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Chris Chatmon has spent most of his life working in, and learning about, America’s education system. He has years of experience as a teacher, counselor, and administrator. He has a Master’s degree in Education from an Ivy League school.
Still, everything Chatmon needed to know about how poorly schools treat Black and brown boys he learned firsthand in elementary school.Get a weekly recap of the latest San Francisco Bay Area housing news.Chatmon said his spirited, talkative nature as a child was seen by his teachers as something to be fixed, not nurtured. He said he was regularly paddled and, in third grade, had his desk removed from the classroom by a teacher and placed in a coat closet.
It was that realization that set Chatmon off in his quest to reform how schools, teachers, and administrators work with Black students, particularly boys. It is what led him to all those years working within and studying the system.
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