Toni Cade Bambara, right, and her cousin Carole Brown, from https://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/children-who-get-cheated/ When I was in seventh grade, I left public school for the private school my sister and cousin and uncle had all attended—usually as one of the few black students in their grades. Before I got there, I was excited to go. I had read enough YA novels, seen enough tv and movies, to know that a public junior high would not be kind to the likes of me. I thought the more genteel “middle school” would be easier—if anything, it had to be filled with kids softer than me. Wasn’t that what private schooling was about?
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself
Toni Cade Bambara, right, and her cousin Carole Brown, from https://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/children-who-get-cheated/ When I was in seventh grade, I left public school for the private school my sister and cousin and uncle had all attended—usually as one of the few black students in their grades. Before I got there, I was excited to go. I had read enough YA novels, seen enough tv and movies, to know that a public junior high would not be kind to the likes of me. I thought the more genteel “middle school” would be easier—if anything, it had to be filled with kids softer than me. Wasn’t that what private schooling was about?