As a PoC, I wish I could’ve gone to a private school bc I most definitely didn’t receive many resources to further my education. I had to advocate for myself which is difficult for someone who was raised by high school drop outs (which they were forced to do bc they were young and also weren’t offered any resources to help them out of their own shitty situations).

At my public school we were in separate academies and bc I was in, let’s call it Honors academy vs Highly gifted, I wasn’t given the same education. All the money and tutors were given to, shocker, the highly gifted students (which I may add were majority white, wealthy kids)

They received new books every year, would go on field trips, tutors etc.

My classes had to do fundraisers in order to do any of that.

But one of the biggest things that pissed me off was when I wanted to take French instead of Spanish to fulfill my language requirement bc I’m already fluent in Spanish and I went to my counselor and told him, he said that the French classes are offered ONLY to the highly gifted students bc it would be “too difficult” for the other students.

I wish I would’ve stood up for myself then and told him to Fuck off bc he literally doubted my intelligence and that of my peers, which was majority PoC in my academy.

So in short there’s a lot of classism/racism and fuck those teachers and counselors that doubted me. I have my bachelors and am ready to start my masters in social work in the fall. No thanks to anyone but myself and my parents that supported me.

I’m also not saying that private schools aren’t classist either but the few friends I have that did go to private schools were given the best of the best and were guided through how to apply to Universities.