“He was the best teacher I ever had. He accepted you for who you were, pushed you to be your best and to test beyond what you thought your limits were.” Lisa Newcombe-Diehl, Minneapolis Central High School ’80
If you were to ask me what is the main challenge in educating black males in the K-12 public school system, I would have to answer, “the teacher’s training the teachers.” Although I cannot use this as a generalization because I am product of the Minneapolis Public School system, my experience was a lot different.
After carefully reviewing some curriculum for an 11th grade class, it became obvious the historical context was one-sided and favored the authors point of view; white, male and totally bias in its delivery of important…