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Focus Group: Need for classes on Black ownership

Focus Group: Our school could add an Afro studies class

Anonymous: Adults at school only focus on what you’ve done wrong

Chris: Students put their guard up when teachers can’t relate to them

Focus Group: Sometimes a kid will be mad and an adult will be on them

Focus Group: When they suspend you they don’t help you with your grades

Chris: It would help if teachers understood the needs of students of color

Chelsea: Supportive adults share our experiences, treat us as equals

Focus Group: Lowest track classes are expected to fail

Focus Group: We don’t have classes that teach to our lives

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