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There are many school incidents which have resulted in a teacher student fight over the student wearing a hat in the school or classroom. In some cases when a teacher makes a request for the removal of the hat, students will respond in a negative manner. If a student begins to use profanity after the request a teacher may continue to insist that the student remove the hat. It has been documented that some students comply while other choose to physically assault the teacher.

The school has rules, and those rules include a dress code. Normally, included in the dress code is not wearing a hat in the building. How we get students to follow those rules is more important.

The hat is the student’s personal property. School staff should be careful with a student’s personal property. I remember as an assistant principal, there were occasions when I had to confiscate student’s property. However, I had certain delegated authority and a relationship with most students.

Teachers who do not have positive relationships with students should not attempt to remove student property when the student decides to become violent. That is why they have security in the schools. If the student is not harming anyone, then report the infraction to the administrator and go back to teaching.

The student will remain angry at both teachers for the rest of the year. This student will feel that the actions of the teachers are unjustified. Many Black students who are attempting to rise to leadership in the school will do everything to upset the teacher. This is the equivalent of making the teacher lose their cool. Which is the primary objective.

Another point to consider is that in the process of removing the hat suppose the teachers did some minor damage to the student. Then we have a Whole new ball game. All that student has to do is to go to the emergency room and complain about pain the they are having as a result of the teacher student fight. Then that means that the hospital has to report the incident to the local social services and the teachers job could be on the line.

If the teachers behavior is rejected by the parent, then these two teachers will find themselves in a long battle. Taking the students hat is the equivalent of touching the student. The Black community teaches their children that under no circumstances is an adult outside of the family allowed to touch you.

Teachers are better off with teaching and allowing administrators to do their job. Here are several tips for avoiding teacher student fights over a student wearing a hat.

1. The best way to avoid a teacher student fight over a hat is to report the incident to an administrator. Find out the student’s name. Make the request to remove the hat by calling him Mr. [His last Name]. This will make the student feel that you respect him.
2. Taking the hat will only work in you have already established a positive relationship with the student. If the student does not remove the hat, it can escalate into a fight.
3. Instead, give the student a choice. Pull the student to the side away from the crowd and give him the choice to remove the hat or you will report the violation. This keeps the situation from escalating into disrespect towards a teacher, insubordination, or open defiance for a student hat. When you provide a student with a choice, you are extending yourself to a student who may be troubled by something else. You are also extending yourself to develop a positive relationship and other students will gravitate towards you because of your positive efforts.

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Racism in schools continues to plague our nation which is counterproductive to the health of Black students. Northwestern University researchers have reported that Black parents are the primary culprits for placing their children in such a detrimental position. The researchers have errored by placing blame on Black parents instead of realizing that there is a true vehicle that helps. Teachers are the fundamental force that can help Black students overcome the related atrocities to this seemingly unending phenomenon of racism in schools.

In the article, Racism Got You Stressed? That May Be Holding Kids Back at School, Too, stress related to racial conflict induces hormones in Black children that contributes to the lack of school achievement disparities. The article reports, “the new Northwestern paper, a review of a trove of psychological research published in the September issue of American Psychologist, seeks to widen the scope of the achievement-gap discussion. It argues that racism’s direct effects on young people are in fact partially responsible for such disparities—not the material realities of discrimination, but the physical and emotional experience of racism itself. The authors cite previous research showing that when children confront the threat of being negatively stereotyped or suffering discrimination because of their race, they experience changes in levels of the stress hormone cortisol and also suffer from poorer quality and quantity of sleep.” This understanding can provide teachers a great opportunity to increase the quality of life for Black students by minimizing racism in schools.

The researchers suggest a solution that is problematic to say the least. They suggest that the challenge with the academic success of historically undeserved students lies with parenting skills of Black students. The researchers report that “one coping mechanism could be getting parents and guardians to promote better sleep habits among children, including establishing a regular bed- and wake-time schedule, and engaging in calming comforting rituals at the end of the day like reading together.” Once again researchers have blamed the home environment without consideration of other prevailing factions that contribute and steer racism in schools. Since the researchers have chosen to blame parents, let’s take a look at why Black parents inadvertently contribute to racism in schools.

Why do Black parents contribute to racism in schools?

Since many Black parents have been victimized by the educational system, they often prepare their children to live in a dual cultural world that involves helping them to develop skills for adult roles such as wage earners and parenthood in addition to negotiating a dominant society that has different cultural values and judges people by their skin color or ethnic background.

Teachers can help minimize racism in schools by developing positive racial teacher student classroom relationships. Developing positive racial teacher student classroom relationships provides benefits for schools, teachers, and students. Having positive and caring relationships in schools increases resilience and protects children from academic failure, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, and destructive behavior and violence. Long-term teacher-student relationships result in increased teacher job satisfaction.

Teachers who develop positive and personal relationships with students may prevent psychological development problems in their students. Students are more willing to develop positive relationships with teachers who tend to form close friendships with their students. developing positive racial relationships between teachers and students is the key factor that will eliminate racism in schools.

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All the best,

Dr. Derrick L. Campbell, Ed.D.

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