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at the age of five, my shyness was taken for lack of understanding and i was tested for english as a second language (esl). at eight, i was pushed into gifted math and made to feel defeated and stupid. at twelve, i was told i could not “handle” taking a foreign language, despite being in an advanced english class. at seventeen, i repeatedly heard my teachers attribute my academic success to my race rather than the countless hours i put into my school work. for eighteen years of my life, i was called by the wrong name. these are just a handful of instances in which the biases and beliefs of my teachers and the underlying systems within my school failed to serve me as a student of color.
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