Apr
12
“I team-teach a class of high school boys who have been labeled “at-risk.” … One of my former students was Robert, a 16-year-old who came to school when he felt like it and said he didn’t need a degree because his father was going to bring him into the family business when he turned 18. … It is true that boys of color have come through this program who lived unspeakable lives of poverty. One teen had lived in a car with his family for three years. I had a student who slept in the airport every night to get away from the meth in his home. I had a boy so full of self-hate that he told me being black was his curse in life. However, I want to make it abundantly clear that abusive wealth and privilege is an equal component of the mysterious mix that puts a youngster at risk.”
Suzanne Rosenwasser (read more: “A Wealth of Risk”)
