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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TPP 194: Educator and Community Activist Jason Allen on Differently Wired Students of Color

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Educator, blogger, and community activist Jason B. Allen shares his ideas for how traditional school environments need to change to better serve differently wired black students and, in particular, black and brown boys. Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

0:07.0

Are they also struggling in their current educational setting, seen only for what they're doing wrong, while longing for positive relationships with peers and others?

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0:54.0

One of the things that I have seen is that black boards are being pushed in a special education

0:59.7

programs because of behavior and behavior is impacted by discipline.

1:05.0

Discipline comes from the school.

1:07.0

This comes from policies that are normally biased because research has shown that a lot of school district

1:13.8

behavior and discipline policies are based

1:16.4

off of research and studies of how black boys

1:20.5

acting and perform at school.

1:22.4

And so it's almost as if, well, we're creating a policy

1:25.4

because we're making the assumption

1:26.9

that you're going to do something wrong.

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