Personal Narrative: The Only African-American Kid In The Classroom

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Before I start to tell you this story, I would like to ask something of you. I don’t know if this paper is worthy of being put up on the board, but I would like to ask for it to not be put up on the board. The person in this story does not know- and I would like to keep it that way. I will be changing the names and leaving out information but I still fear that they might put two and two together if they read it. I was in lower school and my teacher was Ms. Smith. I enjoyed the class, and although I loved the peer group, I did not adore my teacher. But, she was nice to me so I didn’t have any issues. Until around December. Let me set it up. Jordan was the only African- American kid in my class. For some reason, Ms. Smith despised Jordan. Jordan was a nice kid and rather quiet in class- not the personality traits necessarily associated with the kid who was always in trouble. Whenever Jordan messed up or didn’t understand something Ms. Smith was quick to yell and blame him for his confusion. I was aware of the situation but wasn’t really bothered by it. I know, I should have been, but I was younger and didn’t know any better.
But as the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, the way Ms. Smith treated Jordan bothered me more and more, and from the way he
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Smith and the head of school about what I had told her. My mom had done it to "bring it to the attention" of the school. Ms. Smith did not take kindly to this and decided to tell me so. She backed my up aginst the wall outside the Spanish room and told me that if I ever told my mother what happened in her class again, she was going to make my life in school "hard". I had seen her be mean, and I wanted nothing to do with that. She told me that I was a liar- that she had never done any of the things that I had seen her do. Ms. Smith ended the conversation by reminding me that "I was never to tell anyone about this conversation especially not my

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