What do you do when a generation of students share a frame of reference that doesn't include 'follow through'? Students whose definition of Black means that you stop when you meet your first hurdle. I've noticed this in my last few years of teaching. The expectation of finishing what you start has vanished, the excuses appear. At times the mindset comes from those inside of the community who've never finished. Many who have finished what they've started are veiwed as special or abnormal. It may well be a more widespread phenomenon but the affects within the Black community are magnified and have more impact than they do in a mainstream situation.
How do you engender a finisher's mindset? How do you stop the fatalism that allows and encourages kids to sabotage their own lives when thinigs are actually going well. They're not used to things going well. what do you do???
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