rewarded, and my mind just didn't work that way. So, I felt like I was pretty invisible.

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I often felt like there was only one right way to do things. One way that would be recognized, rewarded, and my mind just didn't work that way. So, I felt like I was pretty invisible.

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As an immigrant in 6th grade, I vividly remember trying to answer a question about states and I said "Ilinois" with /s/ at the end and laughter errupted. The teacher did nothing but said "it's pronounced illiNWA" and moved on.
Not to mention my conscious effort to "lose my accent" as quickly as possible so I could fit in with my white peers

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The new master teacher initiatives that pride test results, end products, classroom management.

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Asking for a POC student affinity group to be created instead of one specifically for Black students out of fear for it being “exclusive”

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As one of a few queer out kids in my high school, I distanced myself from/refused to hang out with other lgbtq students because I thought they were “weird” and I didn’t want to be associated with them

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Not being able to attend field trips because we couldn’t afford the admission and transportation costs

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I see heterosexism show up in my extended family with how the speak and share on social media and it makes me sick, especially because I know and love many in the LGBTQ+ community. I try to say something every time but they are unwavering. 😔

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I see heterosexism show up in my extended family with how the speak and share on social media and it makes me sick, especially because I know and love many in the LGBTQ+ community. I try to say something every time but they are unwavering. 😔

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the distrust of youth activists bc they're young and "don't know anything" versus the distrust of older people bc "they're all racist from back then"

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The assumption Black classmates in high school got into elite colleges solely due to their race

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The district's adopted curriculum had a unit on Columbus that centered him as a "hero"

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A lot of the Black people we learned about were light-skin or medium skin, but hardly even dark-skin Black people

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Hearing students yelling “go back to where you came from” “build the wall” “wet back”

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My body shivers- my eyes tear up. I still have trouble thinking of the moments when I was bullied for my brown skin. Or punished for cultural practices 

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My body shivers- my eyes tear up. I still have trouble thinking of the moments when I was bullied for my brown skin. Or punished for cultural practices 

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Teachers making little to no effort to pronounce student names correctly- this was disproportionately the case for non-white students

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I have judged and looked down upon classmates for using AAVE and assumed it meant they were less intelligent than me, regardless of the actual content of their words

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My high school gym teacher who was also the football coach and taught sex education making fun of LGBTQ students

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My high school gym teacher who was also the football coach and taught sex education making fun of LGBTQ students

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I walked out of class holding hands with a friend and learned later he wrote a report about it and included it in my school file.

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punishing AAE as "not grammatical"

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Only learning about white and light-skin Latinos - never about Afro-Latinos

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i know now that i tried to assimilate kids to WSC

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i know now that i tried to assimilate kids to WSC

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My administrator would regularly make negative comments about people around their mental health. He once disciplined a teacher with Aspergers for not looking him in the eye during a confrontational meeting. 

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My administrator would regularly make negative comments about people around their mental health. He once disciplined a teacher with Aspergers for not looking him in the eye during a confrontational meeting. 

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Celebrating the genocide and stealing of native land by hosting a Thanksgiving party

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Having a male admin constantly talk over me, patronize me and not give me personal space

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school bathroom policies

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teachers asking about students' holiday breaks, which leads to rich children showing off their vacation homes in stark contrast to those who can't afford to eat sometimes.

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My colleague mocked those who use “they/them” (to other adults) while having a transgender child in her class. It was devastating and disgusting and I lost respect for her.

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School schedules where things have to start and end at rigid times

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Erasure in my curricula materials and resources  of any queer authors or characters

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"but where are you really from?"

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Boys grabbing girls boobs, that’s probably more like assault but...

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Recently when meeting with my AP, she made a comment that we can just "refer those kids to the other school" when we were looking at enrollment numbers.

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Many years ago as a school administrator, I demanded "compliance" from students that supported a white supremacist culture.  I didn't realize it at the time and yes, it still impacts me today. I worry that I harmed children and hurt their spirits. I learned from those around me...I did what they did. But it was wrong. That is why conversations like this, and this work is so incredibly important. We've got to change so much about how we train teachers and school leaders.

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I didn't teach about neurodiversity in the my classroom nor did I incorporate visibly disabled folks into my lessons.

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White washing the history of Black leaders in our country to make it more palatable for the parents at our school who thought reality was too much for their preschoolers to handle.

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Growing up, all through middle and high school, I felt the need to be in proximity to whiteness, I only made friends with lighter latinx or white peers

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Always reserving colonial holidays but never acknowledgement of other ethnic holidays

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On the girls basketball team at my high school, being forced to practice at a far away elementary school because all 3 boys teams were given the gym space/time at our school

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in the Asian spaces, east asians and south east asians and light skin south asians get highlighted while darker skin south asians + pacific islanders are left out.

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Growing up and receiving and perpetuating the idea that our college educated and white home culture was what others should value and prioritize and everything and everyone else was “less than”

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My high school was around 40% white and 40 % Black. My AP and honors classes were filled with white students (like me) and we never were led in examining this and why this was rooted in racism.

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forcing children to be silent for most of the day, which disregards their natural instinct to speak, sing, shout, cry, laugh, in the name of compliance.

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male educators seen as inherently better or more effective than female co-teachers; I was actively and publicly compared to my male co-teacher; he got credit for teaching the lessons I had planned for the team

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Watching teachers and students dress up as elderly people for their 100 day of school or Halloween

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I regularly saw Black students punished for having Black joy, for being too loud. 

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I regularly saw Black students punished for having Black joy, for being too loud. 

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Asking students to only speak English in class.

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Grouping certain behaviors into the “culture of poverty”

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school uniforms- the counselor assumed the sizes of kids based off age and only gave limited sizing

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prioritizing order and urgency at recess transitions

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christian holidays being the norm; already having those days off, while non-christians and non-white holidays are punished when students or staff take the day off.

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assuming or assigning students to a gender for bathroom breaks

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Currently in my job: I’ve been forced out by staff

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Assuming all families are a hetero partnership

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I remember a gym teacher stopping the space jams soundtrack because it had too much rap.

It took a while to find the memory, and it is one of a very few. I think that says a lot about my privilege to be oblivious in my suburban school

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the ideas that caregivers and guardians are always parents and male/female.

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4th grade: I was labeled “retarded” and that I had a language delay because Spanish was my first language and reading English took a longer time for me

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This fit under both ableism, colorism, anti-Blackness, greater overall racism.

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A colleague Being told by a male admin hat she was “nagging” him

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A colleague Being told by a male admin hat she was “nagging” him