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â€Å"Th-th-the dog wa-was very big.† the black student read as the classroom snickered. â€Å"Dequan can’t read† another student yelled out and the fifth grade class filled with laughter. This is what happens in black community public schools every day. Instead failing these black students that can’t read simple words in the fifth grade, teachers pass them along all the way through high school. â€Å"It is unlawful as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read† (Douglass). The educational system wants black students to know little to nothing their whole lives. Schools are set up to have as many black students in jail by the time they are eighteen as possible. One out of every four black students will pass through the correctional system, and at least two out of every three black students will be dropouts (Barber). We live in an America that does not want black people running or even knowing how to run the country. Education was made for white student s to run America it and still is. The slave masters didn’t want the slaves to learn how to read, because the masters knew that if slaves got smart enough, they would one day figure out how to take over. â€Å"If you give a nigger a inch, he’ll take an ell† This is still how the world is set up today, because the government made up an educational system based off slavery and prison that will only teach the black students to only do what their teacher tells them to do. â€Å" A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master- to do what he is told†. ByShow MoreRelatedRacial Disparities Of Black Students1542 Words   |  7 PagesFor decades there has been research conducted on the racial disproportion of black student’s suspension in schools compared to white students (Skiba et al., 2000; Skiba et al., 2002; Wald and Losen, 2003; Welsh and Payne, 2010; Kinsler, 2011; Wright et al., 2014). 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